Escaping from the military hospital where he is confined, he assumes the earthly name “Mr.
will have none of that: a soldier shoots him. Accompanied by his giant robot Gort, Klaatu has come in peace, but the Cold War U.S. The first known alien visitor to Earth, in the first A-budget science-fiction film from a major Hollywood studio, is a Christ figure - Michael Rennie’s Klaatu - whose spaceship lands in Washington, D.C.’s President’s Park. North, from the story “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates. Here are seven of our favorites, spanning seven decades and the spectrum of man’s feelings - fearful, wondrous - about the smartest machines man has created. (READ: Corliss’s review of Transcendence)
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