George Barley: Why doesn't the government do something? That's what I'd like to know.
Mr. Krull: What can they do? They're only people just like us.
George Barley: People my foot. They're Democrats.
This was on the pile since the 1980s. Directed by Robert Wise who also directed Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) which has also been on the pile for about as long. Edmund H. North adapted a story by Harry Bates, apparently quite loosely.
Things go as demanded by classic scifi: a bloke (Englishman Michael Rennie) arrives from another planet, robot in tow, and seeing as he presents as human and not a thing he must have come in peace and he must be misunderstood. American insecurity is eternal. It does not reward much thinking or a close watch. Sam Jaffe (Gunga Din from Gunga Din (1939)) plays Einstein's hair, Patricia Neal (A Face in the Crowd (1957), Hud (1963), Cookie's Fortune (1999)) a war widow with a young son.
