Klaatu steps out of the spaceship and addresses the assembled scientists, explaining that humanity's penchant for violence and first steps into space have caused concern among other inhabitants of the universe who have created and empowered a race of robot enforcers including Gort to deter such aggression.

The film was also on the ballot for AFI's other lists including 100 Years … 100 Movies, the tenth anniversary list, 100 Years … 100 Heroes and Villains for Klaatu in the heroes category, 100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes for the famous line " Gort!

In this fiction, the aliens intervene in human affairs to prevent them from destroying themselves, such as Klaatu and Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still warning the leaders of Earth to abandon their warlike ways and join other space-faring civilizations else that they will destroy themselves or be destroyed by their interstellar union.

Gort a ' bhaile ( garden of the town ) conforms with certain suggestions made by A. G. Callant in 1888, but it is possible to produce a list of other interpretations.

By 1940, his relations with Lord Gort, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, had deteriorated such that neither man had confidence in the other.

The Thargoids-Based on their synthetic homeworld of Thargoidia, the Thargoids are a race of beings led by Gort ( a parody of a movie character with the same name ), who drain all other beings of their knowledge so that they will be the most intelligent beings in the universe.

After Klaatu is revived, he steps out of the saucer, giving the scientists the following ultimatum: Earth can either decide not to threaten aggression on other planets and join other spacefaring worlds — a peace ensured by a massive deterrent force, consisting of robots similar to Gort — or else " this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder ".

Even Churchill admitted that their position was perilous: in a telegram to Lord Gort on 27 May, only one day before the Belgian capitulation, he wrote, " We are asking them to sacrifice themselves for us.

* Wart ( Voiced by Howie Morris ), Gort ( Voiced by Thom Huge ), and Mort ( Voiced by Frank Welker ): Orson's mean older brothers ( unnamed until their fourth appearance ) who usually appears either to bully Orson or trying to steal the vegetables from the farm.

The town of Gort, Ireland, was the main residence of the family since at least the time of their ancestor, King Guaire Aidne mac Colmáin of the Ui Fiachrach Aidhne dynasty.

At the 2000 Royal Television Society Awards, Sean De Sparengo and Richard Gort were nominated for the " Best Graphic Design – Titles " award for their contribution to the series.

However, their main seat was Tullira ( or Tulira ) Castle near Gort and Dunguaire fell into disrepair.

Fearful and distrustful of machines as a result, a group of Nebulon rebels led by Gort immediately captured the Autobots upon their arrival and almost executed them, until an attack by the Decepticons proved that they were on the same side.

The Gort Cloud written by Richard Seireeni, ( 2009 ), documents the experiences of sustainable businesses in America and their reliance on the vast but invisible green community, referred to as the gort cloud, for support and a market.

Gort had foreseen the order and preliminary plans were already in hand.

Gort had sent General Adam ahead to build the defensive perimeter around Dunkirk, and General Brooke was to conduct a holding action with the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 50th Divisions along the Ypres-Comines canal as far as Yser while the rest of the BEF fell back.

Gort had ordered Sir Ronald Adam, 3rd Corps Commander, and French General Falgade, to prepare a perimeter defence of Dunkirk.

Gort sent the battle-worn 3rd, 4th and 50th Divisions into the line to fill the space the Belgians had held.

Lt .- Col. Viscount Gort then proceeded to organise the defence of the captured position until he collapsed ; even then he refused to leave the field until he had seen the " success signal " go up on the final objective.

), Lord Gort advocated the primacy of building a land army and defending France and the Low Countries over Imperial defence after France had said she would not be able on her own to defend herself against a German attack.

Gort replied: " Lord Kitchener had clearly pointed out that no great country can wage a “ little ” war ".

Ismay would later write: " Sandhurst never meant nearly so much to me as Charterhouse had ", but he enjoyed his time at the school and studied alongside many men who went on to become important military officers, including Lord Gort, Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt and Cyril Newall.

Turnour had already been created Baron Winterton, of Gort in the County of Galway, in 1761, and was made Viscount Turnour, of Gort in the County of Galway, at the same time as he was given the earldom.

John Prendergast Smyth had already been created Baron Kiltarton of Gort, in the County of Galway, also in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1810.

John Prendergast-Smyth, Viscount Gort and Lord Kiltarton, was the nephew of Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet, and had succeeded to the Prendergast estates on the death of this uncle in 1760 ( see Prendergast Baronets, of Gort ).

Lord Gort had no sons to inherit his two titles but, unusually, he had been able to secure a special remainder both in 1816 and in 1810, the remainder being in favour of his nephew Charles Vereker, the son of his sister Juliana by her marriage with Thomas Vereker.

Field Marshal Lord Gort had no living sons and, unlike his own ancestor, did not have a special remainder, so on his death just one month after the creation of the new title, the new viscountcy became extinct, whilst the Irish titles passed to his brother.

For this reason, the grant of special remainders for UK titles was far more strict than it had been for Irish titles and the Field Marshal Lord Gort was not sufficiently unique to merit this extra favour.

This means that there had been the option of creating the original Gort peerage as a UK title.

Standish Vereker was the brother of Field Marshal The Lord Gort, who had been the sixth Viscount of the Irish peerage and the first and last Viscount of the United Kingdom peerage ; Standish inherited the Irish viscountcy and barony in 1946.

In response, Gort, a large humanoid robot, emerges from the ship and begins disintegrating the weapons present with a ray coming from a visor-like structure on its head.

* Gortalowry ( likely from Gort an Leamhraigh meaning " field of the elm place ")

Gort was present when his son-in-law received the VC from Alexander on 3 March 1944 in Italy ( the VC ribbon was cut from one of Gort's uniforms ).

She organised Irish lessons at the school at Coole and began collecting tales from the area around her home, especially from the residents of Gort workhouse.

* M18, part of the LimerickGalway route: begins at junction 9 for Shannon Airport from the N18 dual carriageway from the Rossbrien Interchange in Limerick and continues to junction 16 for Gort.

* M18 ; from Gort to Galway completing the upgrade of the Limerick to Galway route.

* Gortgonis ( likely from Gort Gonaidh meaning " field of the firewood " or Gort Gabha an Easa meaning " smith's field near the waterfall ")

* Gortnaskea ( from Gort na Sceach or Gort na Sgeach meaning " field of the thorns ")

It was Lord Gort who commanded the BEF in 1939 and his leadership during the disastrous withdrawal from France preserved his reputation at an unhappy time for the nation.

An example was its reporting on the deaths of two prominent Sinn Féin leaders, Henry and Patrick Loughnane, from Shanaglish, Gort, County Galway.

* Gortmerron ( from Gort Mearain meaning " Merron's field ")

In November 2008 work commenced on the 22 km section of the N18 HQDC from Crusheen to Gort.

The last " de facto " Ó Seachnasaigh lord of Kinelea died at Gort after returning home from the Battle of Aughrim on 12 July 1691.

After the death of Sir James, Mac Fhirbhisigh may have travelled to Gort, seeking patronage from Diarmuid Ó Seachnasaigh ( Sir Dermot O Shaughnessey ), as indicated by a poem he apparently composed in 1667.

Kilmacduagh Monastery is found 5 km from the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland.

In response, Gort relented from destroying the Earth and resurrected Klaatu from death.