Klaatu admits he is responsible, tells Helen his true identity, and asks for her help.

In this interpretation, the phrase apparently tells Gort that Klaatu considers escalation unnecessary.

* The song " Sub-Rosa Subway ", from the 1976 album 3: 47 EST by Canadian progressive rock band Klaatu, tells the story of Alfred Beach building his subway.

In this interpretation, the phrase apparently tells Gort that Klaatu considers escalation unnecessary.

While Helen and her boyfriend Tom Stephens ( Hugh Marlowe ) go on a day trip, Klaatu babysits Bobby.

Klaatu finds Helen at her workplace.

Helen is very upset by Tom's betrayal of Klaatu and breaks off their relationship.

Helen and Klaatu take a taxi to Barnhardt's home ; en route, Klaatu instructs Helen that, should anything happen to him, she must tell Gort " Klaatu barada nikto ".

Gort then revives Klaatu while the amazed Helen watches.

At the behest of the MPAA, a line was inserted into the film ; when Helen asks Klaatu whether Gort has unlimited power over life and death, Klaatu explains that he has only been revived temporarily and " that power is reserved to the Almighty Spirit.

Klaatu ( Michael Rennie ) commanded Helen Benson ( Patricia Neal ) that, were anything to happen to him, she must utter the phrase to the robot Gort ( Lockard Martin ).

Helen Benson visits Gort outside the spaceship and just before Gort attacks her, she says, " Gort, Klaatu barada nikto.

Keanu Reeves as KlaatuThe 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still features Keanu Reeves in the role of Klaatu and Jennifer Connelly as Helen Benson.

After spending time with Helen and her stepson Jacob, as well as talking with Professor Barnhart, Klaatu decides to try to stop humanity's destruction.

Billy Gray, who played Bobby Benson in the film, said that he thought that the message was coming from Klaatu and that, " barada nikto must mean ... save earth ".

Because Gort's purpose is to prevent aggression and could " destroy the Earth " if anything untoward happens to him, Klaatu has told Mrs. Benson to deliver the phrase that will cancel the attack.

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.

At breakfast the next morning, during alarming radio reports, Klaatu takes in his fellow boarders ' suspicions and speculations about the alien visit.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

Then-Senator Simpson's spokesman Charles Pelkey, when asked about Simpson's galactic origins, told the AP: " We've got only one thing to say: Klaatu barada nikto.

Then-Senator Simpson's spokesman Charles Pelkey, when asked about Simpson's galactic origins, told the Associated Press: " We've got only one thing to say: Klaatu barada nikto.

When asked if he was human, Klaatu merely responds that " this body is human " and that " this body feels pain " when asked about that.

The original Klaatu knew nothing of Earth, and he spent most of the film learning about it to decide whether or not it should be destroyed.

The song " Sub-Rosa Subway " on the first album by the Canadian rock band Klaatu, titled: 3: 47 EST, is about Beach's subway.

Gort continues until Klaatu orders him to stop.

The robot Gort, who serves Klaatu, was played by the naturally tall Lock Martin, who worked as an usher at Graumann's Chinese Theater and stood seven feet tall.

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!

Philosophy professor Aeon J. Skoble speculates the famous phrase is a " safe-word " that is part of a fail-safe feature used during the diplomatic missions such as the one Klaatu and Gort make to Earth.

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.

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

If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, ' Klaatu barada nikto ', please repeat that.

Instead, Klaatu uses it near the beginning of the movie to shut down Gort after he was shot, and again ( highly distorted and barely audible ) at the end when he touches the sphere and stops the destruction of the earth.

Philosophy professor Aeon J. Skoble speculates the famous phrase is a safeword that is part of a fail-safe feature used during diplomatic missions such as the one Klaatu and Gort make to Earth.

Klaatu ( played by Michael Rennie ) arrives in a flying saucer in Washington, DC, wearing a silver spacesuit and accompanied by a large humanoid robot, Gort ( played by Lock Martin ).

To protect Klaatu, Gort vaporizes all of the surrounding weaponry.

Ash eventually finds the real one and attempts to say the magic phrase that will allow him to remove the book safely — " Klaatu verata nicto ".

Since the release of the movie, the phrase " Klaatu barada nikto " has appeared repeatedly in fiction and in popular culture.

* Klaatu barada nikto – A phrase used in the 1951 movie The Day The Earth Stood Still.

" Klaatu barada nikto " is a phrase originating from the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Edmund H. North, who wrote The Day the Earth Stood Still, also created the alien language used in the film, including the phrase " Klaatu barada nikto ".

The documentary Decoding " Klaatu Barada Nikto ": Science Fiction as Metaphor examined the phrase " Klaatu barada nikto " with some of the people involved with The Day the Earth Stood Still.

In the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, two of Jabba the Hutt's skiff guards reference this phrase: one guard is an alien of the Nikto species named Klaatu, and another is an alien of the Klatooinian species, named Barada.

Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase " Klaatu barada nikto!

* The second word in the phrase Klaatu barada nikto from the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still.