<ROTFL> Even the producer and director, as well as others close to the production, said it was never intended as a religious allegory. It was a lot simpler than that ... but both Wise and Blaustein said that if you read such things into the film, it was a good film, in that it made you think.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: Bob Shell > > The cyborg was Michael Rennie who played the > > alien Klaatu in "The Day the Earth Stood Still". > > > Aha, my favorite religious allegory film.
