Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The first film of the original series.This film was the result of Paramount Pictures' cancellation of a secondStar TrekTV series in the late 1970s.He described it as "dark imes" with threats, although vowed to the citizenry to defend heir liberty and repel the forces.His hotel reservation had mistakenly been made for two days hence, and therefore he needed a place to stay for a few days.It's also been considered a 'kids-version' of Spielberg's ownClose Encounters of a Third Kind (1977), with an alien who is instantly established as a sympathetic creature.He is waiting o be picked up by the prissy, high-strung producer of the London dance revue, Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton).