Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
Directed by Don Siegel
- Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
- 80 min
There was nothing to hold onto - except each other.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
- Bleak ending
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Phills2on TMDB · Jun 20269/10
Invasion of the Body Snatchers has always been on the top of my list of best horror movies ever made. It is solidly suspenseful throughout from beginning to end. The stars even had wax moldings made of themselves to use as the pods, or counterfiet alien clones. It has a lot to say about how modern progress has alienated the individual by suppressing intinctive emotions. I've even recorded it without the tacked on beginning and ending added after test screenings so audiences would not feel excessively depressed about a negative finish. By some accounts, a few viewers didn't take the original version seriously enough.
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Cast
- Kevin McCarthyDr. Miles J. Bennell
- Dana WynterBecky Driscoll
- King DonovanJack Belicec
- Carolyn JonesTheodora 'Teddy' Belicec
- Larry GatesDr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman
- Kenneth PattersonStanley Driscoll
- Virginia ChristineWilma Lentz
- Jean WillesNurse Sally Withers
- Ralph DumkePolice Chief Nick Grivett
- Guy WayOfficer Sam Janzek
Crew
- Don SiegelDirector
- Daniel MainwaringScreenplay
- Richard CollinsScreenplay
- Jack FinneyNovel
- Ellsworth FredericksDirector of Photography
- Carmen DragonOriginal Music Composer
- Robert S. EisenEditor
- Walter WangerProducer
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