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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
US 1956
80 min, No rating, Black & White, Available on videocassette and laserdisc
Director
Don Siegel
Cast Includes
Kevin McCarthy Dana Wynter
Larry Gates King Donovan
Carolyn Jones Virginia Christine
Classic, influential, and still very scary science-fiction (with McCarthy-era
subtext) about small-town residents who are being replaced by inert duplicates
hatched from alien "pods." Tense script by Daniel Mainwaring
from Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers; Sam Peckinpah can be glimpsed as
a meter reader. Appropriately frightening musical score by Carmen Dragon.
Reissued in 1979 at 76 minutes, minus unnecessary, studio-imposed prologue
and epilogue with Whit Bissell and Richard Deacon. Remade in 1978 and 1994
(as BODY SNATCHERS). Also shown in computer-colored version. SuperScope.
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