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Invaders from Mars (1953) 6.4
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings. Director:William Cameron MenziesWriter:Richard Blake (screenplay) |
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Cast
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Helena Carter | ... |
Dr. Pat Blake
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Arthur Franz | ... |
Dr. Stuart Kelston /
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Mr. George MacLean
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Mrs. Mary MacLean
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Morris Ankrum | ... |
Col. Fielding
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William Phipps | ... |
Sgt. Baker
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Capt. Roth
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Janine Perreau | ... |
Kathy Wilson
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Plot Synopsis
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One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans, but he'll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer. Soon they meet the aliens: green creatures with insect-like eyes. These beings prove to be slaves to their leader: a large, silent head with ceaselessly shifting eyes and two tentacles on either side, each of which branches off into three smaller tentacles. It's up to the redoubtable earth trio to stop its evil plans. Written by J. Spurlin
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
22 April 1953 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Invasores de Marte See more »Filming Locations:
Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$290,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
Color (Supercinecolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Narrator: The heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe, and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atmosphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale? Or dangerously higher? Seeking the answer to this timeless question, forever seeking, ...
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Little people were chosen to double the main characters when an action shot by one of the mutants was required. Six mutants ranging in size from 5'1" to 6'3" acted in these shots with the little people to keep the size ratio correct. This was necessary because the primary Mutants were 8'2" and 7'7" and rather ungainly in their movements due to costuming restrictions. See more »Goofs
Many shots are used more than once in the film, mostly in the underground sequences in the Martian tunnels. These include the same shot of an explosion used several times; of a mutant shot, then getting up; of the mutants firing their ray gun; as well as some repeated shots of the sand opening and closing on the surface. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: The heavens. Once an object of superstition, awe, and fear. Now a vast region for growing knowledge. The distance of Venus, the atmosphere of Mars, the size of Jupiter, and the speed of Mercury. All this and more we know. But their greatest mystery the heavens have kept a secret. What sort of life, if any, inhabits these other planets? Human life, like ours? Or life extremely lower in the scale? Or dangerously higher? Seeking the answer to this timeless question, forever seeking, ...
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A child astronomer searches the skies with his father. Later the child astronomer wakes to the sound of a flying saucer landing in a sand pit across from his home. The child's father investigates, and returns "transformed." Soon father and mother both seem affected. Child, accompanied by his fetching teacher visits his astronomer friend, whom talks unashamedly about "invaders from Mars."
Within this deceptively simple plotline is a surrealistic masterpiece. With stunning use of color, forced perspective, oversized sets, eerie dreamlike music and carefully mannered performances and plotting, director William Cameron Menzies (an Oscar-winning art director) displays the nightmarish incidents from a child's perspective. Even the typically 50s ending takes on a different perspective. Was it a dream? Was it a foreshadowing of the future? Or is it a recurring nightmare, in a mind gone hopelessly mad.
Only since this film have widespread reports of alien "abductions" and "alien implants" become a reality. Coincidence?
INVADERS FROM MARS is one of the great fantasy sci-fi films of all time.