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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

APPROVED  80 min  -  Horror | Sci-Fi   -  5 February 1956 (USA)
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A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Director:

Don Siegel

Writers:

Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay), Jack Finney (Collier's magazine serial), and 1 more credit »
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kevin McCarthy ...
Dana Wynter ...
Larry Gates Larry Gates ...
King Donovan King Donovan ...
Carolyn Jones ...
Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec
Jean Willes Jean Willes ...
Nurse Sally Withers
Ralph Dumke Ralph Dumke ...
Police Chief Nick Grivett
Virginia Christine Virginia Christine ...
Tom Fadden Tom Fadden ...
Uncle Ira Lentz
Kenneth Patterson Kenneth Patterson ...
Guy Way Guy Way ...
Officer Sam Janzek
Eileen Stevens Eileen Stevens ...
Anne Grimaldi
Beatrice Maude Beatrice Maude ...
Grandma Grimaldi
Jean Andren Jean Andren ...
Eleda Lentz
Bobby Clark Bobby Clark ...
Jimmy Grimaldi
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Storyline

Dr Miles Bennell returns his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors. He is initially skeptical, especially when the alleged dopplegängers are able to answer detailed questions about their victim's lives, but he is eventually persuaded that something odd has happened and determines to find out what is causing this phenomenon. This film can be seen as a paranoid 1950s warning against those Damn Commies or, conversely, as a metaphor for the tyranny of McCarthyism (or the totalitarian system of Your Choice) and has a pro- and epilogue that was forced upon Siegel by the studio to lighten the tone. Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>  

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Plot Keywords:

Small Town | Delusion | Psychiatrist | Doctor | Gas Station  | See more »

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Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable! See more »

Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$417,000 (estimated)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Recording)

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1
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Trivia

Universal's UK DVD (824 346 1.11) comes with a choice of the original black and white or a colorized version. The black & white's running time is 1hr and 20 mins while the color version has an added five minutes to its running time. See more »

Goofs

Plot holes: Upon discovering two pods in the trunk of his car after visiting the gas station, the hero pulls them from the trunk and sets them on fire with a highway flare whereupon they burst into flame. Nowhere else in the film is there any suggestion that these pods are flammable nor would they be if germinating into a human replica. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Dr. Harvey Bassett: Oh, Doctor Hill.
Dr. Hill: Dr. Basset. Well, where's the patient?
Dr. Harvey Bassett: I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night. You'll soon see why I did.
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Connections

Referenced in "Scrubs: My Day Off (#1.9)" (2001) See more »