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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. Director:Don SiegelWriters:Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay), Jack Finney (Collier's magazine serial), and 1 more credit » |
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Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec
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Jean Willes | ... |
Nurse Sally Withers
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Ralph Dumke | ... |
Police Chief Nick Grivett
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Tom Fadden | ... |
Uncle Ira Lentz
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Guy Way | ... |
Officer Sam Janzek
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Eileen Stevens | ... |
Anne Grimaldi
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Beatrice Maude | ... |
Grandma Grimaldi
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Jean Andren | ... |
Eleda Lentz
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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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They come from another world! See more »Parents Guide:
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Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers See more »Box Office
Budget:
$417,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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2.00 : 1
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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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Throughout the years, Sam Peckinpah (who appears briefly in the film as the meter reader) claimed that he had done work on the script ranging from modifications to major overhauls. Those who worked on the film claimed that if Peckinpah had made any changes to the script, it was limited to a few lines of dialog. Peckinpah's claims became so inflated that the actual writer, Daniel Mainwaring, threatened to file an official complaint with the Writers Guild of America, so Peckinpah backed down. When Peckinpah died in 1984, many of his obituaries still carried the claim that he had rewritten the screenplay for this film. See more »Goofs
Continuity: Water stains on the planks in the mine. 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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