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3.7/10   142 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Gerry Levy (additional material)
Michael St. Clair (writer)
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Release Date:
April 1969 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Can the Earth survive against the aliens from outer space?
Plot:
A British military paratrooper disappears in mid-air during a jump from an army plane. Two investigators... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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George Sanders ... General Armstrong
Maurice Evans ... Dr. Matthews / Alien
Patrick Allen ... Bob Megan
Neil Connery ... Jim Radford
Hilary Heath ... Julie Slade (as Hilary Dwyer)
Robert Flemyng ... W.C. Baldwin
Lorna Wilde ... Lorna
Allan Cuthbertson ... Hindsmith
Michael Culver ... Lieutenant Bailes
Sally Faulkner ... Joanna
Shelagh Fraser ... Mrs. Thatcher
Carl Rigg ... Briggs
Carol Hawkins ... Paula
Dixon Adams ... David
Derek Pollitt ... Davies
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Invasion of the Body Stealers
Out of Thin Air (Europe: English title) (video title)
Thin Air (USA)
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Runtime:
91 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 (alternate rating) | Norway:15 (video premiere) | USA:R | UK:X (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Iceland:L
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Continuity: Towards the end of the film, when the alien’s leave, Bob’s cardigan is buttoned up as he passes through the door it becomes undone, it is buttoned up again when he goes back into the house. more
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11 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Not such a bad film after all...?, 14 September 2003
Author: Mumbingo (kirkanderson@tiscali.co.uk) from Watford, UK

This film is worth seeing just for the opening sequence alone. A surprise from the outset leading into a thunderous Sixties-style score, before the rot sets in. There is curiosity value for a performance from Patrick Allen (The Jaw, in what nearly amounts to a leading role) and a very rare appearance of Sean Connery's brother Neil in one of only two film roles that he made that I am aware off. Mid-way the love interest on a moonlit beach really sags and does not help the film much, while the ending is a let down and even stranger to see a prop stolen from the Doctor Who film Daleks: Invasion Earth. I almost expected Peter Cushing to materialise out of.....THIN AIR!!! Still, overall I found it...quite enjoyable!!

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