A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Director:
Don Siegel
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Title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Dr. Miles J. Bennell | |
| Dana Wynter | ... | Becky Driscoll | |
| Larry Gates | ... | Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman | |
| King Donovan | ... | Jack Belicec | |
| Carolyn Jones | ... | Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec | |
| Jean Willes | ... | Nurse Sally Withers | |
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Ralph Dumke | ... | Police Chief Nick Grivett |
| Virginia Christine | ... | Wilma Lentz | |
| Tom Fadden | ... | Uncle Ira Lentz | |
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Kenneth Patterson | ... | Stanley Driscoll |
| 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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Dr. Miles Bennell returns to 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 doppelgangers 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. Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
Plot Keywords:
alien infiltration | alien invasion | surprise ending | small town | psychiatrist |Taglines:
"Something is happening! Send your men of science quick!" The panic stricken cry went over the phone to Washington D. C. until the lines went dead!...... See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
5 February 1956 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$417,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$3,000,000Company Credits
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Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Western Electric Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Gig Young, Dick Powell, Joseph Cotten and Richard Kiley were all considered for the role of Dr. Miles Bennell. See more »Goofs
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
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!See more »
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THE END comes up on the final shot of the film of Miles looking relieved that Dr Hill has believed his story, and is calling the FBI about the alien invasion of Santa Mira. See more »Alternate Versions
Originally released at 80 minutes; reissued in 1979 at 76 minutes, deleting the studio-imposed prologue and epilogue starring Whit Bissel and Richard Deacon. See more »Contribute to This Page
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This was the first part of a double bill with Phil Kaufman's remake as the follow-up. I'll say that Siegel is ten times the action director that Kaufman could ever dream of being, that the original Body Snatchers has a cool, thoughtful tone that makes the shock scenes even better. The remake, even though in color and with a bigger budget, is so nervous, so lacking in pace and mood, that your impulse is often to laugh instead of sinking deeper into your seat.
Take just one scene: Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter are barricaded in his office, trying to stay awake. Morning comes, and the weirdness begins; people shuffle towards the square to pick up their packages, the leaders calling out the districts. Now in daylight the suspense is made more potent, the threat to humans seems greater. Kaufman does this scene at night, losing the mundane horror that Siegel evokes so well. The studio imposed the flashback structure, having McCarthy brought in to talk to a therapist at the beginning and end of the picture. That's the only weakness in the story.