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Invasion of the Body Snatchers ()

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A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Dr. Miles J. Bennell
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Becky Driscoll
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Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman
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Jack Belicec
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Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec
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Nurse Sally Withers
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Police Chief Nick Grivett
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Wilma Lentz
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Uncle Ira Lentz
Kenneth Patterson ...
Stanley Driscoll
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Officer Sam Janzek
Eileen Stevens ...
Anne Grimaldi
Beatrice Maude ...
Grandma Grimaldi
Jean Andren ...
Eleda Lentz
Bobby Clark ...
Jimmy Grimaldi
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Dr. Ed Pursey
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Mac Lomax
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Baggage Man
Guy Rennie ...
Restaurant Owner
Marie Selland ...
Martha Lomax
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Charlie
Harry J. Vejar ...
Pod Carrier in Miles' Office
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Dr. Hill (uncredited)
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Dr. Harvey Bassett (uncredited)
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Townsman (uncredited)
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Ambulance Driver (uncredited)

Directed by

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Don Siegel

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Daniel Mainwaring ... (screenplay by)
 
Jack Finney ... (based on the Collier's magazine serial by)
 
Richard Collins ... () (uncredited)

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Walter Mirisch ... executive producer (uncredited)
Walter Wanger ... executive producer (uncredited)

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Carmen Dragon ... (music composed and conducted by)

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Ellsworth Fredericks ... director of photography

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Robert S. Eisen ... film editor

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Ted Haworth ... (production design) (as Edward Haworth)

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Joseph Kish

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Emile LaVigne ... makeup artist
Mary Westmoreland ... hairdresser

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Allen K. Wood ... production manager

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William Beaudine Jr. ... assistant director (as Bill Beaudine Jr.)
Richard Maybery ... assistant director
Don Torpin ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Walter Bjorne ... poster artist : Sweden (uncredited)

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Ralph Butler ... sound
Del Harris ... sound editor

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Milt Rice ... special effects
Don Post ... special makeup effects: pods and other props (uncredited)

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James V. King ... additional camera operator: final sequence (uncredited)
Darrell Woodhouse ... electrician (uncredited)

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Carmen Dragon ... conductor
Jerry Irvin ... music editor
Laurindo Almeida ... musician: guitar (uncredited)
Albert C. Anderson ... musician: trombone (uncredited)
Jean Vincent Plummer ... musician: piano (uncredited)

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Irva Mae Ross ... script supervisor (as Irva Ross)
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Plot Summary

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

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Taglines The original Black & White classic See more »
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Also Known As
  • Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (United States)
  • They Came from Another World (United States)
  • The Body Snatchers (United States)
  • Walter Wanger's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (United Kingdom)
  • L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures (France)
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  • 80 min
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Budget $417,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $3,000,000

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Trivia Production designer Ted Haworth came up with a fairly simple and inexpensive (about $30,000 total) idea for creating the pods. The most difficult part was when the pods burst open, revealing the likenesses of the actors. The actors had to have naked impressions of themselves made out of thin, skin-tight latex. Making the casts, which involved being submerged in the very hot casting material with only a straw in their mouths to breathe through, was grueling for the actors, especially Carolyn Jones, who was claustrophobic. Dana Wynter recalled, "I was in this thing while it hardened, and of course it got rather warm! I was breathing through straws or something quite bizarre, and the rest of me was encased, it was like a sarcophagus. The guys who were making it tapped on the back of the thing and said, 'Dana, listen, we won't be long, we're just off for lunch [laughs]!' In the end, we had to be covered except for just the nostrils and I think a little aperture for the mouth." See more »
Goofs (at around 20 mins) When Dr. Bennell is shown the body on the pool table he never bothers to ask where it came from or why it is there. One would think that would be the first question. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Giant Claw (1957). See more »
Crazy Credits 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 »
Quotes Dr. Miles J. Bennell: They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!
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