Movie: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
| Release Date: | Feb 1956 |
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| Genres: | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Horror |
| Awards | 1 win |
| Runtime: | 80 min. |
| Cast: | 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) Ralph Dumke (Police Chief Nick Grivett) Virginia Christine (Wilma Lentz) Tom Fadden (Uncle Ira Lentz) Kenneth Patterson (Stanley Driscoll) Guy Way (Officer Sam Janzek) Eileen Stevens (Anne Grimaldi) Beatrice Maude (Grandma Driscoll) Jean Andren (Eleda Lentz) Bobby Clark (Jimmy Grimaldi) Everett Glass (Dr. Ed Pursey) Dabbs Greer (Mac Lomax) Pat O'Malley (Baggage man) Guy Rennie (Restaurant owner) Marie Selland (Martha Lomax) Sam Peckinpah (Charlie (meter reader)) Harry J. Vejar (Pod carrier in Miles' office) Whit Bissell (Dr. Hill (uncredited)) Richard Deacon (Dr. Harvey Bassett) Frank Hagney (Bit part (uncredited)) Robert Osterloh (Ambulance driver (uncredited)) |
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.
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