
“There was nothing to hold onto - except each other.”
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Release Date: 2/5/1956
Runtime: 80 minutes
Languages: Danish, English
Director: Don Siegel
Budget: $0.4M
Revenue: $3.0M
Companies: Allied Artists Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions
Countries: United States of America
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers has always been on the top of my list of best horror movies ever made. It is solidly suspenseful throughout from beginning to end. The stars even had wax moldings made of themselves to use as the pods, or counterfiet alien clones. It has a lot to say about how modern progress has alienated the individual by suppressing intinctive emotions. I've even recorded it without the tacked on beginning and ending added after test screenings so audiences would not feel excessively depressed about a negative finish. By some accounts, a few viewers didn't take the original version seriously enough.

Kevin McCarthy
Dr. Miles J. Bennell

Dana Wynter
Becky Driscoll

King Donovan
Jack Belicec

Carolyn Jones
Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec

Larry Gates
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman
Kenneth Patterson
Stanley Driscoll

Virginia Christine
Wilma Lentz

Jean Willes
Nurse Sally Withers

Ralph Dumke
Police Chief Nick Grivett
Guy Way
Officer Sam Janzek
Bobby Clark
Jimmy Grimaldi
Beatrice Maude
Grandma Grimaldi
1946