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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Director(s) Don Siegel
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Film Adaptation, Horror, Science Fiction
Top Topics Aliens, Book-Based
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Overview:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) was a Horror - Science Fiction Film directed by Don Siegel .

SYNOPSIS

This is the height of paranoid science-fiction terror made at the height of McCarthy-era paranoia. A small-town doctor (McCarthy) becomes the last man with a conscience when pods from outer space begin to reproduce inside their human hosts, draining all humanity from them. When he gleans the truth, a race begins to get the word out before it's too late. Long seen as a parable about individuality and the danger of conformity and group-think. Breathless, suspenseful, and the best of its kind. Remade successfully in 1978. The laser release includes a wide-screen version, commentary, including an interview with director Siegel, and trailers. Based on the serialized story in Collier's magazine by Jack Finney.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers BlogHub Articles:

Silver Screen Standards: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

By Jennifer Garlen on Jun 8, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

Silver Screen Standards: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Many remakes have followed in the wake of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), the iconic science fiction film adapted from a serialized novel by American sci-fi writer Jack Finney, but the first outing for this terrify... Read full article

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 6, 2019 From The Stop Button

The longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)

By Andrew Wickliffe on May 6, 2019 From The Stop Button

The longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)

on May 6, 2019 From The Stop Button

The longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)

on May 6, 2019 From The Stop Button

The longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Quotes:

[from trailer]
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: Listen to me! Please listen! If you don't, if you won't, if you fail to understand, then the same incredible terror that's menacing me WILL STRIKE AT YOU!
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: And so I ran. I ran, I ran, I ran! I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi ran the other day.
[last lines]
Dr. Hill: Get on your radios and sound an all points alarm. Block all highways, stop all traffic, and call every law enforcement agency in the state.
[on phone]
Dr. Hill: Operator, get me the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Yes, it's an emergency!
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!
Becky: They're like huge seed pods!
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers Facts
The tunnel scene where the hero hides briefly from the townspeople was filmed at Bronson Cave in Griffith Park, famous with locals as the Bat Cave.
Becky and Miles paraphrase Shakespeare twice. "I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows" is from A Midsummer Night's Dream. "That way madness lies" is from King Lear.
Universal's UK DVD (824 346 1.11) comes with a choice of the original black and white or a colorized version. The black & white's running time is 1hr and 20 mins while the color version has an added five minutes to its running time.
Only $15,000 of the budget was spent on special effects.
Ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sci-Fi" in June 2008.
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