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The Secret Invasion (1964) was a Action - Drama Film directed by Roger Corman and produced by Gene Corman.

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Roger Corman came up with the idea for the film during a visit to the dentist, when he read a magazine article about Dubrovnik. To take his mind off the pain while the dentist was working, he tried to create a story which could be filmed there. After leaving the dentist, he returned to his office and wrote the first treatment for the script.
This movie was filmed on location in Yugoslavia and specifically Dubrovnik, now part of Croatia.
Roger Corman directed this movie in between making Poe films (i.e. filmed adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe horror stories) The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia, the latter of which was the last of his Poe adaptions.
Director Roger Corman once said of this film: "The odd thing about this movie is that it had a very similar plot to an old western of mine, Five Guns West. It also came out before The Dirty Dozen. I've heard stories that the producers of 'The Dirty Dozen' actually postponed production of their film an entire year because they realized that our story-lines were so similar."
This was Stewart Granger first low-budget independent film after several years of major starring roles, and he had concerns about allowing his character to be less than central to the story. During the filming of the scenes on the Adriatic, the production crew had already created the smoke for the scene when Granger told Roger Corman that he wouldn't do the scene as written due to Edd Byrnes having too much of the dialogue, with his own character having lesser importance. Corman quickly wrote some new dialogue for Granger to satisfy his concerns (though he has declined to state how much of that dialogue made it into the finished film), and filming proceeded before the smoke dissipated.
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