Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | |
| Director(s) | Don Siegel |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Film Adaptation, Horror, Science Fiction |
| Top Topics | Aliens, Book-Based |
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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.
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.Invasion of the Body Snatchers was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994.
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Silver Screen Standards: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
By Jennifer Garlen on Jun 8, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilver 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 ButtonThe 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 ButtonThe 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 ButtonThe 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 ButtonThe 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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Quotes from
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: No, ma'am. That comes later.
Charlie: Give up! You can't get away from us! We're not gonna hurt you!
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: This is the oddest thing I've ever heard of. Let's hope we don't catch it. I'd hate to wake up some morning and find out that you weren't you.
Becky: [laughs] I'm not the high school kid you use to romance, so how can you tell?
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: You really want to know?
Becky: Mmm-hmm.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [after kissing her] Mmmm, you're Becky Driscoll, all right!
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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.
Throughout the years, Sam Peckinpah (who appears briefly in the film as the meter reader) claimed that he had done work on the script ranging from modifications to major overhauls. Those who worked on the film claimed that if Peckinpah had made any changes to the script, it was limited to a few lines of dialog. Peckinpah's claims became so inflated that the actual writer, Daniel Mainwaring, threatened to file an official complaint with the Writers Guild of America, so Peckinpah backed down. When Peckinpah died in 1984, many of his obituaries still carried the claim that he had rewritten the screenplay for this film.
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