- "They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!"
- ―Miles J. Bennell
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |
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| Credits | |
| Title: | Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Genres: | Sci-fi |
| Directed by: | Don Siegel |
| Music by: | Carmen Dragon |
| Cinematography: | Ellsworth Fredericks |
| Edited by: | Robert S. Eisen |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
| Released: | February 5th, 1956 |
| Rating: | Approved |
| Running time: | 80 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $417,000 |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Don Siegel. It is based on the 1954 serial The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney which was originally published in Colliers Magazine. The film was remade in 1978 as Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Philip Kaufman and and again in 2007 under the simplified title Invasion. All variations of the story involve microscopic alien life forms that come to Earth and supplant human beings with perfect alien/human hybrid duplicates grown from plant-like pods (in Invasion however, the alien seeds are actually a viral contagion).
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Kevin McCarthy | Dr. Miles J. Bennell |
| Dana Wynter | Becky Driscoll |
| Larry Gates | Dr. Danny Kauffman |
| King Donovan | Jack Belicec |
| Carolyn Jones | Theodora Belicec |
| Virginia Christine | Wilma Lentz |
| Kenneth Patterson | Stanley Driscoll |
| Jean Willes | Sally Withers |
| Ralph Dumke | Police Chief Nick Grivett |
| Guy Way | Officer Sam Janzek |
| Richard Deacon | Dr. Harvey Bassett |
| Whit Bissell | Dr. Hill |
| Eileen Stevens | Anne Grimaldi |
| Tom Fadden | Ira Lentz |
| Jean Andren | Eleda Lentz |
| Bobby Clark | Jimmy Grimaldi |
| Everett Glass | Dr Ed Pursey |
| Dabbs Greer | Mac Lomax |
| Marie Selland | Martha Lomax |
| Sam Peckinpah | Charlie |
| Beatrice Maude | Grandma Driscoll |
| Pat O'Malley | Baggage man |
| Guy Rennie | Restaurant owner |
| Harry J. Vejar | Pod carrier in Miles' office |
| Robert Osterloh | Ambulance driver |
| ? | Pod-carrying Truck Driver |