Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

🎞️ Movie 80 min US
โ˜… 7.7 /10 1956

… there was nothing to hold onto—except each other.

Dr. Miles Bennell returns to his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors. He is initially skeptical, especially when the alleged dopplegängers are able to answer detailed questions about their victim's lives, but he is eventually persuaded that something odd has happened and determines to find out what is causing this phenomenon. This film can be seen as a paranoid 1950s warning against those Damn Commies or, conversely, as a metaphor for the tyranny of McCarthyism (or the totalitarian system of Your Choice) and has a pro- and epilogue that was forced upon Siegel by the studio to lighten the tone.

Cast

Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
Dr. Miles J. Bennell
Dana Wynter
Dana Wynter
Becky Driscoll
Larry Gates
Larry Gates
Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman
King Donovan
King Donovan
Jack Belicec
Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones
Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec
Jean Willes
Jean Willes
Nurse Sally Withers
Ralph Dumke
Ralph Dumke
Police Chief Nick Grivett
Virginia Christine
Virginia Christine
Wilma Lentz
Tom Fadden
Tom Fadden
Uncle Ira Lentz
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Kenneth Patterson
Stanley Driscoll
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Carmen Dragon
Composer
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Ellsworth Fredericks
Cinematographer

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