Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Released February 5th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story : Doctor Bennell has just arrived back into town after a two week vacation.
His secretary informs him that many of his patients have been in need of his help for the whole two weeks , calling constantly.
First day back on the job , none of his patients seem to be in any great dire need of his help after all.
Pretty strange but that's about as much thought as the doctor puts into it.
But then , a young boy is brought into the office by his grandmother who claims that the boy is afraid to go home.
The woman who looks like his mother is not acting like his mother and he is frantic about it.
Doctor gives the boy two aspirin and tells his grandmother to keep him overnight.
Next , a longtime girlfriend of the doctors arrives telling him that her cousin is claiming that the man who looks like her father is not her father.
So the doctor pays them all a visit and sees nothing out of the ordinary. It isn't til later on that evening that the doctor actually sees some proof to all the stories he's been hearing.
Stars Kevin McCarthy , Jean Willes , Larry Gates , Dana Wynter , King Donovan , Carolyn Jones , Ralph Dumke , Tom Fadden , Virginia Christine , Kenneth Patterson , Guy Way , Beatrice Maude , Eileen Stevens , Jean Andren , Everett Glass
Directed Don Siegel
Not Rated
B&W
SCIFI/HORROR

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