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Release Date: 1956

Cast: Guy Rennie, Jean Willes, Carolyn Jones, King Donovan, Sam Peckinpah, Larry Gates, Richard Deacon, Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Ralph Dumke

Categories: Movies, Cold War, Black-And-White, Alien Invasion, Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction, Doomsday Film

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 US-American science fiction film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers. In 1994, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The story depicts an extraterrestrial invasion in a small California town. The invaders replace human beings with duplicates that appear identical on the... MORE

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 US-American science fiction film directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers. In 1994, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The story depicts an extraterrestrial invasion in a small California town. The invaders replace human beings with duplicates that appear identical on the surface but are devoid of any emotion or individuality. A local doctor uncovers what is happening and tries to stop them. In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy), a local doctor, finds a rash of patients accusing their loved ones of being impostors. Another patient is a former sweetheart of his, recent divorcée Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter), who tells him that her cousin, Wilma, has this same strange fear about Uncle Ira. Dr. Dan Kauffman (Larry Gates), a psychiatrist in the town, assures Bennell that the cases are nothing but "epidemic mass hysteria". That LESS