Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film was shot in 2.00:1 Superscope and in the film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers. The film was an independent production, but distributed by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science-fiction film The Atomic Man (and in some markets with Indestructible Man).
Plot
A psychiatrist is called to the room of a Los Angeles hospital, where a man named Miles Bennell is being held in custody. The man claims to be a doctor, and recounts the events leading up to his arrest and arrival at the hospital.
More details
author | Daniel Mainwaring Sam Peckinpah |
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contentLocation | California |
director | Don Siegel |
editor | Robert S. Eisen |
events | alien invasion |
genre | horror science fiction |
keywords | begin capgras delusion hide injured load los angeles suffer |
musicBy | Carmen Dragon |
producer | Walter Wanger |
productionCompany | Walter Wanger Productions |
publisher | Monogram Pictures |
theme | extraterrestrial life film noir independent monster movie science fiction horror |