Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)
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| Directed by | Don Siegel |
| Produced by | Walter Wanger |
| Screenplay by | Daniel Mainwaring |
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The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney |
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| Music by | Carmen Dragon |
| Cinematography | Ellsworth Fredericks |
| Edited by | Robert S. Eisen |
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Walter Wanger Productions
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| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $416,911 |
| Box office | $3 million |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American black-and-white science fiction horror film in Superscope that was partially shot in the film noir style. It was produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's science fiction novel The Body Snatchers (1954).Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in 1956 by Allied Artists Pictures on a double bill with the British science fiction film The Atomic Man.
The storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.
The slang expression "pod people" that arose in late 20th century American culture references the emotionless duplicates seen in the film.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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