Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers ★★★ Sleep No More 1956

The one and only post McCarthy paranoid sci-fi epic, where a small California town is infiltrated by pods from outer space that replicate and replace humans. A chilling, genuinely frightening exercise in nightmare dislocation. Based upon a novel by Jack Finney. Remade in 1978. 80m/B VHS, DVD . Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, King Donovan, Larry Gates, Jean Willes, Whit Bissell, Richard Deacon, Pat O'Malley, Sam Peckinpah, Donald Siegel, Dabbs Greer, Whit Bissell; D: Donald Siegel; W: Daniel Mainwaring, Sam Peckinpah; C: Ellsworth Fredericks; M: Carmen Dragon. Natl. Film Reg. ‘94.

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