Invasion of the body snatchers / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents ; screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring ; produced by Walter Wanger Pictures, Inc. ; directed by Don Siegel.
Publisher:
Olive Films,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Container of (work): Invasion of the body snatchers (Motion picture : 1956)
Notes:
Based on the Collier's Magazine serial by Jack Finney. Originally released as a motion picture in 1956. Wide screen (2.00:1). Special features: audio commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith; audio commentary by actors Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, and filmmaker Joe Dante; "The stranger in your lover's eyes": a two-part visual essay with actor and son of director Don Siegel, Kristoffer Tabori, reading from his father's book 'A Siegel film'; "The fear is real" with filmmakers Larry Cohen and Joe Dante; "I no longer belong: the rise and fall of Walter Wanger" with film scholar and author Matthew Bernstein; "Sleep no more: Invasion of the body snatchers revisited" with Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Mick Garris, Stuart Gordon, John Landis, W.D. Richter, and more; "The fear and the fiction: The Body snatchers phenomenon" with Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Mick Garris, Stuart Gordon, John Landis, W.D. Richter, and more; 1985 archival interview with Kevin McCarthy; "Return to Santa Mira": an exploration of the film's locations; "What's in a name?": on the film's title; gallery of rare documents detailing aspects of the film's production; original theatrical trailer; "At first glance everything looked the same: identity crisis in Don Siegel's Invasion of the body snatchers": essay by author and film programmer Kier-La Janisse. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Virginia Christine, Tom Fadden, Kenneth Patterson, Guy Way, Eileen Stevens, Beatrice Maude, Jean Andren, Bobby Clark, Everett Glass, Dabbs Greer, Pat O'Malley, Guy Rennie, Marie Selland, Sam Peckinpah, Harry J. Vejar.
Summary:
Miles Bennell is a doctor in a small California town whose patients are becoming increasingly overwrought, accusing their loved ones of being emotionless imposters. Plant-like aliens have invaded Earth, taking possession of humans as they sleep and replicating them in giant seed pods. Convinced that a catastrophic epidemic is imminent, Bennell, in a terrifying race for his life, must warn the world of this deadly invasion of the pod people before it's too late.
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