Director: Don Siegel

Writer: Daniel Mainwaring

From short story: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

Keywords: Sci-Fi/Horror, Alien Invasion

Dr. Miles Bennell is recalled from a medical conference after distraught patients complain their loved ones have been replaced by impostors devoid of emotion. At first blush it seems to be mass hysteria, but an increasing body of physical evidence points to alien seed pods usurping their human hosts as they sleep. Stay awake! Captures the paranoia of the Cold War and McCarthy eras. Entered 1994 into the National Film Registry. Remade as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Virginia Christine	Actor	5-Mar-1920	24-Jul-1996	Folger Coffee's Mrs. Olson
King Donovan	Actor	25-Jan-1918	30-Jun-1987	Character actor husband of Imogene Coca
Dabbs Greer	Actor	2-Apr-1917	28-Apr-2007	Rev. Alden on Little House
Carolyn Jones	Actor	28-Apr-1929	3-Aug-1983	Morticia on The Addams Family
Kevin McCarthy	Actor	15-Feb-1914	11-Sep-2010	Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Sam Peckinpah	Film Director	21-Feb-1925	28-Dec-1984	Breakthrough director of ultraviolent film
Dana Wynter	Actor	8-Jun-1931	5-May-2011	Sink the Bismarck!

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