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Invaders From Mars (1953)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:8
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 78 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: All-American boy, David MacLean awakens one night and spots an alien space ship outside his window. His parents decide to investigate, but when they return their personalities have changed --... All-American boy, David MacLean awakens one night and spots an alien space ship outside his window. His parents decide to investigate, but when they return their personalities have changed -- almost as if they've become different people. Frightened, the boy tells the local police what has happened, but he gets little response until a doctor and an astronomer take him seriously. The two scientists fear the Earth has been and that they'd better act fast if humanity is going to be saved. [More]
Starring: Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson
Starring: Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Morris Ankrum, Hillary Brooke, Max Wagner, Milburn Stone
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Producer: Edward L. Alperson
Screenwriter: Richard Blake, John Tucker Battle, William Cameron Menzies
Composer: Raoul Kraushaar
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Reviews for Invaders From Mars
Invaders from Mars really is laughably camp and an often goony 79 minutes, but if that was its totality it would be utterly dismissed like so many of its kin today.
Wm. Cameron Menzies' almost-masterpiece of Cold War paranoia, bracing and impactful despite some conspicuous gaffes in the costuming-and-effects department. The underlying beauty of it all is a tacit understanding that yes, It Can, Too, Happen Here.
An enjoyable B-movie, but not quite as good as its reputation suggests it would be.
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