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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
March 23, 2017  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

TCM, 12:00 a.m. ET

 

This 1956 movie, presented right after the Joe McCarthy Communist witch hunts, and at a time when America still was terrified of being infiltrated by Russian spies and sympathizers (oh, remember what a quaint era that was?), remains one of the best movies about properly motivated paranoia ever made. (For others, see All the President’s Men, The Parallax View, The Thing, and Alien, to name a few.) Don Siegel, who eventually directed Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, directs this still-scary story about people being changed, one by one, in ways that are very sinister, but not immediately apparent…

 
 
 
 
 
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Patrick
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was remade three times - a pretty good 1978 version (with a still-screaming Kevin McCarthy), a 1993 version, and 2007's "The Invasion". That flick, with Nicole Kidman, was more of a chase film.
I saw Kevin McCarthy at an autograph show in 2003 or '04. Unfortunately, he was pretty tanked up.
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