The DAY MARS INVADED EARTH
- The DAY MARS INVADED EARTH
Film (1962). API/20th Century-Fox. Dir Maury Dexter, starring Kent Taylor, Marie Windsor, William Mims, Betty Beall. Screenplay Harry Spalding. 70 mins. B/w.
In this mediocre B-movie, Martians - who consist of pure energy - travel to Earth via radio beam. As in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956), from which this clearly borrows, they duplicate human beings, killing off the originals, to the horror of a scientist who returns from vacation to find alien minds in the apparent bodies of friends and family and human-shaped ashes in the swimming pool. Unusually, the film ends with the Martians triumphant.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
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