IT CONQUERED THE WORLD

IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
   Film (1956). Sunset/American International. Prod and dir Roger CORMAN, starring Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland. Screenplay credited to Lou Rusoff, actually by Charles B. Griffith. 71 mins. B/w.
   This film only just survives its ridiculous monster (cone-shaped with fangs) and the usual hurried air of a Corman production, but there's plenty of interest in the tale of an idealistic but weak scientist (Van Cleef) who brings a Venusian to Earth, where it proceeds to let him down badly by embarking onconquest. The scheme (Earth people reduced to subservient zombies by the bites of small batlike things generated by the monster) is foiled by another scientist (Graves), and there is a subtext about loss of individuality and emotion similar to that in the better-known INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (also 1956).
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