Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
by William Cameron Menzies
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Actor: Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Hillary Brooke, Jimmy Hunt, Leif EricksonDirector: William Cameron Menzies
Brand: HUNT,JIMMY
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
Editor: Arthur Roberts
Producer: Edward L. Alperson
Writer: John Tucker Battle
Writer: Richard Blake
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
Movie Review: gets stuck
Summary: 2 Stars
I remembered watching this film with a girlfriend so I wanted to get it. It broke up and got stuck in places and I winded up just turning it off. I was very disappointed with the digital format. I still love the film, but guess it is too old to load properly on a dvd.
Summary of Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars! Brilliantly created by visionary set designer and director William Cameron Menzies (designer of "Gone with the Wind" and H.G. Wells' "Things to Come") with a haunting musical score by Raoul Kraushaar, this golden age sci-fi classic has lost none of its chilling power. Surreal imagery brought to terrifying life in a Cinecolor world just beyond our nightmares!The cold-war paranoia of the McCarthy era had America in its grip when the original Invaders from Mars was released in 1953, and this atmospheric, highly influential science fiction film--the first of its kind to be filmed in color--was perfectly in tune with the mood of its time. Jimmy Hunt plays the quintessential American boy of the post-war years--a freckle-faced kid named David who's curious, alert, and possibly prone to elaborate flights of fancy. Then, during a midnight thunderstorm, he witnesses the landing of a flying saucer that buries itself underground in a nearby field. David's father (Leif Erickson) indulges his son's urging to investigate... and thus begins a bizarre and chilling story of alien invasion, with David's cries of "Martians!" falling on deaf ears as more and more adults are abducted, probed, and placed under alien control.
Designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies (one of the greatest production designers of Hollywood's golden age, whose credits include Gone with the Wind), this eerie little thriller benefits from Menzies's skill at combining physical settings with psychological undercurrents of paranoid terror and resistance against the alien threat. It's still most effective for younger viewers, with Jimmy Hunt providing the story's youthful point of view. And although the malevolent aliens look campy now, with a leader who resembles a bubble-brained squid in a fishbowl, Invaders from Mars remains one of the seminal science fiction films of its time, paving the way for The War of the Worlds and the rapidly developing trend of alien-invasion thrillers. --Jeff Shannon
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