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: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 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: Invaders: The Pros and Cons
Summary: 3 Stars
(By the way, 3 stars is for the DVD, not the movie. This is a very bad copy of a great film. The picture is grainy and filled with lines.)
Pros:
-This is one of the all time classic sci fi films.
-It starts off with a bang, very similar to Finney's Body Snatchers at first.
-Let's face it, this film is just plain fun.
-Wonderful exemplar of all things that are 50s sci fi!
-I love the Martian! (The little silver guy in the glass ball, not the "Mutants.")
-People getting pulled down through the sand and then later showing up acting different is very creepy stuff.
Cons:
-The "body snatcher" aspect of the story is abandoned too quickly, and was not played up enough.
-The quality of the film's picture is pure rubbish.
-WAY too excessive use of stock footage. You will quickly tire of watching tanks roll around in terrain that isn't even remotely similar to where the main characters are.
-During the climatic underground chase, the same exact scenes get played over and over and over again, as though we're so stupid that we wouldn't notice.
-The ending of the American version of the film is just plain dumb.
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!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 014381136227 Manufacturer No: ID1362CODVDThe 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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