Home Invasion
My buddy D.F. Rogers and I have been watching Elvis’ TV appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show from 1956-57, and thinking how everybody except Elvis really did seem to be Pod People. This weekend the umpteenth remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is out, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to show a clip from the original movie.
In an interview done back in the 70’s, director Don Siegel (at left in the picture above) commented on the scene that’s in the video clip.
Allied Artists had an old-fashioned credo that horror pictures couldn’t have humor. I had a great deal of humor in the picture and though they cut out a lot, they didn’t totally succeed. As in the barbecue scene. King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, [Kevin] McCarthy and Dana Wynter have an outdoor barbecue even after they have accepted mentally that something is terribly wrong. Only when they see the pod do they panic.
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