Invasion of Body Snatchers / Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, 1956, Paramount, 80 min. A small Southern California town is overtaken by alien seedpods that mutate into doppelgangers of the human inhabitants. Kevin McCarthy is the doctor who gradually realizes the insidious changes going on. With Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones (Morticia of TV’s “The Addams Family”). EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS, 1956, Sony Repertory, 83 min. Dir. Fred F. Sears.

Earth’s scientists can’t figure out why all the rockets they shoot into space are disappearing … until flying saucers appear over the White House! Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor form a vanguard of defense. FX man Ray Harryhausen collaborated on the story.