But in short, Bennell, Driscoll and the Belicecs realise that someone or something is bringing in giant seed pods to the town of Santa Mira, that duplicate people while they are sleeping. I’m not going to get too deep into the plot with this movie, because if you haven’t seen it, you’ll want to watch it unfold for yourself. It seems, notes Bennell, as if its features were not fully formed - but as Teddy points out, frightened out of her mind, it looks almost exactly like her husband Jack. Before they have the time to get the night on, Bennell is phoned up by his old friend Jack Belicec ( King Donovan) who needs Bennell to come to his house right away.ĭana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones and Kevin McCarthy.Īt the house, Bennell and Driscoll are greeted by Belicec and his wife Teddy ( Carolyn Jones), who are beside themselves because of a strange body that has appeared out of nowhere in their basement (and now lying on their pool table). The maitre d’ tells them it’s usually packed, but now, for some reason, people aren’t showing up. Rekindling the old flame, Bennell and Driscoll round up their strange day by going to the local watering hole, only to find it near empty of people, despite it being Saturday night.
Bennell initially writes it off as a delusion, but more and more cases of people who are convinced that their loved ones have been replaced by impostors keep cropping up. Bennell, a small-town doctor ( Kevin McCarthy) has been called back from a conference by his old flame, Becky Driscoll ( Dana Wynter) because she is worried about her cousin, who seems to suffering from some strange mental illness - she is convinced that her uncle, with whom she lives, is not her uncle, but has been replaced with a duplicate. Bennell’s initial voice-over, the movie rolls out a tale that has since been duplicated both officially and unofficially for decades.
After calming down he begins his story …ĭrenched in the deep barytone of Dr. Miles Bennell, and insists he is not crazy, and that people have got to listen to him, because they are all in danger. A psychiatrist is called into a hospital room to calm a seemingly deranged man, who identifies himself as a Dr. I nvasion of the Body Snatchers begins with one of the most famous framing devices of movie history.
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