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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381136227
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: 1362
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 03, 2002
Running Time: 78 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1953
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Product Description:
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: ID1362CODVD
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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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I was thrilled to get this movie, hadnt seen it since my teen age years and I loved it then. It is still as wonderful as I remember! The newer version is good, funny too, but this original one is still one of my favorite old sci fi movies.
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I remember watching this as a kid when the horror-science fiction were all the rage from that period.
Great acting and special effects like when the sand would swirl and swallow up people.
I still love watching it to this day
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Invaders from Mars is a favorite of mine form when I was a child. Although the movie brought back fond memories, the copy is not in great condition. It appears that the transfer to DVD is fine, but the master has many flaws. I recommend the edition if for nothing else then the movie is fun and a classic example of 1950's science fiction.
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Classic movie from the 50's. I remember watching it as a kid on TV in black and white which may be better than color. The Martian leader carried around in a fishbowl always reminded me of the head of Edward G. Robinson surrounded by octopus-like tentacles. See for yourself!
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I loved this movie as a kid and really enjoyed seeing it again. It scared the daylights out of me when I first saw it and I can now see the creepy mindgame that was going on with this little kid in the movie, with his parents and almost everyone he knows turning into strange evil people and the haunting music and long scary shots of places like the police station and people falling through holes in the ground. And that guy in the globe...Yikes!
What was really interesting is that they did an alternate ending for the British release, which is on this DVD. It would have been nice for the quality of the DVD to be a little better, but hey, it's in Color (that's how long it's been since I've seen it; I thought it was a black and white movie!) with no cuts and no commercials! Very fun...watch it with your kidz!
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