Additional information for Invaders from Mars, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 22, 1953. The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox and has not yet been rated. Invaders from Mars has a total running time of 78 minutes.
G
Australia
K-16
Finland
15
Sweden
PG
UK
Approved
USA
16
West Germany
14
Netherlands
78min
Invasores de Marte
Spain
Invasores de Marte
Venezuela
Anfall från Mars
Sweden
Avaruuden pirut
Finland
Eisvoleis ap' ton Ari
Greece
Gli invasori spaziali
Italy
Hódítók a Marsról
Hungary
Invasion vom Mars
West Germany
L'attaque des martiens
Belgium
Les envahisseurs de la planète rouge
France
Mars slaat toe
Netherlands
Mars valt aan
Belgium
Najezdzcy z Marsa
Poland
Os Invasores de Marte
Brazil
Osvajači sa Marsa
Serbia
Rymdens djävlar
Finland
April 09, 1953
USA
April 22, 1953
USA
May 14, 1956
Denmark
November 24, 1958
Sweden
November 28, 1958
West Germany
December 05, 1958
Finland
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A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Psychologically terrifying space-invader movie made at the height of McCarthyism centers around 10-year-old boy astronomer betrayed by most of the adults he knows, including his parents. Small and cheap, but brilliantly and boldly helmed by William Cameron Menzies -- the production designer of Gone With the Wind -- "Invaders from Mars" had enough of a timeless paranoiac jolt to be remade, albeit poorly, by Tobe Hooper in the 1980s.
Back in the 50s, while Hollywood and Congress panicked and did some pretty cruel and crazy things in reaction to an alleged invasion of commies, Little Jimmy is figuring out who do you trust after learning that everything he's been told about authority -- family, the church, even the chief of police -- is a big fat lie. Interestingly, the person who defends and leads Jimmy in his insistence on conspiracy is a true alien for the time, a creature who somehow wafted through the cracks in the well-wrought PC system to become a "lady doctor." The choice of such an underground avatar is reminiscent of George Romero's use of Duane Jones as the unambivalent protagonist in "Night of the Living Dead (1968). With Hillary Brooke as mom, and British great Bert Freed as the top cop.I think it worth pointing out that there are two versions of this film ...one for the American market and one British. As I understand it the films ending was not well recieved by British audiences {a fate shared by the dream season of the TV series Dallas} so some pick ups were quickly reshot to give the film a more hard edged real world conclusion rather then the nightmareish endless loop of the American original.
William Cameron Menzies
Director(s)
Richard Blake
John Tucker Battle
Writer(s)
Edward L. Alperson
associate producer (as Edward L. Alperson Jr.)
Producer(s)
Raoul Kraushaar
Mort Glickman
Composer(s)
Dr. Pat Blake
Helena Carter
Dr. Stuart Kelston / Narrator
Arthur Franz
David MacLean
Jimmy Hunt
Mr. George MacLean
Leif Erickson
Mrs. Mary MacLean
Hillary Brooke
Col. Fielding
Morris Ankrum
Sgt. Rinaldi
Max Wagner
Sgt. Baker (as Bill Phipps)
William Phipps
Capt. Roth
Milburn Stone
Kathy Wilson
Janine Perreau
Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
Fay Baker
Kelston's Secretary (uncredited)
Barbara Billingsley
Brainard - Wilson's Aide (uncredited)
Peter Brocco
Old Cop Blaine Who Vanishes (uncredited)
Charles Cane
Mutant (uncredited)
Tommy Cottonaro
MP (uncredited)
Richard Deacon
Mutant (uncredited)
Pete Dunn
Mr. Turner (uncredited)
John Eldredge
Gen. Mayberry (uncredited)
William Forrest
Police Chief A.C. Barrows (uncredited)
Bert Freed
Lt. Blair (uncredited)
Charles Gibb
Maj. Clary (uncredited)
Gil Herman
Martian (uncredited)
Bob Herron
Jim - Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Todd Karns
Tall Cop Jackson Who Vanishes (uncredited)
Douglas Kennedy
Mutant (uncredited)
Paul Klott
Mutant Carrying David to 'Intelligence' (uncredited)
Lock Martin
Mutant (uncredited)
Harry Monty
Mutant Carrying Dr. Blake to 'Intelligence' (uncredited)
Max Palmer
Martian Intelligence (uncredited)
Luce Potter
Police Desk Sgt. Finlay (uncredited)
Walter Sande
Dr. Bill Wilson (uncredited)
Robert Shayne
Mutant (uncredited)
George Spotts
Pentagon Chief of Staff (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Mutant (uncredited)
Ed Wolff
Director(s)
John Tucker Battle
Writer(s)
associate producer (as Edward L. Alperson Jr.)
Producer(s)
Mort Glickman
Composer(s)
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