At 3:57 AM -0400 4/8/04, david tetzlaff wrote: >I'm trying to identify a sci-fi movie i saw as a child in the early >1960 at a saturday matinee. It was probably made in the 1950s. My >memory is that it had a name simialr to 'Invaders from Mars' but it >is not that film (Menzies, 1953). I think the plot was very similar, >though: people transformed one by one into zombies, with some >telltale mark, only one person recognizes it (I think also a child), >etc. However, my memory is that this film was in black and white, had >more naturalitic acting than 'Invaders from Mars.' and as I recall, >the invaders were hiding out some secret process in a chemical plant >or refinery, and near the end of the film the place blows up and >there's a blob-like thingie or two terrorizing the humans at that >point. > >So does anyone remember a movie like this? Can anyone recommend a >source/method for trying to dig up stuff like this. > That's probably THE DAY MARS INVADED EARTH (1962) directed by Maury Dexter in black and white cinemascope, starring Kent Taylor and Marie Windsor. The set is a single house, and the cast is limited pretty much to scientist Taylor and his family ..... and their evil Martian doubles. It's a downbeat film ending with <Spoiler alert!> the family as piles of ashes at the bottom of their empty swimming pool. Or at least that's how I recall it from a viewing about twenty years ago. --Richard J. Leskosky (glad to have finally gotten some use out of those synapses) -- ===================================================== Richard J. Leskosky Office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-4019 Unit for Cinema Studies <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3035 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org