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Les Envahisseurs de la planète rouge

Original title: Invaders from Mars
  • 1953
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  • 1h 18m
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6.2/10
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Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, and Jimmy Hunt in Les Envahisseurs de la planète rouge (1953)
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
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A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

  • Director
    • William Cameron Menzies
  • Writers
    • Richard Blake
    • John Tucker Battle
  • Stars
    • Helena Carter
    • Arthur Franz
    • Jimmy Hunt
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
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    • Director
      • William Cameron Menzies
    • Writers
      • Richard Blake
      • John Tucker Battle
    • Stars
      • Helena Carter
      • Arthur Franz
      • Jimmy Hunt
    • 167User reviews
    • 64Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Helena Carter
    Helena Carter
    • Dr. Pat Blake
    Arthur Franz
    Arthur Franz
    • Dr. Stuart Kelston…
    Jimmy Hunt
    Jimmy Hunt
    • David MacLean
    Leif Erickson
    Leif Erickson
    • Mr. George MacLean
    Hillary Brooke
    Hillary Brooke
    • Mrs. Mary MacLean
    Morris Ankrum
    Morris Ankrum
    • Col. Fielding
    Max Wagner
    Max Wagner
    • Sgt. Rinaldi
    William Phipps
    William Phipps
    • Sgt. Baker
    • (as Bill Phipps)
    Milburn Stone
    Milburn Stone
    • Capt. Roth
    Janine Perreau
    Janine Perreau
    • Kathy Wilson
    Fay Baker
    Fay Baker
    • Mrs. Wilson
    • (uncredited)
    Barbara Billingsley
    Barbara Billingsley
    • Kelston's Secretary
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Brocco
    Peter Brocco
    • Brainard - Wilson's Aide
    • (uncredited)
    Charles Cane
    Charles Cane
    • Old Cop Blaine Who Vanishes
    • (uncredited)
    Tommy Cottonaro
    • Mutant
    • (uncredited)
    Richard Deacon
    Richard Deacon
    • MP
    • (uncredited)
    Pete Dunn
    Pete Dunn
    • Mutant
    • (uncredited)
    John Eldredge
    John Eldredge
    • Mr. Turner
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William Cameron Menzies
    • Writers
      • Richard Blake
      • John Tucker Battle
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    BaronBl00d

    And a Child Shall Lead Them...

    Lots of positive and negative feedback for this film, and I can understand why. Whether we want to admit it or not, nostalgia does have an impact on how we view things. As someone between the two generations(early 30's at this time), I can understand how I have put special importance on things I watched as a child. I know that some of these films were not too good but they mean't a lot to me. I also know that I was the kind of person that watched older films and appreciated them if they were good, and watched newer films and appreciated them if they were good. The biggest problem with many younger viewers today is that they do not look at a film in a context of when it was made, nor do they look at the most important aspect of the film which is what message is the film trying to relate....NOT how does it look in relating its message. We as a society are too caught up with presentation and other superficial things that sometimes we ignore what the core of something is. Anyway...enough philosophizing. This film is a good film period. Yep, it is cheaply made. Yep, it is filled with lots of stock footage, particularly the battle scenes which take place at night but footage takes place during day. Yep, it has mediocre acting. I won't argue those point because they are accurate. But those are only a part of the film...and for this film at least a very small part. This film has style and substance. Director William Cameron Menzies WAS a great director. He directed the science fiction classic Things To Come in the 30's which was a visionary masterpiece. He made this film fun to watch as he incorporated German expressionistic sets into his small-town simple story of a boy that knows aliens have landed on Earth in his back yard. The young boy played by Jimmy Hunt does a fine job in his role. The messages the film relates, however, are for me at least the core of the film....watch out for the ordinary....listen to children.....conformity is dangerous. This film is saying so much...give it a chance without worrying about window-dressing! And a final note...Long Live Morris Ankrum in film...I like him in this movie!
    7Leofwine_draca

    Childhood favourite

    This one scared the hell out of me when I first saw it as a kid; I remember them showing it in the evening on BBC2 back in the 1980s. Looks like a lot of other reviewers were similarly traumatised. Watching it now, as an adult, it's easy to laugh at what is a shoddy, low budget production. Scenes are repeated, special effects are wobbly to say the least, the aliens are silly rather than menacing, and the paucity of the production is apparent in every respect.

    And yet...there's something oddly menacing about this film. It's partly the Cold War paranoia-inspired plot about nice, ordinary people being taken over by a sinister foreign menace. Interestingly, this is the earliest version I've seen on that theme, predating INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS by a couple of years. The paranoia is cloying and really raises the hackles, even as an adult, and even allowing for the cheesy over-acting of the child star.

    The more overt aspects of the story, which take place towards the climax, are also profound, and in this case the imaginative nature of the production outweighs the budgetary constraints. That alien leader, little more than a head in a goldfish bowl, is oddly disturbing and an image that's stayed with me for my whole life. It's easy to forgive the problems in a film like INVADERS FROM MARS when it contains such classic, timeless material and I do think this is one of those '50s-era B-movie alien invasion classics.
    6rupie

    nostalgia trip

    I was seven years old when I was taken to see this movie by my sixty-year old Lithuanian grandmother (to whom it must have made no sense at all). The images in the movie - the big green guys, the melting rock that looked like an explosion in a bubble gum factory, the people falling into the sand pit, the dreaded implant approaching the pretty neck of Dr. Blake, the little silver octopus-like guy in the fishbowl - all replayed themselves in my mind over many nights. I saw it again recently on AMC and can see many of the things that are dated, but can also understand why the movie made such an impact at the time. The concept, especially, of one's parents being taken under the control of evil forces is particularly disturbing to a young child. The music and sound effects, too, are particularly eerie. The almost abstract quality of the set in the police station scene lends it a foreboding quality. I'm ambivalent on how to rate it. It very much shows its age (and they could have shortened the stock army footage of tanks rolling) but has much that gives it a weird sort of drawing power even today. A curiously compelling movie.
    acm120

    Beware the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition is made from the original 35mm film without any attempt to clean the film of interference lines, or clarify the print in any way. Unfortunately this takes away from the enjoyment of one of the classic benchmark scifi films of the fifties. I have a VHS tape of the film that has a better print. This DVD is also usually priced higher than other DVDs or prints. It is definitely not worth it. Try other versions before you buy this one.
    MusicalMagpie

    Scared the spit out of me when I was a kid!

    I was only a year old when this movie came out, but I saw it on TV when I was around 8 years old, and it made a deep impression on me. In fact, when they brought out that long needle, my sister and I hid behind the couch and screamed for our mother to come turn off the TV! As a result, I did not know how the movie ended until I saw it again as a teenager. The special effects may seem cheesy to the jaded audiences of today, but they were effective enough to give me nightmares for years. (In one dream I am being carried by my own mother, who is walking stiffly, with a fixed smile.) I believe what makes it work is that the entire film is seen from the point of view of the boy. The director capitalizes on the insecurity of young children, and the way they relate to the world around them. All the best horror and science fiction movies succeed not because of CGI, costumes, rubber prostheses and fake blood, but because they focus on basic human fears and insecurities.

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    • Trivia
      In one scene, Dr. Kelston refers to the "Lubbock Lights" and to a "Captain Mantell." These were-real life U.F.O. events that created a nationwide sensation in their day. The photographs shown by Dr. Kelston are actual photographs of the Lubbock Lights that appeared in newspapers and magazines.
    • Goofs
      The same shot of a soldier manning a searchlight on a tower beside the side of a building is used in both the scene at the rocket base of the attempt to blow up the rocket, and (three times) in scenes in the field where the Martians landed: this latter use is particularly ridiculous because there is no such building as is seen behind the light tower in that location.
    • Quotes

      Mary MacLean: [waking up] What is it?

      George MacLean: Well, ah, David says something landed in the field out back. It doesn't make sense, but he seems so convinced.

      Mary MacLean: What do you mean "land"?

      George MacLean: Well, he says he saw a bright light or something. He's not the type of boy that given to imagining things. After all the work at the plant is secret. And we have orders to report anything unusual. And there have been rumors.

      Mary MacLean: Rumors?

      George MacLean: Oh, Dear, you know I can't talk about it.

    • Alternate versions
      The material added to the planetarium sequence for the British version includes a serious discussion of several American UFO incidents such as the Mantell case. Several UFO models, based on American UFO sightings, are also displayed and discussed.
    • Connections
      Edited into Batman: The Joker's Flying Saucer (1968)

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    • Release date
      • April 22, 1953 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • L'invasion vient de Mars
    • Filming locations
      • Palomar Observatory, 35899 Canfield Rd, Palomar Mountain, California, USA(location)
    • Production company
      • Edward L. Alperson Productions
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    • Budget
      • $290,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 18 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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