Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film was shot in 2.00:1 Superscope and in the film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers. The film was released by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science-fiction film The Atomic Man (and in some markets with Indestructible Man).
The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.
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The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.
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00:01:44Oh, Dr. Hill.
00:01:45Dr. Bassett.
00:01:47Where's the patient?
00:01:48I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night.
00:01:50You let me go while there's still time?
00:01:52You'll soon see why I did.
00:01:56Doctor!
00:01:57Will you tell these fools I'm not crazy?
00:01:59Make them listen to me before it's too late!
00:02:01I'll listen to you.
00:02:03Let him go.
00:02:09Who are you?
00:02:10I'm Dr. Hill from the state mental hospital.
00:02:12I'm not insane!
00:02:14Let him go.
00:02:15Listen.
00:02:16Doctor!
00:02:17Now, you must listen to me. You must understand me.
00:02:20I'm a doctor, too. I am not insane.
00:02:22I am not insane.
00:02:23All right, all right.
00:02:24Now, suppose we just sit down over here, Dr. Bunnell,
00:02:26and you tell me what happened.
00:02:31Well, it started.
00:02:34For me, it started last Thursday.
00:02:37In response to an urgent message from my nurse,
00:02:39I'd hurried home from a medical convention I'd been attending.
00:02:43At first glance, everything looked the same.
00:02:48It wasn't.
00:02:50Something evil had taken possession of the town.
00:02:54These two.
00:02:56Here you are.
00:02:57Thank you, sir.
00:02:58There you are.
00:03:04Pardon me, sir.
00:03:07Doc!
00:03:09Hiya, Sally.
00:03:10Hi.
00:03:11Welcome home. I'm glad you're back.
00:03:13How's Mickey and the baby?
00:03:14Well, they're fine.
00:03:15But it seems that everybody else has sat here, and he's a doctor.
00:03:17You've got an office full of patients.
00:03:19Oh, no. On my first day back?
00:03:21Well, some of them have been waiting for two weeks.
00:03:23Why didn't you send them to Percy or Carmichael like I told you to?
00:03:26Most of them wouldn't go. They want to see you.
00:03:28Oh.
00:03:37What's the matter with them?
00:03:38They wouldn't say.
00:03:39You know, usually, people can't talk enough about what's ailing them.
00:03:43For instance, Wally Eberhardt was in twice and called three times about something,
00:03:46but he wouldn't tell me what it was.
00:03:48That's funny.
00:03:49Neither would anyone else, from Becky Driscoll down to that fat traffic cop, Sam Jancic.
00:03:54Becky Driscoll?
00:03:56I thought she was in England.
00:03:59She got back a few days ago, and she wanted to see you.
00:04:02Are you still interested?
00:04:04My interest in married women is strictly professional.
00:04:06Are yours what I'm interested in?
00:04:08Professional, or yours would have been a lost cause long ago.
00:04:12How was the convention?
00:04:13Wonderful.
00:04:14They wept with envy when I read my paper.
00:04:20Back here!
00:04:21Jimmy!
00:04:24What's the matter, Mrs. Grimaldi?
00:04:27It's nothing. He just don't want to go to school.
00:04:32Well, if I were you, I'd have a talk with his teacher.
00:04:35And I will when I get time.
00:04:37What's the matter? Has Joe been sick?
00:04:39No, we gave the stand up.
00:04:41Too much work.
00:04:44The boy's panic should have told me it was more than school he was afraid of.
00:04:47And that littered, closed-up vegetable stand should have told me something, too.
00:04:51When I last saw it, less than a month ago, it was the cleanest and busiest stand on the road.
00:04:56That's strange.
00:04:57She was in to see you, too, last Friday,
00:04:59and I tried to get her to go see Doc Percy, but she wouldn't.
00:05:02She said only you could help her.
00:05:04Well, whatever it was, it couldn't have been too serious, I guess.
00:05:12One minor concussion, two cases of the common cold, and six canceled appointments.
00:05:16Looks like you rushed me here for nothing.
00:05:18I don't understand it, Miles. They couldn't wait to see you.
00:05:21But you're still booked up solid for the afternoon.
00:05:24I bet they don't show.
00:05:25Look, there's Wally Eberhard talking somebody into buying some insurance.
00:05:29There's nothing wrong with him.
00:05:31And Bill Bittner's taking his secretary to lunch.
00:05:34And speaking of lunch, will you tell whoever that is that I'm out having mine?
00:05:37Is Dr. Bunnell in?
00:05:39Yes, he's here.
00:05:40Do you suppose he has time to see me a moment?
00:05:42Well, if he hasn't, there's something wrong with him.
00:05:44Go right in.
00:05:48Becky.
00:05:51Almost five years.
00:05:52It's wonderful to be home again.
00:05:54Been away so long, I feel almost like a stranger in my own country.
00:05:59Hope you don't mind my coming without an appointment.
00:06:01Not at all.
00:06:02What'll you have?
00:06:03We're pushing appendectomies this week.
00:06:05Oh, Miles.
00:06:06I don't know. Maybe I clown around too much.
00:06:09Pretty soon my patients won't trust me to prescribe aspirin for them.
00:06:12Now, seriously, what's the trouble?
00:06:15It's my cousin.
00:06:16Wilma?
00:06:17What's the matter with her?
00:06:20She has a...
00:06:21Well, I guess you'd call it a delusion.
00:06:24You know her uncle, Uncle Ira?
00:06:26Sure. I'm his doctor.
00:06:28Well, Miles, she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle.
00:06:31How do you mean, that they're not really related?
00:06:33No, she thinks he's an imposter or something.
00:06:35Someone who only looks like Ira.
00:06:37Have you seen him?
00:06:39I just came from there.
00:06:40Well, is he Uncle Ira or isn't he Uncle Ira?
00:06:44Of course he is. I told Wilma that, but it was no use.
00:06:47Please, would you stop by and have a talk with her?
00:06:49Well, Sally says that I'm booked up for the afternoon,
00:06:51but why don't you ask her to come in and see me?
00:06:54I've tried.
00:06:57How about some lunch?
00:06:58I can't. I'm meeting Dad at the store.
00:07:01All right.
00:07:06When did you get back?
00:07:07I came back from London two months ago.
00:07:10I've been in Reno.
00:07:11Reno?
00:07:13Reno.
00:07:14Dad tells me you were there, too.
00:07:16Five months ago.
00:07:18Oh, I'm sorry.
00:07:19So was I.
00:07:21I wanted it to work.
00:07:24Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now.
00:07:27Yes.
00:07:28Except that I'm paying dues while you collect them.
00:07:32Miles.
00:07:40Hello, George.
00:07:41How are you?
00:07:42Sam!
00:07:43Hello, George.
00:07:44At it again, eh?
00:07:45My nurse tells me you were in last week and wanted very much to see me.
00:07:48It wasn't anything important.
00:07:52Say, didn't you go to college with us?
00:07:54Quit his second year to get married.
00:07:56Like I wanted us to do.
00:07:58Just be thankful I didn't take you seriously.
00:08:01You be thankful.
00:08:03I found out that a doctor's wife needs the understanding of an Einstein and patience of a saint.
00:08:07And love?
00:08:09I wouldn't know about that.
00:08:11I'm just a general practitioner.
00:08:13Love is handled by the specialists.
00:08:15Well, here's where I leave you.
00:08:18You know something?
00:08:20This is where you left me the last time.
00:08:24Hiya, Johnny.
00:08:32Sally.
00:08:33I'm off.
00:08:34Will you tell the answering service I'll be at home?
00:08:36Good night, Doc.
00:08:37Good night.
00:08:38Hey, I'm sorry I'm late.
00:08:40Come on, Jimmy. Stop all this nonsense and be a good boy. Come on.
00:08:43Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Take it easy.
00:08:46Isn't this Jimmy Grimaldi?
00:08:48Yes, Doctor. Can I talk to your mother?
00:08:49Sure. You know, I almost ran you down this morning.
00:08:51You've got to be careful when you run out the rope there.
00:09:00Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Slow down now.
00:09:04Look, school isn't as bad as all that.
00:09:06School isn't what upsets him. It's my daughter-in-law.
00:09:09He's got the crazy idea she isn't his mother.
00:09:11She isn't. She isn't. Don't let her get me.
00:09:14Nobody's going to get you, Jimmy.
00:09:22How long has this been going on?
00:09:24An hour ago, I found him hiding in the cellar having hysterics.
00:09:27He wouldn't tell me anything until I started to phone his mother.
00:09:30That's when he said Anna wasn't his mother.
00:09:32Could you keep him with you for a day or so?
00:09:34Of course.
00:09:35Give him one of these every four hours during the day.
00:09:37Then call me tomorrow and let me know how he's feeling.
00:09:39Yes, Doctor. Thank you.
00:09:41Nobody's going to get you, Jimmy.
00:09:43Nobody's going to get you, Jimmy.
00:09:52All right, Jimmy. Open your mouth.
00:09:55Shut your eyes.
00:09:57In the words of the poet, I'll give you something to make you wise.
00:10:00That's a good boy, Jimmy.
00:10:04I'm not going home with him.
00:10:06You're going to stay at your grandmother's house.
00:10:08Would you call his mother and tell her...
00:10:09She's not my mother.
00:10:10All right, all right, all right, all right.
00:10:11Run along, run along. Everything's going to be all right.
00:10:13You be a good boy now.
00:10:14Good night.
00:10:15Good night, Doctor.
00:10:16Good night.
00:10:18Sally, I've changed my mind.
00:10:20Sally, I've changed my mind.
00:10:21I'm not going directly home.
00:10:22I'm going to stop off and see Wilma Lentz.
00:10:24Should I call the boy's mother?
00:10:25Yes, call her and tell her what happened,
00:10:26and that I suggested it might be a good idea
00:10:28if the boy spend the night at his grandmother's house.
00:10:39Hello, Miles.
00:10:40Nice to see you, Wilma.
00:10:43Let's have it.
00:10:44You talk to him. What do you think?
00:10:46It's him.
00:10:47He's your Uncle Ira, all right.
00:10:49He is not.
00:10:58How is he different?
00:11:00That's just it.
00:11:01There is no difference you can actually see.
00:11:04He looks, sounds, acts, and remembers like Uncle Ira.
00:11:08Then he is your Uncle Ira.
00:11:10Can't you see that?
00:11:11No matter how you feel, he is.
00:11:13But he isn't.
00:11:14There's something missing.
00:11:15He's been a father to me since I was a baby.
00:11:18Always when he talked to me,
00:11:19there was a special look in his eye.
00:11:23That look's gone.
00:11:25What about memories?
00:11:27There must be certain things
00:11:28that only you and he would know about.
00:11:30Oh, there are.
00:11:31I've talked to him about them.
00:11:32He remembers them all down to the last small detail,
00:11:35just like Uncle Ira would.
00:11:38But, Miles, there's no emotion.
00:11:42None.
00:11:43None.
00:11:44Just the pretense of it.
00:11:46The words, gesture, the tone of voice,
00:11:48everything else is the same, but not the feeling.
00:11:53Memories or not, he isn't my Uncle Ira.
00:11:56Wilma, I'm on your side.
00:11:58My business is people in trouble,
00:11:59and I'm going to find a way to help you.
00:12:01Now, no one could possibly impersonate your Uncle Ira
00:12:04without you or your Aunt Elita
00:12:06or even me seeing a million little differences.
00:12:09I want you to realize that.
00:12:10Think about it.
00:12:11And then you'll know that the trouble is inside you.
00:12:15Wilma, where are you?
00:12:17Out on the lawn.
00:12:19Say nothing to her.
00:12:22Why, Miles, I didn't know you were here.
00:12:24Welcome home.
00:12:25Hello, Mrs. Lentz.
00:12:26Did you ask Miles to stay for dinner?
00:12:29Can't tonight.
00:12:30I'm making spoon bread.
00:12:31Please, don't tempt me.
00:12:33Well, maybe next time.
00:12:35Wilma, where are my glasses?
00:12:36I think I saw them on the mantelpiece.
00:12:38I'll go with you.
00:12:39I'll go with you.
00:12:52Miles, am I going crazy?
00:12:54Don't spare me. I've got to know.
00:12:55No, you're not.
00:12:57Even these days,
00:12:58it isn't as easy to go crazy as you might think.
00:13:00But you don't have to be losing your mind
00:13:02to need psychiatric help.
00:13:05I'd like you to see a doctor friend of mine.
00:13:07Psychiatrist?
00:13:09Dan Kaufman.
00:13:11I'll make an appointment for you tomorrow.
00:13:15All right.
00:13:17But it's a waste of time.
00:13:18There's nothing wrong with me.
00:13:25We'd better break this up or he'll start wondering.
00:13:29Wondering what?
00:13:30If I don't suspect.
00:13:32You've been a big help
00:13:33and I don't want you to worry about me.
00:13:35Or you either.
00:13:36I'll be all right.
00:13:37Sure you will.
00:13:38Staying here, Becky, or may I drive you home?
00:13:41Would you like me to stay?
00:13:42Of course not.
00:13:43Good night.
00:13:45Good night.
00:13:57Nice having Becky back again, eh, boy?
00:13:59Sure is.
00:14:01In the back of my mind, a warning bell was ringing.
00:14:04Sick people who couldn't wait to see me,
00:14:06then suddenly were perfectly all right.
00:14:08A boy who said his mother wasn't his mother.
00:14:10A woman who said her uncle wasn't her uncle.
00:14:12But I didn't listen.
00:14:14Obviously, the boy's mother was his mother.
00:14:16I'd seen her.
00:14:17And Uncle Ira was Uncle Ira.
00:14:19There was no doubt of that after I'd talked to him.
00:14:22Mars, he is Ira.
00:14:24Of course he is.
00:14:25What do you mean?
00:14:26I mean he's Ira.
00:14:27He is Ira.
00:14:29Of course he is.
00:14:30What do you mean?
00:14:31It's just that Wilma's so positive.
00:14:33Will she be all right?
00:14:34Oh, I think so.
00:14:36I'm a doctor, according to my diploma,
00:14:38but I don't really know what Wilma's trouble is.
00:14:40I could start talking psychiatrical jargon,
00:14:43but it's out of my line and in Dan Kaufman's.
00:14:48I wish you didn't have to go home for dinner.
00:14:50I don't.
00:14:51Dad's eating out with a friend.
00:14:54I could pick you up at seven.
00:14:57Well...
00:14:58It's summer and the moon is full,
00:15:00and I know a bank where the wild thyme grows.
00:15:04You haven't changed a bit.
00:15:21Whoa! Watch out!
00:15:22Sorry.
00:15:23Hey, Miles, when did you get back?
00:15:25This morning. How are you, Danny?
00:15:26This is Miss Driscoll, Dr. Kaufman,
00:15:28our one and only psychiatrist.
00:15:29How do you do?
00:15:30Watch out what you say. Ed, you remember Becky?
00:15:32I should. I brought her into the world.
00:15:33You did us all a favor.
00:15:34Hello, Dr. Percy.
00:15:35This saves me a phone call.
00:15:36I've got a mixed-up kid and a woman who need a witch doctor.
00:15:39The boy says his father isn't his father,
00:15:41and the woman says her sister isn't her sister.
00:15:44That's pretty close.
00:15:45I knew you'd been studying hypnosis,
00:15:47but when did you start reading minds?
00:15:49He doesn't have to read them.
00:15:50I've sent him a dozen patients since it started.
00:15:52Well, what is it? What's going on?
00:15:54I don't know. A strange neurosis.
00:15:56Evidently contagious.
00:15:57An epidemic mass hysteria.
00:15:59In two weeks, it's spread all over town.
00:16:02And what causes it?
00:16:04Worry about what's going on in the world, probably.
00:16:08Make room for Wilma Lentz tomorrow, will you, Danny?
00:16:10Send her in around 2.
00:16:11Good night.
00:16:12So long, Danny.
00:16:20This is the oddest thing I ever heard of.
00:16:22Let's hope we don't catch it.
00:16:24I'd hate to wake up some morning
00:16:26and find out that you weren't you.
00:16:28I'm not the high school kid used to romance,
00:16:30so how can you tell?
00:16:31You really want to know?
00:16:32Mm-hmm.
00:16:41Mm, you're Becky Driscoll.
00:16:46Hey, Santa Mary's looking up.
00:16:48Has ever since you got back.
00:16:51Is this an example of your bedside manner, Doctor?
00:16:54No, ma'am. That comes later.
00:17:08Evening, Doctor.
00:17:09What happened to crowd tonight?
00:17:10I don't know.
00:17:11It's been this way for two or three weeks now.
00:17:14Well, at least we don't have to wait for a table.
00:17:17Take your pick. In here or here.
00:17:19Here, I think.
00:17:20Shall we?
00:17:21Mm-hmm.
00:17:23Where's the band?
00:17:24Old business started falling off, so I had to let them go.
00:17:26There's the jukebox, though.
00:17:28Shall we dance?
00:17:29I hope you didn't let the bartender go.
00:17:31I'm the bartender.
00:17:33Martinis?
00:17:34Two. Dry.
00:17:37Uh, very dry.
00:17:40Miles.
00:17:41Hmm?
00:17:42I don't care what Dr. Kaufman says. I'm worried.
00:17:44You are in the capable hands of your personal physician.
00:17:47Oh, Doctor.
00:17:49Ah, there's our evening.
00:17:51Sorry.
00:17:56Thanks.
00:17:57Dr. Bunnell.
00:17:59Jack Belichick wants you to come to his house right away, Doctor.
00:18:02He says it's urgent.
00:18:07Better hold those drinks.
00:18:09Emergency.
00:18:10Well, at least they called before we ordered dinner.
00:18:13How hungry are you?
00:18:14I can wait.
00:18:15Maybe quite a while.
00:18:16I'll go with you.
00:18:17Sorry. We'll be back later.
00:18:35There's Jack.
00:18:46Hello, Jack. What's the matter? Is Teddy sick?
00:18:48No.
00:18:50Miles, thank heaven. I thought you'd never get here.
00:18:52Well, if you're not sick, who is?
00:18:54Nobody.
00:18:55Well, then why did you drag me away for my dinner?
00:18:57Well, you won't believe it, Miles, until you see it for yourself.
00:18:59Hello, Becky. Good to see you again.
00:19:01Hi, Jack.
00:19:02Hi, Jack.
00:19:07Would you be able to forget that you're a doctor for a while?
00:19:10No.
00:19:12Would you be able to forget that you're a doctor for a while?
00:19:15Why?
00:19:16I don't want you to call the police right away.
00:19:18Quit acting like a writer. What's going on?
00:19:20Maybe you can tell me. You're the doctor.
00:19:33Miles, put the light on over the pool table.
00:19:41Go on, pull it down.
00:20:11What do you make of it?
00:20:38Who is he?
00:20:39I have no idea.
00:20:41It's face, Miles. It's vague.
00:20:44It's like the first impression that's stamped on a coin.
00:20:47It isn't finished.
00:20:48You're right.
00:20:49It has all the features, but no details, no character, no lines.
00:20:53It's no dead man.
00:20:55Have you got an ink pad around the house?
00:20:57There should be one on the desk, why?
00:20:59Why not take the corpse's fingerprints?
00:21:01Of course it's a dead man. What else could it be?
00:21:03I don't know.
00:21:04It's a dead man.
00:21:05It's a dead man.
00:21:06It's a dead man.
00:21:07It's a dead man.
00:21:08It's a dead man.
00:21:09What else could it be?
00:21:10I don't know, but I've got a feeling that...
00:21:13This sounds crazy, but if I should do an autopsy,
00:21:16I think I'd find every organ in perfect condition.
00:21:21Just as perfect as the body is externally.
00:21:26Everything in working order.
00:21:29All set to go. Hold that, will you?
00:21:32He's blank.
00:21:34Waiting for the final finished face to be stamped onto it.
00:21:38But whose face?
00:21:40Tell me that.
00:21:42I think we could all use a drink.
00:21:47Bourbon all right?
00:21:48Fine.
00:21:49Not for me, thanks.
00:21:50Miles, answer me. Whose face?
00:21:52I haven't the slightest idea, honey. Have you?
00:21:54I haven't the slightest idea. Have you?
00:21:55I haven't the slightest idea. Have you?
00:21:56I haven't the slightest idea.
00:21:57I haven't the slightest idea.
00:21:58I haven't the slightest idea.
00:21:59I haven't the slightest idea.
00:22:00I haven't the slightest idea. Have you?
00:22:02How...
00:22:03How tall would you say that thing is?
00:22:06Five ten, thereabouts.
00:22:08How much does it weigh?
00:22:10I don't know. It's pretty thin.
00:22:11Maybe 140 pounds.
00:22:14Jack's 5'10' weighs 140 pounds?
00:22:19Teddy, will you stop talking nonsense?
00:22:21I'm sorry, darling.
00:22:22Come on, let's have that hand.
00:22:23But it isn't nonsense.
00:22:26Becky, you don't think it's nonsense, do you?
00:22:28Well, of course it is.
00:22:29Jack's standing here in front of you.
00:22:31Of course I am. Bleeding to death.
00:22:33Excuse me, just a minute.
00:22:35You know what?
00:22:36I'm afraid you may live.
00:22:40This should fix it.
00:22:42Miles, don't you think we should call the police
00:22:44and have them take that dead body out of here?
00:22:46I'm afraid it isn't just a dead body.
00:22:49Thanks.
00:22:59I wonder if...
00:23:02Look.
00:23:03I wonder if there's any connection.
00:23:05What do you mean?
00:23:07There's something strange going on in Santa Mira.
00:23:10Dr. Croftman calls it
00:23:12an epidemic of mass hysteria.
00:23:15Becky's cousin's got it for one.
00:23:17She thinks that her uncle and her aunt
00:23:19aren't her uncle and her aunt.
00:23:21There's several cases of such delusion.
00:23:24Now, this isn't you yet,
00:23:26but there is a structural likeness.
00:23:30It's fantastic, but there must be some reason
00:23:32why this thing is in your house.
00:23:34Would you be willing to sit up with your strange friend
00:23:36and see what his next move is?
00:23:38If nothing happens by morning, call the police.
00:23:41If something happens, call me, will you?
00:23:44You know I will.
00:23:52Good night.
00:23:53Take it easy.
00:23:54Sure. Now, nothing's going to happen.
00:23:56Good night, Ben.
00:23:57Well, if it does, it'll make a charming,
00:23:59blood-curdling mystery story.
00:24:09I was careful not to let Becky know,
00:24:11but for the first time, I was really scared.
00:24:13Dan Croftman's explanation of what was wrong in town,
00:24:16mass hysteria,
00:24:17couldn't explain away that body on Jack's billiard table.
00:24:20Couldn't explain away that body on Jack's billiard table.
00:24:37Come in while I turn the lights on.
00:24:39You're a forward wench dragging me
00:24:41into a dark hallway to be kissed.
00:24:43I'm dragging you into a dark hallway
00:24:45because I'm scared of the dark tonight.
00:24:47In that case, I'd better stay and tuck you in.
00:24:49That way lies madness.
00:24:53What's wrong with madness?
00:24:55Madness.
00:24:56Now, good night.
00:25:05Well, it's about time you two got home.
00:25:08Dad, what are you doing in the basement this time of night?
00:25:10Working in my shop.
00:25:11How about a nightcap, Doc?
00:25:13No thanks, it's kind of late.
00:25:14I'll take a rain check.
00:25:15Good night.
00:25:16Good night.
00:25:19Good night.
00:25:20Good night, Miles.
00:25:49It's you!
00:25:50It's you!
00:25:51No, no, you mustn't go near him!
00:25:53Get out of here, please!
00:25:55Please!
00:26:01What happened, Jack?
00:26:03Teddy says the thing in our place
00:26:04is me right out of the cut of my hand.
00:26:06Sit down, baby.
00:26:07I didn't wait to look.
00:26:09It's alive!
00:26:10It's alive!
00:26:11It's alive!
00:26:12It's alive!
00:26:13It's alive!
00:26:14It's alive!
00:26:15It's alive!
00:26:16It's alive!
00:26:17It's alive!
00:26:18It's alive!
00:26:19The hand was cut and bleeding
00:26:21and the position of the body had changed!
00:26:24Here, here, take this.
00:26:31I'll call Danny Kaufman.
00:26:49Hello, Danny.
00:26:50Yeah?
00:26:51Something's happened and I've got to see you right away.
00:26:53Will you get over here as fast as you can?
00:26:55It's important.
00:26:57Uh, okay.
00:27:03He's on his way.
00:27:04I'll make some coffee and be right with you.
00:27:06Good deal, Miles.
00:27:07Thanks.
00:27:10Miles, what about Becky?
00:27:11Do you think she's all right?
00:27:13I don't know.
00:27:14I don't know.
00:27:15What about Becky?
00:27:16Do you think she's all right?
00:27:28Dad, what are you doing in the basement this time of night?
00:27:30Working in my shop.
00:27:34I don't know what it was.
00:27:36Call it a premonition,
00:27:37but suddenly I had the feeling that Becky was in danger.
00:27:40I had to get to her as quickly as possible.
00:27:45Come on.
00:28:04I was going to ring the bell, but...
00:28:06And I had a hunch I'd better be careful.
00:28:08Something was wrong in this house.
00:28:15I don't know.
00:28:45I don't know.
00:29:15I don't know.
00:29:45I don't know.
00:30:15I don't know.
00:30:45Becky.
00:30:46Becky.
00:30:47Becky.
00:31:15Miles, will you tell me what happened?
00:31:39The same thing.
00:31:40I found another one.
00:31:42In the cellar at Becky's house,
00:31:43coming to life while I stood there watching it.
00:31:45It was Becky.
00:31:47Yeah?
00:31:48I want to see one of these bodies.
00:31:50All right.
00:31:51Now, you're going to bed.
00:31:53And you're staying with her.
00:31:54Put on your clothes.
00:31:55We'll go to Jack's first.
00:31:57Got any coffee around here?
00:31:58Yeah, you'll find some in the kitchen.
00:32:02He doesn't believe me, Beck.
00:32:04He will.
00:32:14Somebody's playing games.
00:32:16Rough ones.
00:32:18There's a blood spot.
00:32:21What you saw was the body of a murdered man.
00:32:23Did you examine it carefully?
00:32:25Yes.
00:32:26I don't know what's happened to it.
00:32:28It was not an ordinary body and there wasn't a mark on it.
00:32:30I checked it too when I put it on the table.
00:32:32There wasn't a scratch.
00:32:33You can kill a man by shoving an ice pick
00:32:35into the base of his brain and leaving a puncture
00:32:37so small the naked eye can't see it.
00:32:39Danny, you're ignoring the fact that this was a murder.
00:32:41I can't see it.
00:32:42Danny, you're ignoring the fact that this was not a normal body.
00:32:44And you heard what Teddy said about the hand.
00:32:46I heard lots of things Teddy said and none of them made any sense.
00:32:49All right, now hold on to it, pal.
00:32:50I was here too.
00:32:51So was Miles.
00:32:53Now, look.
00:32:54We took his fingerprints.
00:32:55Look at that.
00:32:56Tell me why I didn't have any.
00:32:58He didn't want any, so he took them off with acid.
00:33:01Stop trying to rationalize everything, will you?
00:33:03Let's face it.
00:33:04We have a mystery on our hands.
00:33:05Sure you have.
00:33:06A real one.
00:33:07Whose body was it and where is it now?
00:33:08A completely normal mystery.
00:33:10Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience
00:33:13and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.
00:33:15Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar.
00:33:17How do you explain away the body I saw there?
00:33:19I don't think you saw one there.
00:33:20You don't think I saw one here either?
00:33:22I know you did because three others saw it too.
00:33:24But I dreamed of the second one.
00:33:26Doctors can have hallucinations too.
00:33:28The mind is a strange and wonderful thing.
00:33:30I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out.
00:33:32Everything else may be.
00:33:33From the atom to the universe, everything except itself.
00:33:36Nevertheless, I saw Becky's double
00:33:39and the body that we saw here bore an uncomfortable resemblance to Jack.
00:33:42Mighty uncomfortable.
00:33:44All right, let's go on to Becky's and have a look.
00:33:50All right.
00:33:51Where's your girlfriend's double?
00:33:53Okay, skeptic.
00:33:54Lift the lid.
00:34:07There's a body here, all right.
00:34:08It's Becky's double.
00:34:09It sure is.
00:34:10Take another look.
00:34:16Now you see it, now you don't.
00:34:18It was there, half hidden by that blanket.
00:34:21You said you saw it there just now.
00:34:24I thought I did.
00:34:25Why did you come here tonight?
00:34:27You'd seen a dead man at Jack's, an average-sized man.
00:34:30The face and death was smooth and unlined,
00:34:32bland in expression, which often happens.
00:34:35You must become aware of a curious, unexplainable epidemic, mass hysteria.
00:34:39Men, women and children suddenly convinced themselves
00:34:42that their relatives weren't their relatives at all.
00:34:44So your mind started playing tricks and reality became unreality.
00:34:48The dead man became Jack's double in your eyes.
00:34:51Look, come off it, will you, Danny?
00:34:53I know, Miles, this is all hard to believe,
00:34:55but these things happen, even to witch doctors like me.
00:34:58I saw her here. She was real.
00:35:00You saw her all right in every tiny detail,
00:35:02as vividly as anyone has ever seen anything,
00:35:04but only in your mind.
00:35:06Look, Danny, you can talk all night, but you're not going to convince me.
00:35:12What in heaven's name are you doing in my cellar?
00:35:14Using it for an office, Mr. Driscoll.
00:35:16These gentlemen are patients, badly in need of psychiatric treatment.
00:35:19Oh, stop talking nonsense.
00:35:20I'm not. They've been having nightmares.
00:35:22Well, if you're drunk, you better sober up quick.
00:35:24The police are on their way here.
00:35:25No, no, no, we're not drunk.
00:35:26Nothing as simple as that. Pull up a chair.
00:35:28Oh, you're crazy, all of you.
00:35:30Hey, what's going on down there?
00:35:32Hello, Nick. Glad to see you.
00:35:34You saved these two characters that tripped to the station.
00:35:37They want to report finding a body and losing it.
00:35:41Where? When?
00:35:43At my place, about 7 o'clock.
00:35:45Why did you wait so long to report it?
00:35:47You know better than that, Doc.
00:35:49Yeah, well, it was a curious sort of a body,
00:35:52and then it wasn't there anymore.
00:35:56I have a good mind to throw you both in jail.
00:35:59Well, if you'd seen it, you'd understand why we waited.
00:36:02Thin man, 5'10",
00:36:05fingerprints burnt off with acid.
00:36:07I've just seen it on the slab in the morgue.
00:36:10It turned up in a burning haystack
00:36:12on Mike Gessner's south pasture two hours ago.
00:36:15Now, break it up.
00:36:17Go on home.
00:36:20Well, you win.
00:36:22Pick up the marbles.
00:36:30Good morning.
00:36:32Good morning.
00:36:36Orange juice.
00:36:40How'd you like your eggs?
00:36:42Oh, anyway, they're good.
00:36:44I'm glad you liked them.
00:36:46How'd you like your eggs?
00:36:48Oh, anyway, you like them.
00:36:50Boil, two minutes.
00:36:52Two minutes?
00:36:54Okay.
00:36:56You know,
00:36:58dragging you out of bed in the middle of the night was a lot of trouble,
00:37:01but it was worth it.
00:37:03Now, seriously.
00:37:05What was that?
00:37:10Who is it?
00:37:12It's the gas man.
00:37:14Morning, Doc.
00:37:17Good morning, Charlie.
00:37:19I guess I'm a little jittery.
00:37:21Not getting enough sleep.
00:37:23Well, I won't be bothering you anymore.
00:37:25I'm putting a meter outside on the patio.
00:37:27Okay.
00:37:28The eggs will be hard-boiled.
00:37:30Did you do this for your husband?
00:37:32Mm-hmm.
00:37:33Didn't your wife do this for you?
00:37:35Oh, yes. She liked to cook.
00:37:37That's one of the reasons why I'm single.
00:37:39I never was there when dinner was on the table.
00:37:42Well, take my advice and don't get mixed up with the doctor.
00:37:45They're seldom at home.
00:37:47What would you say if I told you I was already mixed up with the doctor?
00:37:51I'd say it was too good to be true.
00:37:53Things like this can happen all of a sudden.
00:37:56What's so all of a sudden about two people who've known each other most of their lives?
00:38:01Good morning.
00:38:02Oh, good morning.
00:38:04I thought I'd smell some coffee. Why don't you give me a call?
00:38:06I didn't want to wake Teddy.
00:38:08Oh, she's wide awake.
00:38:10She had a good sleep.
00:38:11Good.
00:38:12Look, I don't feel that she should go home right away, Miles.
00:38:15Would you mind taking in a couple of boarders for a while?
00:38:19Or do you have something else in mind?
00:38:22Well, I was toying with an idea, but you can stay.
00:38:26Here, Dad.
00:38:28Thank you, doll.
00:38:29Take it up to Teddy.
00:38:40Miles, did you make that appointment for me with the psychiatrist?
00:38:43Yes, two o'clock.
00:38:45I don't need him. I feel like such a fool.
00:38:48I woke up this morning and everything was all right.
00:38:50You don't know how relieved I am.
00:38:52Oh, yes, I do.
00:38:53Listen, would you give Becky a call and tell her about it?
00:38:55She was worried about you.
00:38:56All right.
00:38:57She's at my house.
00:38:58At your house? Why?
00:39:00Well, it's a long story, but she'll tell you all about it.
00:39:11Becky's still at his house.
00:39:17All right.
00:39:21Good morning.
00:39:22Good morning, Sally.
00:39:24Take a peek at what's in the reception room.
00:39:31Mother, when will we go home?
00:39:33In a little while.
00:39:34All right.
00:39:36Mother, when will we go home?
00:39:38In a little while, Jimmy.
00:39:44He certainly made a quick recovery.
00:39:50I guess we all have.
00:39:52But driving home, I had a lot of questions and no answers.
00:39:55How could Jimmy and Wilma seem so normal now?
00:39:58Surely I had done nothing to cure them.
00:40:00Maybe they wanted me to feel secure, but why?
00:40:04Why?
00:40:07Well...
00:40:08Hope you didn't forget the steaks.
00:40:10I never forget anything.
00:40:11Don't worry about him. He's completely housebroken.
00:40:14I need a martini, Beck.
00:40:16One in or out?
00:40:17Doesn't matter. I want to pour it on the charcoal.
00:40:19I can't get this stuff to burn.
00:40:21Oh, a martini isn't dry enough.
00:40:22I'll get you something to start it.
00:40:24For drinking purposes.
00:40:28You're looking ship-shaped.
00:40:30Thank you, sir.
00:40:34Here we are.
00:41:05Jack! Jack!
00:41:17They're like huge seed pods.
00:41:20This must be the way that potty in my closet was formed.
00:41:25Miles, where did they come from?
00:41:26I don't know.
00:41:27If they are seeds or seed pods, they must grow someplace on a plant, probably.
00:41:30And somebody or something wants this duplication to take place.
00:41:33But when they're finished, what happens to our bodies?
00:41:36I don't know.
00:41:37When the process is completed, probably the original is destroyed or disintegrates.
00:41:41Scott, no, wait!
00:41:42I'm sorry, but I take a dim view of watching my own destruction take place.
00:41:45There isn't any danger until they're completely formed.
00:41:47We learned that last night at your house.
00:41:49Your plank didn't change right away.
00:41:51Not until you fell asleep.
00:41:55Miles, when the change does take place,
00:41:58do you suppose there's any difference?
00:42:00There must be.
00:42:01Wilma noticed it.
00:42:02So did little Jimmy.
00:42:04So did I.
00:42:07My father.
00:42:10That must be what he was doing in the cellar last night, placing one of these.
00:42:14I'm sorry.
00:42:15I felt something was wrong, but I thought it was me because I've been away for so long.
00:42:19They have to be destroyed, all of them.
00:42:21They will be, every one of them.
00:42:23Listen, we're going to have to search every building, every house in town.
00:42:26Men, women and children are going to have to be examined.
00:42:28We've got some phoning to do.
00:42:29I'm going to stay right here while I can watch them.
00:42:31I'm going to stay with you.
00:42:32And don't call the police!
00:42:33Nick Rivett didn't find any body on a burning haystack.
00:42:41Why don't you call Danny? Maybe he can help.
00:42:43Danny?
00:42:45No.
00:42:46I'm afraid it's too late to call Danny, too.
00:42:48Well, what are you going to do?
00:42:49Get help.
00:42:50I hope whatever's taking place is confined to Santa Mira.
00:43:00Operator.
00:43:01Hello, this is Dr. Bunnell.
00:43:03This is an emergency.
00:43:04I want to talk to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Los Angeles.
00:43:07Can you make them believe you?
00:43:08I've got it.
00:43:09Where do they come from?
00:43:11So much has been discovered in these past few years that anything is possible.
00:43:14Maybe the results of atomic radiation on plant life or animal life.
00:43:19Some weird alien organism.
00:43:21A mutation of some kind.
00:43:23So why should they take the form of people, of us?
00:43:25I don't know. I don't know.
00:43:27I don't know.
00:43:29Whatever it is, whatever intelligence or instinct it is that can govern the forming of human flesh and blood out of thin air is...
00:43:37It's fantastically powerful.
00:43:39Beyond any comprehension.
00:43:40Malignant.
00:43:41All that body in your cellar needed was a mind, and it was...
00:43:44And it was taking mine while I was asleep.
00:43:47I could take that pitchfork myself and...
00:43:49On your call to Los Angeles, Doctor, they don't answer.
00:43:53Well, try again. That office is open day and night.
00:43:56If they've taken over the telephone office, we're dead.
00:44:14Is that me?
00:44:25No.
00:44:46This is an emergency! Emergency!
00:44:48Now, look, there's been...
00:44:52Operator, get me a better connection.
00:44:54I'll try, Doctor.
00:44:57It's no use. All the Los Angeles circuits are dead.
00:45:00All right, try Sacramento.
00:45:02Give me the state capital. I want to talk to the governor.
00:45:07The Sacramento circuits are busy, Doctor.
00:45:09I'll call you back.
00:45:13All right.
00:45:15All right, I'll wait for your call.
00:45:20I'll take the phone outside.
00:45:25Jack!
00:45:26What?
00:45:27They've got the phone.
00:45:28Now, you and the girls get in your car and make a run for it.
00:45:30First time you get two, yell for help.
00:45:32What about you?
00:45:33In a little while, that phone is going to ring.
00:45:34If there's nobody here to answer it, they'll know we've gone and block the roads out of town.
00:45:37I'll stall them until you're out of reach.
00:45:38Well, then what are you going to do?
00:45:39Try and find out what's in back of this.
00:45:41I'm staying.
00:45:42No.
00:45:43Miles, don't ask me to leave you.
00:45:46Jack, get going.
00:45:47Miles, I can't...
00:45:48Look, somebody's got to go or we don't get any help.
00:45:50Please, let's get out of here.
00:45:52Well, watch out for yourselves.
00:45:55Go over by the phone.
00:45:57Stay there.
00:45:58If it rings, call me.
00:46:25I'm sorry.
00:46:40Hello?
00:46:41Is Dr. Burnell there?
00:46:42Yes, I'll get him.
00:46:43Never mind.
00:46:44Just tell him the Sacramento circuits are still busy
00:46:47and ask him if he wants me to keep trying.
00:46:48All right, hold on.
00:46:49Miles, the circuits are still busy!
00:46:51Well, tell her to keep trying.
00:46:53Also try San Francisco and Washington.
00:47:02We're getting out of here right now.
00:47:03Well, where are we going?
00:47:03Sally, come on.
00:47:07We're still unable to get through to Los Angeles.
00:47:10Do you wish me to keep trying?
00:47:12Dr. Bunnell?
00:47:14Dr. Bunnell?
00:47:17I needed someone I could trust,
00:47:18and I figured Sally, my nurse, was my best bet.
00:47:21I decided to try to phone her to see if she was at home.
00:47:24Maybe they hadn't taken over the payphones.
00:47:26I'll try the payphone.
00:47:28Hey, Mac!
00:47:31Oh, hi, Doc. How are you?
00:47:32Listen, would you get me a couple of gallons fast?
00:47:34I'm in a hurry.
00:47:34Sure. Martha!
00:47:36Doc's in a hurry. Get the windshield, will you?
00:47:42I have to have the keys to open the gas tank.
00:47:47Somebody sick out this way?
00:47:49There's been an accident.
00:47:51Funny, we haven't heard about it.
00:47:53Well, it just happened.
00:47:56Before I could even get her number,
00:47:57I saw Mac closing the trunk of my car.
00:47:59He could have been checking my spare tire,
00:48:01but I didn't think so.
00:48:02That should do it.
00:48:05All set?
00:48:05All set, Doc.
00:48:06Fine, thanks.
00:48:07I'll put it on my belt, will you?
00:48:08Sure, Doc.
00:48:21What's the matter?
00:48:51We've got to make it to Sally's house.
00:49:04I wasn't sure now there was anyone I could trust,
00:49:06but I took a chance and drove to Sally's anyway.
00:49:21When I saw several cars in front of the house,
00:49:24I decided to play it safe.
00:49:31What's wrong?
00:49:32Probably nothing.
00:49:34But we're not going in there until I'm sure it's safe.
00:49:35Slide over under the wheel,
00:49:37and get out of here fast if anybody shows up looking for us.
00:49:51Come on up.
00:50:13Baby asleep yet, Sally?
00:50:14Not yet, but she will be soon.
00:50:16And there'll be no more tears.
00:50:18Shall I put this in her room?
00:50:20Why don't you go in, Myles? We've been waiting for you.
00:50:32Becky, get going.
00:50:44Attention all units. Attention all units.
00:50:47Apprehend and detain Dr. Myles Bunnell and Becky Driscoll.
00:50:52Now believed heading north in a black and white Ford sedan.
00:50:55License number 2X37796.
00:51:00All units designated as roadblocks move to your stations.
00:51:04It is urgent. These two persons must be detained and not permitted to leave Santa Mira.
00:51:09Repeat, it is urgent.
00:51:12The order of God for a 1955 black and white Ford sedan.
00:51:16License number 2X377...
00:51:41...2X377...
00:51:44...2X377...
00:51:47...2X377...
00:51:50...2X377...
00:51:54...2X377...
00:51:57...2X377...
00:52:00We'll try to make my office. Cut into that alley on the right.
00:52:11We'll try to make my office. Cut into that alley on the right.
00:52:41We'll try to make my office. Cut into that alley on the right.
00:53:11Do you think he'll come back?
00:53:16I don't think they'll check again before morning.
00:53:18But then Jack should be here with health.
00:53:37Do you think he'll come back?
00:53:41What if Jack doesn't get through?
00:53:51He's gotta get through.
00:53:52Here, now take two of these.
00:53:53They'll help you to stay awake.
00:53:54We can't close our eyes all night.
00:54:17We may wake up changed, to something evil and inhuman.
00:54:23In my practice, I've seen how people have allowed their humanity to drain away.
00:54:27Only it happens slowly, instead of all at once.
00:54:31They didn't seem to mind.
00:54:33But just some people, Miles.
00:54:36All of us, a little bit.
00:54:38We harden our hearts, grow callous.
00:54:42Only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is to us.
00:54:47How dear.
00:54:48As you are to me.
00:55:05Maybe that's Jack trying to find us.
00:55:07He'd know better than to use the phone.
00:55:10Where is he?
00:55:13When doesn't he come?
00:55:25Just like any Saturday morning.
00:55:28Len Perlman, Bill Bittner, Jim Clark and his wife Shirley and their kids.
00:55:36People I've known all my life.
00:55:38What time is it?
00:55:397.45.
00:55:40Yeah, I know.
00:55:41It's too early to be so busy.
00:55:42What are they doing here?
00:55:43There's the answer.
00:55:44Must be strangers in town.
00:55:45They've been waiting for the bus to come and go.
00:55:46There isn't another one through here until 11.
00:55:47I don't know what they're doing here, but I'm sure they're trying to get us out of here.
00:56:08I don't know what they're doing here, but I'm sure they're trying to get us out of here.
00:56:37Farmers, Grimaldi, Pixley, Gessner.
00:56:43Crescent City.
00:56:46If you have Crescent City families, step over to truck number one.
00:57:06Crescent City.
00:57:07The first truck.
00:57:08Red Bank.
00:57:09All with Red Bank families or contacts, go to truck number two.
00:57:18All with Red Bank families or contacts, truck number two.
00:57:24Havenhurst.
00:57:25The third truck.
00:57:26Havenhurst.
00:57:27The third truck.
00:57:28Milltown.
00:57:29The third truck.
00:57:30Milltown.
00:57:31The third truck.
00:57:32Dolly Spring.
00:57:33The third truck.
00:57:34Dolly Spring.
00:57:35The third truck.
00:57:36Milltown.
00:57:37The third truck.
00:57:38Dolly Spring.
00:57:39The third truck.
00:57:40First our town, and all the towns around us.
00:57:45It's a malignant disease spreading through the whole country.
00:57:48That's all for today.
00:57:50Be ready again tomorrow.
00:58:07I can't wait for Jack any longer.
00:58:08Stay here.
00:58:09But you're not going out there.
00:58:10I've got to stop time.
00:58:11Well, wait.
00:58:12We're safe here.
00:58:13They're not here.
00:58:14I hope we're not too late.
00:58:15Jack, thank God.
00:58:16Jack.
00:58:17The whole town's been taken over by the pods.
00:58:18Not quite.
00:58:19There's still you and Becky.
00:58:20Miles, it would have been so much easier if you'd gone to sleep last night.
00:58:21Now, relax.
00:58:22We're here to help you.
00:58:23You know better than that.
00:58:24We're here to help you.
00:58:25We're here to help you.
00:58:26We're here to help you.
00:58:27We're here to help you.
00:58:28We're here to help you.
00:58:29We're here to help you.
00:58:30We're here to help you.
00:58:31We're here to help you.
00:58:33You know better than that.
00:58:37Where do you want us to put them?
00:58:39Would you like to watch them grow?
00:58:41No, thanks.
00:58:42Put them in there.
00:58:43There's nothing to be afraid of.
00:58:45We're not going to hurt you.
00:58:46But once you understand, you'll be grateful.
00:58:49Remember how Teddy and I fought against it?
00:58:51We were wrong.
00:58:52You mean, Teddy doesn't mind?
00:58:55Of course not.
00:58:56She feels exactly the way I do.
00:58:57Let us go.
00:58:58We'll leave town.
00:58:59We won't come back.
00:59:00We can't let you go.
00:59:01You're dangerous to us.
00:59:02Don't fight it, Miles. It's no use.
00:59:04Sooner or later, you'll have to go to sleep.
00:59:07I'll wait for you in the hall.
00:59:09Miles, you and I are scientific men.
00:59:13You can understand the wonder of what's happened.
00:59:15Now, just think.
00:59:16Less than a month ago, Santa Mera was like any other town.
00:59:19People with nothing but problems.
00:59:22Then out of the sky came a solution.
00:59:25Seeds drifting through space for years
00:59:27took root in a farmer's field.
00:59:30From the seeds came pods,
00:59:32which have the power to reproduce themselves
00:59:34in the exact likeness of any form of life.
00:59:38So that's how it began.
00:59:41Out of the sky.
00:59:44Your new bodies are growing in there.
00:59:47They're taking you over, cell for cell,
00:59:50atom for atom.
00:59:51There's no pain.
00:59:54Suddenly, while you're asleep,
00:59:56they'll absorb your minds, your memories,
00:59:59and you're reborn into an untroubled world.
01:00:03Where everyone's the same.
01:00:05Exactly.
01:00:07What a world.
01:00:09We're not the last humans left.
01:00:12They'll destroy you.
01:00:15Tomorrow, you won't want them to.
01:00:17Tomorrow, you'll be one of us.
01:00:22I love Becky.
01:00:25Tomorrow, will I feel the same?
01:00:27There's no need for love.
01:00:30No emotion.
01:00:32Then you have no feelings.
01:00:34Only the instinct to survive.
01:00:36You can't love or be loved, am I right?
01:00:38You say it as if it were terrible.
01:00:39Believe me, it isn't.
01:00:41You've been in love before.
01:00:43It didn't last.
01:00:44It never does.
01:00:46Love, desire, ambition, faith.
01:00:50Without them, life's so simple.
01:00:52Believe me.
01:00:54I don't want any part of it.
01:00:56You're forgetting something, Miles.
01:00:58What's that?
01:00:59You have no choice.
01:01:07I guess we haven't any choice.
01:01:09Good.
01:01:19I want to love and be loved.
01:01:24I want your children.
01:01:26I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty.
01:01:29I'd rather die.
01:01:31No.
01:01:33No.
01:01:36Not unless there's no other way.
01:01:39Why didn't they just give us a shard or a sleeping pill or something?
01:01:45The drug's still on the mind. Maybe that's the reason.
01:01:55Oh, no, it wouldn't work.
01:01:57I might get one or even two, but I couldn't possibly get three of them.
01:02:00You're forgetting something, darling, me.
01:02:02It isn't three against one, it's three against two.
01:02:04Give me a knife.
01:02:07No.
01:02:24Give me a knife.
01:02:54Here.
01:03:25Go over by the desk.
01:03:47What's going on in there?
01:03:49Miles! Miles!
01:03:50Open the door, Miles.
01:03:51Unlock the door.
01:03:52Miles, open the door.
01:03:53Open the door, Miles.
01:03:59Open the door.
01:04:24Our only hope is to make it to the highway.
01:04:41Well, that does it.
01:04:43The only other way is out the front door, and there's bound to be somebody watching.
01:04:46We'll have to chance it.
01:04:54Keep your eyes a little wide and blank.
01:04:56Show no interest or excitement.
01:05:23Well, Sam, we're finally with you.
01:05:25They were supposed to let me know that Chief said he had phoned the station,
01:05:28and then I'd get the call.
01:05:30He phoned, but the line was busy.
01:05:32He's calling again now.
01:05:37Watch out!
01:05:41I'm sorry, Miles.
01:05:47I'm sorry, Miles.
01:05:49I'm sorry, Miles.
01:05:51I'm sorry, Miles.
01:06:21I'm sorry, Miles.
01:06:44This is Janczek. They got away. Turn the main siren on.
01:06:52Hey, the stairs.
01:07:15Only a few steps more.
01:07:21Come on.
01:07:33Come on, they went this way.
01:07:51They're over there.
01:08:21Come on.
01:08:51Come on.
01:09:22Miles.
01:09:24I can't. I can't, Miles. I can't.
01:09:26I can't go on.
01:09:28Yes, you can.
01:09:51Come on.
01:10:22In this weather, they must be in the tunnel.
01:10:37Come on. Some of you go that way.
01:10:45Give up.
01:10:47You can't get away.
01:10:49Give up.
01:10:51You can't get away from us.
01:10:53We're not gonna hurt you.
01:10:55Give up.
01:11:07Not the tunnel.
01:11:09All right, everybody outside.
01:11:11Come on. Let's check the hills.
01:11:13Everybody move.
01:11:20Miles, I can't stay awake much longer.
01:11:25I think they're all gone now.
01:11:28We'd better start, or we'll never make it to the highway.
01:11:49Come on.
01:12:19Miles, I've never heard anything so beautiful.
01:12:22It means we're not the only ones left to know what love is.
01:12:26Stay here and pray they're as human as they sound.
01:12:29Bye, darling.
01:12:49Come on.
01:13:19Come on.
01:13:36This is station KCAA, the 24-hour platter parade.
01:13:40The station of music and...
01:13:49Becky.
01:14:13Becky.
01:14:16Becky.
01:14:19Becky?
01:14:21Becky, where are you?
01:14:23I'm here, Miles.
01:14:28You didn't go to sleep.
01:14:30I'm so tired.
01:14:32They weren't people.
01:14:34It was more of them.
01:14:36They're growing thousands of pods in greenhouses.
01:14:38We've got to get away.
01:14:40I'm exhausted, Miles.
01:14:42I can't...
01:14:50We can't make it without sleep.
01:14:55Yes, we can.
01:15:20I went to sleep, Miles, and it happened.
01:15:23Oh, Becky.
01:15:27They were right.
01:15:29I should never have left you.
01:15:31Stop acting like a fool, Miles, and accept us.
01:15:36No.
01:15:39Never.
01:15:41He's in here! He's in here!
01:15:43Get him! Get him!
01:15:46He's in here!
01:15:48Get him! Get him!
01:15:58I've been afraid a lot of times in my life,
01:16:01but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until...
01:16:04until I had kissed Becky.
01:16:07A moment's sleep and the girl I loved
01:16:09was an inhuman enemy bent on my destruction.
01:16:12That moment's sleep was death to Becky's soul,
01:16:15as it had been for Jack and Teddy and Dan Kaufman and all the rest.
01:16:18Their bodies were now hosts harboring an alien form of life,
01:16:22a cosmic form, which to survive must take over every human man.
01:16:26So I ran. I ran.
01:16:28I ran as little Jimmy Grimaldi had run the other day.
01:16:30My only hope was to get away from Santa Mira,
01:16:32to get to the highway,
01:16:34to warn the others of what was happening.
01:16:46Wait!
01:16:47Don't!
01:16:48Come on, we gotta get out!
01:16:49No, wait, let him go. They'll never believe you.
01:16:52Help! Help! Help! Wait!
01:16:54Help! Help! Help! Wait!
01:16:57Wait! Wait! Stop! Stop! Stop!
01:16:59And listen to me! Listen to me!
01:17:02Listen! Listen!
01:17:03Listen, those people that are coming after me, they're not human!
01:17:06Listen to me! We're in danger!
01:17:08Get out of the street!
01:17:09Danger!
01:17:10Go on! Get out of here!
01:17:13Now listen! Listen to me!
01:17:14There isn't a human being left in Santa Mira!
01:17:17Not one!
01:17:18Hey!
01:17:19Hey, stop! Pull up, will you?
01:17:21Pull over to the side of the road! I need your help!
01:17:23Something terrible has happened!
01:17:24Go on! You're drunk!
01:17:25Get out of the street!
01:17:26Get out of here! Go on!
01:17:31Hey!
01:17:32Hey!
01:17:33Hey!
01:17:34Hey!
01:17:35Hey!
01:17:36Hey!
01:17:37Hey!
01:17:38Hey!
01:17:39Hey!
01:17:40Hey!
01:17:41Go on!
01:17:52Are you crazy, you big idiot?
01:17:54Look, you fools, you're in danger!
01:17:57Can't you see?
01:17:58They're after you!
01:18:00They're after all of us.
01:18:02Our wives, our children, everyone.
01:18:04They're here already!
01:18:06You're next!
01:18:08You're next!
01:18:09Euronics! Euronics!
01:18:11Euronics!
01:18:13Euronics!
01:18:23You don't believe a word of this, do you?
01:18:25Sure, it's fantastic, but it happened.
01:18:27Don't just sit there measuring me for a straight check. Do something!
01:18:29Get on the phone! Call for help!
01:18:33What's the use?
01:18:39Call for help!
01:18:51Well, what do you think? Will psychiatry help?
01:18:53If all this is a nightmare, yes.
01:18:55Of course it's a nightmare.
01:18:57Plants from another world taking over human beings.
01:18:59A man is a March Hare.
01:19:05What have we here?
01:19:07Ran his truck through a red light.
01:19:09Greyhound bus smacked him broadside and tipped him over.
01:19:11Put him in the O.R.
01:19:13Will you take over Bunnell for me, doctor?
01:19:15Certainly.
01:19:17How badly is he hurt?
01:19:19Both legs, left arm broken all to bits.
01:19:23We had to dig him out from one of the most peculiar things I ever saw.
01:19:27What things?
01:19:29I don't know what they are. I never saw them before.
01:19:31They look like great big seed pods.
01:19:33Seed pods?
01:19:35Where was the truck coming from?
01:19:37Santa Mira.
01:19:45Get on your radio and sound at all points along.
01:19:47Block all highways, stop all traffic,
01:19:49and call every law enforcement agency in the state.
01:19:53Operative, get me the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
01:19:55Yes, it's an emergency!
01:20:03THE END