{"id":37274,"date":"2024-10-19T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37274"},"modified":"2024-10-18T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T00:34:17","slug":"invaders-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37274","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Invaders from Mars&#8221; (1953) starring Helena Carter, Arthur Franz and Jimmy Hunt \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z101924zview_invadersmars53.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"727\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Invaders from Mars<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1953)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>William Cameron Menzies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Richard Blake<\/strong>; story by<strong> John Tucker Battle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Helena Carter, Arthur Franz<\/strong><strong>, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, Morris Ankrum, William Phipps, Milburn Stone, Fay Baker, Barbara Billingsley, Peter Brocco, Charles Cane, John Eldredge, Luce Potter <\/strong>and <strong>Richard Deacon<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Murderous Martian creatures from out of space!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late one night a thunderstorm wakes young David MacLean (Hunt).\u00a0 Looking out his bedroom window David sees a flying saucer land just beyond a hill out back.\u00a0 David runs to wake his parents, but they brush it off thinking David had a bad dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next morning in order to appease his son, David&#8217;s dad agrees to go check things out.\u00a0 When dad returns, he is cold and emotionless towards David.\u00a0 Before too long David sees his mother and neighbors behaving the same way.\u00a0 So he goes to the police.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t believe him either&#8230; but a county health care physician, Dr. Pat Blake (Carter) does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Carter takes Jimmy and contacts the military.\u00a0 Will they be too late to stop an alien invasion&#8230; even if they do believe her?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Deacon appears uncredited as an Military Police officer.\u00a0 It was his feature film debut.\u00a0 Deacon would become most famous for his role as Mel Cooley on <em>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Invaders from Mars<\/em> is famous for it&#8217;s ending&#8230; was it just a dream?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film starts off pretty good.\u00a0 It has a nightmare quality and rightly so, but is hurt by too much stock footage and cheap looking &#8220;invaders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Invaders from Mars<\/b><\/i> (1953)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z101924zview_invadersmars53b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invaders from Mars (1953) Director: William Cameron Menzies Screenplay: Richard Blake; 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