Don Siegel's screen version of Finney's novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), is widely regarded as a masterpiece of low-budget filmmaking.
Critics credit this black-and-white movie (starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter) with demonstrating the cinematic potential of science fiction scripts. The movie altered Finney's narrative in two important ways. It allows Becky Driscoll to be taken over by her pod-clone, and it ends with Miles Bennell vainly warning others.
The film concludes on a.....
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