EXPIRED: 09/11/10 – Kevin McCarthy, 96, was a classically trained actor. So it was probably a source of much amusement to him that he is best remembered for his role in a low budget sci-fi film that has since become a classic.
“Stop and listen to me! …. They’re not human! … Can’t you see? Everyone! They’re here already. You’re next!”
Obviously, the body snatchers took a long time finding him.
As the lead in the 1950s film The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, McCarthy played Miles Bennell, a doctor who becomes alarmed when he discovers that the people in his small town have been transformed…..into aliens. The fact that the film, produced at the height of the McCarthy period, was a deep allegory has made it one of the most iconic of the Eisenhower era.
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