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Auction History Result 4x140 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 7 Mexican LCs '56 classic horror, ultimate science-fiction! Date Sold 11/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 7 Original Vintage Theatrical Mexican Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 12 3/4" x 17" [32 x 43 cm]) (Learn More) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (released in Mexico as "The Body Snatchers"), the classic 1956 Don Siegel science fiction (sci-fi) horror alien invasion romantic thriller ("Walter Wanger creates the ultimate in science-fiction!"; "They come from another world!"; "Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable!"; "Something is happening! Send your men of science quick! The panic stricken cry went over the phone to Washington D. C. until the lines went dead!......."; "Colliers's Magazine called it 'The nightmare that threatens the world!'"; "Based on the Collier's Magazine Serial by Jack Finney"; about aliens invading Earth by replacing people with alien counterparts that grow as pods, and then take over the person's identity when the person falls asleep; one by one, a town is taken over, and the few remaining unaffected people try to stop them and get the word out, but they are stopped at every turn; most people see this as a thinly veiled parable of the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which found "Communists" behind every door in Hollywood!; others protest that it greatly borrowed the plot of Robert A. Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters", which had been written five years before; ironically, when The Puppet Masters finally came to the screen in 1994, it was criticized for being a rip-off of this movie!) starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter ("Sensational star discovery of 'The View From Pompey's Head' ... Dana Wynter in the year's most startling role!"), Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, and Ralph Dumke NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that these Mexican lobby cards measure 12 3/4" x 17" [32 x 43 cm]. One of the cards (the one with McCarthy in the street by cars) is on a thinner paper stock than the others and measures slightly smaller, but all appear to surely be from the first release of this movie in Mexico. Condition: very good. The cards range from "very good" to "very good to fine" with two having water staining on the back of the lower right (but on those two it only shows in the front in the blank borders). One of the cards (the one with McCarthy in the street by cars) is on a thinner paper stock than the others and that card is only in "good" condition because it has stains, tears, and tiny paper loss around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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