Girls, Join All Of Us, Tonight At 8PM, As Svengoolie Presents Another Gem, 1953's "Invaders From Mars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                           This is one case, girls, where the poster does justice to the movie.

                                           "Invaders From Mars" has a scene stealing cast--Jimmy Hunt as young David MacLean, Lief Erickson and Hillary Brooke as his parents, all of whom deliver A list performances.

                                              And the film has a distinctive visual look; no doubt because this film was directed--directed, mind you!!!!!!!!!--by William Cameron Menzies!!!!!!!!!!  Fourteen years before, he set designed a little film called "Gone With The Wind."  This film still his visual touch from that film!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                But there are two actors, or should I say actresses, who steal the show!

                                                 

                             The first is Jeanine Perreau, sister of Gigi, and who played the last, and surviving child victim of David Wayne in the 1951 American film version of "M," as Conformist Fifties Child Kathy Wilson.  Come to think of it, this is what the MAGA movement is aiming for, so this film still has a pertinence to today's times.  Keep an eye on Jeanine when watching.  She is never the same after walking up that hill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Then there is Lucie Luz Potter as the giant, dome enclosed leader.  Ever since seeing this as a child, I thought the leader was a man.  Not until I saw the last "Svengoolie" showing, and did some research, did I realize this role was played by an actress!   And what a brilliant performance.  Just like Virginia Leith in 1962's "The Brain That Wouldn't Die," all she had to work with was her head.  What a performance!  Too bad she and Jeanine were not Oscar nominated.

                              This is a class A film.  Those who have never seen it, should not miss it.  Those who have can revel in its chilling prescience

                                A warning--the chilling twist is most disturbing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                See you at 8PM, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.