There's no emotion. None. Just the pretense of it. The words, the gesture, the
tone of voice, everything else is the same, but not the feeling.
Set in the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, the plot centers on Dr. Miles Bennell, a local doctor, who finds a rash of patients accusing their loved ones of being impostors. Another patient is an old flame, recent divorcee Becky Driscoll, who tells him that her cousin has this same strange fear.
Assured at first by the town psychiatrist Dr. Dan Kaufman that the cases are nothing but "epidemic mass hysteria," Bennell soon discovers, with the help of his friend Jack Belicec, that the townspeople really are being replaced by simulations grown from plantlike pods, perfect physical duplicates who kill and dispose of their human victims. The Pod people are indistinguishable from normal people except for their utter lack of emotion. The pod people work together to secretly spread more pods—which grew from "seeds drifting through space for years"—in order to replace the entire human race.
The film climaxes with Bennell attempting to escape the pod people, flee the town with Driscoll, which seems to have been consumed by these human replicants, and warn the rest of humanity......can he do it or is it too late???
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| Directed by | Don Siegel |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Walter Wanger |
| Written by | Jack Finney Daniel Mainwaring |
| Starring | Kevin
McCarthy Dana Wynter King Donovan Carolyn Jones Larry Gates |
| Music by | |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1956 |
| Running time | 80 Minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $417,000 |