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mahatmakanejeeves

(70,716 posts) Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:02 PM Jul 2025

On "Svengoolie" tonight: the eerie original 1953 version of "Invaders from Mars"

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ALIENS LAND IN THE SAND- BUT IT'S NO DAY AT THE BEACH WHEN YOU MEET "INVADERS FROM MARS"- TONIGHT!

Posted on July 12, 2025

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Soon after making the movie, the boy who played David retired from acting, at age 14.

Jimmy Hunt

Date of Birth: 4th December 1939
Country of Birth: USA

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On "Svengoolie" tonight: the eerie original 1953 version of "Invaders from Mars" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2025 OP

A great movie that will always have a special meaning to me nuxvomica Jul 2025 #1

First sci-fi movie I remember seeing Oeditpus Rex Jul 2025 #2

nuxvomica

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1. A great movie that will always have a special meaning to me

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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:36 PM

Jul 2025

I was five when I first watched it on the TV at my best friend's house. I didn't know it at the time but he was dying from a brain tumor and that's why we had to play indoors. It scared the bejeezus out of us, which was, of course, great fun. It's a terrific film in is own right and I think it was the first sci-fi movie to play on the Cold War paranoia of distrusting those around you, six years before Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Oeditpus Rex

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2. First sci-fi movie I remember seeing

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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:43 PM

Jul 2025

I was 7 or 8, and the Martian leader -- just a head with arms that looked like tree branches -- scared the hell out of me.

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