Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
- small town
- based on novel or book
- alien
- black and white
- doctor
- patient
- alien invasion
- psychiatrist
- alien infection
- angry mob
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kevin McCarthy
Dr. Miles J. Bennell
Dana Wynter
Becky Driscoll
King Donovan
Jack Belicec
Carolyn Jones
Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec
- Larry Gates — Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman
- Kenneth Patterson — Stanley Driscoll
- Virginia Christine — Wilma Lentz
- Jean Willes — Nurse Sally Withers
- Ralph Dumke — Police Chief Nick Grivett
- Guy Way — Officer Sam Janzek
- Bobby Clark — Jimmy Grimaldi
- Beatrice Maude — Grandma Grimaldi
- Whit Bissell — Emergency Room Psychiatrist
- Richard Deacon — Emergency Room Doctor (uncredited)
- Robert Osterloh — Ambulance Attendant
- Directed
- Don Siegel
- Written
- Richard Collins, Daniel Mainwaring
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,210 ratings
- Studio
- Allied Artists Pictures, Walter Wanger Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
