Invasion+of+the+Body+Snatchers

__**Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegal, 1956)**__   Trailer: []  Poster: 

Storyline: Dr Miles Bennell returns his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors. He is initially sceptical, especially when the alleged doppelgangers are able to answer detailed questions about their victim's lives. Dr Miles Bennell and love interest Becky Driscoll uncover the mystery and discover an alien race are planning to take over the world by cloning humans. This film features a prologue and epilogue, which were forced upon the director by the picture company. Key areas to discuss:
 * How effective is this film at building tension? Do you think the epilogue/prologue add or detract from the tension?
 * Why has this film been remade so many times?
 * Which version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers do you consider to be the most successful?
 * How far do you agree with this statement: “In a decade of economic success, the nuclear family of small towns all across America seemed the ideal all had to either aspire to or to treasure and keep strong. As Peter Biskind points out “Utopia was to be found in our own backyards; salvation lay in humdrum routine.” What Invasion of the Body Snatchers plays on to such chilling effect is the threat to small town life; the ideologically conservative fear that ordinary people’s safety and happiness can be taken away by outsiders, or even by change.”