INVADERS FROM MARS (1953)
Special Features: New 4K Restoration; 70th Anniversary
This story of a young boy (Jimmy Hunt) who witnesses an alien invasion has since become a modern classic and was one of two classic early-1950s alien-invasion science-fiction films (the other is Robert Wise's THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL) reflecting Cold War tensions, the Red Scare and paranoid anxiety typical of many films in the '50s. Directed by production designer William Cameron Menzies (GONE WITH THE WIND) and photographed by studio legend John F. Seitz (DOUBLE INDEMNITY) and released in SuperCinecolor, INVADERS FROM MARS has been retrieved from the brink of extinction thanks to this dazzling new restoration. (Note adapted from Ignite Films.) DIR William Cameron Menzies; SCR Richard Blake; PROD Edward L. Alperson. U.S., 1953, color, 78 min. NOT RATED
Restored by Ignite Films in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, George Eastman Museum and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 78 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 12, 2023
Genre: Sci-fi horror
