Dell First Edition 42 (1955). Cover by Jack McDermott

Milwaukee-born author Jack Finney is best known for “The Body Snatchers,” a classic science fiction story and the basis for the 1956 movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and its remake in 1978 starring Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy and Jeff Goldblum.

 

Here is the pod-opening scene in the 1956 film:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLsjlmrQ6Mw

 

Here is the comparable scene in the 1978 remake:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=67mdeN5aL5M

 

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