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gfanikf	INVISIBLE INVADERS	Lead	[-]
Jan 8 07 9:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Watching the film now and boy is it a hoot. Actually pretty damn fun too. I was just wondering at the begining of the stock footage montage does anyone know where the first two pieces are from (Dams being blown up and and a truck crashing into one)? I would assume serials. Oh and when the inevitable II thread is found please simple fold this into it. However, I figured this was a seperate matter of inquiry though and a seperate thread would be ok. EDIT: Well scratch the first one that was Thunder Road. School is Cool...well with Mole People at least
TomWeaver999	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#1	[-]
Jan 9 07 12:00 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The truck-into-dam footage was from an old Republic FEATURE, later re-used in Republic serials like KING OF THE TEXAS RANGERS.
gfanikf	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#2	[-]
Jan 9 07 12:12 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sweet thanks a lot Tom. School is Cool...well with Mole People at least
Charles Thaxton	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#3	[-]
Jan 9 07 12:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	that film!! It seems to me the aliens could've done a lot more damage if they stayed invisible than inhabit old men in business suits' decaying corpses. And what...they choose to warn the entire planet at a hockey game? I really love the cheesiness of the closing narration over Paul Dunlap's stirring space march...MANKIND LEARNED TO WORK TOGETHER, SIDE BY SIDE,FOR A COMMON CAUSE... ta da da ta da!!! :)
gfanikf	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#4	[-]
Jan 9 07 12:58 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah to simply put it Invisible Invaders is BADASS :). I'm going to change the title of the thead so this can be a catach all II thread. I thought it was a fun, neat story, and worked really well with a small budget. School is Cool...well with Mole People at least
skelton knaggs	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#5	[-]
Jan 9 07 1:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wasn't John Carradine's triumphant performance the result of spliced stock footage ?
Charles Thaxton	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#6	[-]
Jan 9 07 9:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	no he was in the film and interacted with Dr. Penner...
CAPTAINCOMPANY	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#7	[-]
Jan 9 07 2:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey guys! Say what you will about "Invisible Invaders", but undoubtably, a certain Mr. Romero must have seen this film before undertaking a low budget horror film project of his own a few years later in the Pittsburgh area. Bryan
Professor Von X	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#8	[-]
Jan 9 07 2:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I just keep wondering who won that hockey game... I'd bet on the Habs over the Rangers, though. Especially in the late 50's. Professor Von X
Bill Warren	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#9	[-]
Jan 9 07 2:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Hey guys! Say what you will about "Invisible Invaders", but undoubtably, a certain Mr. Romero must have seen this film before undertaking a low budget horror film project of his own a few years later in the Pittsburgh area. Possible--but it ain't necessarily so. Romero has freely admitted to ripping off--er, being inspired by I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson in making LIVING DEAD, so I doubt that he'd balk at admitting a relationship to INVISIBLE INVADERS.
gfanikf	Re: Invisible Invaders Stock Footage	#10	[-]
Jan 9 07 2:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Hey guys! Say what you will about "Invisible Invaders", but undoubtably, a certain Mr. Romero must have seen this film before undertaking a low budget horror film project of his own a few years later in the Pittsburgh area. And I'll go on record as liking Invisible Invaders a heck of a lot more than Romero's films. I'll just sum up that I loved the attempt to do such and epic scale with a small budget. I agree with a review that says its like if Ed Wood had more talent and money for Plan 9 from Outer Space. Plus one complainet I read asked why only they were in the bunker and to that I saw obviously the country was in a state of mass confusion and the optimal groups of people and troops could make it to secure locations by this point and time. So take that random internet review ;p I also like the use of sports stadiums. Think of it, it is the most effective way to reach the American population in one example or Canadian in the other ;) I also don't find it cheap even with the use of stock footage. Even as mighty a film (and I love it so don't get me wrong) as War of the Worlds does the same exact thing. School is Cool...well with Mole People at least
Colonel Neville	Re: Invisible Invaders	#11	[-]
Jan 16 07 12:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If you enjoed Invisible Invaders you will enjoy Creature With The Atom Brain. I believe it is the first movie to have the police and the military battling zombies in business suits! Before Invisible Invaders, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Last Man On Earth and before Night of The Living Dead!
todmichel	Re: Invisible Invaders	#12	[-]
Jan 16 07 3:52 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Invisible Invaders" could have inspired "Night of the Living Dead", it's a possibility but no proof of it - but I'm quite sure that the US/Italian Vincent Price movie "The Last Man on Earth" (an adaptation of "I Am Legend", incidentally) was the real inspiration. Some shots from this movie (if you put aside the screen image ratio) could be included in Romero's movie without anybody noticing (if they've not seen the 1968 film before of course).
Bill Warren	Re: Invisible Invaders	#13	[-]
Jan 16 07 1:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I'm quite sure that the US/Italian Vincent Price movie "The Last Man on Earth" (an adaptation of "I Am Legend", incidentally) was the real inspiration. I don't know if Romero ever cited THE LAST MAN ON EARTH as an inspiration for NOTLD, but he had frequently mentioned I AM LEGEND, the novel, as a key source.
skelton knaggs	Re: Invisible Invaders	#14	[-]
Jan 16 07 5:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* "Samuel Newman" is believed to be a pen name used by a writer when he did scripts for low budget producers.He later used the name when he was blacklisted and couldn't get work under his own name. The above quote comes from the unequivocal truthful IMDB, as to writing credit for INVISIBLE INVADERS and THE GIANT CLAW. Mmmm...I wonder who this mystery writer could be ? Dalton Trumbo, perhaps ?
TomWeaver999	Re: Invisible Invaders	#15	[-]
Jan 16 07 6:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This "Samuel Newman" business came up a while ago, in some other thread. I called the Screen Writers Guild and their records had very little info about him -- maybe just the date of death -- but they said it looked to them like there was actually a guy named Samuel Newman working in the '50s and '60s. Also, if memory serves, Samuel Newman's name continued to appear on shows long past the end of the blacklist era. Sooooo ... IMDb may be wrong on that one.
skelton knaggs	Re: Invisible Invaders	#16	[-]
Jan 16 07 6:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is it possible Samuel Newman could be a relative or sibling of the infamous Alfred E. Newman ?
Bill Warren	Re: Invisible Invaders	#17	[-]
Jan 16 07 6:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Samuel Newman is definitely not Dalton Trumbo, who did use some pseudonyms--just not that one. As Tom says, Newman has credits after the Blacklist began to be torn down (with the releases of SPARTACUS and EXODUS in 1960). Surely some authority on the Blacklist would have identified this guy by now.
Plastic Sam	Re: Invisible Invaders	#18	[-]
Jan 16 07 10:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The IMDB has Trumbo working uncredited on ROCKETSHIP X-M. Is that true?
Bill Warren	Re: Invisible Invaders	#19	[-]
Jan 17 07 2:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* The IMDB has Trumbo working uncredited on ROCKETSHIP X-M. Is that true? It seems to be.
gfanikf		#20	[-]
Dec 17 07 10:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Colonel Neville wrote: If you enjoed Invisible Invaders you will enjoy Creature With The Atom Brain. I believe it is the first movie to have the police and the military battling zombies in business suits! Before Invisible Invaders, Plan 9 From Outer Space , The Last Man On Earth and before Night of The Living Dead! I can now say with the Sam Katzman box set: You were absolutely correct! HK AND CULT FILM NEWS Your source for all the latest Hong Kong and Cult Films DVD News and Reviews! I actually said he was da bomb but my main man Dennis didn't peep me right.- Tom "Big Daddy" Weaver.

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