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Originally posted by The Count
Albert Finney wrote the short story, "Body Snatchers." To tell you the truth, when I first saw (& later read) the "Puppet Masters," I was crushed. I'd always praised Finney for his originality in penning my favorite horror tale. Then I read Heinlein's earlier version. Was Finney, thus, a plagarist?
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Since Albert Finney is an actor who had nothing to do with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, he certainly did not plagiarize Heinlein.
As for author Jack Finney, who wrote the novel "The Body Snatchers," that's a point we can debate.
By the way, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held a "Salute to Don Siegel" on Wednesday, July 20, at their Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills. Curtis Hanson (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) hosted, and Clint Eastwood was guest. They showed some clips of Siegel's work, discussed their memories of him, and finished with a screening of a brand-new widescreen print of 1956 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (prepared by Paramount especially for the occasion).
"The film holds up so well in terms of tension," Hanson said. "After it was completed, the studio found it a little too disturbing and insisted that a prologue and an epilogue be shot. Don argued and lost, then shot the prologue and epilogue himself, because he didn’t want them shot by anybody else. One could -- it was a thought tonight -- one could show the movie without the prologue and epilogue, but in truth this is the version that went out into theatres; this is the version that became part of our culture. To just cut them off would not create a director’s cut, because Don was also unhappy that some other things were cut out of the movie."
Eastwood called the film "one of the best B-movies ever made... it's one of the greater little science-fictionf ilms, without all the gore, without the stuff you'd have to put in nowadays, and without any visual effects, to speak of."
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