Invaders from Mars

Invaders from Mars follows a young boy, David MacLean, who one night sees a flying saucer land in the dunes behind his home. Soon afterward, the adults around him begin acting strangely, among them his parents and others in town. David turns for help to Dr. Pat Blake, who comes to believe his story, and to the astronomer Dr. Stuart Kelston, and together they investigate what is happening to the people of the town.

The film was directed by William Cameron Menzies, whose earlier features include Things to Come, Address Unknown and Drums in the Deep South. It was written by Richard Blake and produced by Edward L. Alperson. Jimmy Hunt plays David, with Helena Carter as Dr. Pat Blake, Arthur Franz as Dr. Kelston, Leif Erickson and Hillary Brooke as David's parents, and Morris Ankrum as Col. Fielding, part of a credited cast of twenty-eight. It runs 78 minutes.

Released in April 1953, the film received a critics' rating of 7.2 out of 10 from 16 reviews, while audiences are more divided: on IMDb it holds 6.3 out of 10 from around 10,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.9 out of 10 from 212 votes.