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As a childhood favorite, I was delighted to see this packaged as a Special Edition of the original "Invaders From Mars." As such, I had expectations of an original 35MM print in fine condition, at least digitally cleaned of specks, scratch lines, and color corrected as necessary. Nope. The color, exposure, and sound are good on this 50th Anniversary Special Edition. Unfortunately, there are many needless dirt specks, and many stubborn scratch lines in the print used for this, which I suspect is a 16mm print. In a few places the focus is soft also, going slightly blurry--film grain and all. Still, I found it very entertaining. Just don't expect anything close to a pristine look to the presentation for this Special Edition. Also, if searching for this movie, be careful not to confuse it for the later remakes, available in Bluray. Read full review
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pro It still a fun movie to watch, use to watch this all the time in the 60s and 70s . . . con the picture quality is not the best ,I have many old movie where the quality of the picture looks like it was shot yesterday. . .I just wish this would have been the same. . .But don't get me wrong I will never sell my copy :)
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Great dvd! I saw this remastered classic at last year's TCM Film Festival, and it brought back a lot of memories from my childhood. So I went looking for the dvd. Thankfully, I found it here on Ebay. I've watched both the U.S. and the British versions and enjoyed each one. I'm so happy I found this film here.....thank you for making it available!
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Classic of it's time period, great sci-fi from the Atomic Age and Roswell era... Baby Boomer's (especially) will appreciate how the film captures the aura of imagination and wonder of the time. This edition is a reasonably good packaging of this classic sci-fi film. Could have had a few more special features... perhaps some of the news reports of the era. Like Roswell and some other UFO stories of the time and some of the atomic bomb promo films that contributed to why this film is a classic.
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I give this 1950's movie an excellent rating mainly because of the effect it had one me when I first saw it as a young boy{ along time ago}. The scene of Jimmy Hunt[ the young boy lead character in movie] standing in that long hallway of the police station is forever inbeded in my mind.Other classic scenes like him watching his parents disapear down that crooked walk way to the sand pits & his parents attempting to pick him up at the police station are great scenes & the head Martian in the sphere [no pun intended].Unfortunatly the invaders & the stock scenes of the Army along with other scenes have not held up so well over the years. The 50th Anniversary Edition has both the US version with deleted parts put back in & the European version which has a few different scenes and a much different ending. I recommend this movie to anyone who like classic Sci-fi of the 50's maybe not the best of that era but to me one of the most memorable Mark OtterRead full review
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