BODY SNATC
★★★★☆
RELEASED OUT NOW!
►1956 | PG | Blu-ray Director Don Siegel
►Cast Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
BLU-RAY DEBUT It’s the exhortation du jour, but Don Siegel was urging people to stay woke 65 years ago.
A cheap gag, but it’s true to say politics has always swirled around his Cold War shocker, interpreted as an attack on both McCarthyism and Communism. In truth (as Siegel and original writer Jack Finney protested), it poses a more general warning about letting your humanity slip away.