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I know this is staple of sci-fi flicks for the 1950s and 1960s, but I think the article should mention the very overt anti-Communist message that permeates the film. If nobody objects I'll add a few sentences about it in a couple of days. Sarcen1174 ( talk) 22:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
This film has a lot of obvious similarity to Earth versus the Flying Saucers and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Naaman Brown ( talk) 18:10, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
If anything, It Conquered the World has an anti-The Day the Earth Stood Still message. In Day... peace is imposed on Earth by the threat of annihilation by Gort--a Deus ex flying saucer solution to world peace (parodied in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!). The message of It... is in its concluding speech by Peter Graves:
"... men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself."
Naaman Brown ( talk) 12:21, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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It Conquered the World (1956) shared significant themes and similarities with other 1950s "space invasion" films of its day: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invaders from Mars (1953) , The War of the Worlds (1953), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956).
Unlike The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Conquered the World sees an outside imposition of perfection as harmful to the human spirit.
Like most 1950s space alien movies, It Conquered the World depicted the alien as an evil invader. The view that space aliens could be benign (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The 27th Day (1957), The Space Children (1958)) was a minority opinion in the 1950s space alien films.
Anyone know how much this movie grossed at the box office?--The Rogue Leader 23:57, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
As the link given is no longer valid, I've removed the following sentence until a new link shows up which validates the information: Its current rights holder is Susan Nicholson Hofheinz (Susan Hart), who also owns several other James H. Nicholson titles from the 1950's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Kerber ( talk • contribs) 09:12, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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I know this is staple of sci-fi flicks for the 1950s and 1960s, but I think the article should mention the very overt anti-Communist message that permeates the film. If nobody objects I'll add a few sentences about it in a couple of days. Sarcen1174 ( talk) 22:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
This film has a lot of obvious similarity to Earth versus the Flying Saucers and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Naaman Brown ( talk) 18:10, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
If anything, It Conquered the World has an anti-The Day the Earth Stood Still message. In Day... peace is imposed on Earth by the threat of annihilation by Gort--a Deus ex flying saucer solution to world peace (parodied in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!). The message of It... is in its concluding speech by Peter Graves:
"... men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself."
Naaman Brown ( talk) 12:21, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
this parked here for now or in search of citable verifiable reliable sources beyond the films themselves:
It Conquered the World (1956) shared significant themes and similarities with other 1950s "space invasion" films of its day: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invaders from Mars (1953) , The War of the Worlds (1953), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956).
Unlike The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Conquered the World sees an outside imposition of perfection as harmful to the human spirit.
Like most 1950s space alien movies, It Conquered the World depicted the alien as an evil invader. The view that space aliens could be benign (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The 27th Day (1957), The Space Children (1958)) was a minority opinion in the 1950s space alien films.
Anyone know how much this movie grossed at the box office?--The Rogue Leader 23:57, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
As the link given is no longer valid, I've removed the following sentence until a new link shows up which validates the information: Its current rights holder is Susan Nicholson Hofheinz (Susan Hart), who also owns several other James H. Nicholson titles from the 1950's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Kerber ( talk • contribs) 09:12, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
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