I Married a Monster From Outer Space

I Married a Monster From Outer Space
1958

Starring:
Tom Tryon as Bill Farrell
Gloria Talbot as Marge Farrell
Peter Baldwin as Officer Frank Swanson
Ken Lynch as Dr. Wayne

length: 78 minutes

After celebrating his last few hours of 'freedom' in the bar (he's getting married the next day), Bill Farrell takes leave of his buddies and heads home. As he drives along the dark country road, he nearly hits a body sprawled across his path. Jumping out to investigate, Bill sees a scary face (if you can call it a face) and a monster-like hand reaches slowly out towards him...
Marge, Bill's fiance, is nervously pacing the room in her wedding dress. Bill is late--quite late. Thankfully, Marge does not end up jilted, and they are married.
But Bill is not quite the same as he was before. He stands out on the balcony on their wedding night, wondering what the thunder is. Suddenly, lightning illuminates his face and (thank goodness Marge did not see this!) beneath it is that of an alien! (cue spooky music)

What happens next? Will Marge find out the truth about Bill?? Do aliens take over the Earth???
I guess you will find out when it plays again.
I found this movie quite interesting. The aliens were not as poorly-done as may be expected in a '50s sci-fi thriller, and part of it was rather....icky, shall we say? The acting was decent, and there were no nasty parts like you find in modern sci-fi movies.
According to my research, it's basically a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which I have not seen but is rather well-known.

TCM does not have this movie on DVD or VHS, but they are playing it on April 25th at 4:00 CST! If you have a chance, go ahead and watch it.It is available on:
Ebay
Amazon
Netflix
Happy movie watching!
~Kiwi~

Movies Playing on TCM

Two of the movies I have reviewed on here are scheduled to play on TCM later this year.

The Shop Around the Corner will be played on June 23rd at 7:00 p.m. CST.
Stanley and Livingstone shall play July 16th at 7:00

This will be re-posted as a reminder closer to the actual play-dates.

~Kiwi~