Twilight Zone, The: "The Invaders"
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From Wikipedia:
"The Invaders" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Synopsis:
An old woman (Agnes Moorehead) is apparently living alone in a very rustic cabin. She is dressed shabbily and there are no modern conveniences in evidence. After hearing a strange noise from the sleeping loft, she is accosted by small intruders that come from a miniature flying saucer that has landed on her house, equipped with two tiny people in spacesuits. In proportion to the old woman, the intruders appear to be only a few inches high.
She battles them for many minutes, finally killing one and following the other back to his ship. There she hears one of the space-suited intruders, speaking in English with an apparent American accent, send off a desperate warning to other potential invaders that the people from the planet are giants and very difficult to defeat, after which she destroys the ship with a hatchet and then, exhausted, collapses. (Before this scene, the episode has no dialogue.)
The camera pans and we see the side of the ship display U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1.
Featured Content
Video: Clip from "The Invaders":
Resources
Links:
Other classic Twilight Zone episodes available at CBS.com
DVD: The Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection
IMDb entry on The Twilight Zone: "The Invaders"
Wikipedia entry on The Twilight Zone: "The Invaders"
Highlights
Part One of "The Invaders"
Clip begins at: 00:00
Writer Richard Matheson on his assessment of The Twilight Zone epsiode "The Invaders"
Clip begins at: 09:00, Duration: 00m 56s
Writer Richard Matheson on the structure of a Twilight Zone episode
Clip begins at: 12:26, Duration: 00m 44s
The Twilight Zone associate producer Del Reisman on visiting the set of "The Invaders"
Clip begins at: 17:35, Duration: 01m 18s
Composer Jerry Goldsmith on the larger ensemble he used for The Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders"
Clip begins at: 28:05, Duration: 00m 54s
Actress Maxine Stuart on "The Invaders" director Douglas Heyes, who she had worked with on previous Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder"
Clip begins at: 26:31, Duration: 00m 41s- Writer Richard Matheson on the legacy of The Twilight Zone
Clip begins at: 13:33, Duration: 00m 45s
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