Invasion (1965)
38K Drama Genre Alan Bridges Ann Castle Ann Martin Anthony Sharp Barrie Ingham Cali Raia Edward Judd Emrys Leyshon Glyn Houston Jean Lodge John Tate Leonard Cracknell Lyndon Brook Mark Kingston Peter Thomas Phyllis Spreadbury Ric Young Robert Holmes Roger Marshall Stephanie Bidmead Tony Wall Tsai Chin Valerie Gearon Yôko Tani 1965 6.5 Alan Bridges English United Kingdom
Invasion: Directed by Alan Bridges. With Edward Judd, Yôko Tani, Valerie Gearon, Lyndon Brook. An alien spaceship crashes near a rural hospital. When the alien is taken to the hospital, a mysterious force field suddenly appears around it.
“This is one of a cycle of low-key British Sci-Fi movies of the early to mid 1960s (see also UNEARTHLY STRANGER, NIGHT CALLER FROM OUTER SPACE and NIGHT OF THE EAGLE for other examples) which are technically unspectacular, but which establish and maintain an effectively eerie atmosphere. Its setting is a remote hospital under siege by humanoid aliens whose motives are initially unknown. The morning after I first saw it (on TV in the middle of the night), I thought I had dreamt it. An unheralded gem.”
