Invasion of the Body Snatchers

- Oh, Dr. Hill. - Dr. Bassett.

Where's the patient?

- I hated to drag you out of bed at this time of night.

- Will you let me go while there's still time?

You'll soon see why I did.

Doc,

will you tell these fools I'm not crazy?

Make them listen to me before it's too late.

I'll listen to you.

Let him go.

- Who are you? - I'm Dr. Hill

from the state mental hospital.

I'm not insane.

Let him go.

- Listen, doctor, now you must listen to me.

You must understand me.

I'm a doctor, too. Lam not insane.

I am not insane. - Alright, alright.

Now suppose we just sit down over here Dr. Bennell

and you tell me what happened?

Well, it started.

For me it started last Thursday.

In response to an urgent message from my nurse,

I'd hurried home from a medical

convention I'd been attending.

At first glance,

everything looked the same.

It wasn't.

Something evil had taken possession of the town.

These two.

Here you are. - Thank you, sir.

There you are. - Thank you.

Morning, Mr. Fisher.

Doc.

- Hiya, Sally. - Hi.

Welcome home I'm glad you're back.

How's Mickey and the baby?

They're fine but it seems that

everybody else in Santa Mira needs a doctor.

You've got an office full of patients.

Oh, no, on my first day back?

- Well, some of them been waiting for two weeks.

Why didn't you send them to Percy

or Carmichael like I told you to?

Most of them wouldn't go.

They wanna see you.

Oh.

What's the matter with them?

They wouldn't say.

You know usually people can't talk

enough about what's ailing them.

For instance Wally Eberhard was in twice

and called three times about something,

but he wouldn't tell me what it was.

That's funny.

- Neither would anyone else from Becky Driscoll

down to that fat traffic cop Sam Janzek.

Becky Driscoll.

I thought she was in England.

She got back a few days ago,

and she wanted to see you.

Are you still interested?

- My interest in married women is strictly professional

or yours would have been a lost cause long ago.

How was the convention?

Wonderful.

They wept with envy when I read my paper.

Jimmy, come back here.

Jimmy.

What's the matter, Mrs. Grimaldi?

- It's nothing he just don't wanna go to school.

- If I were you I'd have a talk with his teacher.

I will when I get time.

What's the matter has Joe been sick?

No, we gave the stand up too much work.

Oh.

The boy's panic should have told me

it was more than school he was afraid of

and that littered, closed-up vegetable stand

should have told me something, too.

When I last saw it less than a month ago,

it was the cleanest and busiest stand on the road.

That's strange.

She was in to see you too last Friday.

I tried to get her to go see Doc Percy but she wouldn't.

She said only you could help her.

Well, whatever it was it couldn't

have been too serious I guess.

One minor concussion, two cases of the common cold

and six canceled appointments.

Looks like you rushed me here for nothing.

I don't understand it, Miles.

They couldn't wait to see you.

But you're still booked up solid for the afternoon.

I bet they don't show.

Look there's Wally Eberhard

talking somebody into buying some insurance.

There's nothing wrong with him.

Bill Bitner's taking his secretary to lunch.

And speaking of lunch will you tell

whoever that is that I'm out having mine?

- Is Dr. Bennell in? - Yes, he's here.

- Do you suppose he has time to see me a moment?

- Well, if he hasn't something's wrong with him.

Go right in.

Becky.

Almost five years.

It's wonderful to be home again.

I've been away so long I feel almost

like a stranger in my own country.

Hope you don't mind my coming without an appointment.

Not at all.

What'll you have?

We're pushing appendectomies this week.

Oh, Miles.

- I don't know maybe I clown around too much.

Pretty soon my patients won't trust me

to prescribe aspirin for them.

Seriously, what's the trouble?

- It's my cousin. - Wilma.

What's the matter with her?

She has a...

Well, I guess you'd call it a delusion.

You know her uncle, Uncle Ira?

Sure I'm his doctor.

- Well, Miles she's got herself thinking he isn't her uncle.

- How do you mean that they're not really related?

- No, she thinks he's an impostor or something

someone who only looks like Ira.

Have you seen him?

I just came from there.

- Well, is he Uncle Ira or isn't he Uncle Ira?

- Of course he is I told Wilma that but it was no use.

Please, would you stop by and have a talk with her?

- Well, Sally says that I'm booked up for the afternoon

but why don't you ask her to come in and see me?

I'll try.

How about some lunch?

I can't I'm meeting dad at the store.

When did you get back?

I came back from London two months ago.

I've been in Reno.

Reno.

Reno.

Dad tells me you were there, too.

Five months ago.

Oh, I'm sorry.

So was I.

I wanted it to work.

Well, I guess that makes us lodge brothers now.

Yes.

- Except that I'm paying dues while you collect them.

Miles.

- Hello, Jordan. - How are you?

Sam.

- Hello, doc. - At it again, eh?

My nurse tells me you were in last week

and wanted very much to see me.

It wasn't anything important.

Say, didn't he go to college with us?

Quit his second year to get married

like I wanted us to do.

- Just be thankful I didn't take you seriously.

You be thankful.

I found out that a doctor's wife

needs the understanding of an Einstein

and patience of a saint.

And love?

I wouldn't know about that.

I'm just a general practitioner.

Love is handled by the specialists.

Well, here's where I leave you.

You know something

this is where you left me the last time.

Hiya, Johnny.

Sally, I'm off.

Will you tell the answering service I'll be at home?

- Good night, doc. - Goodnight.

I'm not going in there.

- You're gonna listen to me stop all this nonsense

and be a good boy come on.

Hey, hey, hey, hey take it easy.

Isn't this Jimmy Grimaldi?

Yes, doctor, can I talk to you a moment?

- Sure you know I almost ran you down this morning.

You've gotta be careful when you run out in the road.

Come on now.

Hey, hey, hey, hey slow down now.

Look school isn't as bad as all that.

School isn't what upsets him.

It's my daughter-in-law.

He's got the crazy idea she isn't his mother.

She isn't. She isn't.

Don't let her get me.

Nobody's gonna get you, Jimmy.

How long has this been going on?

An hour ago I found him

hiding in the cellar having hysterics.

He wouldn't tell me anything

until I started to phone his mother.