The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)

NASA successfully lands a robotic surveyor on Mars but it is almost immediately destroyed by some unknown energy. Meanwhile, the scientist (Kent Taylor) in charge of the project returns to his home in California where strange occurrences suggest that Martians have duplicated doppelgangers of his family. Directed by Maury Dexter (HOUSE OF THE DAMNED). This low budget slice of B&W sci-fi Cinemascope cheese is a bore! Not much happens other than the cast walking or running around the large mansion (the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills) that serves as the location for the majority of the movie's brief (although it doesn't seem brief) running time. The movie was relegated to the lower half of a double feature, in this case an Elvis Presley movie. The film's cardinal sin is wasting the wonderful Marie Windsor as Taylor's constantly fretting wife. With William Mims and Betty Beall.