The Body Stealers (1969) – Gerry Levy.
A number of high-flying military personnel are quite literally vanishing into thin air, and a brainy team of scientists, headed by aggressively libidinous Alpha Dog Patrick Allen, are secretly tasked to locate them. Playing like a feature length episode of Department S, fun 60s Sci-shocker The Body Stealers remains a compelling, uniquely British example of mysterious, indelibly 60s science fiction. The memorable opening gambit of the eerily evaporating skydivers captured my imagination, and the pulpy plot maintained my interest until its splendidly cosmic conclusion! Referencing James Bond and Dr. Who, for such a relatively obscure, low budget B-Feature, The Body Stealers laudably aims high, having some spectacular aeronautical sequences, with the voluptuous vision of celestial seductress Lorna Wilde's birthday suit proving no less dazzling!!!! Competently made, beguilingly British, with engaging performances, this zesty extraterrestrial Tigon gem is stratospherically elevated by TV theme icon Reg Tilsley's fabulously far out score.
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