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Year:
Duration:
197 min | Finland:189 min (DVD)
Genres:
Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
7.9
Director:
Kenneth Johnson
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1984-07-30
Filming Locations: Anheuser-Busch Brewery - 15800 Roscoe Boulevard, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Jane Badler
Diana
Michael Durrell
Robert Maxwell
Faye Grant
Juliet Parrish
Peter Nelson
Brian
David Packer
Daniel Bernstein
Neva Patterson
Eleanor Dupres
Tommy Petersen
Josh Brooks
Marc Singer
Mike Donovan
Blair Tefkin
Robin Maxwell
Michael Wright
Elias Taylor
Leonardo Cimino
Abraham Bernstein
Richard Herd
John
Evan C. Kim
Tony Wah Chong Leonetti
Richard Lawson
Dr. Ben Taylor
George Morfogen
Stanley Bernstein
Andrew Prine
Steven
Hansford Rowe
Arthur Dupres
Jenny Sullivan
Kristine Walsh
Penelope Windust
Kathleen Maxwell
Michael Alldredge
Bill Graham
Camila Ashland
Ruby Engels
Frank Ashmore
Martin
Jason Bernard
Caleb Taylor
Michael Bond
Officer Talbot
Rafael Campos
Sancho Gomez
Diane Cary
Harmony Moore
Viveka Davis
Polly Maxwell
Robert Englund
Willie
Ron Hajak
Denny
Mary Alan Hokanson
Ruth Barnes (as Mary-Alan Hokanson)
David Hooks
Dr. Rudolf Metz
Joanna Kerns
Marjorie Donovan
Jenny Neumann
Barbara
William Russ
Brad
Michael Swan
Officer Bob Briggs
Stephanie Faulkner
LA TV Studio Assistant Director
Tom Fuccello
Senator Raymond Burke
Wiley Harker
UN Secretary General
Dick Harwood
LA TV Studio Director
Myron Healey
Arch Quinton
Bonnie Johns
Woman
Eric Johnston
Sean Donovan
Curt Lowens
Dr. Maurice Jankowski
Marin May
Katie Maxwell
Mike Monahan
LA TV Studio Console Man
Jennifer Perito
Resistance Member
Clete Roberts
Newscaster
Nathan Roberts
LA TV Anchor
Howard K. Smith
Howard K. Smith
Robert Vandenberg
Rebel Camp Leader
Momo Yashima
High School Band Leader
Denny Miller
Visitor Trooper
Stack Pierce
Visitor Captain
Steve M. Davison
Resistance Fighter (uncredited)
Bond Dale Jackson Jr.
Extra (uncredited)
Tom Lawrence
Disguised Alien (uncredited)
Tom Southwell
Man Drawing on Wall (uncredited)
Charles A. Tamburro
Resistance Fighter (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The vast majority of the shots of the mothership are matte paintings. A model was used for a few scenes where the mothership is in motion.
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The series was intended as a literal retelling of the Nazi takeover of German and the resistance movement against it. However, because of the popularity of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), as well as the belief among network execs that the US citizens would not believe a fascist takeover, the network execs had the producers change it to a science fiction mini-series. Other ideas were also discussed but discarded.
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The music that plays when the ship is first seen has as a major motif consisting of three short notes followed by one long note. This is the letter V in Morse code. It is also patterned after Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth symphony
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Goofs
When the voice is counting down in multiple languages the Greek part is not correct: enea (9), theka (10), octo (8).
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When Daniel Bernstein starts pouring champagne for his family, the boom mic is reflected in the glass of the portrait above his head.
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When the mother ship is approaching and we see a group from behind as they are watching it, Robin Maxwell leans in to her mother and puts an arm around her. In the reverse shot, she is hugging her mother. Then we cut back to behind them and she leans in and hugs her again. This is because there are two different actresses playing Robin during this scene. The shots of Robin from the front are of Blair Tefkin, who played Robin the entire duration of the series. The shots of her back during this scene are of Dominique Dunne, who was strangled to death by her boyfriend after a few days of shooting. Director Kenneth Johnson kept the reverse shots in her memory.
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Quotes
Josh Brooks: What is it?
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Mike Donovan: How'd someone like that get to be your leader anyway?
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Michael Donovan: You always said it couldn't happen here... Then one day we woke up and we were living in a Fascist state.
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Faq
Q
Why does Daniel turn against his own people?
A
The Visitors, particularly Brian, were persuasive enough with a few collaborators (a group which also included Mike Donovan's mother Eleanor Dupres), convincing them that working against their own people would bring them prestige and power, perhaps even fame and money. Daniel joined the "Friends of the Visitors" group which is a parallel to Hitler's youth movement in Nazi Germany. He is later given a brown Visitor's uniform which is a reference to Hitler's famous "Brownshirt" paramilitary group, which aided him in finding traitors to the cause of the Nazis.
Q
Why were scientists so quickly discredited and hunted?
A
Because they were the group that would be most likely to discover the Visitors' real intentions. There are a few scenes early on where a few scientists, Julie is one of them, talking with suspicion about the Visitors' biology and how there's so little information about it & about the aliens' unwillingness to share very much about themselves. By discrediting and restricting the rights of scientists, and later hunting them, the Visitors would be better able to continue their insidious work of slowly draining Earth of it's water (their primary goal) and enslaving and using humans for food.The parallel with human history is that the scientists who are hunted and persecuted in this film resemble the races that were given the same treatment by the Nazis during World War II, most notably Jews, gypsies, Russians, Hungarians and many other ethic groups the Nazis found undesirable. The Nazis also murdered people who pursued intellectual interests such as music, art, history, philosophy, literature because they were suspected to be the most likely to rebel against the Nazis fascist rule.
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Photos from cast
Bonnie Bartlett
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