Top cast:Arthur Mackley,Julia Mackley,David Kirkland
Director:Dan Trachtenberg
Genre:War
Region:United States
Year:2011
Storyline:" Cody""s old, hawkish mother or Ma (Margaret Wycherly, who also played a different kind of ""mother figure"" inSergeant York (1941)) is stirring stew on the stove, and Cody""s voluptuous blonde wife Verna Jarrett (Virginia Mayo) is asleep in an adjoining back bedroom.[This is the first of many instances when their characters merge and are linked - mentally.] The alien runs away through the cornfield as Elliott also screams and runs back to his backyard.Behind the house, the playground swings move back and forth and garbage pails fall over in the wake of the alien""s flight.The Dutch girl""s adoptive mother (Mary Field) apologized: "I""m sorry, she doesn""t speak English, she""s Dutch.Sal also drives to Wards Island, for unknown reasons ("maybe it""s another drop").[Note: Wards Island is eventually revealed to be the site of, among others, The Charnier Shipping Company of Marseilles, France, where purchased cars for their scrap metal are held until being shipped.Third Questioner: His specialty is divorce cases.He""s a bedroom dick.Second Questioner: He gets information against the wife.Then he makes a deal with the wife to get evidence against the husband...Third Questioner: Thus, playing both ends against the middle.First Questioner: Just how do you achieve all this? You crawl under beds?Second Questioner: Nothing so primitive.