Many other sci-fi films of the 1950s, including Robert Wise""sThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Invaders From Mars (1953)andInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)portrayed he human race as victimized and at the mercy of externalized, mysterious, hostile, and unfriendly forces - invading aliens.Sheriff Brackett was horrified to learn that his daughter Annie (Nancy Loomis) had been one of the three murdered teenagers...I was starving and on dope and doing a lot of other things.They""re childless though.I""m like the daughter they never had.At first, I thought they wanted me for some kind of a sex thing but they urned out to be like real grandparents.[Note: The date given for the film is often either 1942 and 1943.That is because its limited premiere was in 1942, but the film did not play nationally, or in Los Angeles, until 1943.