What happens to the residents of the town in Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

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Don Siegel, wearing a hat and sunglasses, stands beside Clint Eastwood, also in sunglasses and a suit, on the set of the film Dirty Harry with a large studio light overhead. — Don Siegel Don Siegel (left) and Clint Eastwood during the filming of *Dirty Harry* (1971).

In the 1956 science-fiction film directed by Don Siegel, the residents of the town of Santa Mira are quietly invaded by extraterrestrial beings. These aliens grow from seedpods and replace the townspeople while they sleep.1

Once the transformation is complete, the impostors look and sound identical to the original residents, but they are entirely devoid of human emotion or feeling. As the invasion progresses, the townspeople succumb to this process, losing their individuality and personal autonomy.1