This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This time, the theme is "Body switch", which I presume was supposed to mean two characters swapping bodies. However, as I was thinking of the theme, I was having trouble coming up with enough movies. Now, there were some movies I'd like to use, such as The Wrong Box, since one of the boxes supposedly contains a dead body, but I used that in April 2017 for a "Rivals" theme. Then there was Dead Ringer which got taken in May 2017 for a Clones/Dopplegänger theme. Eventually, though, I was able to come up with three movies:
Turnabout (1940). Carole Landis and John Hubbard play a husband and wife who bicker a lot. One evening after hubby returns home from work, the two get into an argument that results in both of them wishing they could have the other's life. Wouldn't you know that they made that wish in front of an enchanted statuette of a Hindu god, and that statuette grants them their wish, which leads to all sorts of comic complications. This was a step up in class for producer Hal Roach, who got Adolphe Menjou to play one of Hubbard's business partners and Mary Astor to play Menjou's wife.
Nora Prentiss (1947). Kent Smith plays a doctor who meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss (Ann Sheridan) and, as in any good noir, falls in love with her. Of course, he's already married, so what's a guy to do? One day as he's working late at his practice, a patient comes in and drops dead of a heart attack. The not-so-good doctor decides that he can use the dead stranger's body as his own, faking his death and allowing him to go across country to start a new life with Nora. Of course, how was he going to be able to practice medicine with a new identity?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Kevin McCarthy plays a doctor who returns to his small town in California only to find that people are beginning to act strangely. He and his girlfriend (Dana Wynter) begin to investigate, and discover that some entity is importing pods, leaving them in houses overnight, and the pod entities take the bodies of the people. Can this doctor get the warning out before the pods start spreading beyond the borders of his little town?
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