British Release
A new ending and additional scenes were added in response to various objections raised by the film's British distributor. Portions of Invaders were re-edited, and the original U. S. "was-it-all-just-a-nightmare?" ending was dropped in favor of a more straightforward conclusion. New scenes were filmed several months after the U. S. release, including one showing the destruction of the flying saucer in the air when the army's charges finally explode. The British release also included a re-shot and greatly expanded planetarium scene. In that scene framed pictures can be seen hanging on the planetarium set's walls that were not there in the U. S. version; they appear to vanish and then reappear at times as the expanded and restructured scene plays out. While the adult actors had not changed significantly, child actor Jimmy Hunt has grown in height and looks older and has shorter hair in these new scenes: Hunt wears a sweater vest in them (the vest materializes about 3 minutes into the scene at which time Dr. Kelston's necktie also appears to be retied) as he and Dr. Kelston discuss various flying saucer accounts, such as the Lubbock Lights and the Mantell UFO Incident.
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