Black Leather Jackets story
Three motorcycle-riding young men are actually part of an alien invasion force. One of them falls for a local teenage girl. Directed by: Joseph M. Newman. Story by: Earl Hamner, Jr.
14 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | choice | An alien race plotted to prepare Earth for colonization by secretly poisoning all humans and their livestock. |
| alien living secretly among us | major | Three aliens, disguised as human males wearing leather jackets, were sent to Earth to contaminate a city's water reservoirs with a deadly bacteria. |
| alien point of view | major | The aliens in general seemed incapable of understanding human emotions, perhaps suggesting that they had fundamentally different kinds of brains. In particular, they misinterpreted that humans were able to love. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Three aliens, disguised as human males wearing leather jackets, were sent to Earth to contaminate a city's water reservoirs with a deadly bacteria. |
| infatuation | major | Scott and Ellen fell passionately in love. |
| disapproving parent | minor | Stuart disapproved of his teenage daughter running around with the leather jacket wearing, motorcycle riding beatnik Scott. |
| father and daughter | minor | Stuart was anxious about his daughter Ellen having taken a liking to the beatnik next door. |
| female attraction to bad men | minor | Ellen was instantly attracted to a black leather jacket wearing, motorcycle riding stranger. |
| husband and wife | minor | Stuart and Martha Ellis. |
| mind control ability | minor | The aliens manipulated Stuart's mind to make him leave. |