(Not coincidentally, Thief's executive producer, Russell Doughten Jr., worked on 1958's The Blob.) But Thief was different, using the conventions of science fiction and horror-everything from the "It's Only a Dream … or is it?" device (from every other episode of The Twilight Zone), to the paranoid "Are They With Me or Against Me?" questions (replace the Pod People of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with the Mark of the Beast people), to the End Credits with a Twist (The End? from The Blob becomes The End Is Near). There had been Christian movies before, particularly from Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures (usually about a troubled teen who considers smoking a cigarette before being converted at a Graham crusade). Patty faces the nightmare of a one-world totalitarian government that will usher in the coming of the Anti-Christ.Īt the time, it was a radical new way of making a Christian film. The film brings to life the dispensational view of Matthew 24:36-44-one will be taken and one will be left-assuming the Rapture of believers takes place before seven years of tribulation … coming without warning, like a thief in the … well, you know. The film told the story of a young woman, Patty Myers (played by Patty Dunning), who wakes one morning to find that her husband has suddenly vanished, along with millions of other people throughout the world.
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