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26 August 1953 (USA) moreTagline:
Amazing! terrifying! The most savage spectacle of all time! morePlot:
The film adaptation of the H.G.Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
The War Of The Worlds gets Zombified (From Fangoria. 23 April 2009, 6:29 AM, PDT)
Copying: A Sign of Our Times
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 10 September 2002)
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Good Adaptation moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Gene Barry | ... | Dr. Clayton Forrester | |
| Ann Robinson | ... | Sylvia Van Buren | |
| Les Tremayne | ... | Maj. Gen. Mann | |
| Robert Cornthwaite | ... | Dr. Pryor (as Bob Cornthwaite) | |
| Sandro Giglio | ... | Dr. Bilderbeck | |
| Lewis Martin | ... | Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins | |
| Houseley Stevenson Jr. | ... | Gen. Mann's aide | |
| Paul Frees | ... | Second Radio Reporter / Opening Announcer | |
| William Phipps | ... | Wash Perry (as Bill Phipps) | |
| Vernon Rich | ... | Col. Ralph Heffner | |
| Henry Brandon | ... | Cop at Crash Site | |
| Jack Kruschen | ... | Salvatore | |
| Cedric Hardwicke | ... | Commentary (voice) (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Cliff Clark | ... | Australian Policeman (scenes deleted) | |
| Rudy Lee | ... | Boy (scenes deleted) | |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
85 minCountry:
USALanguage:
EnglishAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording) (35 mm optical prints) | 3 Channel Stereo (Western Electric Multi-Track Magnetic Stereophonic) (35 mm magnetic prints)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #16011) (original rating) | Netherlands:12 | Spain:T | Germany:16 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Iceland:12 | USA:G (re-rating) (1977) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1954) | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1986) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:GFun Stuff
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Continuity: In the farmhouse sequence, when Syliva is cooking the eggs, the coffee pot is placed on the back left burner of the stove, when Clayton reaches for it a second later it has moved to the right burner. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Radio Reporter: [voiceover] In the First World War, and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations using the crude weapons of those days. The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction. And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on the Earth comes the War of the Worlds.
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Even though this is not a literal translation of the H.G. Welles classic, this is still a good film. I especially loved how it was updated to the 20th century and that all our modern weapons, including the atom bomb, couldn't destroy the Martians. George Pal is definitely one of the most underrated directors of science fiction and this film along his When Worlds Collide and The Time Machine stand out among the great science fiction films of all time.