The War of the Worlds (1953)

6.8	Listal rating
7.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Byron Haskin

Starring (View all)

Gene Barry

Dr. Clayton Forrester

Sylvia Van Buren

Maj. Gen. Mann

Dr. Pryor

Dr. Bilderbeck

Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins

Houseley Stevenson Jr.

Gen. Mann's aide

Paul Frees

Second Radio Reporter / Opening Announcer

Written by

H.G. Wells

(novel)

Barré Lyndon

(screenplay)

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Monsters Mash #20 Alien Invader War of the Worlds

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indianastar

Now here we are with our 20th Monster reviews The War of the Worlds from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles to George Pal to Steven Spielberg, the book was written in 1898, it showed how alien spaceship from attack earth it was terrifying concept and the idea of giant extra-terrestrials marching around in giant war machine was an awesome idea where did you think the Imperial AT-AT walkers from Star Wars c... read more

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Description: Martian invade Earth in this 1953 adaptation of H.G. Wells' chilling novel. H. G. Wells' sci-fi classic about the invasion of Planet Earth by aggressive creatures from Mars. Arriving in green-glowing spaceships shaped like metallic ... Full Descriptionstingrays, the Martians blast their atomizing death beams through most of th ... (more)

Release date : 26 August 1953
UPC: 097360530377

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Monsters Mash #20 Alien Invader War of the Worlds

“Now here we are with our 20th Monster reviews The War of the Worlds from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles to George Pal to Steven Spielberg, the book was written in 1898, it showed how alien spaceship from attack earth it was terrifying concept and the idea of giant extra-terrestrials marching around in giant war machine was an awesome idea where did you think the Imperial AT-AT walkers from Star Wars came from? Then it the radio drama starring Orson Welles in 1938 the narration was done as a news report but it was so scary the way Welles tells the story caused mass hysteria through out the nation, Now on to the 1953 movie, It strays a lot from the book it change the time the book was made from the time movie was made and instead of London it takes place in California and instead of War Machine ” read more

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