Mar 23rd
The War of the Worlds**
(US 1952)
Martian meteorites land on Earth spawning tripod machines that proceed to destroy most of the world's cities.
Given the proliferation of invaders from outer space films of the 1950s, it's perhaps disappointing that its most famous original story is rather a B-Movie effort, heavily Americanised, but the special effects are where it counts, in a forcefully efficient 85 minute adaptation of the novel, working up to a fine apocalyptic sense of destruction come the finale.
Written by: Barre Lyndon, based on the novel by H.G.Wells.
Producer: George Pal.
Director: Byron Haskin.
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Bob Cornthwaite, Lewis Martin, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Ned Glass, Charles Gamora (as a Martian).
Narrator: Cedric Hardwicke.
Photography: George Barnes.
Music: Leith Stevens.
The War of the Worlds**
(US 1952)
Martian meteorites land on Earth spawning tripod machines that proceed to destroy most of the world's cities.
Given the proliferation of invaders from outer space films of the 1950s, it's perhaps disappointing that its most famous original story is rather a B-Movie effort, heavily Americanised, but the special effects are where it counts, in a forcefully efficient 85 minute adaptation of the novel, working up to a fine apocalyptic sense of destruction come the finale.
Written by: Barre Lyndon, based on the novel by H.G.Wells.
Producer: George Pal.
Director: Byron Haskin.
Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Bob Cornthwaite, Lewis Martin, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Ned Glass, Charles Gamora (as a Martian).
Narrator: Cedric Hardwicke.
Photography: George Barnes.
Music: Leith Stevens.
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