The War of the Worlds (1953) | |
| Director(s) | Byron Haskin |
| Producer(s) | George Pal, Cecil B. DeMille (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller/Suspense |
| Top Topics | Aliens, Book-Based |
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The War of the Worlds Overview:
The War of the Worlds (1953) was a Action - Horror Film directed by Byron Haskin and produced by Cecil B. DeMille and George Pal.
The film was based on the novel War of the Worlds written by H. G. Wells published in 1898.
The War of the Worlds was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2011.
Academy Awards 1953 --- Ceremony Number 26 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Film Editing | Everett Douglas | Nominated |
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1001 Classic Movies: The War of the Worlds (1953)
By Amanda Garrett on Oct 13, 2017 From Old Hollywood FilmsThe War of the Worlds (1953) is one of the 1001 classic movies you should see. This science fiction classic shows a Martian army (the creature in the photo) destroying downtown Los Angeles. Each week, I'm going to recommend a classic movie you should see (for the reasons behind the 1001 series ... Read full article
George Pal's Production of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
By Rick29 on Jun 26, 2016 From Classic Film & TV CafeThe Martian machines and their force fields. H.G. Wells purists may quibble with George Pal's 1953 production of The War of the Worlds. True enough, little remains of the novel's original plot. However, Pal and director Byron Haskin successfully balance the large-scale scope of the Earth's desperat... Read full article
George Pal's Production of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds
By Rick29 on Jun 26, 2016 From Classic Film & TV CafeThe Martian machines and their force fields. H.G. Wells purists may quibble with George Pal's 1953 production of The War of the Worlds. True enough, little remains of the novel's original plot. However, Pal and director Byron Haskin successfully balance the large-scale scope of the Earth's desperat... Read full article
Now on Netflix: The War of the Worlds
By Amanda Garrett on Jan 7, 2015 From Old Hollywood FilmsThe groundbreaking science fiction classic The War of the Worlds is now available for streaming on Netflix. Director: Byron Haskin. Stars: Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The plot: Martians invade a small town in California before beginning their invasion of earth. The bottom line: Produce... Read full article
The War of the Worlds (1953) with Gene Barry
By Greg Orypeck on Jan 8, 2014 From Classic Film FreakShare This! ?If they?re mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. They?ll be stopped, somehow.???Gene Barry The original version of The War of the Worlds was a product of the horror/science fiction films of the 1950s following World War II and expressing latent fears of the hydrogen bomb and Russi... Read full article
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Commentary: No one would have believed in the middle of the 20th Century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsypathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely joined their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries has been in the last status of exhaustion. At night, temperatures drop far below zero even at its equator. Inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences that which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate.
Commentary: [voiceover] The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.
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Albert Nozaki based his designs of the Martian machines on the shape and movements of manta rays.
Paramount Pictures had always wanted to put out a stereo version of The War of the Worlds on home video, but couldn't do so because the only archival sound elements they did not have from the film were the ones for the Martian ships. Luckily, the makers of the 1988-90 television series had to recreate the sounds of the Martian warships from scratch for the series, which Paramount used to finally create their stereo version of the science fiction classic.
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