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The War of the Worlds
The movie is about the attack of a small California town by Martians. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon.
14 January 1919, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
20 March 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
15 October 1897, Peoria, Illinois, USA
1 November 1904, Antwerp, Belgium
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
October 9, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1910, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
March 11, 1918 in Spokane, Washington, USA
June 10, 1910 in New York City, New York, USA
March 06, 2006
peculiarly fifties-bound
December 06, 2005
A half-century after its creation, the film's best moments are still so enjoyably unnerving that they easily carry a viewer through the necessary but inevitably dated exposition.
June 08, 2007
As the perfect crystallization of 50s ideology the film would be fascinating enough, but the special effects in this 1953 George Pal production also achieve a kind of dark, burnished apocalyptic beauty.
March 02, 2008
classic
October 31, 2006
Mind those heat rays!
February 22, 2008
Definitely a sci-fi classic from the 1950s...great George Pal effects.
October 03, 2011
Understandably well-remembered, but its status as a high classic seems more incidental than earned.
June 08, 2007
Though it's bogged down by a stiff cast, a yawn-inspiring conventional romance, and a sappy religiosity, it remains a landmark in the history of special effects.
January 26, 2006
Too bad about the wooden cast, the tackily conventional romance, and a draggy religious message; but at least, given the time it was made, it isn't imbued with Cold War hysteria.
April 05, 2006
For a movie that already succeeded in scaring the Grape Nehi out of every ten-year-old in the audience, how disquieting it must have been for the Cold War-agitated grownups to witness U.S. might, tanks and A-bombs alike, brushed away helpless...
January 01, 2011
Some grisly and scary parts. Not for young 'uns.
June 08, 2007
War of the Worlds is a socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation of the H.G. Wells novel.
