Directed by:
Byron HaskinScreenplay:
Barré LyndonCinematography:
George BarnesComposer:
Leith StevensCast:
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Jack Kruschen, Ralph Dumke, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke (more)VOD (4)
Plots(1)
A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Paul Frees](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/185/159185695_ed6d53.jpg)
Paul Frees
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Grand Prix (1966)
![Arthur Tovey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/376/159376088_84a67d.jpg)
Arthur Tovey
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Back to the Future (1985)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
![Paul Birch](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/445/161445530_f44b0b.jpg)
Paul Birch
USA
Best movies:
The 3rd Man (1949)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
![David McMahon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/595/159595073_a6cbba.jpg)
David McMahon
USA
Best movies:
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
George Nardelli
France
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
![Edward Colmans](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/877/159877408_61e3fc.jpg)
Edward Colmans
UK
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Gun Runners (1958)
Chet Brandenburg
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
White Heat (1949)
![Cliff Clark](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/892/159892122_dee53e.gif)
Cliff Clark
USA
Best movies:
The Stratton Story (1949)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Fred Graham
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Vertigo (1958)
![Alvy Moore](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/927/159927922_7ebf5e.jpg)
Alvy Moore
USA
Best movies:
Here Come the Littles (1985)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
George Magrill
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Love Crazy (1941)
James Conaty
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
John Maxwell
USA
Best movies:
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
![Russ Conway](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/157/160157177_1d6459.jpg)
Russ Conway
Canada
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Heiress (1949)
![Herman Hack](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/935/159935045_203895.jpg)
Herman Hack
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
![William Phipps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/333/158333191_2452d4.jpg)
William Phipps
USA
Best movies:
Cinderella (1950)
Lust for Life (1956)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Al Ferguson
Ireland
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Gaslight (1944)
East of Eden (1955)
![Russ Bender](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/417/160417382_3c4b04.jpg)
Russ Bender
USA
Best movies:
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Compulsion (1959)
Lover Come Back (1961)
![Jimmie Dundee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/417/160417421_ce919a.jpg)
Jimmie Dundee
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
To Each His Own (1946)
Chalky Williams
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
East of Eden (1955)