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 (3)
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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
Gene Barry
USA
Best movies:
Prescription: Murder (1968) (TV movie)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Ann Robinson
USA
Best movies:
Imitation of Life (1959)
A Star is Born (1954)
Julie (1956)
Les Tremayne
UK
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Goldfinger (1964)
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
Robert Cornthwaite
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Sandro Giglio
Best movies:
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
House of Bamboo (1955)
Lewis Martin
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Sudden Fear (1952)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Jack Kruschen
Canada
Best movies:
The Apartment (1960)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Cape Fear (1962)
Ralph Dumke
USA
Best movies:
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Carolyn Jones
USA
Best movies:
Roots (1977) (series)
The Big Heat (1953)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Cedric Hardwicke
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Rope (1948)
Richard III (1955)
George Pal
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Pierre Cressoy
France
Best movies:
Le Dollar troué (1965)
Adiós gringo (1965)
David and Goliath (1960)
Henry Brandon
German Empire
Best movies:
Edge of Darkness (1943)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)
Teru Shimada
Japan
Best movies:
King Rat (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Ivan B. Lebedeff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
China Seas (1935)
Ned Glass
Poland
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Charade (1963)
Walter Sande
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Dale Van Sickel
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Anthony Warde
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Sea Hawk (1940)