WAR OF THE WORLDS (MOVIE) - BLU-1952-GENE BARRY-CRITERION COLLECTION

Details

• Release Year: 1953
• Genre: Action; Science-Fiction; Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Gene Barry; Ann Robinson; Les Tremayne; Robert Cornthwaite; Sandro Giglio; Lewis Martin; Houseley Stevenson Jr.; Paul Frees; William Phipps; Vernon Rich; Henry Brandon; Jack Kruschen; Cedric Hardwicke; Peter Adams; Eric Alden; Hugh Allen; Ruth Barnell; Edgar Barrier; Russ Bender; Paul Birch; Oscar Blank; Nick Borgani; Hazel Boyne; Chet Brandenburg; George Bruggeman; Nora Bush; Tony Butala; Mushy Callahan; Dick Cherney; Ann Codee; Edward Colmans; James Conaty; Russ Conway; Martin Coulter; Vittorio Cramer; Pierre Cressoy; Oliver Cross; Jane Crowley; Jim Davies; Helen Dickson; Ralph Dumke; Jimmie Dundee; Al Ferguson; Dick Fortune; Alex Frazer; Frank Freeman Jr.; Slim Gaut; Charles Gemora; Ned Glass; Tom Holland; Fred Graham; Joe Gray; Herman Hack; Nancy Hale; Virginia Hall; Ted Hecht; Douglas Henderson; Gertrude Hoffman; Tex Holden; Jimmie Horan; Patricia Iannone; Jerry James; Michael Jeffers; Dick Johnstone; Carolyn Jones; Don Kohler; Frank Kreig; Ivan Lebedeff; Freeman Lusk; Herbert Lytton; Wilbur Mack; George Magrill; Mike Mahoney; John Mansfield; Joel Marston; Sydney Mason; John Maxwell; Mathew McCue; David McMahon; William Meader; Lee Miller; Ralph Montgomery; Alvy Moore; Bob Morgan; Charles Morton; George Nardelli; Stanley Orr; George Pal; Walter Richards; Robert Rockwell; Walter Sande; James Seay; Allen D. Sewall; Lucile Sewall; Cora Shannon; David Sharpe; Teru Shimada; Reginald Lal Singh; Bobby Somers; Bert Stevens; Charles Stewart; Jack Stoney; Gus Taillon; Morton C. Thompson; Arthur Tovey; Dale Van Sickel; Dorothy Vernon; Edward Wahrman; Anthony Warde; Bob Whitney; Chalky Williams; Waldon Williams; Bud Wolfe; Fred Zendar; Byron Haskin; H.G. Wells; Barré Lyndon
• Director: Byron Haskin
• Runtime: 1:25
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie