The War of the Worlds

In southern California, Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry), a well-known atomic scientist, is fishing with colleagues when a large object crashes near the town of Linda Rosa. At the impact site, he meets USC library science instructor Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson) and her uncle, Pastor Matthew Collins (Lewis Martin). Later that night, a round hatch on the object unscrews and opens. As the three men standing guard at the site attempt to make contact while waving a white flag, a Martian heat ray weapon obliterates them. The United States Marine Corps later surround the crash site, as reports pour in of identical cylinders landing all over the world and destroying cities. Three Martian war machines emerge from the cylinder. Pastor Collins attempts to make contact with the aliens, but he is disintegrated. The Marines open fire, but are unable to penetrate the Martians' force field. The aliens counterattack with their Heat-Ray and skeleton-beam weapons, sending the Marines into full retreat.

MPAA Rating:NR
Genre:Action, Sci Fi, Thriller
Country:United States
Produced By:Cecil B. Demille, George Pal, Frank Freeman Jr.
Directed By:Byron Haskin
Written By:Barré Lyndon, H.G. Wells
Cast:Hugh Allen, Bob Morgan, Paul Frees, Ned Glass, Lewis Martin, William Meader, Tony Butala, Oscar Blank, Jack Stoney, Vernon Rich, Dick Cherney, Ralph Dumke, Sandro Giglio, Alvy Moore, Herbert Lytton, Russ Bender, Jack Gordon, Ann Codee, Eric Alden, Cora Shannon, Helen Dickson, Joel Marston, Nick Borgani, Dick Fortune, Paul Birch, Ted Hecht, Hazel Boyne, Charles Gemora, Charles Stewart, George Magrill, Bert Stevens, Dale Van Sickel, Pierre Cressoy, Alex Frazer, Chalky Williams, Frank Kreig, Herman Hack, Dick Johnstone, Michael Jeffers, George Pal, Fred Graham, Jane Crowley, Anthony Warde, Don Kohler, Bob Whitney, Freeman Lusk, Russ Conway, Les Tremayne, Gus Taillon, Slim Gaut, Peter Adams, Reginald Lal Singh, Robert Rockwell, Virginia Hall, Ann Robinson, Houseley Stevenson Jr., John Maxwell, Teru Shimada, Oliver Cross, Sydney Mason, William Phipps, David McMahon, Nancy Hale, Arthur Tovey, Joe Gray, Douglas Henderson, Gene Barry, James Seay, Al Ferguson, Mushy Callahan, Carolyn Jones, Stanley Orr, George Nardelli, Tex Holden, Jim Davies, James Conaty, Gertrude Hoffman, Edgar Barrier, Chet Brandenburg, Rudy Lee, John Mansfield, Lee Miller, Ivan Lebedeff, Morton C. Thompson, Ruth Barnell, Jerry James, Bobby Somers, Jimmie Horan, Allen D. Sewall, Frank Freeman Jr., Charles Morton, Cedric Hardwicke, Bud Wolfe, Edward Colmans, David Sharpe, Mike Mahoney, Mathew McCue, Henry Brandon, Jimmie Dundee, Nora Bush, Cliff Clark, Jack Kruschen, Ralph Montgomery, Robert Cornthwaite, Walter Sande
In Theaters:Aug 26, 1953
Runtime:1 hour 25 minutes
Production:Paramount Pictures
Budget:$2,000,000
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