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

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• 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