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The War of the Worlds
The movie is about the attack of a small California town by Martians. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon.
8 August 1905, Demerara, British Guiana
5 December 1921, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
4 February 1922, Vincennes, Indiana, USA
October 21, 1895 in Paris, France
15 October 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 27, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA
9 December 1897, Falmouth, Kentucky, USA
20 March 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
29 November 1907, Eatonton, Georgia, USA
June 8, 1907 in Switzerland
19 December 1901, Missouri, USA
8 June 1912, Berlin, Germany
25 May 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 December 1910, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1917, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 July 1911, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1 April 1906, Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
13 July 1912, New York City, New York, USA
6 January 1906
July 8, 1893 in Lewiston, Idaho, USA
October 9, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA
July 4, 1883 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 22, 2008
Definitely a sci-fi classic from the 1950s...great George Pal effects.
March 06, 2006
peculiarly fifties-bound
April 05, 2006
For a movie that already succeeded in scaring the Grape Nehi out of every ten-year-old in the audience, how disquieting it must have been for the Cold War-agitated grownups to witness U.S. might, tanks and A-bombs alike, brushed away helpless...
January 01, 2011
Some grisly and scary parts. Not for young 'uns.
June 08, 2007
Though it's bogged down by a stiff cast, a yawn-inspiring conventional romance, and a sappy religiosity, it remains a landmark in the history of special effects.
January 26, 2006
Too bad about the wooden cast, the tackily conventional romance, and a draggy religious message; but at least, given the time it was made, it isn't imbued with Cold War hysteria.
March 02, 2008
classic
June 08, 2007
As the perfect crystallization of 50s ideology the film would be fascinating enough, but the special effects in this 1953 George Pal production also achieve a kind of dark, burnished apocalyptic beauty.
December 06, 2005
A half-century after its creation, the film's best moments are still so enjoyably unnerving that they easily carry a viewer through the necessary but inevitably dated exposition.
October 03, 2011
Understandably well-remembered, but its status as a high classic seems more incidental than earned.
October 31, 2006
Mind those heat rays!
June 08, 2007
War of the Worlds is a socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation of the H.G. Wells novel.
