The War of the Worlds (1953)

Name: The War of the Worlds
Released: 1953
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Lewis Martin, Les Tremayne, Frank Kreig

• Movies, Action, Science Fiction

• 85 min

6.8

Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!

Directed by: Byron Haskin
Casting: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Lewis Martin, Les Tremayne, Frank Kreig, Vernon Rich, Sandro Giglio, Ann Codee, Robert Cornthwaite, Cedric Hardwicke, Houseley Stevenson Jr., William Phipps, Jack Kruschen, Paul Birch, Paul Frees, Henry Brandon, Peter Adams, Eric Alden, Hugh Allen, Ruth Barnell, Edgar Barrier, Russ Bender, Oscar Blank, Hazel Boyne, Chet Brandenburg, George Bruggeman, Nora Bush, Tony Butala, Mushy Callahan, Dick Cherney, 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, Jack Gordon, Fred Graham, Joe Gray, Herman Hack, Nancy Hale, Virginia Hall, Ted Hecht, Douglas Henderson, Gertrude Hoffmann, Tex Holden, Jimmie Horan, Patricia Iannone, Jerry James, Michael Jeffers, Dick Johnstone, Carolyn Jones, Don Kohler, 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
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1953-08-13
Status: Released

Tags: laser gun, based on novel or book, dystopia, mountain village, street riots, space invasion, radioactivity, martian, religion, los angeles, california, alien invasion, technicolor, scientist hero, martian invasion, mass evacuation, meteor space ship, wedge maneuver, impenetrable force field, martian aircraft, three-lensed eye, h.g. wells

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.