The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
by Byron Haskin
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Actor: Ann Robinson, Gene Barry, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro GiglioDirector: Byron Haskin
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: George Barnes
Editor: Everett Douglas
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Frank Freeman Jr.
Producer: George Pal
Writer: Barr? Lyndon
Writer: H.G. Wells
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-01
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: All around excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
The other reviews said this was a very crisp copy of the movie. They were absolutely correct.
Summary of The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
H.G. Wells' chilling novel of a Martian invasion of Earth becomes even more frightening in this 1952 film adaptation that's widely regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. An Oscar. winner for Best Special Effects, The War of the Worlds delivers eye-popping thrills, laser-hot action and unrelenting, edge-of-your-seat suspense. No one who has seen the film's depiction of the swan-shaped Martian machines-ticking and hissing menacingly as they cut their path of destruction-will ever forget their ominous impact.After the success of 1950's Destination Moon and 1951's When Worlds Collide, visionary producer George Pal brought the classic H.G. Wells story of a Martian invasion to the big screen, and it instantly became a science fiction classic and winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. 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. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson play the hero and heroine roles that were de rigueur for movies like this in the '50s, and their encounter with one of the Martians is as creepy today as it was in '53. It finally takes an unseen threat--simple Earth bacteria--to conquer the alien invaders, but not before War of the Worlds has provided a dazzling display of impressive special effects. As memorable for its sound effects as for its spectacular visions of destruction, this is a movie for the ages--the kind of spectacular that inspired little kids such as Steven Spielberg (not to mention Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, whose Independence Day cribs liberally from the plot) and still packs a punch. --Jeff Shannon
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