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The War of the Worlds

Synopsis:

H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a potential Cecil B. DeMille production. When Paramount finally got around to a filming the Wells novel, the property was firmly in the hands of special-effects maestro George Pal. Like Orson Welles's infamous 1938 radio adaptation, the film eschews Wells's original Victorian England setting for a contemporary American locale, in this case Southern California. A meteorlike object crash-lands near the small town of Linda Rosa.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Byron Haskin
  • Studio: Paramount
  • Year: 1953
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: G
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Science Fiction
  • Filmed in: Color

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