The War of the Worlds (Criterion Collection) G
Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!
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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 7, 2020
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gene Barry, Ann Robinson & Les Tremayne | |
Performer: | Jack Kruschen, Houseley Stevenson Jr., Paul Frees, Henry Brandon, Pierre Cressoy & Houseley Stevenson | |
Directed by | Byron Haskin | |
Edited by | Everett Douglas | |
Screenwriting by | Barré Lyndon | |
Composition by | Leith Stevens | |
Art Direction by | Hal Pereira & Albert Nozaki | |
Produced by | George Pal | |
Director of Photography: | George Barnes |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1953 -
Best Special Effects: George Pal
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Although it never comes close to reproducing the panic generated by Orson Welles's famous 1938 radio broadcast, this is a splendid version of HG Wells's sci-fi classic.
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Radio Times
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.
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Time Out
The film version of H.G. Wells' most famous novel maintains an ingenuous and simple tone that reminds us of the original, in addition to other achievements, such as its special effects and excellent music. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
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.
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Variety
Paramount's Technicolor was the era's most vibrant, and Gordon Jennings' now-primitive Oscar-winning effects still look cool in this George Pal production.
USA Today
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.
Hollywood Reporter
...Dynamic fantasy holocaust, the INDEPENDENCE DAY of its day. -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
H.G. Wells' 1901 novel of the invasion of the Earth by Martians is brought to the screen with dazzling special effects.
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- Sales Rank: 12,199
- UPC: 715515248716
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