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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.
22 June 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 27, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
November 4, 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 June 1899, Panola, Illinois, USA
5 December 1906, Brooklyn, New York, USA
June 18, 1894 in Ushpol, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Uzpaliai, Lithuania]
March 16, 1918 in Richmond, New York, USA
6 January 1906
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
March 25, 1924 in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher, France
July 4, 1883 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 May 1900, Italy
25 July 1899, South Bend, Indiana, USA
15 October 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 October 1897, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
26 October 1908, Springer, New Mexico, USA
October 9, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA
6 September 1904, Bari, Puglia, Italy
20 March 1922, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
March 02, 2008
classic
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.
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.
March 06, 2006
peculiarly fifties-bound
January 01, 2011
Some grisly and scary parts. Not for young 'uns.
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...
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.
February 22, 2008
Definitely a sci-fi classic from the 1950s...great George Pal effects.
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
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.
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.