The fertile imagination of author H.G. Wells who peered into the future and saw a
lot of what came to pass and was purposefully vague enough about said developments. Vagueness allowed his work to be adapted for a 1953 version from Paramount of a book written in 1897.
The original novel was set in the United Kingdom and here it is in southern California. What was thought to be meteors turn out to be space ships from Mars containing Martians whose planet's resources are being depleted and look to a fertile earth as a new home.
No big stars were used in this film it all went to a budget for George Pal and it netted an uncontested Oscar for War Of The Worlds in 1953. In subsequent remakes said effects were copies.
Gene Barry and Ann Robinson head the cast as the scientists who have an idea what might be the Martian weakness. What happens to them in the end as blind panic at the thought of the end of humankind grips the masses is frightening indeed. A lot of familiar character players are all over the cast.
For the sake of the earth both in the novel and the film and incredible failsafe mechanism from Mother Nature is the planet savior.
War Of The Worlds is dated with the advance of new technology and once again a science fiction classic does not factor in the development of the computer which was just coming into being. It's still a classic and great entertainment.
The original novel was set in the United Kingdom and here it is in southern California. What was thought to be meteors turn out to be space ships from Mars containing Martians whose planet's resources are being depleted and look to a fertile earth as a new home.
No big stars were used in this film it all went to a budget for George Pal and it netted an uncontested Oscar for War Of The Worlds in 1953. In subsequent remakes said effects were copies.
Gene Barry and Ann Robinson head the cast as the scientists who have an idea what might be the Martian weakness. What happens to them in the end as blind panic at the thought of the end of humankind grips the masses is frightening indeed. A lot of familiar character players are all over the cast.
For the sake of the earth both in the novel and the film and incredible failsafe mechanism from Mother Nature is the planet savior.
War Of The Worlds is dated with the advance of new technology and once again a science fiction classic does not factor in the development of the computer which was just coming into being. It's still a classic and great entertainment.