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
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-Video, 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
DVD Reviews of The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Almost Perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie itself was excellent! In wonderful condition, I couldn't be happier. . .my only complaint is not with the condition of the movie. . .
Just with the way it got to me. . it took a MONTH ! ! ! I am extremely
displeased with MovieMars! They screwed up with the shipping (sending it
International)I couldn't track it because the tracking number they gave
me was no good! I will think long and hard before I order something from
them again (even if I have to spend a couple more bucks)
DVD Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
We like watching the earlier movies ! Myself I like these older types of movies when they were made because they are not all about sex!!!! The filming is clear and very well done. We both like seeing the older cars and trucks that are in the film as we like the styles back then as we feel that is when they built a good auto!!! We would refer this movie for sale or rent ! The movie arrived in excellent shape and on time!!!!DVD Review: alien invadee
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazon made it very easy to find the version I needed for my spouse's birthday gift. The movie is still great fun to watch -- the effects are as good as anything found today. Now if my spouse would just stop watching it ALL the time -- or maybe I should just invite the Martians in for coffee. DVD Review: The Nature of Destruction
Summary: 5 Stars
The iconic H.G. Wells story of a Martian invasion was given an incredible platform in 1953 to launch into the rarified air reserved for classic films; it won a 1953 Academy Award for Special Effects, 1953 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and 1954 Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Feature Film.
Directed by Byron Haskin - with the screenplay written by Barre Lyndon - the story takes place east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains. Starring Gene Barry (Dr. Clayton Forrester) and Ann Robinson (Sylvia van Buren), it is an intense tale of the futility of military firepower in the Atomic Age when confronted by an alien force with its tentacles wrapped around the plan of eradication and colonization. And the amazing fact that nature may hold the key to stopping the onslaught shows that even perfect killing machines will tumble from an Achilles' heel.
The film transcends the Sci-Fi genre and is a fearsome reminder that the climate must be right to succeed in the vicious game of search and destroy.
DVD Review: Best movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is probably the best Sci-Fi movie for it's time. The special effects were ahead of it's time. Great movie,and I continue to view it several times a year.
Description 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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