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  The War of the Worlds (1953 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The War of the Worlds is a (1953) science-fiction film produced by George Pál and directed by Byron Haskin from a script by Barré Lyndon based on the H.
It is also one of few science films to show a full-fledged invasion by an extraterrestrial army, and World War II stock footage was skillfully used to produce a montage of destruction to show the worldwide invasion, with armies of all nations joining together to fight the invaders.
The 1988 War of the Worlds TV series is essentially a sequel to this film, and employs several elements from the film, including having Ann Robinson reprise her role as Sylvia Van Buren in three episodes.
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 WAR OF THE WORLDS
Based on the H.G. Well’s 1898 novel, War of the Worlds has been done as the infamous Orson Welles narrated radioplay, a 1953 movie, as well as a couple of direct-to-cable movies, and a short-lived TV series.
War of the Worlds didn’t need Tom Cruise to be its star, but it’s a fun movie and a reminder that Spielberg invented the summer blockbuster.
War of the Worlds is Spielberg’s classy response to flicks like Independence Day, but compared to his older films, this movie is a low effort, no-brainer.
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 The War of the Worlds (1953 movie) biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The War of the Worlds (1953), was directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pál (the second of three H.G. Wells science fiction stories to be filmed by Pál), and starred Gene Barry, Les Tremayne and Ann Robinson.
This movie adaptation of The War of the Worlds is considered to be one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s.
It was one of few science films to show a full-fledged invasion by an extraterrestrial army, and World War II stock footage was skillfully used to produce a montage of destruction to show the worldwide invasion, with armies of all nations joining together to fight the invaders.
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 The War of the Worlds - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The War of the Worlds is a novel written by H.
1 Adaptations of The War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds, a 2005 movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
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 Fraud Factor - War of the Worlds movie review
War of the Worlds or Snore of the Worlds?
War of the Worlds suffers from numerous logical holes and contradictions that distract from the movie.
The movie, The Sum of All Fears (2002), AKA The Sum of All Failures, was based on the 1991 Tom Clancy novel, with outspoken Hollywood leftist Ben Affleck poorly portraying the CIA agent Jack Ryan character from the previous Clancy novels and movies.
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CBN.com – War of the Worlds is an exciting remake that achieves a high level of tension, but its pace and pretensions hold it back from being a truly great action movie.
The world created in this movie fails to be consistent, so it becomes obvious that the blood detail was inserted only for the sensational imagery that came with it (although the original Wells novel may have contained something about the aliens cannibalizing humans).
War of the Worlds is exciting, well made, and morally uplifting, but children could be frightened by the intense extraterrestrial attacks, not to mention some of the slimy alien imagery.
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 War Of The Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a novel written by H. Wells in 1898 depicting an alien invasion of the earth.
Since then, The War of the Worlds has entered popular culture, with a vast number of books, films, TV series and comic books using themes from this book, whether acknowledged or not.
War of the Worlds, a television series that ran from 1988 to 1990.
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 War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds is Steven Spielberg's $150 million answer to the blockbuster as concert film, relying on gritty realism and sustained intensity in a story dependent on wild leaps of imagination.
War of the Worlds is a new adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel, which was famously adapted as a radio play by Orson Welles and later as a 1953 movie.
While I understood that Speilberg was attempting to concentrate on the family and not so much of the science fiction part, the movie advertised itself as "War of the Worlds", the advertising also gave strong impression of war with the aliens.
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 War Of The Worlds invasion: The complete War Of The Worlds website
The Halloween production of H.G.Wells The War Of The Worlds should have been no different to any that had gone before, but before the hour was up, Welles would find himself at the centre of a perfect storm of controversy.
George Pal was the first director to bring The War Of The Worlds to the big screen in 1953 and just last year Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise re-imagined the invasion with a massive budget and an even bigger bang.
The War Of The Worlds by Jeff Wayne.
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 War of the Worlds movie review, H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, HG Wells.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
War of the Worlds movie review, H.G. Wells War of the Worlds, HG Wells.
This movie was followed by a loosely based Television series entitled War of the Worlds in the 1990's.
Movies and Television shows described herein are described for purposes of academic study/review.
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 War of the Worlds movie review Other Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"War of the Worlds" is based on the book written by H.G. Wells in the late 1800's about Martians invading earth and exterminating its inhabitants.
Having seen the 1953 version of the film, I knew it was coming, but I had hoped that this film would have improved on the hasty ending, but unfortunately it did not.
"War of the Worlds" vastly exceeded my expectations of it, and it's a film that could be enjoyed by all kinds of people.
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 War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds does what it was made to do: Entertain.
Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny—another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations.
With War of the Worlds [Spielberg] has made what is arguably one of the best 1950s science fiction films ever.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/war_of_the_worlds   (1186 words)

  
 The War of the Worlds (1953) - Movie Rental Review
What follows is the "war" of the title, as the human race tries to defend itself, and the alien visitors fly around zapping everything in sight.
This original WAR OF THE WORLDS is a true classic, but unfortunately, it is dated to the period that produced it.
Although not gory, a large portion of the movie is filled by alien attacks and loud explosions.
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 Random Thoughts from HowardGr: My Review of War of the Worlds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
War of the worlds was no “Independence Day.” Independence Day, which is basically the same concept, was fun.
The movie itself has a dark heart, and you see the worst in people come out during this time of emergency.
The character shallowness War of the Worlds 2005 didn't seem to really matter to me. It was the rocky ride I went for, why else see this type of film if it didn't leave you at the edge of your seat and make you feel uneasy?
howardgreenstein.com /blog/archives/2005/06/my_review_of_wa.html   (528 words)

  
 War of the Worlds (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
War of the Worlds is a 2005 science fiction film based on H.
It is the 4th highest grossing movie of 2005 (after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).
The plot device that the aliens had been to Earth before and left behind their tripods is reminiscent of a revelation in War of the Worlds TV series in which a tripod (an "older model" of the war machines in the 1953 film) is unearthed, having been left behind for hundreds to thousands of years.
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 Hollywood Gothique: War of the Worlds (1953) Review
Wells was crafting an ironic scenario in which the Martian invasion acted as a magnified mirror image of British imperialism: that is, a technologically superior army using its advanced weaponary to evict and/or annihilate a native population.
The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years.
Particularly memorable is the chapter entitled “Thunderchild,” in which an ironclad warship protects a boatload of refugees fleeing the country, in the process destroying two of the Martian war machines before being melted and sent to the bottom of the ocean by the lethal heat ray.
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 The War Of The Worlds: Special Collector's Edition (1953)
The movie follows the titular war between Earth and the Martians, with an emphasis on Forrester’s actions as well as his relationship with a sexy student named Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson).
The 2005 War used at least one or two very similar depictions, and the segment in which the military drops an A-bomb on the Martians was clearly paid homage in 1996’s Independence Day.
I must admit The War of the Worlds disappointed me. I didn’t expect the flair and panache of the Spielberg version, but movies don’t need to be shiny-new to be good.
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 War Of The Worlds TV Show
The War Of The Worlds TV show was a sci-fi series based on the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles and the 1953 movie, both of the same name.
The writers of three of the War Of The Worlds first season episodes were credited with "pen names".
In the final episode of The War Of The Worlds, the aliens from "Morthrai" realize that their leader is evil and they kill him.
www.crazyabouttv.com /waroftheworlds.html   (613 words)

  
 War of the Worlds (1953) movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
Because War of the Worlds hasn’t just been ripped off, copied and homaged for decades, it’s inspired an endless production line of big budget alien invasion flicks which owe a huge debt of gratitude to director Byron Haskin’s spectacular 1953 original.
The focus on the human impact is also impressive, especially the plight of people fleeing for their lives, while the angry mob marauding the streets of LA adds an element of gritty realism.
This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of War of the Worlds (1953) and intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
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 War of the Worlds movie news and media from Eve of the War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
War of the Worlds movie news and media from Eve of the War
The Australlian animated comedy based on the events of 'The War of the Worlds' was released in 5 parts on Eve of the War and other places around the internet between the months of April and September of last year but was never completed.
The War of the Worlds has been nominated for a MOJO award in the catergory of "Release of the Year" for the re-released 2 disc edition of the musical.
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 War of the Worlds - Movie Review
As their world is turned upside down, Ray will stop at nothing to keep his family alive.
With his new update of H.G. Wells 1898 novel 'The War of the Worlds', Steven Spielberg presents a peril so overwhelmingly vast and mercilessly indiscriminate that thoughts of negotiation or resistance are futile, and the only hope that remains, however precarious it may be, is survival itself.
Instead, he restricts his focus to the experiences of a single, ordinary family struggling to comprehend and outrun large-scale catastrophe, so that 'War of the Worlds' has far more in common with M. Night Shmyalan's Signs or even Michael Haneke's The Time of the Wolf than, say, Independence Day.
www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1215   (700 words)

  
 Movie Info for The War of the Worlds on MSN Movies
H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds had been on Paramount Pictures' docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a potential Cecil B. DeMille production.
In the end, the Martians are defeated not by science or the military, but by bacteria germs-or, to quote H.G. Wells, "the humblest things that God in his wisdom has put upon the earth." Forty years' worth of progressively improving special effects have not dimmed the brilliance of George Pal's War of the Worlds.
So indelible an impression has this film made on modern-day sci-fi mavens that, when a 1988 TV version of War of the Worlds was put together, it was conceived as a direct sequel to the 1953 film, rather than a derivation of the Wells novel or the Welles radio production.
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 Amazon.com: War of the Worlds (1953): Video: Gene Barry,Ann Robinson,Les Tremayne,Robert Cornthwaite,Sandro ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 is mono and there are cracks and pops on the sound track during the early part of the movie, though I didnt notice them as much in the later scenes (but that may simply be because I was caught up in the excitement of the story).
Overall, I rate "The War of the Worlds" with a highly deserved 5 out of 5 stars and I regard it to be one of the best sci-fi films ever produced in the 1950's.
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 "War of the Worlds" (1988)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
from PA "War of the Worlds: The Series" continues the storyline from the original movie while giving it a new twist, with the Martians, or the "alien invaders" as they are called now, taking over people's bodies to prevent them from succumbing to the bacteria that "killed" them in the original movie.
Taking place 35 years after they destroyed Los Angeles and almost took over the world, they are revived after a botched attack at a nuclear waste dump, where their remains were sealed in metal barrels.
Also seen were their war machines with the heat rays, and Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson), the heroine of the original who fell in love with Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry's character).
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 On Point : War of the Worlds - War of the Worlds
Steven Spieberg's adaptation of "War of the Worlds" opens in theaters across the country today.
The 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds" capitalized on the Cold War communist scare.
Tune in for a conversation about H.G. Wells'; classic "War of the Worlds" and its meaning for the nation in different times of war.
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 WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE - 1953 (G [PG-G]): CAP Movie Ministry Entertainment Media Analysis Report MAR25SP09
If the Internet Movie database is correct, the only country of seven that gave a G-rating to The War of the Worlds (1953) film was the US.
The War of the Worlds (1953) is equivalent to many PG films in the comparative baseline database due mainly to violence, most notably action violence in the form of alien attacks and murder by alien weapon fire.
The War of the Worlds (1953) is a cold war era adaptation of the 1898 H. G Wells novel by the same name narrated on CBS Radio by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater Group on October 30, 1938.
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 The War of the Worlds (1953)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When they enter the aircraft, Sylvia is carrying a purse she didn't have anywhere else, before of after that, in the film.
The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction.
War of the worlds 2005 VS. War of the worlds 1953
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And that was the last we heard of their War of the Worlds movie.
Set in Wells' intended turn-of-the-century English locale, the movie is the world's first authentic adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic 1898 novel.
Pendragon Pictures, which is producing an independent version of "The War of the Worlds," will have production maquettes featured in a year-long exhibit at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.
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