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Classic 1953 sci-fi boasting Academy Award-winning special effects, adapting the alien invasion novel by HG Wells.
The residents of a small...
Classic 1953 sci-fi boasting Academy Award-winning special effects, adapting the alien invasion novel by HG Wells.
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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89 %37 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
71 %65,796 reviewsAudience score rating
"Suspenseful, fast and, on occasion, properly chilling."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"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."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"The special effects in this 1953 George Pal production... achieve a kind of dark, burnished apocalyptic beauty."
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader"A socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation..."
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Variety
VarietyThe War of the Worlds (1953) | Details
Award winner- Best Special Effects, 1954 Academy Awards
- Rating
- G,
- Runtime
- 85
- Genre
- Action, Science Fiction
- Country of origin
- United States of America
