THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

1953

The War of the Worlds is a 1953 American Technicolor science fiction drama film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.

The film is a loose adaptation of the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, the first of five film adaptations. It is a modern retelling of the 1897 novel, changing the setting from Victorian era-England to 1953 southern California.

The War of the Worlds won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and went on to influence other science fiction films. In 2011, it was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry in the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".




SYNOPSIS

Scientist Clayton Forrester and Sylvia Van Buren are the first to arrive into a meteorite crash. Soon after, an alien war machine emerges and begins to killing everyone randomly. The Marines are called in, but they're no match for the aliens force field. Forrester and Van Buren, however, are able to wound one of the creatures and acquire a sample of its blood. They take it to Los Angeles where they hope, through testing, to be able to discover the aliens weakness.

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