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The war of the worlds [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2020.

DVD WAR 1953 Sci-Fi

Human-alien encounters -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1037.

Alternate title:

Guerre des mondes [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Special features (Criterion Collection DVD special ed.) : New 4K digital restoration ; new alternate 5.1 soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt ; audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren ; Movie Archaeologists, a new program on the visual and sound effects in the film featuring Burtt and film historian Craig Barron ; From the Archive, a new program about the film’s restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas ; audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970 ; The Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film ; The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds from 1938, directed and narrated by Orson Welles ; radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novel The War of the Worlds ; trailer ; PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman.

Special features (Paramount special ed.): Commentary by Actors Ann Robinson and Gene Barry ; commentary by film director Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns and Bill Warren, author of Keep watching the skies! ; The sky is falling: the making of War of the worlds ; H.G. Wells: the father of science fiction ; The Mercury Theatre on the Air presents The war of the worlds radio broadcast ; original theatrical trailer.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 2011.

Paramount Pictures 2005 special collector's edition includes English (2.0 Surround and mono.) and French (mono.) language tracks with English subtitles and closed-captions.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

A Paramount Picture ; screenplay, Barré Lyndon ; produced by George Pal ; directed by Byron Haskin.

Gene Barry, Ann Robinson and Les Tremayne with Bob Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Housely Stevenson, Jr., Paul Frees, Bill Phipps, Vernon Rich, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

"A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing -- neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) -- can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age."--Container.

Science fiction films.

Thriller films.

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. War of the worlds. Film adaptations.

Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984.

Robinson, Ann, 1929-

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