Directed by:
Byron HaskinScreenplay:
Barré LyndonCinematography:
George BarnesComposer:
Leith StevensCast:
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Jack Kruschen, Ralph Dumke, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke (more)VOD (4)
Plots(1)
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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Gene Barry](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/713/161713108_ce5c7a.jpg)
Gene Barry
USA
Best movies:
Prescription: Murder (1968) (TV movie)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
War of the Worlds (2005)
![Ann Robinson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/117/160/117160037_34197d.jpg)
Ann Robinson
USA
Best movies:
Julie (1956)
Imitation of Life (1959)
A Star is Born (1954)
![Les Tremayne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/105/792/105792697_30fc4a.jpg)
Les Tremayne
UK
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Goldfinger (1964)
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
![Robert Cornthwaite](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/120/455/120455612_6883c1.jpg)
Robert Cornthwaite
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Sandro Giglio
Best movies:
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
House of Bamboo (1955)
![Lewis Martin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/417/160417398_7f0c16.jpg)
Lewis Martin
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Sudden Fear (1952)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
![Jack Kruschen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273538_b4c8db.jpg)
Jack Kruschen
Canada
Best movies:
The Apartment (1960)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Cape Fear (1962)
Ralph Dumke
USA
Best movies:
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
![Carolyn Jones](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/422/162422080_39004c.png)
Carolyn Jones
USA
Best movies:
Roots (1977) (series)
The Big Heat (1953)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
![Cedric Hardwicke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/621/162621796_89038e.jpg)
Cedric Hardwicke
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Rope (1948)
Richard III (1955)
![George Pal](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270083_ccf5d8.jpg)
George Pal
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The War of the Worlds (1953)
![Pierre Cressoy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/437/437171_09b0e0.jpg)
Pierre Cressoy
France
Best movies:
Le Dollar troué (1965)
Adiós gringo (1965)
David and Goliath (1960)
![Henry Brandon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/111/158111842_b6ff85.jpg)
Henry Brandon
German Empire
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
![Teru Shimada](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/126/158126128_95b2b1.jpg)
Teru Shimada
Japan
Best movies:
King Rat (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
![Ivan B. Lebedeff](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/279/158279916_341a4d.jpg)
Ivan B. Lebedeff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
China Seas (1935)
Conquest (1937)
![Ned Glass](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000089_894e14.jpg)
Ned Glass
Poland
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Charade (1963)
![Walter Sande](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000230_9e33e2.jpg)
Walter Sande
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
![Bert Stevens](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256255_85bf54.jpg)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
![Dale Van Sickel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/256/159256253_2fbf62.jpg)
Dale Van Sickel
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
![Anthony Warde](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/162/159162680_bd6bd1.jpg)
Anthony Warde
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Sea Hawk (1940)