Facts About War of the Worlds (1953) You NEVER Knew!

[1srelluc]

Fairly interesting.

 

[toobfreak]

Fairly interesting.

Pretty funny. The UK deemed War of the Worlds too shocking for any but adult audiences!

 

[whitehall]

The 1954 movie is based on the Orson Welles radio program broadcast around 1938 when the radio was the only source of entertainment or news available to the public at the time. Welles "Mercury theater of the air" broadcast pretended to be a real account of a Martian invasion at the time. It panicked it's listening audience especially in a fictional N.J. town called Grovers Mills.

 

[1srelluc]

For such an old sci-fi movie it still holds up 72 years later.

 

[Zebra]

For such an old sci-fi movie it still holds up 72 years later.

it is brilliant!

 

[g5000]

Fairly interesting.

I've watched a gazillion YouTube videos about X-number of Facts You Didn't Know About such-and-such movie.