The War of the Worlds (1953)

Taglines:

The original invasion! See more »

Parents Guide:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Release Date:

26 August 1953 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

La guerre des mondes See more »

Filming Locations:

City Hall - 200 N. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »

Budget:

$2,000,000 (estimated)

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures See more »

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Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording) (35 mm optical prints) | 3 Channel Stereo (Western Electric Multi-Track Magnetic Stereophonic) (35 mm magnetic prints)

Color:

Color (Technicolor) | Black and White (newsreel archive footage before opening credits)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Trivia

When Major General Mann first meets Dr. Forrester, he refers to an earlier meeting in Oak Ridge. This refers to Oak Ridge, Tennessee which was the home to three Manhattan Project plants which enriched and refined uranium in WWII for use in the first atomic bombs. Of the three one (K-25) was in use until 1985, and one (Y-12) is still in operation as of 2010. See more »

Goofs

Factual errors: The narrator incorrectly pointed out that Jupiter is a rocky molten lava planet with extremely high atmospheric pressure. What he was actually describing was the characteristics of the planet Venus - Jupiter has no surface. And coincidently, Mars' nearest neighbor is actually Earth, not Jupiter. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Radio Reporter: [voiceover] In the First World War, and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations using the crude weapons of those days. The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction. And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on the Earth comes the War of the Worlds.
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Connections

Referenced in "Tripping the Rift: Chode's Near Death-Experience (#2.12)" (2005) See more »