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Director:
Joseph Sargent
Writers:
Howard Koch (play)
Nicholas Meyer (screenplay)
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Release Date:
31 October 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
True story: Orson Welles puts on a radio version of an H.G. Wells novel, and people who miss the beginning think Martians are invading the Earth. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations more
User Comments:
America Scared more (15 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Vic Morrow ... Hank Muldoon

Cliff De Young ... Stefan Grubowski

Michael Constantine ... Jess Wingate
Walter McGinn ... Paul Stewart
Eileen Brennan ... Ann Muldoon

Meredith Baxter ... Linda Davis
Tom Bosley ... Norman Smith
Will Geer ... Reverend Davis
Paul Shenar ... Orson Welles

John Ritter ... Walter Wingate

Granville Van Dusen ... Carl Phillips
Burton Gilliam ... Tex
Joshua Bryant ... Howard Koch
Liam Dunn ... Charlie

Shelley Morrison ... Toni
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
92 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
2nd Street Tunnel, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
Company:
Paramount Television more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Apparently to save on royalties, the Paramount-owned "Cocktails for Two" is substituted for "Stardust" as "the tune that never loses favor" in the mock hotel orchestra broadcast. more
Quotes:
Ora Nichols: [to her assistant, assessing the Mercury Theater's show] Looks like another big night for Charlie Mc Carthy. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) more

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
America Scared, 20 September 2003
Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California

This film was an excellent look at the perhaps one of the most notorious instances of mass hysteria ever. This film made me interested in the actual play and I think that this was pretty much an accurate portrayal of the event. Also, the little stories of how people were affected by the broadcast and what they went through as the story unfolded. The one story that I felt really conveyed what happened was the one featuring Vic Morrow and Eileen Brennan as the couple on the brink of divorce who forget their differences and are brought back together because of the broadcast. If anyone wants a good example of a good TV movie, this is it.

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