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The Night That Panicked America (1975) (TV)
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31 October 1975 (USA)
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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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Won Primetime Emmy.
Another 3 nominations
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America Scared
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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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92 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
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1.33 : 1 more
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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.
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Ora Nichols:
[to her assistant, assessing the Mercury Theater's show] Looks like another big night for Charlie Mc Carthy.
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Referenced in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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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.