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"Studio One" The Night America Trembled (1957)
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The Night America Trembled depicts historic events of 10/30/38 moreCast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Edward R. Murrow | ... | Himself / Narrator |
| Alexander Scourby | ... | Phillips - Host |
| Robert Blackburn | ... | Director |
| Casey Allen | ... | First Announcer |
| Norman Rose | ... | Second Announcer |
| Ray Boyle | ... | First Actor |
| Frank Marth | ... | Second Actor |
 | Edward Asner | ... | Third Actor |
| Freda Holloway | ... | Mary |
| John Gibson | ... | Mary's Father |
| Clint Kimbrough | ... | Bob |
| Tom Clancy | ... | Tom |
| Vincent Gardenia | ... | Dick |
| Fred J. Scollay | ... | Harry |
 | James Coburn | ... | Sam (as Jim Coburn) |
Series Cast
These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode? | John Cannon | ... | Himself / Announcer 1950-1959 (voice) (uncredited) |
| Betty Furness | ... | Herself, 1949-1958 |
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The Night America Trembled is-as far as I know-the first dramatization of the events that happened during the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds on October 30, 1938. Newsman Edward R. Murrow adds modern perspective to '50s audiences about subsequent events that make this Orson Welles production still seem frightening to anyone who didn't hear the beginning of the broadcast having switched from Bergin and McCarthy on NBC. I myself first heard this legendary show exactly 41 years after at age 11 and I couldn't believe how realistic it sounded. I'd like to point some flaws, however. First, the director of the radio play and Orson Welles are depicted as two different people when they were one and the same. Also, the sound of the Martians' opening their ship was visualized as the sound man manually spinning a bare record turntable when it was actually the opening of a jar. What makes this Studio One episode even more fascinating are the Westinghouse commercials with John Cameron Swazee for various nuclear products! Worth a look to see early performances of Warren Beatty, Ed Asner, Warren Oates, James Coburn, Vincent Gardenia, and, for Honeymooners fans, Frank Marth! Also, keep an eye out for The Night That Panicked America on various stations or cable channels around Halloween.