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Title: Battle of the Worlds (1961)
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| Claude Rains | ... | Prof. Benson | |
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Bill Carter | ... | Cmdr. Bob Cole |
| Umberto Orsini | ... | Dr. Fred Steele | |
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Maya Brent | ... | Eve Barnett |
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Jacqueline Derval | ... | Cathy Cole |
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Renzo Palmer | ... | Barrington |
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Carlo D'Angelo | ... | Gen. Varreck (as Carlo d'Angelo) |
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Carol Danell | ... | Mrs. Collins |
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Jim Dolen | ... | Boyd |
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Joe Pollini | ... | Pat (as Joseph Pollini) |
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John Stacy | ... | Dr. Cornfield |
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Aldo D'Ambrosio | ... | United Commission Member |
| Massimo Righi | ... | Lewis Boyd | |
| Giuliano Gemma | ... | Moran | |
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Annamaria Mustari | ... | (as Anna Maria Mustari) |
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A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets. Written by Humberto Amador
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Country:
ItalyLanguage:
ItalianRelease Date:
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Sound Mix:
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George Reynolds: Whatta expect on an August night?
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After the less than stellar distribution of the previous film, "Assignment: Outer Space" (1960) in the US, Ultra Film decided it could improve its performance in the lucrative US market for this film by adding a "name" American actor. Claude Rains had just played the grumpy Prof. Challenger in the remake of "The Lost World" (1960) and decided that he would be perfect to play the grumpy Prof. Benson in this film. See more »Quotes
Dr. Fred Steele: George, those meteorites are messing up everything!George Reynolds: Whatta expect on an August night?
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I've just seen Battle of the Worlds for the first time and is very similar to When Worlds Collide, which was made ten years before this in 1951.
A planet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth and a way is devised to try and stop it. To makes things worse, Earth is attacked by flying saucers from this planet but they are eventually defeated. A party, including Professor Benson then lands on this planet and they manage to blow it up and successfully do so, but with Benson still on there as he refused orders to evacuate. Earth is saved yet again.
Battle Of the Worlds tends to be a little talky and slow moving in parts but the flying saucer scenes are OK. Despite it being talky, it is fairly eerie in parts.
This features a good performance from Claude Rains (The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, The Lost World) as Professor Benson but he is the only star I've heard of in the cast.
To sum up, an average movie but not brilliant.
Rating: 2 and a half stars out of 5.