American Experience
(1988– )
An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.
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Charissa Allen | ||
| Julian Arahanga | |||
| Edgar Bergen | ... | Himself / Charlie McCarthy (archive sound) | |
| Peter Bogdanovich | ... | Himself - Film Director | |
| Brenda Isaacs Booth | ... | Bertha Boughton (as Brenda Isaacs-Booth) | |
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Ray Collins | ... | Mr. Wilmuth (archive sound) |
| Buster Crabbe | ... | Flash Gordon (archive footage) | |
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Robert Crossley | ... | Himself - Writer |
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Sonny Davis | ||
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Kenny Delmar | ... | Captain Lansing / Franklin D. Roosevelt / Policeman (archive sound) |
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Lucien Douglas | ||
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Susan Douglas | ... | Herself - Historian |
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Chris Wells Feder | ... | Herself - Daughter of Orson Wells |
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Bart Fletcher | ||
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An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.
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radio | mass panic | radio play | war of the worlds broadcast | 1930s |Certificate:
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The subject of this "documentary" (which seems more like a MOCKumentary) is my favorite real-life Halloween story of all-time. And I always thought that "American Experience" was a reputable series on PBS, but this episode has change that perception. I may never see this series the same way again. I don't think I saw any disclaimers or anything but it appears to me that they present fake interviews with horribly unskilled actors reciting words written by various real people from the late 1930's from various sources...as real as if making their own brilliant statement on Welles' original take on the media. Nice try ...for an amateur documentary ...crushing failure for an iconic series like American Experience.
It also drags on and on and on and the narrator's voice or manner is not conducive to holding an audience's attention.