{"id":38610,"date":"2025-03-23T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38610"},"modified":"2025-03-23T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:50:27","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-1953-starring-gene-barry-and-ann-robinson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38610","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221; (1953) starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z032325zview_waroftheworlds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"774\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>War of the Worlds <\/i>(1953)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Byron Haskin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Barr\u00e9 Lyndon;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4bQZPkf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE WAR OF THE WORLDS<\/a> by <strong>H.G. Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Gene Barry<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong>Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Vernon Rich, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Cedric Hardwicke, Edgar Barrier, Carolyn Jones <\/strong>and <strong>Paul Frees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Amazing! terrifying! The most savage spectacle of all time!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a meteor impacts near a small California town it generates a lot of attention.\u00a0 The attention turns to fear when the meteor turns out to contain an alien ship. The ship goes airborne and begins destroying everything in it&#8217;s path.\u00a0 Things go from terrible to devastating when it is learned that hundreds of these &#8220;meteors&#8221; have landed around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Armies across the globe attempt to take down the alien invaders with no success. Cities are being wiped out.\u00a0 Dr. Clayton Forrester (Barry) and Sylvia Van Buren (Robinson) find themselves on the run searching for safe haven.\u00a0 As the aliens close in, reports from around the world show that no weapon works against the alien&#8217;s technology.<\/p>\n<p>Humankind will be wiped out in weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>War of the Worlds<\/em> was nominated for three 1954<strong> Academy Awards<\/strong> and won one&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Sound, Recording<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Loren L. Ryder<\/strong> (Paramount Sound Department)<\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Film Editing<\/em> &#8211;<strong> Everett Douglas<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Winner for <em>Best Effects, Special Effects<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The alien craft in H.G. Wells novel walk on tripod legs.\u00a0 Unsure of how to make this work on screen, George Pal opted to give the craft the ability to fly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">H.G. Wells&#8217; estate was so pleased with <em>The War of the Worlds<\/em>, that George Pal was offered any other H.G. Wells story to adapt.\u00a0 Pal chose and made <em>The Time Machine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paul Frees plays a radio reporter and uses his voice impersonation of Orson Welles as a homage to Welles&#8217; <em>War of the Worlds<\/em> radio broadcast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, the stars of this version appear as grandparents of Tom Cruise&#8217;s character&#8217;s children in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s 2005 <em>War of the Worlds<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>War of the Worlds<\/em> is a classic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>War of the Worlds <\/i>(1953) <\/em><\/strong>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z032325zview_waroftheworlds2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War of the Worlds (1953) Director: Byron Haskin Screenplay: Barr\u00e9 Lyndon;\u00a0based on THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. 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