The War of the Worlds (1953) + Extras [w/Commentaries]

A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing – neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) – can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War – era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.



Commentaries:
1) Audio Commentary by Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman
2) Audio Commentary by actors Ann Robinson and Gene Barry
3) Audio Commentary by film director Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns and Bill Warren

Extras:
– The Original Mercury Theatre Radio Broadcast of The War of the Worlds (59:10)
– "The Sky is Falling: The Making of The War of the Worlds" documentary (30:00)
– "H.G. Wells: The Father of Science Fiction" featurette (10:25)