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The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American science fiction thriller film directed by Byron Haskin, produced by George Pal, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The first film adaptation of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel of the same name in which Earth is invaded by Martians, the setting is changed from Victorian era England to 1950s Southern California.
- Director
- Byron Haskin
- Writer
- H. G. Wells · Barré Lyndon
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- Release date
- 1953 · Released
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Country of origin
- United States, West Germany
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Drama · Adventure · Thriller · Science Fiction · Disaster
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Kampf der Welten
- Español
- La guerra de los mundos
- Français
- La Guerre des mondes
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Perang Dunia
- Italiano
- La guerra dei mondi
- 日本語
- 宇宙戦争
- 한국어
- 우주 전쟁
- Polski
- Wojna światów
- Português
- A Guerra dos Mundos
- Themes
- alien invasion ↗ flying saucer ↗
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from Wikimedia Commons.