UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34430222
Format:
1 Blu-ray Disc (85 min)
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1 Beilage
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1.37:1
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [BD] 1037
Content:
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. (Criterion Collection)
Note:
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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Original: USA, 1953
Language:
English
Keywords:
Film
Author information:
Wells, H. G.
