DVD
The war of the worlds
Call Number
- DVD SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (85 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: G.
Uniform Title
Added Uniform Title
Summary
"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--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."--Container.
Notes
Based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt ; audio commentary from 2005 with filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns and author Bill Warren ; Movie archeologists, a new program on the film's visual and sound effects featuring Burtt and visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron ; From the archive, a new program about the film's restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas ; audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970 ; The sky is falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film ; The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio play of The War of the Worlds from 1938, adapted by Howard Koch and directed and narrated by Orson Welles ; radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novel The War of the Worlds ; trailer.