The War of the Worlds (1953) [PG|G]

Release Date:
August 13, 1953

Original Title:
The War of the Worlds

Alternate Titles:
A Guerra dos Mundos
Dünyalar çarpışıyor
Kampf der Welten
Klodenes kamp
Klodernes kamp
La Guerra de los Mundos
La guerra de los mundos
La guerra dei mondi
La guerre des mondes
Maailmojen sota
Oorlog der werelden
Rat svetova
Războiul lumilor
Világok háborúja
Vojna svetov
Válka světů
Världarnas krig
Wojna światów
Ο πόλεμος των κόσμων
Вoйна миров
Война на световете
地球爭霸戰
宇宙戦争

Genres:
Action | Science Fiction

Production Companies:
Paramount Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: G  BR: L  CA: G  DE: 16  DK: 11  ES: APTA  FI: K-16  FR: U  IT: T  NL: 12  NO: 15  PT: M/12  SE: 15  US: PG|G 

Runtime: 85

Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

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American Film Institute (AFI)

2003
#27
100 Years: 100 HEROES & VILLAINS
50 Greatest Villains
“Martians”

Art Direction:
Albert Nozaki
Hal Pereira

Assistant Director:
Michael D. Moore

Associate Producer:
Frank Freeman Jr.

Color Grading:
Monroe W. Burbank

Construction Coordinator:
Gene Lauritzen

Costume Design:
Edith Head

Costumer:
Charles Gemora
Diana Gemora

Director:
Byron Haskin

Director of Photography:
George Barnes

Editor:
Everett Douglas

Executive Producer:
Cecil B. DeMille

Gaffer:
Soldier Graham

Key Grip:
Murray Young

Makeup Supervisor:
Wally Westmore

Modeling:
Marcel Delgado

Novel:
H.G. Wells

Orchestrator:
George Parrish

Original Music Composer:
Leith Stevens

Painter:
Chesley Bonestell

Producer:
George Pal

Producer's Assistant:
Gae Griffith

Production Manager:
Frank Caffey

Property Master:
Gordon Cole

Props:
Lee Vasque
Ivyl Burks
Charles Davies
Milt Olson
Romaine Birkmeyer

Screenplay:
Barré Lyndon

Set Decoration:
Albert Nozaki
Emile Kuri

Sound Director:
Loren L. Ryder

Sound Editor:
William M. Andrews
Lovell Norman

Sound Effects:
Tommy Middleton
Dan Johnson
Walter Oberst
Howard Beals

Sound Recordist:
Harry Lindgren
Gene Garvin

Special Effects:
Barney Wolff
A. Edward Sutherland
Ken Strickfaden
Bob Springfield
Chester Pate

Stunts:
Dale Van Sickel
Joe Gray
Jack Stoney
Fred Zendar
Bob Morgan
David Sharpe
Charles Morton
Slim Gaut
Fred Graham
Jimmie Dundee
George Magrill
Bud Wolfe
Chalky Williams
Herman Hack
Bobby Somers
Tex Holden
Chet Brandenburg
George Bruggeman
Mushy Callahan

Technical Advisor:
Robert S. Richardson
Chesley Bonestell

Visual Effects:
Paul K. Lerpae
Jan Domela
Irmin Roberts
Gordon Jennings
W. Wallace Kelley
Aubrey Law
Ivyl Burks
Walter Hoffman
Jack Caldwell

Visual Effects Camera:
Cliff Shirpser

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