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from: CIC Video
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300215535
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 079210224X
Label: CIC Video
Manufacturer: CIC Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: CIC Video
Release Date: July 02, 1996
Running Time: 85 minutes
Sales Rank: 4936
Studio: CIC Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 26, 1953
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
After the success of 1950's Destination Moon and 1951's When Worlds Collide, visionary producer George Pal brought the classic H.G. Wells story of a Martian invasion to the big screen, and it instantly became a science fiction classic and winner of the 1953 Academy Award for Best Special Effects. It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective weapon. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson play the hero and heroine roles that were de rigueur for movies like this in the '50s, and their encounter with one of the Martians is as creepy today as it was in '53. It finally takes an unseen threat--simple Earth bacteria--to conquer the alien invaders, but not before War of the Worlds has provided a dazzling display of impressive special effects. As memorable for its sound effects as for its spectacular visions of destruction, this is a movie for the ages--the kind of spectacular that inspired little kids such as Steven Spielberg (not to mention Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, whose Independence Day cribs liberally from the plot) and still packs a punch. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 1.33:3 is no good
I aggree with some of these other folks, why release a movie like this in 1.33:3 and not letterbox(widescreen)?? It's still a great movie, but you do miss some of what is going on on the sides of the shot. I know it exsists in letterbox because I'v watched it before on AMC (American Movie Classics) in a letterbox format. So, only 4 stars. And FYI, the new 2 disck special edition of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is also still in a 1.3:3 format. And that is also disappointing.
Rating:  - War of the Worlds
I remember this movie being very scary. But on re watching it, I found it quite humorous! Still a great movie to watch. Technology certainly has come a long, long way to make movies much more enjoyable. I would recommend this movie, because I think it is a big part of movie history!
Rating:  - "Squiggley and Deadly"
This Sci Fi flick based on the novel by H. G. Wells, had some of the best Fifties special effects. Gene Barry was very good as the male protagonist in his pre-"Bat Masterson" days. The monsters, created in the studio had long squiggly tenacles similar to those of giant squids
and were produced by bacteria from a distant world. The sound effects of hissing, escaping steam all about is an added tension builder. It is entertaining to wach to this very day, especially when you conjure up Orson ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent DVD, a must have in your private collection!!!
Excellent DVD, a must have in your private collection!!!
You can really see the wires holding the invaders ships. This is acting the way it should be done today.
Rating: - Powerful, Imaginative, Menacing, and Thrilling
Having recently rewatched this film in the new edition, I must confess I was unprepared for the power and seriousness of this classic adaptation of the HG Wells story. In particular, the presence of religion, both as a bridge to peace and a comfort against the unknown, is very powerfully rendered in striking images -- of the pastor holding the Bible and reciting the Lord's Prayer as he seeks peace with the aliens, or the congregation praying for redemption in Los Angeles as the shadow of the aliens ... Read More
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