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(1953년 영화) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="우주 전쟁 (1953년 영화)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(film_1953)" title="The War of the Worlds (film 1953) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="The War of the Worlds (film 1953)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_guerra_dei_mondi_(film_1953)" title="La guerra dei mondi (film 1953) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="La guerra dei mondi (film 1953)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li 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summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-style: italic;">The War of the Worlds</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film_poster).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281953_film_poster%29.jpg/220px-The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281953_film_poster%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281953_film_poster%29.jpg/330px-The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281953_film_poster%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281953_film_poster%29.jpg/440px-The_War_of_the_Worlds_%281953_film_poster%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1954" data-file-height="2938" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Theatrical release poster</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Byron_Haskin" title="Byron Haskin">Byron Haskin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Barr%C3%A9_Lyndon" title="Barré Lyndon">Barré Lyndon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="The War of the Worlds">The War of the Worlds</a></i><br />by <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Pal" title="George Pal">George Pal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gene_Barry" title="Gene Barry">Gene Barry</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ann_Robinson" title="Ann Robinson">Ann Robinson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Barnes_(cinematographer)" title="George Barnes (cinematographer)">George Barnes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Everett_Douglas" title="Everett Douglas">Everett Douglas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Leith_Stevens" title="Leith Stevens">Leith Stevens</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release dates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>April 3, 1953<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1953-04-03</span>)</span> (London)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>August 13, 1953<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1953-08-13</span>)</span> (New York)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">85 minutes<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$2 million</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$2 million (US rentals)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The War of the Worlds</b></i> (also known in promotional material as <i><b>H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds</b></i>) is a 1953 American <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> <a href="/wiki/Thriller_film" title="Thriller film">thriller film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Byron_Haskin" title="Byron Haskin">Byron Haskin</a>, produced by <a href="/wiki/George_Pal" title="George Pal">George Pal</a>, and starring <a href="/wiki/Gene_Barry" title="Gene Barry">Gene Barry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ann_Robinson" title="Ann Robinson">Ann Robinson</a>. It is the first of several feature film adaptations of <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>' <a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="The War of the Worlds">1898 novel of the same name</a>. The setting is changed from <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian era</a> England to 1953 <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a>. Earth is suddenly invaded by <a href="/wiki/Martian_(War_of_the_Worlds)" class="mw-redirect" title="Martian (War of the Worlds)">Martians</a>, and American scientist Doctor Clayton Forrester searches for any weakness to stop them. </p><p><i>The War of the Worlds</i> won the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Academy Award for Best Visual Effects</a> and went on to influence other science fiction films. In 2011, it was selected for preservation in the <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> by the United States <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, who deemed it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A large object crashes near the small town of Linda Rosa, California. At the impact site, Dr. Clayton Forrester, an atomic scientist, investigates. He meets Sylvia Van Buren and her uncle, Pastor Collins. Together, they attend an evening square dance. Back at the crash site, a hatch on the object unscrews and falls away. As three men standing guard attempt to make contact waving a white flag, a heat-ray obliterates them. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">U.S. Marines</a> later surround the site, as reports pour in of more cylinders, presumably from <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>, landing all over Earth, destroying cities. Three <a href="/wiki/Fighting_machine_(The_War_of_the_Worlds)" title="Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds)">war machines</a> now emerge from the Linda Rosa cylinder. Pastor Collins attempts contact but is disintegrated. Marines open fire, but are unable to penetrate the invaders' <a href="/wiki/Force_shield" class="mw-redirect" title="Force shield">force field</a>. The aliens counterattack with <a href="/wiki/Death_ray" title="Death ray">death ray</a> weaponry, sending the Marines into full retreat. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a> attack jets follow up, but they are annihilated. </p><p>Forrester and Sylvia escape in a small plane but later crash land. Hiding in a nearby empty farmhouse, they are nearly buried by yet another crashing cylinder. A long cable with an <a href="/wiki/Electronic_eye" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic eye">electronic eye</a> explores the house, but Forrester severs the eye with an axe. Later, an alien creature enters and approaches Sylvia but retreats when Forrester wounds it. He collects its blood on a cloth. Then, they escape just before the farmhouse is destroyed by a heat-ray. Forrester takes the electronic eye and blood sample to his team of scientists at a Los Angeles university, hoping to find a way to defeat the invaders. The colleagues examine the sample and discover the visitors' blood is extremely <a href="/wiki/Anemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Anemic">anemic</a>. Meanwhile, as the world's capitals fall to the invaders, experts predict total world domination in just weeks. The U.S. government thus authorizes use of the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">atom bomb</a>. However, it proves ineffective, and the aliens continue their advance on Los Angeles. During the city's chaotic evacuation, Forrester, Sylvia, and the other scientists become separated. </p><p>Stranded in Los Angeles, Forrester seeks Sylvia. Based on a story she told him earlier, he guesses she has taken refuge in a church. After searching through several, he finds Sylvia among many praying survivors. Just as the invaders attack near the church, their machines lose power and crash. As Forrester sees one of the aliens die, he reflects, "We were all praying for a miracle." He and other survivors look heavenward. An off-screen narrator explains that the aliens had "no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune [and] which God in His wisdom had put upon this earth." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;min-width: min(25em, 100%);"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Barry" title="Gene Barry">Gene Barry</a> as Doctor Clayton Forrester</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Robinson" title="Ann Robinson">Ann Robinson</a> as Sylvia Van Buren</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Tremayne" title="Les Tremayne">Les Tremayne</a> as Major General Mann</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Cornthwaite_(actor)" title="Robert Cornthwaite (actor)">Bob Cornthwaite</a> as Doctor Pryor</li> <li>Sandro Giglio as Doctor Bilderbeck</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Martin_(actor)" title="Lewis Martin (actor)">Lewis Martin</a> as The Reverend Doctor Matthew Collins</li> <li>Housely Stevenson Jr. as General Mann's aide</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Frees" title="Paul Frees">Paul Frees</a> as Radio reporter/pre-titles narrator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Phipps_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Phipps (actor)">Bill Phipps</a> as Wash Perry</li> <li>Vernon Rich as Colonel Ralph Heffner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Brandon_(actor)" title="Henry Brandon (actor)">Henry Brandon</a> as Cop at crash</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Kruschen" title="Jack Kruschen">Jack Kruschen</a> as Salvatore</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/Cedric_Hardwicke" title="Cedric Hardwicke">Cedric Hardwicke</a> as post-titles narrator</li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Film1953-TheWarOfTheWorlds-OriginalPoster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Film1953-TheWarOfTheWorlds-OriginalPoster.jpg" decoding="async" width="187" height="292" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="187" data-file-height="292" /></a><figcaption>Theatrical re-release poster</figcaption></figure> <p><i>The War of the Worlds</i> opens with a black-and-white prologue featuring <a href="/wiki/Newsreel" title="Newsreel">newsreel</a> war footage and a <a href="/wiki/Voice-over" title="Voice-over">voice-over</a> by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Frees" title="Paul Frees">Paul Frees</a> that describes the destructive technological advancements of Earthly warfare from <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> through <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. The image then <a href="/wiki/Smash_cut" title="Smash cut">smash cuts</a> to vivid <a href="/wiki/Technicolor" title="Technicolor">Technicolor</a> and the dramatic opening title card and credits. The story begins with a series of color <a href="/wiki/Matte_paintings" class="mw-redirect" title="Matte paintings">matte paintings</a> by astronomical artist <a href="/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell" title="Chesley Bonestell">Chesley Bonestell</a> that depict the planets of our <a href="/wiki/Solar_System" title="Solar System">Solar System</a>, except <a href="/wiki/Venus" title="Venus">Venus</a>, about which little was known at the time. A narrator (Sir <a href="/wiki/Cedric_Hardwicke" title="Cedric Hardwicke">Cedric Hardwicke</a>) tours the hostile environment of each world, eventually explaining to the audience why the <a href="/wiki/Martian" class="mw-redirect" title="Martian">Martians</a> find our lush green and blue <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> the only world worthy of their scrutiny and coming invasion.<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Paramount Pictures first attempted to adapt <i>The War of the Worlds</i> when the studio bought the film rights to the novel in 1925. <a href="/wiki/Roy_Pomeroy" title="Roy Pomeroy">Ray Pomeroy</a> began working on an outline with <a href="/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a> planned as director, but the project was put into turn-around. Later in the 1930s, Paramount assigned <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein" title="Sergei Eisenstein">Sergei Eisenstein</a> to direct an adaptation of the novel under his contract with the studio but failed to produce a film. <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a> also entered discussions about adapting the novel with Wells and <a href="/wiki/Gaumont-British" title="Gaumont-British">Gaumont-British</a> may have optioned the rights, but the project did not go forward. <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Korda" title="Alexander Korda">Alexander Korda</a> also expressed interest in adapting the novel.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film finally began moving forward after George Pal was assigned to the project in July 1951. Pal originally envisioned a film more faithful to the source material in which a scientist would search for his wife after the invasion destroyed society, but Paramount Pictures production head <a href="/wiki/Don_Hartman" title="Don Hartman">Don Hartman</a> demanded changes including a romantic subplot in which the scientist would meet and fall in love with a woman.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is the first of two adaptations of Wells's classic science fiction filmed by Pal. It is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee Marvin was considered as the protagonist before Gene Barry was cast. Jim Meservy, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Dowling" title="Dan Dowling">Dan Dowling</a>, Abdullah Abbas, and the Mitchell Choir Boys were also considered for casting but later cut. </p><p>Pal had planned for the final third of the film to be shot in the new <a href="/wiki/Stereoscopy" title="Stereoscopy">3D</a> process to visually enhance the Martians' attack on Los Angeles. The plan was dropped before production began. World War II stock footage was used to produce a <a href="/wiki/Montage_(filming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Montage (filming)">montage</a> of destruction to show the worldwide invasion, with armies of all nations joining together to fight the invaders.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dr. Forrester's and the other scientists' Pacific Tech (Pacific Institute of Science and Technology, represented by buildings on the Paramount studio lot) has since been part of other films and television episodes when it was decided to include a scientific California university without using the name of a real one.<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Location shooting took place in <a href="/wiki/Corona,_California" title="Corona, California">Corona, California</a>, which stood in for the fictitious town of Linda Rosa. St. Brendan's Catholic Church, at 310 South Van Ness Avenue in Los Angeles, was the setting for the climactic scene in which a large group of desperate people gather to pray. The rolling hills and main thoroughfares of <a href="/wiki/El_Sereno,_Los_Angeles" title="El Sereno, Los Angeles">El Sereno, Los Angeles</a>, were also used in the film.<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the commentary track of the 2005 Special Collector's DVD Edition of <i>War of the Worlds</i>, Robinson and Barry say that the cartoon character <a href="/wiki/Woody_Woodpecker" title="Woody Woodpecker">Woody Woodpecker</a> is in a treetop, center screen, when the first large Martian meteorite-ship crashes through the sky, near the beginning of the film. George Pal and Woody's creator, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Lantz" title="Walter Lantz">Walter Lantz</a>, were close friends. Pal tried always to include Woody out of friendship and for good luck in his productions. Joe Adamson wrote years later: "Walter had been close friends with Pal ever since Pal had left Europe in advance of the war and arrived in Hollywood".<sup id="cite_ref-Adamson_1985_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adamson_1985-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The prototype <a href="/wiki/Northrop_YB-49" title="Northrop YB-49">Northrop YB-49</a> Flying Wing is prominently featured in the atomic-bombing sequence. Pal and Haskin incorporated Northrop color footage of a YB-49 test flight, originally used in Paramount's <i>Popular Science</i> theatrical shorts, to show the Flying Wing's takeoff and bomb run.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Differences_from_the_Wells_novel">Differences from the Wells novel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Differences from the Wells novel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Caroline Blake has written that the film is very different from the original novel in its attitude toward religion, as reflected especially in the depiction of <a href="/wiki/Clergymen" class="mw-redirect" title="Clergymen">clergymen</a>. "The staunchly <a href="/wiki/Secularist" class="mw-redirect" title="Secularist">secularist</a> Wells depicted a cowardly and thoroughly uninspiring <a href="/wiki/Curate" title="Curate">Curate</a>, whom the narrator regards with disgust, with which the reader is invited to concur. In the film, there is instead the sympathetic and heroic Pastor Collins who dies a martyr's death. And then the film's final scene in the church, strongly emphasizing the Divine nature of Humanity's deliverance, has no parallel in the original book."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pal's adaptation has many other differences from H. G. Wells's novel. The closest resemblance is probably that of the antagonists. The film's aliens are indeed Martians and invade Earth for the same reasons as those stated in the novel. The state of Mars suggests that it is becoming unable to support life, leading to the Martians' decision to try to make Earth their new home. They land in the same way, by crashing to Earth. The novel's spacecraft, however, are large, cylindrical projectiles fired from the Martian surface from a cannon, instead of the film's meteorite-spaceships; but the Martians emerge from their craft in the same way, by unscrewing a large, round hatch. They appear to have no use for humans in the film. In the novel, however, the invaders are observed "feeding" on humans by fatally transfusing their captives' blood supply directly into Martian bodies through <a href="/wiki/Pipettes" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipettes">pipettes</a>. There is later speculation about the Martians' eventually using trained human slaves to hunt down all remaining survivors after they conquer Earth. In the film, the Martians do not bring their fast-growing <a href="/wiki/Red_weed" class="mw-redirect" title="Red weed">red weed</a> with them, but they are defeated by Earth microorganisms, as in the novel. However, they die from the effects of the microorganisms within three days of the landing of the first meteorite-ship; in the novel, the Martians die within about three weeks of their invasion of England.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film's Martians bear no physical resemblance to those of the novel, who are described as bear-sized, roundish creatures with grayish-brown bodies, "merely heads", with quivering beak-like, V-shaped mouths dripping saliva. They have sixteen whip-like tentacles in two groupings of eight arranged on each side of their mouths and two large "luminous, disk-like eyes". Because of budget constraints, their film counterparts are short, reddish-brown creatures with two long, thin arms with three long, thin fingers with suction-cup tips. The Martian head is a broad "face" at the top-front of its broad-shouldered upper torso, the only apparent feature of which is a single, large eye with three distinctly colored lenses of red, blue, and green. The Martians' lower extremities are never shown. Some speculative designs suggest three thin legs resembling their fingers, and others show them as <a href="/wiki/Bipeds" class="mw-redirect" title="Bipeds">bipeds</a> with short, stubby legs with three-toed feet.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film's Martian war machines are more like those of the book than they first seem. The novel's war machines are 10-story-tall fast-moving tripods made of glittering metal, each with a "brazen hood" atop the body, moving "to and fro" as the machine moves. A heat-ray projector on an articulated arm is connected to the front of each machine's main body. However, the film's war machines are shaped like manta rays, with a bulbous, elongated green window at the front, through which the Martians observe their surroundings. On top of the machine is the cobra-like head heat-ray attached to a long, narrow, goose-neck extension, which can fire in any direction. They can be mistaken for flying machines, but Forrester states that they are lifted by invisible legs. One scene when the first war machine emerges has faint traces of three "energy legs" beneath that leave three sparking traces where they touch the burning ground, so they are tripods, though they are never so called. Whereas the novel's machines have no protection against the British army and navy cannon fire, the film's war machines have a force field surrounding them, described by Forrester as a "protective blister".<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Martian weaponry is also partially unchanged. The heat-ray has the very same effect as that of the novel. However, the novel's heat-ray mechanism is briefly described as just a rounded hump when its silhouette rises above the landing crater's rim; it fires an invisible energy beam in a wide arc while still in the pit made by the first Martian cylinder after it crash-lands. The film's first heat-ray scene has a projector shaped like a cobra head with a single, red pulsing light, which likely acts as a targeting telescope for the Martians inside their war machine shaped like a manta ray. The novel describes another weapon, the "black smoke" used to kill all life; the war machines fire canisters containing a black smoke-powder through a <a href="/wiki/Bazooka" title="Bazooka">bazooka</a>-like tube accessory. When dispersed, this black powder is lethal to all life forms who breathe it. This weapon is replaced in the film by a Martian "skeleton beam" of green pulsing energy bursts fired from the wingtips of the manta-ray machines; these bursts break apart the <a href="/wiki/Sub-atomic" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-atomic">sub-atomic</a> bonds that hold matter together. These beams are used off-screen to obliterate several French cities.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The plot of the film is very different from the novel, which tells the story of a 19th-century writer (with additional narration in later chapters by his medical-student younger brother) who journeys through <a href="/wiki/Victorian_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Victorian London">Victorian London</a> and its southwestern suburbs while the Martians attack, eventually being reunited with his wife; the film's protagonist is a Californian scientist who falls in love with a former college student after the Martian invasion begins. However, certain points of the film's plot are similar to the novel, from the crash-landing of the Martian meteorite-ships to their eventual defeat by Earth's microorganisms. Forrester also experiences similar events to the book's narrator, with an ordeal in a destroyed house, observing an actual Martian up close, and eventually reuniting with his love interest at the end of the story. The film has more of a Cold War theme with the atomic bomb against the invading enemy and the mass destruction that such a global war would inflict on humanity.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Special_effects">Special effects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Special effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953,_Loma_Linda,_CA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg/150px-Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="375" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg/225px-Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg/300px-Tri-City_Drive-In_Ad_-_25_November_1953%2C_Loma_Linda%2C_CA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1059" data-file-height="2651" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Drive-in_theater" title="Drive-in theater">Drive-in</a> advertisement from 1953.</figcaption></figure> <p>An effort was made to avoid the stereotypical flying saucer look of <a href="/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object" title="Unidentified flying object">UFOs</a>. The Martian war machines were designed by <a href="/wiki/Albert_Nozaki" title="Albert Nozaki">Albert Nozaki</a> with a sinister <a href="/wiki/Manta_ray" title="Manta ray">manta ray</a> shape floating above the ground. Three Martian war machine props were made of copper. The same blueprints were used a decade later (without neck and cobra head) to construct the alien spacecraft in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_on_Mars" title="Robinson Crusoe on Mars">Robinson Crusoe on Mars</a></i>, also directed by Byron Haskin. That prop was reportedly melted for a scrap copper recycling drive.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Each Martian machine is topped with an articulated metal neck and arm, culminating in the <a href="/wiki/Cobra" title="Cobra">cobra</a> head heat ray projector, housing a single electronic eye that operates both as a <a href="/wiki/Periscope" title="Periscope">periscope</a> and as a weapon. The electronic eye houses a heat ray, which pulses and fires red sparking beams, all accompanied by thrumming and a high-pitched clattering shriek when the ray was used. The distinctive sound effect of the weapon was created by an orchestra performing a written score, mainly with violins and cellos. For many years, it was utilized as a standard ray-gun sound on children's television shows and the science-fiction anthology series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1963_TV_series)" title="The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)">The Outer Limits</a></i>, particularly in the episode "<a href="/wiki/The_Children_of_Spider_County" title="The Children of Spider County">The Children of Spider County</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The machines also fire a pulsing green ray (referred to in dialog as "a skeleton beam") from their wingtips, generating a distinctive sound and disintegrating their targets. This second weapon is a replacement for the <a href="/wiki/Chemical_warfare" title="Chemical warfare">chemical weapon</a> <a href="/wiki/Black_smoke_(The_War_of_the_Worlds)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black smoke (The War of the Worlds)">black smoke</a> described in Wells's novel. Its sound effect (created by striking a high tension cable with a hammer) was reused in <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series" title="Star Trek: The Original Series">Star Trek: The Original Series</a></i>, accompanying the launch of <a href="/wiki/Photon_torpedo" class="mw-redirect" title="Photon torpedo">photon torpedoes</a>. The sound when the Martian ships begin to move was also reused by <i>Star Trek</i> as the sound of an overloading hand phaser. Another prominent sound effect is a chattering, synthesized echo, perhaps representing some kind of Martian <a href="/wiki/Sonar" title="Sonar">sonar</a> sounds like hissing electronic rattlesnakes.<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the large Marine force opens fire on the Martians with everything in its heavy arsenal, each Martian machine is protected by an impenetrable <a href="/wiki/Force_shield" class="mw-redirect" title="Force shield">force field</a> that resembles, when briefly visible between explosions, the clear jar placed over a mantle clock, or a bell jar with a cylindrical shape and a hemispherical top. This effect was accomplished with simple matte paintings on clear glass, which were then photographed and combined with other effects, and optically printed together during post-production.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While conventional Earth weapons cannot penetrate the electromagnetic shields, the Martian death ray weapons can fire through the shields against their targets without trouble. </p><p>The disintegration effect took 144 separate matte paintings to create. The sound effects of the war machines' heat rays firing were created by mixing the sound of three electric guitars being recorded backwards. The Martian's scream in the farmhouse ruins was created by mixing the sound of a microphone scraping along dry ice being combined with a woman's recorded scream and then reversed.<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were many problems trying to create the walking <a href="/wiki/Tripod_(The_War_of_the_Worlds)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tripod (The War of the Worlds)">tripods</a> of Wells's novel. It was eventually decided to make the Martian machines appear to float in the air on three invisible legs. To visualize them, subtle special effects of downward lights were to be added directly under the moving war machines; however, in the final film, these only appear when one of the first machines can be seen rising from the Martian's landing site. It proved too difficult and dangerous to mark out the invisible legs while smoke and other effects must remain visible beneath the machines, and the effect also created a major fire hazard. In all of the subsequent scenes, however, the three invisible leg beams create small, sparking fires where they touch the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-Warren_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Warren-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quality_of_special_effects">Quality of special effects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Quality of special effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For 50 years, from the late 1960s when <i>The War of the Worlds</i> 3-strip Technicolor prints were replaced by the easier-to-use and less expensive Eastman Color stock, the quality of the film's special effects suffered dramatically. This degraded the lighting, timing, and image resolution, causing the original invisible overhead wires suspending the Martian war machines to become increasingly visible with each succeeding film and video format change. This led many, including respected critics, to mistakenly believe the effects were originally of low quality.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Release">Release</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The official Hollywood premiere of <i>The War of the Worlds</i> was on February 20, 1953, although it did not go into <a href="/wiki/Wide_release" title="Wide release">general theatrical release</a> until late that year.<sup id="cite_ref-Rubin_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rubin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was both a critical and box-office success. The film accrued $2,000,000 in distributors' domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals, making the film the year's biggest science fiction hit. ("Rentals" refers to the distributor and studio's share of the <a href="/wiki/Box-office" class="mw-redirect" title="Box-office">box-office</a> gross, which, according to Gebert, is roughly half of the money generated by ticket sales.)<sup id="cite_ref-Gebert_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gebert-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On its 1953 release, <i>The War of the Worlds</i> was rated <a href="/wiki/History_of_British_film_certificates" title="History of British film certificates">X</a> by the <a href="/wiki/British_Board_of_Film_Classification" title="British Board of Film Classification">British Board of Film Classification</a> (BBFC) for its alarming and "horrific" content, meaning no one under 16 could see the film. This was unsuccessfully protested by several local authorities, believing the rating should be lower. In 1961, <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Pictures</a> sought to have the film's certificate reduced to A, meaning persons under 16 could view the film if accompanied by an adult, but this was rejected. The film was reclassified A in 1981, now meaning that the film may be unsuitable to under 14s. For its 1986 VHS release, <i>The War of the Worlds</i> was re-rated PG (meaning all audiences can see it but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children). It is an unusual example of a film that was once rated X but now stands as a PG.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_reaction">Critical reaction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Critical reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/A._H._Weiler" title="A. H. Weiler">A. H. Weiler</a>'s review commented: "[The film is] an imaginatively conceived, professionally turned adventure, which makes excellent use of Technicolor, special effects by a crew of experts, and impressively drawn backgrounds ... Director Byron Haskin, working from a tight script by Barré Lyndon, has made this excursion suspenseful, fast and, on occasion, properly chilling".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Brog" in <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i> said, "[It is] a socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> 1938 radio interpretation ... what starring honors there are go strictly to the special effects, which create an atmosphere of soul-chilling apprehension so effectively [that] audiences will actually take alarm at the danger posed in the picture. It can't be recommended for the weak-hearted, but to the many who delight in an occasional good scare, it's socko entertainment of hackle-raising quality".<sup id="cite_ref-Brog_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brog-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin" title="The Monthly Film Bulletin">The Monthly Film Bulletin</a></i> of the UK called it "the best of the postwar American science-fiction films; the Martian machines have a quality of real terror, their sinister apparitions, prowlings and pulverisings are spectacularly well done, and the scenes of panic and destruction are staged with real flair".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_L._Coe" title="Richard L. Coe">Richard L. Coe</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> called it "to put it gently, terrific", and "for my money, the <i><a href="/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film)" title="King Kong (1933 film)">King Kong</a></i> of its day".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The War of the Worlds</i> won a <a href="/wiki/Special_Achievement_Academy_Award" title="Special Achievement Academy Award">Special Achievement Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences">Academy</a> for its <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Visual_Effects" title="Academy Award for Best Visual Effects">Visual Effects</a>, as there was no competitive category that year. Everett Douglas was nominated for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Film_Editing" title="Academy Award for Best Film Editing">Film Editing</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount Studio</a> Sound Department and <a href="/wiki/Loren_L._Ryder" title="Loren L. Ryder">Loren L. Ryder</a> were nominated for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Sound" title="Academy Award for Best Sound">Sound Recording</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Oscars1954_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Oscars1954-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The War of the Worlds</i> still receives high acclaim from some critics. On the film review aggregator website <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, it has a 90% rating based on 39 critics, with an average rating of 7.20/10. The consensus states: "Though it's dated in spots, <i>The War of the Worlds</i> retains an unnerving power, updating H. G. Wells's classic sci-fi tale to the Cold War era and featuring some of the best special effects of any 1950s film".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="4K_restoration">4K restoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 4K restoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2018, a new, fully restored <a href="/wiki/4K_resolution" title="4K resolution">4K</a> <a href="/wiki/Dolby_Vision" title="Dolby Vision">Dolby Vision</a> transfer from the original three-strip Technicolor negatives was published on <a href="/wiki/ITunes_Store" title="ITunes Store">iTunes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2020, the film was reissued on Blu-ray and DVD by <a href="/wiki/The_Criterion_Collection" title="The Criterion Collection">The Criterion Collection</a> in the United States using the same 4K remaster and restoration. The Blu-ray documentation says the transfer process and careful color and contrast calibrations allowed the special effects to be restored to Technicolor release print quality, without the war machine's supporting wires.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The War of the Worlds</i> was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant in 2011 by the United States <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Registry noted the film's release during the early years of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and how it used "the apocalyptic paranoia of the atomic age".<sup id="cite_ref-LOC_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LOC-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Registry also cited the special effects, which at its release were called "soul-chilling, hackle-raising, and not for the faint of heart".<sup id="cite_ref-LOC_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LOC-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Martians were ranked the 27th best villains in the <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a>'s list <a href="/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Heroes_and_Villains" class="mw-redirect" title="AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains">AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains</a>. </p><p>The 1988 <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(1988_TV_series)" title="War of the Worlds (1988 TV series)"><i>War of the Worlds</i> TV series</a> is a sequel to the Pal film. Ann Robinson reprises her role as Sylvia Van Buren in three episodes. Robinson also reprises her role in two other films, first as Dr. Van Buren in 1988's <i>Midnight Movie Massacre</i> and then as Dr. Sylvia Van Buren in 2005's <i>The Naked Monster</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1996 film <i><a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film)" title="Independence Day (1996 film)">Independence Day</a></i> has several allusions to Pal's 1953 <i>War of the Worlds</i>. The failed attempt of a dropped <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Atomic bomb">atomic bomb</a> is replaced with a nuclear-armed <a href="/wiki/Cruise_missile" title="Cruise missile">cruise missile</a> launched by a <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit" class="mw-redirect" title="Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit">B-2 Spirit</a> bomber (a direct descendant of the <a href="/wiki/Northrop_YB-49" title="Northrop YB-49">Northrop YB-49</a> bomber in the 1953 film) and Captain Hiller being based in El Toro, California, which Dr. Forrester mentions as the home of the Marines, which make the first assault on the invading Martians in Pal's film.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Asylum" title="The Asylum">The Asylum</a>'s 2005 direct-to-DVD <i><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells%27_War_of_the_Worlds_(David_Michael_Latt_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (David Michael Latt film)">H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds</a></i> has mild references to the Pal version. The Martian's mouth has three tongues that closely resemble the three Martian fingers in the Pal film. The Asylum film has scenes of power outages after the aliens' arrival via meteorite-ships. As in the Pal film, refugees hide in the mountains, instead of hiding underground as in the Wells novel, and the protagonist actively tries to fight the aliens by biological means.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>'s 2005 version, <i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(2005_film)" title="War of the Worlds (2005 film)">War of the Worlds</a></i>, although an adaptation of the Wells novel, has several references to the 1953 film. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson have cameo appearances near the end, and the invading aliens have three-fingered hands but are reptilian, walking tripods. A long, snaking, alien camera probe is deployed by the invaders.<sup id="cite_ref-awn_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-awn-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 2018 film <a href="/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)" title="Ready Player One (film)"><i>Ready Player One</i></a>, Spielberg included a fallen Martian war machine more akin to the 1953 film.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado" title="Tomohiro Nishikado">Tomohiro Nishikado</a>, creator of the breakthrough 1978 video game <i><a href="/wiki/Space_Invaders" title="Space Invaders">Space Invaders</a></i>, stated that seeing the film in childhood was one of the inspirations for the inclusion and the design of the aliens in the game.<sup id="cite_ref-RG-3_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RG-3-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000" title="Mystery Science Theater 3000">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a></i> named one of its lead characters, the mad scientist <a href="/wiki/Dr._Clayton_Forrester_(Mystery_Science_Theater_3000)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Clayton Forrester (Mystery Science Theater 3000)">Dr. Clayton Forrester</a>, as an homage to the 1953 film.<sup id="cite_ref-emmys_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emmys-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, <i>War of the Worlds</i> was presented with a <a href="/wiki/Retrospective_Hugo_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Retrospective Hugo Award">Retrospective Hugo Award</a> for 1954 in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation — Short Form (works running 90 minutes or less).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="List of works based on The War of the Worlds">List of works based on <i>The War of the Worlds</i></a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2016. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-9914-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-9914-4">978-0-7864-9914-4</a>. pp. 149-153 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-9914-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-9914-4">978-0-7864-9914-4</a>. pp. 149-153</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Brosnan’s <i>Future Tense</i>: “Unfortunately these wires are often visible on the screen, particularly during the sequence when the war machines first emerge from their crater and engage the army in battle.” Brosnan, John. <i>Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction</i>. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978. p. 91</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Phil Hardy’s <i>The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction</i>: “Not all Jennings’ spectacular special effects work well—on their first appearance the Martian war machines have an obvious network of wires surrounding them.” Hardy, Phil (Ed.). <i>The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction</i>. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Books, 1994. p. 143</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Clute’s and Peter Nicholls’ <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i>: “The wires holding up the machines are too often visible.” Clute, John, and Peter Nicholls (Eds.). <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i>. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993. p. 1300</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gary Gerani’s <i>Top 100 Sci-Fi Movies</i>: "While those cables holding up the machines are painfully visible, viewers tend to cut pre-digital fx a good deal of slack." Gerani, Gary. <i>Top 100 Sci-Fi Movies</i>. San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2011 p. 129</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barry Forshaw’s <i>The War of the Worlds</i> (BFI): “[I]t has to do be said that [the use of wires] is one of the most dated elements of the special-effects, as they are all too clearly visible in many sequences of the film.... 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New York: Doubleday; 1st edition, 1979)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">C.J Henderson’s <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies: From 1897 to the Present</i>: “Wells’ unique walking tripods are replaced by ordinary spaceship-like designs that move on beams of light. This wouldn’t be so bad if the wires holding them up weren’t visible in many scenes.” Henderson, C. J. Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies: From 1897 to the Present. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Leonard Maltin's Family Film Guide</i>: "Kids are likely to smirk at some of the special effects (as when the wires holding up the war machines are visible)." Maltin, Leonard. <i>Leonard Maltin’s Family Movie Guide</i>. 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Wells</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="The War of the Worlds">The War of the Worlds</a></i></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li>Related texts: "<a href="/wiki/The_Crystal_Egg" title="The Crystal Egg">The Crystal Egg</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Begotten" title="Star Begotten">Star Begotten</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fighting_machine_(The_War_of_the_Worlds)" title="Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds)">Fighting machine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Thunder_Child" title="HMS Thunder Child">HMS <i>Thunder Child</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martian_(The_War_of_the_Worlds)" title="Martian (The War of the Worlds)">Martians</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="List of works based on The War of the Worlds">Derivative<br />works</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fighters_from_Mars" title="Fighters from Mars">Fighters from Mars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Edison%27s_Conquest_of_Mars" title="Edison's Conquest of Mars">Edison's Conquest of Mars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes%27s_War_of_the_Worlds" title="Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds">Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Space_Machine" title="The Space Machine">The Space Machine</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds:_New_Millennium" title="War of the Worlds: New Millennium">New Millennium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martian_War" title="The Martian War">The Martian War</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Massacre_of_Mankind" title="The Massacre of Mankind">The Massacre of Mankind</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Radio</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)" title="The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)">The War of the Worlds</a>" (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1968_radio_drama)" title="The War of the Worlds (1968 radio drama)">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1968)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_That_Panicked_America" title="The Night That Panicked America">The Night That Panicked America</a></i> (1975, television)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds:_Next_Century" title="The War of the Worlds: Next Century">The War of the Worlds: Next Century</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells%27_The_War_of_the_Worlds_(Pendragon_Pictures_film)" title="H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (Pendragon Pictures film)">H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds</a></i> (2005, Pendragon Pictures)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells%27_War_of_the_Worlds_(The_Asylum_film)" title="H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (The Asylum film)">H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds</a></i> (2005, The Asylum)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(2005_film)" title="War of the Worlds (2005 film)">War of the Worlds</a></i> (2005, Paramount)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_2:_The_Next_Wave" title="War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave">War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds:_Goliath" title="War of the Worlds: Goliath">Goliath</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds:_The_True_Story" title="War of the Worlds: The True Story">The True Story</a></i> (2012)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Comics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Killraven" title="Killraven">Killraven</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman:_War_of_the_Worlds" title="Superman: War of the Worlds">Superman: War of the Worlds</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen,_Volume_II" title="The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II">The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scarlet_Traces" title="Scarlet Traces">Scarlet Traces</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells%27_The_War_of_the_Worlds_(comics)" title="H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (comics)">H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds">Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds</a></i> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Forever_Autumn_(song)" title="Forever Autumn (song)">Forever Autumn</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Highlights_from_Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="Highlights from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds">Highlights</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds_%E2%80%93_The_New_Generation" title="Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation">The New Generation</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Night_America_Trembled" title="The Night America Trembled">"The Night America Trembled"</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Martian_War_1913%E2%80%931917" title="The Great Martian War 1913–1917">The Great Martian War 1913–1917</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(1988_TV_series)" title="War of the Worlds (1988 TV series)">War of the Worlds</a></i> (1988–1990, syndicated)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(British_TV_series)" title="The War of the Worlds (British TV series)">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (2019, BBC)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(2019_TV_series)" title="War of the Worlds (2019 TV series)">War of the Worlds</a></i> (2019–2022, Fox/Canal+)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Video games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(video_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="War of the Worlds (video game)">War of the Worlds</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1984_video_game)" title="The War of the Worlds (1984 video game)">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i>Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1998_video_game)" title="Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998 video game)">1998 video game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1999_video_game)" title="Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1999 video game)">1999 video game</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds:_Global_Dispatches" title="War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches">Global Dispatches</a></i> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Mars:_The_Home_Front" title="Mars: The Home Front">Mars: The Home Front</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/To_Mars_and_Providence" class="mw-redirect" title="To Mars and Providence">To Mars and Providence</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Soul_Selects_Her_Own_Society" title="The Soul Selects Her Own Society">The Soul Selects Her Own Society</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rainbow_Mars" title="Rainbow Mars">Rainbow Mars</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="H._G._Wells" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:H._G._Wells" title="Template:H. 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Awakes">When the Sleeper Wakes</a></i> (1899)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_and_Mr_Lewisham" title="Love and Mr Lewisham">Love and Mr Lewisham</a></i> (1900)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon" title="The First Men in the Moon">The First Men in the Moon</a></i> (1901)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea_Lady" title="The Sea Lady">The Sea Lady</a></i> (1902)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_Came_to_Earth" title="The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth">The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth</a></i> (1904)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kipps" title="Kipps">Kipps</a></i> (1905)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Modern_Utopia" title="A Modern Utopia">A Modern Utopia</a></i> (1905)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Days_of_the_Comet" title="In the Days of the Comet">In the Days of the Comet</a></i> (1906)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_War_in_the_Air" title="The War in the Air">The War in the Air</a></i> (1908)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tono-Bungay" title="Tono-Bungay">Tono-Bungay</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ann_Veronica" title="Ann Veronica">Ann Veronica</a></i> (1909)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Mr_Polly" title="The History of Mr Polly">The History of Mr Polly</a></i> (1910)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes" title="The Sleeper Awakes">The Sleeper Awakes</a></i> (1910)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Machiavelli" title="The New Machiavelli">The New Machiavelli</a></i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marriage_(novel)" title="Marriage (novel)">Marriage</a></i> (1912)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Passionate_Friends:_A_Novel" title="The Passionate Friends: A Novel">The Passionate Friends</a></i> (1913)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wife_of_Sir_Isaac_Harman" title="The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman">The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World_Set_Free" title="The World Set Free">The World Set Free</a></i> (1914)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bealby" title="Bealby">Bealby</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boon_(novel)" title="Boon (novel)">Boon</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Research_Magnificent" title="The Research Magnificent">The Research Magnificent</a></i> (1915)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Britling_Sees_It_Through" title="Mr. Britling Sees It Through">Mr. Britling Sees It Through</a></i> (1916)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_Bishop" title="The Soul of a Bishop">The Soul of a Bishop</a></i> (1917)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joan_and_Peter" title="Joan and Peter">Joan and Peter</a></i> (1918)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Undying_Fire_(Wells_novel)" title="The Undying Fire (Wells novel)">The Undying Fire</a></i> (1919)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Places_of_the_Heart" class="mw-redirect" title="The Secret Places of the Heart">The Secret Places of the Heart</a></i> (1922)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Men_Like_Gods" title="Men Like Gods">Men Like Gods</a></i> (1923)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dream_(novel)" title="The Dream (novel)">The Dream</a></i> (1924)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Christina_Alberta%27s_Father" title="Christina Alberta's Father">Christina Alberta's Father</a></i> (1925)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_World_of_William_Clissold" title="The World of William Clissold">The World of William Clissold</a></i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meanwhile_(novel)" title="Meanwhile (novel)">Meanwhile</a></i> (1927)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Blettsworthy_on_Rampole_Island" title="Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island">Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Autocracy_of_Mr._Parham" title="The Autocracy of Mr. Parham">The Autocracy of Mr. Parham</a></i> (1930)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bulpington_of_Blup" title="The Bulpington of Blup">The Bulpington of Blup</a></i> (1932)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come" title="The Shape of Things to Come">The Shape of Things to Come</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Croquet_Player" title="The Croquet Player">The Croquet Player</a></i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brynhild_(novel)" title="Brynhild (novel)">Brynhild</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Begotten" title="Star Begotten">Star Begotten</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Camford_Visitation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Camford Visitation">The Camford Visitation</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apropos_of_Dolores" class="mw-redirect" title="Apropos of Dolores">Apropos of Dolores</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brothers_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Brothers (novel)">The Brothers</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Holy_Terror_(Wells_novel)" title="The Holy Terror (Wells novel)">The Holy Terror</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Babes_in_the_Darkling_Wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Babes in the Darkling Wood">Babes in the Darkling Wood</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_Aboard_for_Ararat" title="All Aboard for Ararat">All Aboard for Ararat</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Be_Too_Careful" class="mw-redirect" title="You Can't Be Too Careful">You Can't Be Too Careful</a></i> (1941)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nonfiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anticipations" title="Anticipations">Anticipations</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Certain_Personal_Matters" title="Certain Personal Matters">Certain Personal Matters</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crux_Ansata" title="Crux Ansata">Crux Ansata</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Future" title="The Discovery of the Future">The Discovery of the Future</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/An_Englishman_Looks_at_the_World" title="An Englishman Looks at the World">An Englishman Looks at the World</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Experiment_in_Autobiography" title="Experiment in Autobiography">Experiment in Autobiography</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fate_of_Man" class="mw-redirect" title="The Fate of Man">The Fate of Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/First_and_Last_Things" title="First and Last Things">First and Last Things</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Floor_Games" title="Floor Games">Floor Games</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Future_in_America" title="The Future in America">The Future in America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/God_the_Invisible_King" title="God the Invisible King">God the Invisible King</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Fourth_Year" title="In the Fourth Year">In the Fourth Year</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Wars" title="Little Wars">Little Wars</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mankind_in_the_Making" title="Mankind in the Making">Mankind in the Making</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mind_at_the_End_of_Its_Tether" title="Mind at the End of Its Tether">Mind at the End of Its Tether</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Belloc_Objects_to_%22The_Outline_of_History%22" title="Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"">Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_America:_The_New_World" title="The New America: The New World">The New America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_World_Order_(Wells_book)" title="The New World Order (Wells book)">The New World Order</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Worlds_for_Old_(Wells_book)" title="New Worlds for Old (Wells book)">New Worlds for Old</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Open_Conspiracy" title="The Open Conspiracy">The Open Conspiracy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Outline_of_History" title="The Outline of History">The Outline of History</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Russia_in_the_Shadows" title="Russia in the Shadows">Russia in the Shadows</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Science_of_Life" title="The Science of Life">The Science of Life</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Short_History_of_the_World_(Wells_book)" title="A Short History of the World (Wells book)">A Short History of the World</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_a_Great_Schoolmaster" title="The Story of a Great Schoolmaster">The Story of a Great Schoolmaster</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/This_Misery_of_Boots" title="This Misery of Boots">This Misery of Boots</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Travels_of_a_Republican_Radical_in_Search_of_Hot_Water" title="Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water">Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_and_the_Future" title="War and the Future">War and the Future</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Way_the_World_Is_Going" title="The Way the World Is Going">The Way the World Is Going</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Work,_Wealth_and_Happiness_of_Mankind" title="The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind">The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/World_Brain" title="World Brain">World Brain</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Year_of_Prophesying" title="A Year of Prophesying">A Year of Prophesying</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Blind_and_Other_Stories" title="The Country of the Blind and Other Stories">The Country of the Blind and Other Stories</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Plattner_Story_and_Others" title="The Plattner Story and Others">The Plattner Story and Others</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Select_Conversations_with_an_Uncle" title="Select Conversations with an Uncle">Select 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<li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Chronic_Argonauts" title="The Chronic Argonauts">The Chronic Argonauts</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Cone" title="The Cone">The Cone</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Country_of_the_Blind" title="The Country of the Blind">The Country of the Blind</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Crystal_Egg" title="The Crystal Egg">The Crystal Egg</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Deal_in_Ostriches" title="A Deal in Ostriches">A Deal in Ostriches</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Diamond_Maker" title="The Diamond Maker">The Diamond Maker</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Door_in_the_Wall_(short_story)" title="The Door in the Wall (short story)">The Door in the Wall</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Dream_of_Armageddon" title="A Dream of Armageddon">A Dream of Armageddon</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Empire_of_the_Ants" title="Empire of the Ants">The Empire of the Ants</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/In_the_Abyss" title="In the Abyss">In the Abyss</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Land_Ironclads" title="The Land Ironclads">The Land Ironclads</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mr._Ledbetter%27s_Vacation" title="Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation">Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Dynamos" title="The Lord of the Dynamos">The Lord of the Dynamos</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Could_Work_Miracles_(short_story)" title="The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story)">The Man Who Could Work Miracles</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_New_Accelerator" title="The New Accelerator">The New Accelerator</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Pearl_of_Love" title="The Pearl of Love">The Pearl of Love</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Plattner_Story" title="The Plattner Story">The Plattner Story</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Queer_Story_of_Brownlow%27s_Newspaper" title="The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper">The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Red_Room_(short_story)" title="The Red Room (short story)">The Red Room</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Sea_Raiders" title="The Sea Raiders">The Sea Raiders</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Star_(Wells_short_story)" title="The Star (Wells short story)">The Star</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Stolen_Body" title="The Stolen Body">The Stolen Body</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Story_of_the_Days_to_Come" title="A Story of the Days to Come">A Story of the Days to Come</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Story_of_the_Stone_Age" title="A Story of the Stone Age">A Story of the Stone Age</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Triumphs_of_a_Taxidermist" title="Triumphs of a Taxidermist">Triumphs of a Taxidermist</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Truth_About_Pyecraft" title="The Truth About Pyecraft">The Truth About Pyecraft</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Vision_of_Judgment" title="A Vision of Judgment">A Vision of Judgment</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Screenplays</th><td 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Siren</a></i> (1927)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Action_in_the_North_Atlantic" title="Action in the North Atlantic">Action in the North Atlantic</a></i> (1943, uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Walk_Alone" title="I Walk Alone">I Walk Alone</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Man-Eater_of_Kumaon" title="Man-Eater of Kumaon">Man-Eater of Kumaon</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Too_Late_for_Tears" title="Too Late for Tears">Too Late for Tears</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Treasure_Island_(1950_film)" title="Treasure Island (1950 film)">Treasure Island</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tarzan%27s_Peril" title="Tarzan's Peril">Tarzan's Peril</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Warpath_(film)" title="Warpath (film)">Warpath</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Silver_City_(1951_film)" title="Silver City (1951 film)">Silver City</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Denver_and_Rio_Grande_(film)" title="Denver and Rio Grande (film)">Denver and Rio Grande</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/His_Majesty_O%27Keefe" title="His Majesty O'Keefe">His Majesty O'Keefe</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Naked_Jungle" title="The Naked Jungle">The Naked Jungle</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Long_John_Silver_(film)" title="Long John Silver (film)">Long John Silver</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_Space" title="Conquest of Space">Conquest of Space</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_First_Texan" title="The First Texan">The First Texan</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boss_(1956_film)" title="The Boss (1956 film)">The Boss</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(film)" title="From the Earth to the Moon (film)">From the Earth to the Moon</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Savage" title="The Little Savage">The Little Savage</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jet_Over_the_Atlantic" title="Jet Over the Atlantic">Jet Over the Atlantic</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/September_Storm" title="September Storm">September Storm</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Armored_Command" title="Armored Command">Armored Command</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Sindbad" title="Captain Sindbad">Captain Sindbad</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_on_Mars" title="Robinson Crusoe on Mars">Robinson Crusoe on Mars</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_(1968_film)" title="The Power (1968 film)">The Power</a></i> (1968)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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(1945 film)">The Picture of Dorian Gray</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Destination_Moon_(film)" title="Destination Moon (film)">Destination Moon</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1954)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Long Form</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fantasia_(1940_film)" title="Fantasia (1940 film)">Fantasia</a></i> (1941)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1943_film)" title="Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)">Heaven Can Wait</a></i> (1944)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short Form</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pinocchio_(1940_film)" title="Pinocchio (1940 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