The War of the Worlds (#1037)
A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothingāneither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicistĀ Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)ācan stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wellsās end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold Warāera update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction,Ā The War of the WorldsĀ is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren
- Movie Archaeologists, a new program on the filmās visual and sound effects featuring Burtt and visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron
- From the Archive, a new program about the filmās restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas
- Audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970
- The Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film
- The Mercury Theatre on the AirĀ radio play ofĀ The War of the WorldsĀ from 1938, adapted by Howard Koch and directed and narrated by Orson Welles
- Radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novelĀ The War of the Worlds
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman
A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothingāneither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicistĀ Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)ācan stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wellsās end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold Warāera update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction,Ā The War of the WorldsĀ is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren
- Movie Archaeologists, a new program on the filmās visual and sound effects featuring Burtt and visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron
- From the Archive, a new program about the filmās restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas
- Audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970
- The Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film
- The Mercury Theatre on the AirĀ radio play ofĀ The War of the WorldsĀ from 1938, adapted by Howard Koch and directed and narrated by Orson Welles
- Radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novelĀ The War of the Worlds
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman
Description
A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothingāneither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicistĀ Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)ācan stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wellsās end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold Warāera update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction,Ā The War of the WorldsĀ is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren
- Movie Archaeologists, a new program on the filmās visual and sound effects featuring Burtt and visual-effects supervisor Craig Barron
- From the Archive, a new program about the filmās restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas
- Audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970
- The Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film
- The Mercury Theatre on the AirĀ radio play ofĀ The War of the WorldsĀ from 1938, adapted by Howard Koch and directed and narrated by Orson Welles
- Radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novelĀ The War of the Worlds
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman