Movies & Books : The War of the Worlds 1953

 The War of the Worlds

This was the very first H. G. Wells novel I read as a kid and it was impart to the 1953 movie that I saw at a young age. Talking about great Science Fiction, imagination & creativity there is no other famed write/artist like HGW (but Philip K. Dick comes a very close). 

The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American Science Fiction Film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.

The film is an adaptation of the 1898 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, the first of five feature film adaptations. It is a retelling of the 1898 novel, changing the setting from Victorian era-England to 1953 southern California. Earth is suddenly and unexpectedly invaded by Martians, and American scientist Clayton Forrester searches for any weakness that can stop them. Don't want to give away any spoilers but this adaptation didn't follow the novel to closely & embellished the Martian attacks with fantastic flying machines instead of the walking Tripods of the book. BTW the Tom Cruise version sucked donkey balls so bad !!