Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Gene BarryClayton Forrester
- Ann RobinsonSylvia Van Buren
- Lewis MartinMatthew Collins
- Les TremayneGeneral Mann
- Frank KreigFiddler Hawkins (uncredited)
- Vernon RichRalph Heffner
- Sandro GiglioDr. Bilderbeck
- Ann CodeeDr. Duprey (uncredited)
- Robert CornthwaiteDr. Pryor
- Cedric HardwickeCommentary (voice)
Crew
- Byron HaskinDirector
- Barré LyndonScreenplay
- H. G. WellsNovel
- George BarnesDirector of Photography
- Leith StevensOriginal Music Composer
- Everett DouglasEditor
- George PalProducer
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