The War of the Worlds (1953)
"Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!"
Critics Score
🎬 84%
(RT: 89%, MC: 78) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Gene Barry as Clayton Forrester
Ann Robinson as Sylvia Van Buren
Lewis Martin as Matthew Collins
Les Tremayne as General Mann
Frank Kreig as Fiddler Hawkins (uncredited)
Vernon Rich as Ralph Heffner
Sandro Giglio as Dr. Bilderbeck
Ann Codee as Dr. Duprey (uncredited)
Is The War of the Worlds good?
It's divisive. Only 61% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics rated it higher at 84%, but audiences were less impressed.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
