War Of The Worlds, The (DVD)

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 nothingneither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wellss end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold Warera update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects. Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.