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Sun January 18 @ 1:00 pm
War Of The Worlds (1953)
Guild Cinema 3405 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM
From Guild Cinema
Dir. Byron Haskin – 1953 – 85m – Valid For Punch Cards
SPECIAL THANKS TO BUBONICON 57!
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 nothing—neither 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. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era 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.
“This is as good as they get –fast-paced, filled with still-impressive visual effects presented in all their Technicolor glory and including a number of genuinely suspenseful moments that continue to pack a punch.” – Peter Sobczynski, eFilmCritic.com
“A tremendous entry in the history of science fiction.” – Evan Dossey . Midwest Film Journal
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