The war of the worlds

Resource Information

The work The war of the worlds represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The war of the worlds

Statement of responsibility

a Paramount Picture ; screenplay, Barré Lyndon ; produced by George Pal ; directed by Byron Haskin

Creator

• War of the worlds (Motion picture : 1953)

Contributor

• Nozaki, Albert, 1912-2003
• Pal, George
• Pereira, Hal
• Phipps, William, 1922-2018
• Rich, Vernon, 1906-1978
• Robinson, Ann, 1929-
• Stevens, Leith, 1909-1970
• Brandon, Henry, 1912-1990
• Tremayne, Les
• Wells, H. G., (Herbert George), 1866-1946
• Stevenson, Houseley, 1879-1953
• Barry, Gene
• Cornthwaite, Robert, 1917-2006
• Douglas, Everett
• Barnes, George, 1892-1953
• Frees, Paul
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Giglio, Sandro, 1900-1979
• Hardwicke, Cedric, 1893-1964
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984
• Head, Edith
• Kruschen, Jack, 1922-2002
• Lyndon, Barré, 1896-1972
• Martin, Lewis, 1894-1969

Actor

• Robinson, Ann, 1929-
• Martin, Lewis, 1894-1969
• Kruschen, Jack, 1922-2002
• Phipps, William, 1922-2018
• Hardwicke, Cedric, 1893-1964
• Brandon, Henry, 1912-1990
• Tremayne, Les
• Stevenson, Houseley, 1879-1953
• Giglio, Sandro, 1900-1979
• Frees, Paul
• Rich, Vernon, 1906-1978
• Barry, Gene
• Cornthwaite, Robert, 1917-2006

Art director

• Pereira, Hal
• Nozaki, Albert, 1912-2003

Composer

• Stevens, Leith, 1909-1970

Costume designer

• Head, Edith

Director of photography

• Barnes, George, 1892-1953

Film director

• Haskin, Byron, 1899-1984

Film distributor

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Film editor

• Douglas, Everett

Presenter

• Paramount Pictures Corporation

Producer

• Pal, George

Production company

• Paramount Pictures Corporation

Publisher

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Lyndon, Barré, 1896-1972

Subject

• Scientists -- United States -- Drama
• Action and adventure films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Human-alien encounters -- Drama
• Martian meteorites -- United States -- Drama
• Martians -- United States -- Drama
• Science fiction films
• Space vehicles -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Wells, H. G., (Herbert George), 1866-1946 -- Film adaptations

Genre

• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Drama
• Film adaptations
• Action and adventure films
• Science fiction films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age

Member of

• Criterion collection, 1037

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, George Barnes ; art direction, Hal Pereira, Albert Nozaki ; edited by Everett Douglas ; costumes, Edith Head ; music score by Leith Stevens

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Rating: G

Language note

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.W37 2020

PerformerNote

Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Bob Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Housely Stevenson, Jr., Paul Frees, Bill Phipps, Vernon Rich, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Sir Cedric Hardwicke

Runtime

85

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

1037

Technique

live action