The War of the Worlds (1953 film) The War of the Worlds (1953 film) The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American Technicolor science fiction drama film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The film is a loose adaptation of the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, the first of five film adaptations. It is a modern retelling of the 1897 novel, changing the setting from Victorian Era England to 1953 southern California. Earth is suddenly and
The War of the Worlds Edison leading a counterattack against the invaders on their home soil. Though this is actually a sequel to 'Fighters from Mars', a revised and unauthorised reprint of "The War of the Worlds", they both were first printed in the "Boston Post" in 1898. Lazar Lagin published "Major Well Andyou" in USSR in 1962, an alternative view of events in "The War of the Worlds" from the viewpoint of a traitor. "The War of the Worlds" was reprinted in the United States in 1927, before the Golden Age of science fiction, by Hugo Gernsback in "Amazing Stories". John W. Campbell, another