a5c7b9f00b H.G. Wells' classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly.
Scientist Clayton Forrester and Sylvia Van Buren are the first to arrive at the site of a meteorite crash. Soon after, an alien war machine emerges and begins killing at random. The Marines are called in, but they're no match for the aliens' force field. Forrester and Van Buren, however, are able to wound one of the creatures and procure a sample of its blood. They take it to Los Angeles where they hope, through testing, to be able to discover the aliens' weakness.
77/100. Although it is showing signs of it's age, this is one of the better science fiction films to come out of the 1950's. It has a very impressive production, the acting is quite respectable and the story is delightfully imaginative. The color cinematography is exceptional, and although I love black and white films, the color enhances the effectiveness of this movie.<br/><br/>The remake in 2005 just could not capture the spirit and character development of this one. It is never boring, and it moves along quickly. The score is very expressive. It deservedly got Academy Award nominations for sound and editing, and it won for best special effects.
This was the first science fiction movie to show aliens and their machinerytruly alien. No men in rubber suits here. The war machines, which the designers based on manta rays and cobras, are sleek, strange objects, and the sound effects curdled my blood the first time I heard them. The movie is flawed with period cliches – the cartoon Mexican, the piously sappy minister, the wide-eyed screaming bimbo – which you have to believe the director could've avoided. Some of the dialog is stilted, and one scene where the minister walks slowly toward one of the Martian machines holding up his bible and intoning the 23rd psalm, and is promptly burnt to a crisp by the machine's heat weapon, brings me close to blasphemous giggles every time I see it. And of course the writers throw Wells's novel to the ground and dance on it (no great loss, in my opinion). But none of his matters next to the astonishing battle scenes. This movie is the paradigm for all the others that followed. A must-see.

Corona, California, about 50 miles south-southeast of Los Angeles proper. Corona is in Riverside County near where Interstate 15 and route 91 now interesect. Neither highway was there at the time: just the old US 395. Corona was mainly ranches, farms, and woods at the time. It is now a relatively modern, bustling city near where two major Southern California highways and two large California counties (Orange and Riverside) meet.
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