The NIGHT THAT PANICKED AMERICA
- The NIGHT THAT PANICKED AMERICA
Made-for-tv film (1975). ABC TV. Dir Joseph Sargent, starring Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine, Paul Shenar. Screenplay Nicholas Meyer, Anthony Wilson, based partly on the text of the original 1938 radio play WAR OF THE WORLDS by Howard Koch. 100 mins, cut to 78 mins. Colour.
The film recreates the 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of an updatedversion of H.G. WELLS's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898) which, due to its news-bulletin format, caused many US citizens to believe that a Martian invasion was actually taking place. When the film concentrates on events inside the broadcast studio it is fascinating, conjuring up a realistic picture of work in 1930s US RADIO; but when it shows the resulting panic it degenerates into a routine DISASTER movie with hackneyed characters reacting in predictable ways.
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