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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on screen depiction of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name. Produced by George Pál and directed by Byron Haskin from a script by Barré Lyndon, it was the first of several adaptations of Wells' work to be filmed by Pál, and is considered to be one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s. It won an Oscar for its special effects.

The film was again remade by Steven Speilberg in 2005, the older version is important to my independent study as it allows me to gather up a picture of how people back in the 1950's had fears of being invaded from beings that were not of this world, also to gather up the idea of how the audience found this entertaining back then, relating it to my other text, I would link to how the fears have changed and how certain parts of the film have been adapted and kept the same in order to give off the effect required.