“War of the Worlds” B-Day Show @ Guild Cinema


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The War of the Worlds – the 1953 George Pal production based on H.G. Wells’ novel – at the Guild Cinema 1:00 pm Sunday, January 18.

Directed by Byron Haskin – 1953 – 85m – Valid For Punch Cards.

A SPECIAL TROY STULL BIRTHDAY SCREENING!Β  SPECIAL THANKS TO BUBONICON 57!

A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town.Β  All clocks have stopped.Β  A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe.Β  The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing β€” neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) β€” can stop it.Β  In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects.Β  Emblazoned with iconographic images of 1950s science fiction, The War of the Worlds is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.

“This is as good as they get –fast-paced, filled with still-impressive visual effects presented in all their Technicolor glory and including a number of genuinely suspenseful moments that continue to pack a punch.” – Peter Sobczynski, eFilmCritic.com

“A tremendous entry in the history of science fiction.” – Evan Dossey . Midwest Film Journal

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The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Ave NE in the Nob Hill area.

Website: GuildCinema.com