The War of the Worlds

 

Year: 1953

Time: 85 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 1037

Release Date: Tuesday, 07 July 2020

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

1.37:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren   Movie Archaeologists, a new program on the visual and sound effects in the film featuring Ben Burtt and film historian Craig Barron   From the Archive, a new program about the film’s restoration featuring Craig Barron, Ben Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas   Audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970   The Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film   The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds from 1938, directed and narrated by Orson Welles   Radio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Orson Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novel The War of the Worlds   Trailer   An essay by film critic J. Hoberman