{"product_id":"war-of-the-worlds-1953-criterion","title":"WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953 CRITERION)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. 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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecial Features and Technical Specs:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM\u003c\/b\u003e, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNEW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ealternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, created by sound designer Ben Burtt and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns, and author Bill Warren\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMovie Archaeologists, a new program on the visual and sound effects in the film featuring Burtt and film historian Craig Barron\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom the Archive, a new program about the film's restoration featuring Barron, Burtt, and Paramount Pictures archivist Andrea Kalas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio interview with producer George Pal from 1970\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sky Is Falling, a 2005 documentary about the making of the film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds from 1938, directed and narrated by Orson Welles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRadio program from 1940 featuring a discussion between Welles and H. G. Wells, author of the 1897 novel The War of the Worlds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by film critic J. Hoberman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"CRITERION COLLECTION","offers":[{"title":"BLU-RAY","offer_id":49001602482395,"sku":null,"price":42.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0660\/6379\/4395\/files\/47388_front.jpg?v=1784749398","url":"https:\/\/baystvideo.com\/products\/war-of-the-worlds-1953-criterion","provider":"Bay Street Video","version":"1.0","type":"link"}