Mad to think this story was written in 1895 and was already 58 years old when this was done

Take a moment to recognize the power lines in the street vaporizing on contact with the heat ray. That was some serious attention to detail by the effects crew. 10:30

Great sci-if classic. I saw it as a young kid back in the 80s and I’ve loved it ever since. Plus that ship design is so iconic - and awesome!

No one will ever top this all time classic SCI-FI movie. I never get tired watching this over and over.😀🛸

Love the shoutout to Jeff Wayne's rock opera.

Probably my favourite film as a kid, along with Forbidden Planet, Them, and The Earth vs the Flying Saucers.

I must have watched this film dozens of times over the years and it only just dawned on me watching this that the alien war machines are supported by three rays, just like the three legs of the originals. It's little details like this that make this the great film that it is.

I still recommend this masterpiece…Oscar for Special Effects and the sound effects were Oscar worthy 🎉❤😊

I never made the connection about the Martian's until seeing them overlaid with Stam describing the complicated Technicolor Film Process. That film process actually factored into the design of the Aliens and their machines. How they saw the world. Their eyes were the Technicolor Cameras.

It is the best movie version of the story! The series was good!

This movie devastated me as a child and made me believe this world could end. It was even more effective because I saw it around the Cuban missile crisis.

One of the best sci fi movies of the 20th century imo 👍. Superior to the later Tom Cruise version in many respects. Unlike many lesser sci fi movies they don’t just show the aliens as super beings but instead give us brief views of creatures that are inferior physically to humans but are superior in their technology. This and the day the Earth stood still (another example of a film where the later remake is inferior with the Keanu Reeves version being a poor attempt) are both stand outs of their time. They reflect the fears and uncertainty of the 50s and the Red scares of the time. Thanks for this video I’ve been waiting for you to cover it for a while.

I saw this movie when it opened in 1953 as a 10-year old, and I loved it ever since. Probably paid 25¢ to see it. Featuring the coolest alien war machines--ever!

Now you gotta do George Pal's THE TIME MACHINE. Pleeeeeease?

I liked your quip about the Stanley Cup finals. It reminded me about the old joke; I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.

Stam Fine your wit is hilarious and you combine it with a script that gives people all they need to know about the film or tv series your video is about.

When I was 13 in Hamilton, Ontario at the end of 1981 we had a snow storm in the middle of the day and they sent us all home. My buddy and I went back to my place we got into all the snacks and this movie was on. We had a blast watching it. The movie was essentially 30 years old even then and he and I were of the Star Wars generation and we were astonished any movie from the 1950s was both in colour and had special effects that stood up so well. I'm still impressed by them even forty years after that!

Its still a solid movie and given how many people have tried to make a War of the Worlds and probably shouldn't have. That either makes it brilliant or somewhat tragic that it hadn't been done well since.

This is an absolute masterpiece. The scene where the machine emerges from the fog from the bomb is chilling. I don't think any kid the late 60s/early 70s can deny that some of the lamps of that era ALWAYS brought the movie to mind LOL It has humour, chills, great F/X, and a human STORY. Our kids are teens and they've had friends over for movie night & shown this - a lot of the kids fall in love with it ("Wow, that's an olde tymee movie? It's really good!"). Love watching it... though I am forever in the hunt for such magnificent, perfect fried eggs *sigh*

Till this day the batte scene with the US military and the Martian's for a 1950s film has to be one if not the best scenes in history

Love this film. The rattling, rasping sound the ships make still gives me chills.

Gene Barry & Ann Robinson played the grandparents of the kids in the 2005 version

Can we take a moment to appreciate the actor's skill @8:08 at drawing excellent arcs and straight lines with chalk? That is not easy

I remember seeing this as 8-year old on TV alone at night when the family was sleeping in the 1970's.... So scary.

The BBC produced a decent 3 part War of the Worlds miniseries in 2019. Although it doesn't follow the book's narrative, it does follow other fictional characters from the original storyline. Highly recommend! Available on KZfaq.

Someone all the way from Australia slagging off Essex - some how makes it SOOOO much worse!😂

The music for the silent-film intertitle - oh man, that was the mother of all Easter eggs.

one of the many films that put me on a path towards a career in moviemaking.

I love the old timey War of the Worlds music for the silent pictures..

Remember seeing this at the movies in 1953, still watch!

There's a real vibe to this movie. Pacing, imagery and sound. Not Victorian England but still good.

The most enduring legacy of this film is Dr. Clayton Forrester serving as the namesake for the evil mad scientist of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I saw this film way back on Ted Turner’s TBS SuperStation program “Super Scary Saturday” featuring Al “Grandpa” Lewis (I tuned in mainly for the Godzilla flicks) and really liked it. I saw it just before the syndicated series mentioned here and I was obsessed with that show, despite being 8 years old and the show being quite violent for 80s television. Looking forward to seeing it featured in a future episode! 😉😂

So it could be renamed as Bacteria to the future.

Love the radio broadcast version 👍

Thanks, Stam. It is amazing that this film is 70 years old (like me) and the special effects are better than movies from the '80s and '90s. Were the fishing scientists fission scientists?

A delightful homage while also being cheeky and sarcastic. Liked.

I had no idea they deleted the legs for budget reasons. I always assumed they just thought flying saucers were cooler. Also I will mention Triple J for no reason.

Lol I loved that jaunty Eve of the War piano mix in there.

I rewatched thus movie a few weeks ago... it holds up. It's still good and well worth watching. Which is not something I could say about other movies from that era.

“War of the Worlds” is the earliest movie I remember seeing. I saw it when I was about 6 at the old Giles Theatre on West 39th Street in Kansas City, MO. It is still my favorite science fiction movie of all time. I watch it again whenever I can! It beats the heck out of that sappy soap opera remake with Tom Cruise.

When I was a kid this movie fascinated me. It will always be one of my all time favorites.

Ahhh, three strip technicolor. So much more pleasing than today's norm, orange and teal. Ugh.

1:26 "..but then they said the same thing about Essex..." Oh man, that cracked me up more than it probably should.. 🤣🤣

I love Friday mornings. You're the best. Request: Please do Sid & Marty Krofts "Land of the Lost"

The talcum powder bomb line was hilarious.

The heat ray sound effects, perfect. BJUJUJU!

The resolution and the color quality is just stunning ! I suppose it's the Blu-ray version, maybe a 4k that you show us? A really good scanning for sure, there is so much details, really a great job from the studio 👍. And your review is great as usual 😉

It's funny how every church though shelled nearby all kept standing to where the first building to be destroyed by Steven Spielberg in 2005 is a church 😮😂

I LOVE the voices of the actors, the scientist, the radio reporter, and so many others are as iconic as any old advertisement from that age.

This year is the 70th anniversary of the release of this classic and Ann Robinson turned 94 last month,is a good friend of mine !

This is a really well made movie.

I see this one back in my youth years mom and dad see it on outdoor theater back in 1954 it was a great movie

I just discovered your channel. And I really enjoyed your review! Great combination of facts and humor. Also loved seeing info on the sequel TV series from 1988 and the clip of Gene Barry and Ann Robinson in the Spielberg version of this story. Thanks!

Nice one. Cheers Stam. One of my all-time favourite films from childhood. Classic 50s Sci-Fi at it's finest. I am so looking forward to the Stam Fine treatment. "If they are mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses" a line refined better for Arnie. "If it bleeds we can kill it". I am going to enjoy this trip.

MANY thanks for this clip with Gene Barry. I was privileged enough to meet him many years (decades actually) ago when he came to Australia on a tour. He was in real life an extremely approachable man and very kind with his time to everyone. I visited him at the hotel he was staying at in Sydney but sadly he was not there at that time. I jokingly blame him for my addiction - to Rolls Royce (and subsequently Bentley) motor cars from his series "Burke's Law) in the 1960's and subsequent remake in the 1980's in which he used his own car. Again, many thanks for sharing this clip, take care and all the best.

was on regular rotation from the video shop right through my childhood.

I've not properly laughed out loud to myself for a very long time but Chris Pratt as the voice of the bacteria got me! Proper tickled me that. Still chuckling as I type this!! 😂😂

I'm surprised that you didn't mention the 80's short run TV series 'Tripods' that was made by the BBC and the Australian Seven Network. Peace All

Love the pianola version of Jeff Wayne's Martian Invasion theme! Has there been a steampunk version of War of the Worlds yet? That would be cool; maybe even done as a Georges Méliès ersatz silent era style melodrama (like Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow).

Dr. Clayton Forrester on MST3K is named after Dr. Clayton Forrester from the 1953 War of the Worlds movie.

The Martian ships still look awesome, even by today's standards.

Love all your videos. Your steve1989 reference a while ago was genius. Thanks for the weekly dose

Another great review. Love you sense of humour coupled with your honesty. :)

"Do you have a pocket compass?' (actually does in his suit jacket)

Still the best Hollywood version of War of the Worlds, and those war machines still occasionally pop into my nightmares and I find myself being hunted by them.

One of the greatest movie in Sci-fi history.

Your review was perfect, and hilarious!

The antimatter ray sound effects was classic awesomeness!

You hear that, Essex? YOU'VE BEEN STAM FINED, BRUH!

My second favorite sci-fi movie. The Tom Cruise movie was also very very well done, but I'll still take the original version over it. My favorite sci-fi movie is Forbidden Planet.

The War of the Worlds was one of my favorite movies growing up. I recently finally bought it on Blu-ray.

One of my favorite that holds up exceptionally well in 2023. Best scene is the priest getting roasted by the machine because he wasn't wearing asbestos underwear or a god shield.

yeah Baby lets do this. I love this movie so much.

Incredible movie. Incredibly dark towards the end as L A is destroyed. Its almost as there is no hope. Design of Alien ships is just incredible

Super good one

One of my favourite old school science fiction movies along with the Day the earth stood still

Hard to imagine now just how original the 'no resistance to germs' idea was. I saw the film for the first time back in the 60's, people were not as aware of the 'immune system' or germs as they are now, except for 'kill 99% of household germs' claims for household cleaning products. Certainly the idea of the common cold virus potentially being fatal to aliens was a totally novel one, unless you were familiar with HGW's novel

Your right about Essex still after years of searching we still haven't found anything yet.

great film! love the fact that the Martian screams and runs away when it touches the woman

that subtitle CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MARTIANS 😂

Great video, and really funny commentary.

As a massive wotw is great in any format, but Jeff double LP will never be beaten .

Good video. I have to say that I did look twice because I wondered if it would have been about the 80s TV series. Right, got to cover the movie first, what was I thinking.

Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, When Worlds Collide, are probably the best Sci-Fi movies of that Era.

Loved this one! I saw this in my youth on television and even then it was formidable! First George Pal- movie I ever saw was The Time Machine, also with wonderful special effects. Maybe a nice subject for later? This novel (also by Wells) has been redone more...

great film 👍🏼

Being from Maryland, the Essex comment takes on an equally hilarious meaning.

This movie war of the worlds has to be the best sci Fi movie ever done the effects were great for a movie filmed in the fifties still looked great even m

Who else hung around just for the narration? Bloody funny.

The 1953 War of the Worlds is one of those old school alien invasion films that takes itself seriously for an adaptation and also respectful to the source material.

One of my favourites! I read the book at a pretty early age so I've always been a bit obssessed with it, though that Jeff Wayne album helped a lot as well.

9:28 could be the inspiration for Mr. Nezu's death scene in AKIRA, where he dies of heart attack trying to stuff bonds & money into a briefcase after shooting Ryu.

I love the aesthetic of this movie. I first saw it as a kid in the 90s - scared the hell out of me. I don't think I slept solid for a week after. Of course now I can enjoy it all the more. 1950s sci-fi is on a pretty epic level, the special effects of Forbidden Planet also come to mind as standing the test of time.

I never knew grinding sparks could be so deadly. When I was an apprentice I learned that being asked to go to the store and ask for a lb of grinding spark was a "you idiot" moment if you actually did as told.

I just bought the Criterion Blu Ray. It contains a new 5.1 mix, with upgraded sound effects. Looks pristine too.

Whenever they wanted Barry to be the scientist he wore his specs. When they wanted him to be the leading man fighting the aliens he didn't.

XD that jab at Essex took me off guard, as someone from Essex you're not wrong!

Another banger!

Excellent video about an excellent movie. Well done! War of the Worlds (1953) is such a superb film. Good acting, great story and wonderful special effects. Those Martian war machines are amazing and unique, their Heat Ray and X-Ray sound other worldly, and the martians themselves are super alien. Thanks for making this video!

Seen this movie many times