Battle of the Worlds (1961)
1961 · Feature film · 83 min · dir. Antonio Margheriti
- Science Fiction
- Thriller
Synopsis
A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Antonio Margheriti
- Writer
- Thomas Sagone
- Cinematography
- Thomas Sagone
- Studio
- Ultra Film
- Released
- 1961-10-30
- Original title
- Il pianeta degli uomini spenti
- Running time
- 83 minutes
Cast & crew
Antonio Margheriti Director
Claude Rains
Bill Carter- Maya Brent
Umberto Orsini- Jacqueline Derval
- Carol Danell
John Stacy- Jim Dolen
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · A mishmash of ideas that don't quite gel · damaz74 · 2026-06-07
They try hard to produce a Sience Fiction film but most of the ideas fall flat, the song at the start of the film made me think ios this the only recording in existance of this singer. Anyway tehy detect intresting readings and straight away the older professor has decuced that from his mathamatical calculations this came from outside the Solar System. Yes but many comments do and some take many years to do these orbits as well so know doubt not realy startling. The idea of the flying sacers is fine as mentioned, and landing. However alot of mixed messages wich to me did not engage me…
