Jan 4, 2010

The War of the Worlds | Media Adaptations

An audiocassette version of Wells’s The War of the Worlds is available from Books in Motion. It was released in 1982.

The 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, by Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre on the Air company, is of course the most famous and has become an important piece of American history because of the panic that it induced when it went out across the country.

The War of the Worlds was loosely adapted into a movie in 1953 by producer George Pal, and it starred Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. The adaptation won the Academy...