WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)

'''WAR OF THE WORLDS. Byron Haskin, dir. USA: Paramount, 1953'''. Based on the novel The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.

As in the novel, the Martians, with their machines, are defeated by Earth's bacteria. Discussed by V. Sobchack in The Limits of Infinity (see Sobchack's Index). Discussed in TMG essay by L. Heldreth (see under Literary Criticism). Note also WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), which stays closer to the novel in its presentation of the Martian war machines: land-stomping tripods as opposed to the earlier film's elegant levitating airships that combine the images of cobra's and manta rays.