"The War Of The Worlds" [1953] HD Stereo Sampler 

All these years later and it still holds up.

Even 65 years later, this is STILL THE BEST version. GREAT SFX for 1953.

one of my favorite movies as a kid growing up.

The special effects are the most fantastic in 1953!

This scene was an excellent combination of original footage and stock footage. You might think that they worked with the army to bring those tanks and soldiers in, but those shots of military hardware firing were from World War II. 10-year-old clips spliced in, the martians would fire, the stock footage would freeze on a frame, and part of the original image would be replaced with a dark smudge to simulate disintegration. Amazing work for 1953.

This movie was so far ahead of its time. The science behind these scenes is amazing. Electronic force fields. Light amplified plasma weapons. This was 1953. Hard to believe anyone had thought of half these type of things back then.

At 2:15 Dr Forrester (Gene Barry) speculates that the death ray "neutralizes mesons somehow causing matter to cease to exist" . This movie was made in 1953. Meson theory was very new then. It is amazing that this small piece of dialog mentions this detail. The writers were sure doing their homework!

I remember seeing this movie for the first and only time in the mid 70's b4 Star Wars came out when I was just a kid..While I knew it was old even back then'..was still mesmerised by the special effects of the movie!

Excellent sound effects

This is probably on my Top 5 movies ever. Saw this as a kid in the mid-60's and still watch it today every now and then. Even got my kids to watch it and they admit that it's pretty dang good. Being a born-and raised-in [Los] Angeleno and growing up less than 6 miles from downtown LA, it's funny to hear them refer to areas I know well; Puente Hills, Corona, and in the 1950's, those areas looked exactly as depicted here. Open fields and grazing land for cows even as recent as the 1980's. Now, it's highly-densified suburbia with endless cookie-cutter home tracts and very little open space.

The opening scenes were particularly chilling. The tripods took fire for a good 55 seconds and did *nothing* in response - or so it seems. The sensor arms were quietly marking and locking on to targets all over the battlefield. Then when they finally open fire, they *do not miss*. Every shot is an instantly fatal hit. They waste no effort. ( The priest had a serious martyr complex. That, or he forgot the old adage, "You can cite scripture to a wasp all you want, but in the end you're still gonna get stung." )

I love this movie. Have since i was a kid. Beautifully rendered, acted to perfection. No cgi just inventive practical effects. One of my all time favorites.

The sound effects of the Martians haunted me as a child. I remember having repeat nightmares of its periscope thing somewhere outside my window with that weird clicky sound.

"Take my word for it general this kind of defense is useless against that kind of power"😂😂

0:43 Looks like fourteen F86 Sabres and maybe a F84 Shooting Star.

Yep, still holds up & will continue too do so regardless

For my money this is still the best depiction on live-action film of a modern military pitted against a superior technology.

The fantastic thing about this movie is how revered and respected people of science were. Military people, politicians, they all deferred to people of Intelligence. Imagine that today. It's almost unthinkable.

One down vote, that person needs a hug

One of the best movies in the ‘50s.

What a great movie

It's just one best 50s film

I've always loved the buildup to the alien machines unleashing their weapons on the military.

My favorite sequence!

That’s the sound of the Starship Enterprise photon torpedoes from Star Trek.

0:19 When the machines start to make that sound, you are absolutely screwed.

Nice. Wish a copy could be released. Thank you for the sample.

Verry good moovie. 1953!!

Poor Uncle Matthew!😭⛪

Wow ,great looking picture, clean and clear. The sound is great, just how my mind remembered this when I first saw it as a kid on our color tv console back in the late 60's. I've watched it many times across the years. Seeing this now has me looking online for a remastered or clean digital version to have in my collection. Thanks for taking the time to do this and upload. This scene still gives me the goose bumps. To bad the Spielberg "05" version had that actor in it. Anyone but him would have been better..but I digress. Thumbs up.

I always wondered if the Martians forcefields were completely circular or they were cup shaped that they stopped at ground level, if so it might be possible to put explosives in the ground and detonated them when one of the Martian ship’s went over them, to see if had a “soft underbelly’’.

One of my all time favorite movies. I was six years old when this came out.🛸

The brief moment where the officer is "skeletized" required a very impressive number of individual dissolves. I'm no technician, so hope that's correct term. A lot of intensive work for a moment that lasts mere seconds. This, "The Thing" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are among my all time favorite sci-fi films. Admittedly, The Thing is more a horror movie, which was very innovative because producers wanting to do elaborate sci-fi films but didn't have the money, could focus on the horrible aliens (the "monsters") and just use sci-fi themes as a more peripheral background.

The technological superiority of the Martians machines Vanquished the. 1950s something army,.. best scene in the movie outside of the Flying Wing Atomic bomb scene.

Great movie

My favorite movie of all time.

War of the worlds, THEM, The Thing, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Thank you 50s.

3:36 HELL YEAH!!

well John I just watched it and it sounds great

Ultimate classic bad ass 😊😊

great job

Excellent.

Hoooraaah! I enjoy this very much, thank you, cool stuff.

For the day this was so epic.

I realize that we don't (yet) have a command of magnetic force, that would enable warships to "float" without any solid support; but the overall design of the Martian warships has always struck me as elegantly practical. I wonder if anyone has ever used the production designs from this film when designing actual weapons of war.

I can remember watching this movie in the Pocono Mountains back east and I had to walk home one whole Mile in the pitch-dark

This movie scared the shit out of me when i was 5

Incredible film 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

That exact moment 4:35 haunts me to this very day. You're in a civilian plane about to crash land and in the corner of your eye you see TWO MARTIAN WAR MACHINES

When that green beam hits the Soldiers , it sounds like they threw a steak on a hot frying pan ....I'm hungry ..!

THE DVD IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE OLD LASERDISC AND A TON OF SPECIAL FEATURES WISH IT WAS ON BLURAY ALONG WITH THE THING FROM 1951.

The only Godzilla movie that matches the scope of this movie is 1954's "Gogira",second would be 1956's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters". There is nothing more terrifying for the petty human mind to grasp,that with all our imagined superiority over the world and all that we deem beneath us, from the mysterious, depths of the oceans,or from the far flung darkness of outer space,can come unimaginable, unstoppable beasts consumed with primeval fury,AWAKENED and MUTATED by man's foolish misuse of nuclear power, or beings whose grasp of knowledge technology and DESTRUCTION,render all mankind helpless and at THEIR mercy.

feels like a scene from Roland Emmerich's Godzilla or any Godzilla film too.

Great! The Martian Machines Have NO More Wires!

Hi John.....

I love this film and the story, I've just been listening to Jeff Wayne's version again. I know the BBC did a remake last year but when will they just make a version just like the original book.

The CD of the score has been released again. Beautiful -- but mono. Does anyone know if a stereo score exists??

when i first heard jeff wayne cd war of the worlds as a kid then i watched this film i was so disappointed that it wasn't what i imagine how the film would be. Then years and years later we had tom cruise version and disappointed again and now in 2019 we have the bbc version of the film and that's what i had vision of how it should have been but lets hope it will be a good one this time round

This movie is the inverse of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Where that movie condemned mankind’s paranoia and violent tendencies towards things they don’t understand, this one justifies them by making the Martians heartless killing machines (while at the same time, of course, illustrating the futility of said paranoia and violence)

Bat Masterson vs the Martains

The Martians wouldn't have lasted 1 hour in Wuhan

So the stereo of the sound track sitll exist.

The sound effect are awesome was laser attack sound like space video game and laser gun

Don't go to Mars you don't k ow what you find

Esse filme dos anos 50, e melhor do que o produzido nos anos 2000. São dois ótimos filmes, o Terra versus discos voadores (1953) e esse A guerra dos mundos (1953). Dirceu Rodrigues. SÃO JOÃO CLÍMACO/SÃO PAULO/S.P. BRASIL.

Is it just me or does the Martian skeleton ray sound like Original star trek photon torpedoes when firing?

Boy . . . them earthlings really get their asses kicked here, don't they (?)

3:43 master close up to show the skeleton inside when the martian rays reach him!

Ahí están los protagonistas de que aparecen en el año 2005

JULY, baby!

Minuto 5:02 Jajajajaja dijo uno que estaba mirando la peli: "Mirá, mirá como el Dr. le dio una vacuna a la liebre, ahhhhhhh!!!, jajaja". Siempre hay un mal pensado :)

Still better than cruise's version any day

do you have another

When is this going to get a Bluray release?

Brilliant movie. However at 2:50 the soldier in the background purposely runs over to the fire to light himself up. LOL

War of the worlds

Martians: "Aw Lawdy, he's got a Bible and he's quoting some holy shit. Abort mission! Retreat!"

Should of kept it going. Pinnacle movie.

Incredible movie!!! Also, interestingly, the 1953 version of War of the Worlds is the only sci-fi movie where the Biblical God is the literal hero of the movie, not man. Think about it, there is not one thing/weapon/idea that the human characters in the film tried, that actually worked to any degree of success. Nor is there an actual human hero in the movie, neither male nor female. It's only at the very end, when all was almost lost, when people finally turned to God that they "won"! Not by doing anything themselves, but by waiting on God. That message is essentially a Biblical message, and completely antithetical to almost all of the output of every movie industry, whether in the West or in the East. I can not think of one other sci-fi movie where man is not the ultimate hero over every kind of challenge/adversity/opposing idea and calamitous event in this universe that you can use or imagine (i.e. both real and imaginary). In every single sci-fi movie it is man, and his strength (physical or psychic) and his superior (godlike) intelligence that win the day. Every. Single. Time. But this movie, ironically, coming out just 7 years after WW2, which severely killed both the morale and the morals of humanity, taught in the midst of one of atheists' most beloved genres, where humanism flourishes as the supreme god, that YHWH is king of the universe, and that He is the true God, and that the true God is good and trustworthy, and that He is the ultimate power in the universe. This movie, in freaking 1953, shamed the idea that aliens are more relevant or more powerful than God! Before the modern New Age Movement, before the UFO craze, before the technology of the 20th century truly kicked into high gear, before Marxism infested the West, even if the movie gave the aliens a very high level of advanced technology, far ahead of even the latest contemporary technology of nuclear power, this movie, based on a book written in the 19th century, made a firm statement that God is the One to whom man must turn, even in the midst of all of the vain riches of material abundance, technology and scientific knowledge. Now that is a unique, powerful and eternal message.