The Night That Panicked America

The Night That Panicked America
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The Night That Panicked America

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Directed by: Joseph Sargent

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A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

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  • Wuchak (Rated: 7)

    The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!!!

    On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles directs a radio adaptation of HG Wells' novel The War of the Worlds from forty years prior. The "breaking news" style of ominous storytelling convinced many listeners throughout America to ...

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