Revealing mistake: In the first scene of the crashed meteor, on the extreme left of the scene where the smoke is, it seems to be billowing up from behind a stage wall, as there is a definite vertical line and a gap between the smoke and the left edge of the frame.
The War of the Worlds (1953)
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Directed by: Byron Haskin
Starring: Gene Barry, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Ann Robinson
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The War of the Worlds is a classic tale of man's conceit over all other life as visitors from Mars first take over with air-ships, then probes, spacemen and even vampire devices (!) until Humanity is crushed! Only a few, brave souls stand a chance against them in this science fiction film. Decent special effects buoy up this movie from the rest, where people mostly die from vaporization. Watch this before taking in the others.
More mistakes in The War of the Worlds
Major General Mann: Pattern-wise, one lands, then two, making groups of threes joined magnetically. Is that possible?
Dr Clayton Forrester: If they do it, it is.
Trivia: The Flying Wing used to drop the atomic bomb on the Martians was the YB-49, an experimental bomber discontinued in 1950, three years before this movie was made. By the time the movie came out all YB-49s had been scrapped.
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