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The Night America Trembled 1957 is probably one of the best films I have seen that proves, at least to me, the point that Americans have always been gun happy freaked out paranoid hicks. And that’s why I love them, and I love this movie. The Night America Trembled is-as far as I know-the first movie of the events that happened during the radio broadcast of Orson Welles doing H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds on October 30, 1938. (Although not related, on October 28, 1940, Orson Welles met H.G. Wells in San Antonio, Texas; a local radio station KTSA recorded the conversation, which was likely the only meeting between the two)
Oddly enough Orson Welles is never actually mentioned by name in this flick. Bad blood from the radio broadcast still I guess. Anyway, Newsman Edward R. Murrow adds modern perspective to ’50s audiences about subsequent events that make this Orson Welles production still seem frightening to anyone who didn’t hear the beginning of the broadcast having switched from Bergin and McCarthy on NBC. I first saw the remake “The Night that Panicked America” when I was just a little Lush I couldn’t believe how realistic it sounded. I thought myself it was a brilliant joke. In this original movie however the director of the radio play and Orson Welles are depicted as two different people when they were actually one and the same. Also, the sound of the Martians’ opening their ship was visualized as the sound man manually spinning a bare record turntable when it was actually the opening of a jar. (The remake shows this magnificently) What makes this Version best though are the Westinghouse commercials with John Cameron Swazee for various nuclear products! Also worth mentioning are the early performances of Warren Beatty, Ed Asner, Warren Oates, James Coburn, Vincent Gardenia, and, for Honeymooners fans, Frank Marth and a very young John Astin on the typewriter! This film was (as mentioned) remade in 1975 as The Night That Panicked America which is also a brilliant film.
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Steve Allen, in one of his many books, related the effect the 1938 CBS broadcast had on him and his Aunts. Hastily packing suitcases, running for the hotel lobby, yelling for everybody to “Run for your lives -the Martians are coming!”
It’s fun to read all the comments. I’m 80 now and I played Millie, the babysitter. I didn’t realize until years later when I saw it at The Paley Museum how many of the actors became stars. I was 13 and it interesting I didn’t have a crush on Warren Beatty who was 20. I guess I was too young and innocent. He’s probably one of the few of us who is still alive.
Welcome and thank you for that story. That’s fantastic. A real life star on my little you tube page. xxxx I am honoured to have you here. <3
You did “hysteria” very very very well! Really…. 🎉🎉🎉
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@@lisalush4191 thank you so much. It’s so nice for me to think back on those years I was acting
Was looking for this for a year now
I enjoyed this immensely! Thank you for sharing!
The people that thought it was real, could of just checked if the “reports” were also on other radio stations.
I remember this from 57 .
Trump is a shyster and yet Americans fall for him.
Those guys at the bar who mentioned that they were only about 50 miles from Grovers Mill….I realize that this was in 1938 and that this is just a fictional play….but I would have thought that even in 1938 that these guys would know the towns in the area and know that there was no Grovers Mill.
Oh well. I suppose that I am a little late with my observation and that it would be useless to try and contact Orson Welles to let him know….LOL…!!!
Edit: I just read in the comments that there actually is a Grovers Mill….I guess I need to apologize to those guys at the bar….LOL..!!
The scariest part is the early Atomic Energy ad for Westinghouse…!
Okay, y’all ~ it’s Orson WELLES and H.G. WELLS…