The Night That Panicked America (1975)

Directors

Joseph Sargent

Cast

Vic Morrow, Cliff De Young, Paul Shenar, John Ritter, Michael Constantine, Walter McGinn, Eileen Brennan, Tom Bosley, Meredith Baxter, Will Geer, Granville Van Dusen, Joshua Bryant, Burton Gilliam, Shelley Morrison, Liam Dunn, Robert Lussier, Ed Bakey, Tracy Brooks Swope, Clarke Gordon, Byron Webster

The story

The Night That Panicked America tells the story of the 1938 The War of the Worlds broadcast from the point of view of Orson Welles and his associates as they create the broadcast live, as well as from the points of view of a number of different fictional American families, in a variety of locations and from a variety of social classes, who listened to the broadcast and believed the imaginary Martian invasion was actually occurring. In Grover's Mill, New Jersey, father and son farmers Jess and Walter Wingate argue over Walter's desire to join the Canadian army to fight Adolf Hitler's forces, Jess feeling it is not America's problem. When…

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