The Night That Panicked America

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Play Time: 92 mins
Drama, TV Movie
The Night That Panicked America

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

Status: Released (1975-10-31)
Awards:Won 1 Primetime Emmy. 1 win & 3 nominations total
Screen:Nicholas Meyer, Anthony Wilson, Howard Koch
Productions: The Culzean Corporation, Paramount Television
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
The Night That Panicked America
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**_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 throug ....

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