The Night That Panicked America (1975)
1h 32m
Running Time
October 31, 1975Release Date
The Night That Panicked America (1975)
1h 32m
Running Time
October 31, 1975Release Date
Plot.
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
Where to Watch.
Subs
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Vic Morrow
Hank Muldoon
Cliff DeYoung
Stefan Grubowski
Michael Constantine
Jess Wingate
Walter McGinn
Paul Stewart
Walter McGinn
Paul Stewart
Eileen Brennan
Ann Muldoon
Meredith Baxter
Linda Davis
Tom Bosley
Norman Smith
Will Geer
Reverend Davis
Paul Shenar
Orson Welles
Granville Van Dusen
Carl Phillips
John Ritter
Walter Wingate
Burton Gilliam
Tex
Joseph Sargent
Director
Joshua Bryant
Howard Koch
Nicholas Meyer
Writer
Anthony Wilson
Writer
Liam Dunn
Charlie
Shelley Morrison
Toni
Howard Koch
Writer
Walker Edmiston
Mercury Theatre Player
Marcus J. Grapes
Mercury Theatre Player
Jules Brenner
Cinematographer
Art Hannes
Mercury Theatre Player
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Night That Panicked America is an American made-for-television drama film that was originally broadcast on the ABC network on October 31, 1975. The telefilm dramatizes events surrounding Orson Welles' famous - and infamous - War of the Worlds radio broadcast (based on the 1898 novel of the same name by English author H. G. Wells) of October 30, 1938, which had led some Americans to believe that an invasion by Martians was occurring in the area near Grover's Mill in West Windsor, New Jersey.
The Welles broadcast and the reaction to it had been earlier dramatized on television as The Night America Trembled, a live presentation that aired September 9, 1957, on Studio One.