THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
(Paramount-George Pal) MUST confess to a sneaking admiration for the ingentity of Mr. George Pal and his associates. Destination Moon was cleverly done and the technical problems posed by H. G. Wells’s story have in the main been surmounted with equal skill. Inevitably the scene of action has been shifted across the At-lantic-to California; inevitably much of the power of Wells’s narrative has been lost in its translation into American dialogue. But a quite perceptible residue of the original remains, and Mr. Pal finds room in his canvas not only for apocalyptic pictures of destruction, as the Martian space-vessels disintegrate everything that is sent against. them, but for quick, telling glimpses of simple people brought face to face with armageddon. I don’t know if Mr. Wells would have approved of the final sequences of the film, but he would, I’m sure, have been captivated by the grace of the Martian space-ships and by the film’s adroit use of colour.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 17
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164THE WAR OF THE WORLDS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 17
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