"The War Of The Worlds" [1953] HD Stereo Sampler

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  • Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
  • October 23, 2018: I just found out there is finally a restoration that has been made of this film, and you can download it from iTunes! It looks fantastic! The wires have been removed!
    I have always very much enjoyed my 1993 LaserDisc copy of one of my favorite motion pictures, "The War of the Worlds" [1953] as I believe it still has the best sound of any home release of this film. It included the music & special effects soundtracks in a Stereo mix, something that I have not heard of or seen since in any subsequent release.
    I finally got a hold of an HD source for "The War of the Worlds" and today synced up my LaserDisc Stereo Soundtrack to that source and wanted to share a 5 minute sampler of my efforts, which I hope you enjoy.

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  • @stevedandy973
    @stevedandy973 6 років тому +55

    Even 65 years later, this is STILL THE BEST version.
    GREAT SFX for 1953.

    • @ZuluRomeo
      @ZuluRomeo Рік тому

      And sound effect design so timeless they were reused on Star Trek (the meson ray weapons = photon torpedoes, the war machine floating sound = phasers)

    • @joantrezza
      @joantrezza Місяць тому

      Yes Yes Yes! Agreed

  • @cretinousjester3475
    @cretinousjester3475 6 років тому +42

    All these years later and it still holds up.

  • @ianwestc
    @ianwestc 4 роки тому +30

    This scene was an excellent combination of original footage and stock footage. You might think that they worked with the army to bring those tanks and soldiers in, but those shots of military hardware firing were from World War II. 10-year-old clips spliced in, the martians would fire, the stock footage would freeze on a frame, and part of the original image would be replaced with a dark smudge to simulate disintegration. Amazing work for 1953.

    • @madcat789
      @madcat789 3 роки тому +2

      But didn't they also have the Army come on and help with some scenes?

    • @minnowpd
      @minnowpd 2 роки тому +2

      @@madcat789 Yes. They hooked up with an army outfit on manuevers in the desert. The cast had to dodge tanks.

    • @madcat789
      @madcat789 2 роки тому +1

      @@minnowpd neat.

    • @rapatacush3
      @rapatacush3 Рік тому +2

      @@madcat789 yes, they told them to put some shields on the martians, cause this kind of firepower would do a quick job out of the book's war machines.

    • @madcat789
      @madcat789 Рік тому +1

      @@rapatacush3 I know that.

  • @mannybrucesalvador
    @mannybrucesalvador 5 років тому +23

    one of my favorite movies as a kid growing up.

  • @dadduorp
    @dadduorp Рік тому +3

    This is probably on my Top 5 movies ever. Saw this as a kid in the mid-60's and still watch it today every now and then. Even got my kids to watch it and they admit that it's pretty dang good.
    Being a born-and raised-in [Los] Angeleno and growing up less than 6 miles from downtown LA, it's funny to hear them refer to areas I know well; Puente Hills, Corona, and in the 1950's, those areas looked exactly as depicted here. Open fields and grazing land for cows even as recent as the 1980's. Now, it's highly-densified suburbia with endless cookie-cutter home tracts and very little open space.

  • @prehistorichero2755
    @prehistorichero2755 2 роки тому +9

    The special effects are the most fantastic in 1953!

  • @frederickjohnpicarello1909
    @frederickjohnpicarello1909 4 роки тому +6

    I remember seeing this movie for the first and only time in the mid 70's b4 Star Wars came out when I was just a kid..While I knew it was old even back then'..was still mesmerised by the special effects of the movie!

  • @edp2260
    @edp2260 5 років тому +40

    At 2:15 Dr Forrester (Gene Barry) speculates that the death ray "neutralizes mesons somehow causing matter to cease to exist" . This movie was made in 1953. Meson theory was very new then. It is amazing that this small piece of dialog mentions this detail. The writers were sure doing their homework!

    • @grayman735
      @grayman735 5 років тому +6

      Yeah unlike today

    • @ArchTeryx00
      @ArchTeryx00 5 років тому +9

      He was describing a *literal* disintegrator beam - a beam that caused matter lose integrity and to fly apart at the subatomic level. That's pretty much how the disintegration torpedoes the tripods were firing worked. A level of destructive power that made the atom bomb look like a children's popgun - Forrester knew how horribly they were outgunned.

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 роки тому +1

      Obviously not Star Trek writers, they never once attempted to reverse the polarity ! :-)

    • @dadduorp
      @dadduorp Рік тому

      Thank you! I could never make out what exactly he says there.

    • @edp2260
      @edp2260 Рік тому +1

      @@dadduorp Thank you! Upon re reading the comment, I notice the line was: "neutralizes" mesons., not 'break' the meson force. That is also a good detail. If the sub atomic bonds binding the nucleus of the atoms was just broken, there would be a heck of a lot of energy released.....think atomic bomb! Good writing!

  • @ArchTeryx00
    @ArchTeryx00 5 років тому +40

    The opening scenes were particularly chilling. The tripods took fire for a good 55 seconds and did *nothing* in response - or so it seems. The sensor arms were quietly marking and locking on to targets all over the battlefield. Then when they finally open fire, they *do not miss*. Every shot is an instantly fatal hit. They waste no effort.
    ( The priest had a serious martyr complex. That, or he forgot the old adage, "You can cite scripture to a wasp all you want, but in the end you're still gonna get stung." )

    • @artloverivy
      @artloverivy 5 років тому +2

      Archibald Mirenopteryx Intelligences far beyond our own 👌🏼

    • @darkbubblepenguin9865
      @darkbubblepenguin9865 5 років тому +2

      Archibald Mirenopteryx you mean Martian war machines not tripods

    • @dojoguitare
      @dojoguitare 4 роки тому +3

      @@darkbubblepenguin9865 they were tripods, ported on three energy beams

    • @danieldickson8591
      @danieldickson8591 4 роки тому +3

      When someone told that priest that the Martians were more advanced than us, he said that they must therefore be closer to God.

    • @ianwestc
      @ianwestc 4 роки тому +6

      A few shots before this scene, the priest said that before the shooting started, SOMEONE had to go out and try to talk with them. He was willing to put his life in grave danger to see if he could communicate.

  • @markcaserta1367
    @markcaserta1367 Рік тому

    This movie was so far ahead of its time. The science behind these scenes is amazing. Electronic force fields. Light amplified plasma weapons. This was 1953. Hard to believe anyone had thought of half these type of things back then.

  • @michaelfisher7170
    @michaelfisher7170 Рік тому +2

    I love this movie. Have since i was a kid. Beautifully rendered, acted to perfection. No cgi just inventive practical effects. One of my all time favorites.

  • @danieldickson8591
    @danieldickson8591 4 роки тому +6

    For my money this is still the best depiction on live-action film of a modern military pitted against a superior technology.

  • @mikeguidara1262
    @mikeguidara1262 4 роки тому +14

    "Take my word for it general this kind of defense is useless against that kind of power"😂😂

  • @MisterMilo92
    @MisterMilo92 3 роки тому +4

    The sound effects of the Martians haunted me as a child. I remember having repeat nightmares of its periscope thing somewhere outside my window with that weird clicky sound.

  • @overbank56
    @overbank56 2 роки тому +4

    Excellent sound effects

  • @chris1pdx
    @chris1pdx 2 роки тому +4

    The fantastic thing about this movie is how revered and respected people of science were. Military people, politicians, they all deferred to people of Intelligence. Imagine that today. It's almost unthinkable.

  • @ak9989
    @ak9989 5 років тому +8

    One down vote, that person needs a hug

    • @dojoguitare
      @dojoguitare 4 роки тому

      that person had his mesons neutralized

  • @BmorePatriot
    @BmorePatriot 4 роки тому +3

    One of the best movies in the ‘50s.

  • @markohmighty2859
    @markohmighty2859 3 роки тому +2

    Yep, still holds up & will continue too do so regardless

  • @madcat789
    @madcat789 3 роки тому +4

    0:43 Looks like fourteen F86 Sabres and maybe a F84 Shooting Star.

  • @johnalang
    @johnalang 6 років тому +14

    I've always loved the buildup to the alien machines unleashing their weapons on the military.

    • @artloverivy
      @artloverivy 5 років тому +1

      John Lang Yeah they just gloat in their immunity for a bit before firing

    • @minnowpd
      @minnowpd 3 роки тому

      Starts slow. Remember the square dance when their watches all stopped.

  • @anthonycouldlewissimmons
    @anthonycouldlewissimmons 4 роки тому +3

    It's just one best 50s film

  • @ianwestc
    @ianwestc 4 роки тому +7

    0:19 When the machines start to make that sound, you are absolutely screwed.

  • @michaelkrick3818
    @michaelkrick3818 4 роки тому +1

    One of my all time favorite movies. I was six years old when this came out.🛸

  • @Naminski1a
    @Naminski1a 3 роки тому +5

    That’s the sound of the Starship Enterprise photon torpedoes from Star Trek.

  • @mikethepcman
    @mikethepcman 8 років тому +5

    Nice. Wish a copy could be released. Thank you for the sample.

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  8 років тому +2

      Thank you so much for the kind words, Michael. I'd be happy to give you some additional information about this post if you are interested. I'm at jstoskop@gmail.com

  • @philippejenvrin2741
    @philippejenvrin2741 4 роки тому +2

    Verry good moovie. 1953!!

  • @buzbom1
    @buzbom1 8 років тому +12

    Wow ,great looking picture, clean and clear. The sound is great, just how my mind remembered this when I first saw it as a kid on our color tv console back in the late 60's. I've watched it many times across the years. Seeing this now has me looking online for a remastered or clean digital version to have in my collection. Thanks for taking the time to do this and upload. This scene still gives me the goose bumps. To bad the Spielberg "05" version had that actor in it. Anyone but him would have been better..but I digress. Thumbs up.

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  8 років тому +3

      Ha ha!! I understand! I've not ever been a fan, but I did give him a little bit of a break on this one, but like I say, I'm with ya'. He's never been a favorite of mine. Hey, send me an email if you are interested in more about this movie. I did sync up the entire film with this soundtrack and I'm happy to say, I think it turned out very well. My email is jstoskop@gmail.com if you are interested.

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 5 років тому +7

    Poor Uncle Matthew!😭⛪

  • @johnstarnes
    @johnstarnes 7 років тому +6

    My favorite sequence!

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 3 роки тому +1

      ". Let ' em have it !! "
      " Fire !! "
      Plus the sound of those Death Rays.......genius ..!

  • @keithallver2450
    @keithallver2450 3 роки тому +1

    My favorite movie of all time.

  • @fenwaypark1725
    @fenwaypark1725 4 роки тому +1

    War of the worlds, THEM, The Thing, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Thank you 50s.

  • @adambyrd2373
    @adambyrd2373 Рік тому +1

    What a great movie

  • @jamesmcdermott6919
    @jamesmcdermott6919 3 роки тому +5

    I always wondered if the Martians forcefields were completely circular or they were cup shaped that they stopped at ground level, if so it might be possible to put explosives in the ground and detonated them when one of the Martian ship’s went over them, to see if had a “soft underbelly’’.

    • @WizelBalan
      @WizelBalan 2 роки тому +1

      Should be able to, in the early shots you can see the antigravity beams burning the ground which means the shields do not extend beneath.

  • @randallslone9662
    @randallslone9662 4 роки тому +4

    Great movie

  • @DwayneETowns
    @DwayneETowns 2 роки тому +2

    The technological superiority of the Martians machines Vanquished the. 1950s something army,.. best scene in the movie outside of the Flying Wing Atomic bomb scene.

  • @michaelklein5242
    @michaelklein5242 Рік тому

    The brief moment where the officer is "skeletized" required a very impressive number of individual dissolves. I'm no technician, so hope that's correct term. A lot of intensive work for a moment that lasts mere seconds. This, "The Thing" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are among my all time favorite sci-fi films. Admittedly, The Thing is more a horror movie, which was very innovative because producers wanting to do elaborate sci-fi films but didn't have the money, could focus on the horrible aliens (the "monsters") and just use sci-fi themes as a more peripheral background.

  • @johnungate1782
    @johnungate1782 4 роки тому

    I can remember watching this movie in the Pocono Mountains back east and I had to walk home one whole Mile in the pitch-dark

  • @annrobinson5602
    @annrobinson5602 5 років тому +3

    well John I just watched it and it sounds great

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  5 років тому

      I'm loving the new restoration! I'll have to catch it in a theatre sometime, however. 🤗

  • @TikiFoamy38
    @TikiFoamy38 3 роки тому +2

    3:36 HELL YEAH!!

  • @Wildkat-1
    @Wildkat-1 4 роки тому +3

    When that green beam hits the Soldiers , it sounds like they threw a steak on a hot frying pan ....I'm hungry ..!

    • @davidgradwell8830
      @davidgradwell8830 Рік тому +1

      The characters in the movie are constantly eating or talking about food as it is.

  • @McCracken_9
    @McCracken_9 4 роки тому +2

    This movie scared the shit out of me when i was 5

  • @raymondrose334
    @raymondrose334 2 роки тому +1

    For the day this was so epic.

  • @ratecoudo
    @ratecoudo 7 років тому +5

    Excellent.

  • @gregorygraham5585
    @gregorygraham5585 8 років тому +6

    great job

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  8 років тому +2

      Thanks so much Gregory! Let me know if you want to see (and hear) the whole film in stereo!

  • @tadimaggio
    @tadimaggio Рік тому +1

    I realize that we don't (yet) have a command of magnetic force, that would enable warships to "float" without any solid support; but the overall design of the Martian warships has always struck me as elegantly practical. I wonder if anyone has ever used the production designs from this film when designing actual weapons of war.

  • @danielpina2549
    @danielpina2549 3 місяці тому +1

    Ultimate classic bad ass 😊😊

  • @tommywilliams4073
    @tommywilliams4073 4 роки тому +2

    The only Godzilla movie that matches the scope of this movie is 1954's "Gogira",second would be 1956's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters". There is nothing more terrifying for the petty human mind to grasp,that with all our imagined superiority over the world and all that we deem beneath us, from the mysterious, depths of the oceans,or from the far flung darkness of outer space,can come unimaginable, unstoppable beasts consumed with primeval fury,AWAKENED and MUTATED by man's foolish misuse of nuclear power, or beings whose grasp of knowledge technology and DESTRUCTION,render all mankind helpless and at THEIR mercy.

  • @lanzro-hym8911
    @lanzro-hym8911 6 років тому +5

    feels like a scene from Roland Emmerich's Godzilla or any Godzilla film too.

    • @ianwestc
      @ianwestc 4 роки тому +1

      Emmerich was certainly aiming for this.

    • @thepsychicspoon5984
      @thepsychicspoon5984 4 роки тому

      @@ianwestc The fact that he tried to take 50 year old effects and failed says something.

    • @ianwestc
      @ianwestc 4 роки тому +1

      @@thepsychicspoon5984 War of the Worlds was not only a triumph of great effects, but a triumph of great design as well. Everything is designed imaginatively, and for the time, it was super "futuristic." Even the sound editing is almost unparalleled.

  • @ULMDeskEnd
    @ULMDeskEnd 5 років тому +8

    THE DVD IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE OLD LASERDISC AND A TON OF SPECIAL FEATURES WISH IT WAS ON BLURAY ALONG WITH THE THING FROM 1951.

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  5 років тому +3

      ...but the one thing the DVD doesn't have is the Stereo special effects soundtrack found only on the LD. I don't know why they haven't released it in HD with that track. You can download it in HD from Amazon, however, but again no stereo track.

    • @ULMDeskEnd
      @ULMDeskEnd 5 років тому +3

      @@JohnCStoskopf thanks for the info john

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  5 років тому +3

      Holy cow, there's more! They've finally restored the film and you can download it from iTunes!!! I only just found out. It looks fantastic!

  • @ZuluRomeo
    @ZuluRomeo Рік тому +1

    That exact moment 4:35 haunts me to this very day. You're in a civilian plane about to crash land and in the corner of your eye you see TWO MARTIAN WAR MACHINES

  • @davisphillips993
    @davisphillips993 3 роки тому +2

    This movie is the inverse of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Where that movie condemned mankind’s paranoia and violent tendencies towards things they don’t understand, this one justifies them by making the Martians heartless killing machines (while at the same time, of course, illustrating the futility of said paranoia and violence)

  • @alexhutchens9768
    @alexhutchens9768 4 роки тому +1

    I love this film and the story, I've just been listening to Jeff Wayne's version again. I know the BBC did a remake last year but when will they just make a version just like the original book.

  • @mariocastaneda6041
    @mariocastaneda6041 4 роки тому

    Hoooraaah! I enjoy this very much, thank you, cool stuff.

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  4 роки тому +1

      Mario, if you would like to download the entire movie with the stereo special effects, here is the linkL. www.mediafire.com/download/8r6amnul4xru6ba/TheWarOfTheWorlds720pHDStereo.mp4

  • @THX-kw2jh
    @THX-kw2jh 2 роки тому +1

    Great! The Martian Machines Have NO More Wires!

  • @timfurru4144
    @timfurru4144 4 роки тому +11

    The Martians wouldn't have lasted 1 hour in Wuhan

    • @outerrealm
      @outerrealm 3 роки тому +1

      Even on youtube trying to have fun watching old movies we have to see anti asian racists like you making idiotic comments. Yeah, America, the most dangerous country in the world, 600,000 dead from Covid because of an insane President, from a disease that no one actually knows where it originally came from, that is the place where the martians died. The moral disease of America is far more deadly and incurable than any microbe could ever be. The stupidemic.

    • @mynamablegg8707
      @mynamablegg8707 3 роки тому

      @@outerrealm doesn’t change what he said

    • @americanjohnny4814
      @americanjohnny4814 2 роки тому

      @@outerrealm you don’t understand jokes easily, do you?

  • @bioshock6935
    @bioshock6935 4 роки тому +1

    when i first heard jeff wayne cd war of the worlds as a kid then i watched this film i was so disappointed that it wasn't what i imagine how the film would be. Then years and years later we had tom cruise version and disappointed again and now in 2019 we have the bbc version of the film and that's what i had vision of how it should have been but lets hope it will be a good one this time round

  • @titanae30435px1
    @titanae30435px1 2 роки тому

    Incredible film 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @outerrealm
    @outerrealm 3 роки тому +2

    Bat Masterson vs the Martains

  • @TalkBeliefs
    @TalkBeliefs 11 місяців тому

    The CD of the score has been released again. Beautiful -- but mono.
    Does anyone know if a stereo score exists??

  • @desmondhall2100
    @desmondhall2100 3 роки тому +1

    Don't go to Mars you don't k ow what you find

  • @estefanbravo439
    @estefanbravo439 3 роки тому +2

    Hi John.....

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  3 роки тому

      Hi Estefan! I miss you. I'm about to unleash a "Free Estefan" Campaign. 🤫

  • @QED_
    @QED_ 6 років тому +4

    Boy . . . them earthlings really get their asses kicked here, don't they (?)

  • @dirceudirceu2705
    @dirceudirceu2705 4 роки тому +1

    Esse filme dos anos 50, e melhor do que o produzido nos anos 2000. São dois ótimos filmes, o Terra versus discos voadores (1953) e esse A guerra dos mundos (1953). Dirceu Rodrigues. SÃO JOÃO CLÍMACO/SÃO PAULO/S.P. BRASIL.

  • @ezequielgomez7083
    @ezequielgomez7083 2 роки тому

    The sound effect are awesome was laser attack sound like space video game and laser gun

  • @oldwargamer6110
    @oldwargamer6110 4 роки тому +4

    Is it just me or does the Martian skeleton ray sound like Original star trek photon torpedoes when firing?

    • @Bettyfan92614
      @Bettyfan92614 4 роки тому

      The Martian skeleton ray sound was used as the sound of TOS photon torpedoes when fired.

    • @ianwestc
      @ianwestc 4 роки тому +1

      It's an easy low-tech sound effect as well -- striking a high tension line with a hammer. Ben Burt used the same sort of thing when creating the blaster effects for Star Wars: tapping a high-tension line with a metal rod. He went a little further, usually taking two different sound effects and laying them together the make a more complex sound.

  • @argent2020
    @argent2020 3 роки тому +1

    Minuto 5:02 Jajajajaja dijo uno que estaba mirando la peli: "Mirá, mirá como el Dr. le dio una vacuna a la liebre, ahhhhhhh!!!, jajaja". Siempre hay un mal pensado :)

  • @alerey4363
    @alerey4363 2 роки тому

    3:43 master close up to show the skeleton inside when the martian rays reach him!

  • @michaelmcgee8543
    @michaelmcgee8543 7 років тому +7

    So the stereo of the sound track sitll exist.

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy 6 років тому +5

    Brilliant movie. However at 2:50 the soldier in the background purposely runs over to the fire to light himself up. LOL

    • @ianwestc
      @ianwestc 4 роки тому +2

      "Aliens are blowing everything up! Screw this, I'm checking out!"

  • @aracelimartinez2575
    @aracelimartinez2575 3 роки тому +1

    Ahí están los protagonistas de que aparecen en el año 2005

  • @BlackHatCinephile
    @BlackHatCinephile 5 років тому +10

    Martians: "Aw Lawdy, he's got a Bible and he's quoting some holy shit. Abort mission! Retreat!"

    • @darthroden
      @darthroden 4 роки тому +2

      It reminded me of the scene in the classic Star Trek episode where a recreation of Surak of Vulcan tried to be a peacemaker with Colonel Green and the corrupted version of Kayless. It didn't really end well for him either, but the point was as people of peace both Surak and the priest had to try based on their respective principles.

  • @shawnowen29
    @shawnowen29 10 місяців тому

    Still better than cruise's version any day

  • @desmondhall2100
    @desmondhall2100 3 роки тому +1

    War of the worlds

  • @johnalang
    @johnalang 4 роки тому +1

    JULY, baby!

  • @edstar83
    @edstar83 4 роки тому +3

    When is this going to get a Bluray release?

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  4 роки тому +1

      Still haven't heard, myself, if that will happen. They have restored the film and it's now even available for downloading in 4K....of which I have a copy but still not the equipment to watch in on!

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 4 роки тому +2

      @@JohnCStoskopf July 7, 2020. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection: www.criterion.com/films/29942-the-war-of-the-worlds

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  4 роки тому +2

      @@Madbandit77 Thank you!!

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 4 роки тому +1

      @@JohnCStoskopf No problem.

  • @gregorygraham5585
    @gregorygraham5585 8 років тому +2

    do you have another

    • @JohnCStoskopf
      @JohnCStoskopf  8 років тому

      I should have said, email me at jstoskop@gmail.com for more info.

  • @tomaswalsh-gomez8042
    @tomaswalsh-gomez8042 3 роки тому

    Should of kept it going. Pinnacle movie.

  • @lovesandservesjesuschrist6752
    @lovesandservesjesuschrist6752 2 місяці тому

    Incredible movie!!! Also, interestingly, the 1953 version of War of the Worlds is the only sci-fi movie where the Biblical God is the literal hero of the movie, not man.
    Think about it, there is not one thing/weapon/idea that the human characters in the film tried, that actually worked to any degree of success. Nor is there an actual human hero in the movie, neither male nor female.
    It's only at the very end, when all was almost lost, when people finally turned to God that they "won"! Not by doing anything themselves, but by waiting on God. That message is essentially a Biblical message, and completely antithetical to almost all of the output of every movie industry, whether in the West or in the East.
    I can not think of one other sci-fi movie where man is not the ultimate hero over every kind of challenge/adversity/opposing idea and calamitous event in this universe that you can use or imagine (i.e. both real and imaginary). In every single sci-fi movie it is man, and his strength (physical or psychic) and his superior (godlike) intelligence that win the day. Every. Single. Time.
    But this movie, ironically, coming out just 7 years after WW2, which severely killed both the morale and the morals of humanity, taught in the midst of one of atheists' most beloved genres, where humanism flourishes as the supreme god, that YHWH is king of the universe, and that He is the true God, and that the true God is good and trustworthy, and that He is the ultimate power in the universe.
    This movie, in freaking 1953, shamed the idea that aliens are more relevant or more powerful than God! Before the modern New Age Movement, before the UFO craze, before the technology of the 20th century truly kicked into high gear, before Marxism infested the West, even if the movie gave the aliens a very high level of advanced technology, far ahead of even the latest contemporary technology of nuclear power, this movie, based on a book written in the 19th century, made a firm statement that God is the One to whom man must turn, even in the midst of all of the vain riches of material abundance, technology and scientific knowledge.
    Now that is a unique, powerful and eternal message.