The War of the Worlds

It's the wrong message.

It's not War of the Worlds.

We don't defeat them with our excellent humanity, or we don't defeat them because of good luck and bacteria.

The alien threat doesn't go.

He went on to be in some big titles.

After Hawks' monkey business the next year, 1952, he was in 1953, War of the Worlds, along with some classics by Robert Aldrich, the tough noir Kiss Me Deadly, and a thriller that we've reviewed, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

Mr.

Newsman here, Douglas Spencer, was never a movie star, but he was in some big movies.

You know, but, you know, there's other things I'd love to get.

I'd love to get War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

And a lot of times, you know, it's not just time that's the problem.

They're under contract elsewhere or, you know, they're in some cases, quite honestly, too expensive for our network.

okay.

I got to say, too, and this is why this question probably was the toughest one for me because – and now I'm realizing I didn't even mention War of the Worlds.

Right.

The original – the War of the Worlds, the older, the 50s War of the Worlds movie, that one also – was it 53, I think it was? Yeah.

watched that so many times growing up and that even when i was uh still teaching english uh read the book with my students we watched the 1953 version um in class and that is pretty much everything about that movie too so now that i'm thinking about it this is a terrible question and whoever wrote it should be strung up by their toes um Because it, I know, I know.

John, have you ever, have you ever listened to the original broadcast, the Orson Welles broadcast?

It wasn't until the 1950s that the science fiction element of horror kicked into high gear.

with movies like the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and War of the Worlds, as well as Godzilla.

And the 1960s introduced zombie flicks, which actually originated in Haitian folklore, as well as terror stories with normal-looking villains, even scarier than monsters.

like Hitchcock's Psycho.

I'm going to go with Forever Autumn for a song of the week.

Jonas has decided that Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds is his October listen, so he's been listening to that off and on, and I've been hearing it in the background when he takes a show.

He was Led Zeppelin-ing last night after we got back from the football game.

Good.

Good

man.

But Forever Autumn, written by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne, and Paul Vigris, and sung by Justin Hayward of Moody Blues fame, and probably the most recognized tune from the great album, Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War of the Worlds.

Forever Autumn, your song of the week.