The Night That Panicked
America
directed by Joseph
Sargent,
written by Nicholas Meyer and Anthony
Wilson,
based on a story by Nicholas Meyer,
was
released in the United States on October 31, 1975.
TV movie, originally screened
on the ABC network.
Based on Orson Welles’ dramatized
radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds,
in turn based on the novel H.
G. Wells,
broadcast as part of the CBS
Radio series The Mercury
Theatre on the Air on October 30, 1938.
Music by Frank Comstock.
Paul Shenar, Vic Morrow,
Cliff De Young, Michael Constantine, Walter McGinn, Eileen Brennan, Meredith
Baxter, Tom Bosley, Will Geer, John Ritter, Granville Van Dusen, Burton Gilliam, Joshua Bryant, Liam Dunn, Shelley
Morrison, Walker Edmiston, Marcus J. Grapes, Art Hannes, Casey Kasem, Ron
Rifkin, Byron Webster, Clarke Gordon, Linda Dano, Tracy Brooks Swope, Hanna
Landy, Robert Lussier, Ed Bakey, Bob Harks, Michelle Stacy.