Originally posted by Gixer
Well if this movie is anywhere near as good as the original radio show should be awsome.
My folks had a recording of it and can remember listening to it as a kid. Loved the music.
...-Gixer
yup, they used to play it on the radio every holloween night when I was a kid. I remember my Uncle bought a Record of it.
I remember the cover having the headlines of the newspapers on it.
From what I understand they changed the story a bit. Doesnt land in Grovers mills like in the original.
Grovers mills is about a 20 min drive from me and they have a park with a monument recognising the broadcast there.
I like taking kids there and telling them that is the spot where the martians landed. really freaks em out till I explain to em what really happened
During the original broadcast alot of folks in the area missd the introduction and when they tuned in they actually thought the event was real. Farmers actually grabbed their guns and went out hunting for the invaders. And this type of behaviour happened all around the country
"Reports had come in about panic in New Jersey, by people who believed the broadcast to be authentic news. The panic was spreading north and west. In Newark, traffic ran wild through the streets. People wrapped their faces in wet towels and roared past puzzled traffic cops in their haste to get out of town. One Newark hospital treated twenty patients for shock. A woman in Pittsburgh was saved by her husband as she tried to commit suicide by poison. A coincidental power outage in a small Midwestern town at the peak of the show sent people screaming into the streets. At a college campus in North Carolina student fought over the few available phones. In Boston, people imagined they could see the glow of the destruction of New York City."
The Site, near as I can tell has the majority of the broadcast in small audio clips along with commentary
War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
