The Night That Panicked America

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

Cast

Vic Morrow

as Hank Muldoon

Cliff DeYoung

as Stefan Grubowski

Michael Constantine

as Jess Wingate

Walter McGinn

as Paul Stewart

Eileen Brennan

as Ann Muldoon

Meredith Baxter

as Linda Davis

Tom Bosley

as Norman Smith

Will Geer

as Reverend Davis

Paul Shenar

as Orson Welles

John Ritter

as Walter Wingate

Reviews

Wuchak

**_The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!!!_** On the night before Halloween, 1938, Orson Welles directs a radio adaptation of HG Wells' novel The War of the Worlds from forty years prior. The "breaking news" style of ominous storytelling convinced many listeners throughout America to ...

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