Poster for the movie Battle of the Worlds

Battle of the Worlds (1961)

Claude Rains tops the cast list in this Italian science fiction movie, originally titled Il pianeta degli uomini spenti, as a crotchety old scientist whose predictions about a looming astronomical threat to the world are at first disregarded, though he is called upon to help when a planet that had seemed poised to smash into the Earth instead enters orbit and launches attacks instead. Rains is entertaining in his over-the-top role, but the rest of the picture is fairly standard stuff.

  Mildly recommended. Otto judiciously thinks this movie is OK, but not great.

Movie 245 for 2021.

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