Synopsis
Broadcast from New York’s Mercury Theatre in 1938, this infamous radio play, based on the novel by H.G.Wells, had many terrified listeners convinced that an actual alien invasion of Earth was taking place. Adapted by Howard E.Koch, co-writer of “Casablanca”, the broadcast was narrated and directed by Orson Welles, with the original script detailing the frightening tale of an extraterrestrial invasion.