Revealing mistake: In the first scene of the crashed meteor, on the extreme left of the scene where the smoke is, it seems to be billowing up from behind a stage wall, as there is a definite vertical line and a gap between the smoke and the left edge of the frame.

The War of the Worlds (1953)
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Directed by: Byron Haskin
Starring: Gene Barry, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Ann Robinson
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Forrester: If they're mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. They'll be stopped, somehow.
Trivia: The Flying Wing used to drop the atomic bomb on the Martians was the YB-49, an experimental bomber discontinued in 1950, three years before this movie was made. By the time the movie came out all YB-49s had been scrapped.




