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Antonio Margheriti’s Italian Spaghetti Space Operas are some of the most interesting science fiction from the 1960s. Starting with SPACE MEN (or ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE) and culminating with the brilliantly mod GAMMA ONE QUADROLIGY, Margheriti helped to shape the ultimate form of the genre — Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY — and gave it a truly modern ring (for the time) that was only bettered by the Soviet era science fiction like PLANETA BUR and MECHA NEVSTRACHU. A journeyman filmmaker with a background in production design, Margheriti was not as visionary in his approach as contemporary Mario Bava, who’s PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES remains the most impressive example of Spaghetti Science Fiction, but Margheriti had perhaps a more populist approach to his work that still endears forty-plus years later. His use of models, miniatures and pyrotechnics alone would have earned him a very respectable place in the annals of the genre by themselves. BATTLE OF THE WORLDS is his second trip into the galaxy for entertainment, and compared to the previous year’s ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE, this movie is almost a quantum leap forward in terms of ambitions for his plot, characters and action sequences.
Product details:
MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 3.2 ounces
Director : Anthony Dawson (Antonio Margheriti)
Media Format : NTSC
Release date : July 30, 2002
Actors : Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent and more….
Studio : Alpha Video
ASIN : B00006G8F6
Number of discs : 1
In original case with interior sleeve. Disc is in great condition.
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