The Night That Panicked America

The Night That Panicked America

92 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Oct. 31, 1975

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

The Night That Panicked America

92 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Oct. 31, 1975

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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Paramount Television, The Culzean Corporation
Original title The Night That Panicked America
Directors Joseph Sargent
Writers

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 (as Meredith Baxter Birney)

Tom Bosley

as Norman Smith

Will Geer

as Reverend Davis

Paul Shenar

as Orson Welles

John Ritter

as Walter Wingate

Granville Van Dusen

as Carl Phillips

Joshua Bryant

as Howard Koch

Liam Dunn

as Charlie

Walker Edmiston

as Mercury Theatre Player

Marcus J. Grapes

as Mercury Theatre Player

Art Hannes

as Mercury Theatre Player

Casey Kasem

as Mercury Theatre Player

Ron Rifkin

as Mercury Theatre Player

Byron Webster

as Harrison

Clarke Gordon

as Matlock

Linda Dano

as Secretary

Hanna Landy

as Maid (as Hanna Hertelendy)

Robert Lussier

as Arnie

Ed Bakey

as Vanderhoff

Bob Harks

as News Vendor (uncredited)

Michelle Stacy

as Hank Muldoon's Daughter (uncredited)