20.3.23

War of All Worlds

Special K: The grandparents of Tom Cruise's kids at the end of War of the Worlds (2005) are played by Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, the two leads of 1953's The War Of The Worlds.

b1-66er: THAT I did not know.
Great trivia.

K: Yes. I just watched it Saturday night and didn't know.

b1: Where'd you stumble across that fact?
Thave a Criterion DVD version of the
original WotW and
I'm pretty sure that fact isn't mentioned in there.

K: I was searching to see where the movie was filmed, and that tidbit turned up.