What is War of the Worlds / China Gate about?

WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1953, Paramount, 85 min. Dir. Byron Haskin. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson battle invading Martian war machines in this amazingly visceral, comic book-style feast of apocalyptic images – one of the defining science fiction films of the past 50 years, seen here in a beautiful 35 mm print courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Produced by George Pal, based on the classic novel by H.G. Wells. CHINA GATE, 1957, Paramount, 97 min. Determined to get her bastard son to America, gorgeous Eurasian Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson) agrees to help hard-bitten mercenary Gene Barry and his partners (including Nat ‘King’ Cole) on a jungle trek to destroy a Viet Cong munitions dump on the border between China and French Vietnam. The catch is that racist Barry is the father of the boy, and Dickinson’s part in the scheme is to romance the arms depot’s Viet Cong commander (Lee Van Cleef). A super-hard-boiled and deeply felt work by master filmmaker Sam Fuller.

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What is War of the Worlds / China Gate about?: WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1953, Paramount, 85 min. Dir. Byron Haskin. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson battle invading Martian war machines in this amazingly visceral, comic book-style feast of apocalyptic images – one of the defining science fiction films of the past 50 years, seen here in a beautiful 35 mm print courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Produced by George Pal, based on the classic novel by H.G. Wells.
CHINA GATE, 1957, Paramount, 97 min. Determined to get her bastard son to America, gorgeous Eurasian Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson) agrees to help hard-bitten mercenary Gene Barry and his partners (including Nat ‘King’ Cole) on a jungle trek to destroy a Viet Cong munitions dump on the border between China and French Vietnam. The catch is that racist Barry is the father of the boy, and Dickinson’s part in the scheme is to romance the arms depot’s Viet Cong commander (Lee Van Cleef). A super-hard-boiled and deeply felt work by master filmmaker Sam Fuller.