Three by Byron Haskin
3 Episodes
A master termite-art technician, Byron Haskin brought a prodigious visual imagination and keen intelligence to pulp classics of both science fiction and film noir. Before making the leap to director, he was a renowned special-effects artist at Warner Bros., so it’s little wonder that he excelled at stunningly designed sci-fi marvels like THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, which updates the H. G. Wells classic for Cold War–era America, and the eye-popping cult favorite ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Though his work in the fantasy realm has often overshadowed his other achievements, Haskin was also at home in the gritty world of film noir, as seen in the tough-guy classic I WALK ALONE, a slam-bang showcase for stars Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
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1:36:59Episode 1I Walk Alone
Episode 1
Directed by Byron Haskin • 1947 • United States
Starring Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk DouglasThe dynamite pairing of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas—in the first of seven films they made together—lights up this striking film noir. Just out of prison, ex-bootlegger Frankie Madison (La...
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1:25:25Episode 2The War of the Worlds
Episode 2
Directed by Byron Haskin • 1953 • United States
Starring Gene Barry, Ann RobinsonH. G. Wells’s classic science fiction tale about the invasion of Earth by martians and the panic and destruction that ensue is transposed from Victorian England to 1950s California, effectively tapping into the ...
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1:50:02Episode 3Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Episode 3
Special-effects wunderkind and genre master Byron Haskin (THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE OUTER LIMITS) won a place in the hearts of fantasy-film lovers everywhere with this gorgeously designed journey into the unknown. When his spaceship crash-lands on the barren wastelands of Mars, U.S. astronaut Co...