Tear Jerker / The War of the Worlds (1953)

• You can call Uncle Matthew a naïve idiot for approaching the Martian war machines in a misguided attempt to communicate with them. However, it remains that he was a kind, generous, and sympathetic pastor who did not deserve to be callously murdered by the Martians. Little wonder, then, that Col. Ralph Heffner so furiously commands his troops to "Let 'em have it!" immediately afterwards.
  • The death of the commander himself and probably all of his men shortly after is just as heartbreaking. Since they're all hit by the Martian's Disintegrator Ray.
• Dr. Forrester's grief and bitterness after the looters raid his truck and throw away his research equipment, the very things that might have saved humanity. All in the selfish desire to save themselves at the expense of others.
  Dr. Forrester: They sliced their own throats!
  • When Forrester manages to find some of the other scientists in a church later. The older man is badly injured, since the mob had beaten him to near death.

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