Movie: Embers & Dust

Top 8 Billed Cast

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

Professor Richard Pierson / Self (voice) (archive sound)

Joel Nagle
Joel Nagle

Dale

Virginia Logan
Virginia Logan

Margaret

Henry Gagliardi
Henry Gagliardi

Gene

Frank Readick
Frank Readick

Reporter Carl Phillips (voice) (archive sound)

Kenny Delmar
Kenny Delmar

Secretary of the Interior (voice) (archive sound)

Edwina Maye Phillips
Edwina Maye Phillips

Timeless waitress

Indigo John Phillips
Indigo John Phillips

Kid with milkshake

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    Embers and Dust focuses on the perspective of a young farm boy and his family, and how the night of Orson Welles' dramatic broadcast of War of The Worlds unfolded for them.

  • Release Date

    2016-11-16

  • Average

    6.7

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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