The War of the Worlds is a 1953 film adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. The film's story is updated to the 1950s and transported to Los Angles, California. In addition, several other liberities were taken with the story. For example, the film does not feature the satire that Wells utilised much in Book Two of the novel. The novel's main character of an unnamed narrator were split between a main character named Dr. Clayton Forrester and a narrator who provides only an occasional commentary; whereas the Martians were depicted as small, brown, hulkish bipeds.