The 1953 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds made several notable changes from the original 1898 novel. In the novel, the narrator witnesses the Martian invasion of England alone, but in the film he is accompanied by his family as they try to escape the Martians. Additionally, the novel is set in late Victorian England, while the film is updated to a postwar American setting. Finally, the novel describes a scientific, rational view of the Martian technology and invasion, while the film portrayal of the Mart