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Nightmare Theatre
Battle of the Worlds
Season 2
Episode 8
Four-time Oscar nominee Claude Rains stars as an impossibly grumpy scientist who discovers an earth-shattering secret in this semi-futuristic 1961 production, as the NMT crew wonder how such a talented and distinguished actor ended up in a bad Italian sci-fi film.
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