Raymond Massey

Edward Chapman

Ralph Richardson

Margaretta Scott

Cedric Hardwicke

Maurice Braddell

Sophie Stewart

Derrick De Marney

Ann Todd

Pearl Argyle

Kenneth Villiers

Ivan Brandt

Anne McLaren

Patricia Hilliard

Charles Carson

Patrick Barr

Noel Brophy

John Clements

Anthony Holles

Allan Jeayes

Pickles Livingston

George Sanders

Abraham Sofaer

Terry-Thomas

Charles Crichton

René Hubert

Cathleen Mann

William Cameron Menzies

Alexander Korda

Arthur Bliss

Francis D. Lyon

Vincent Korda

H.G. Wells

Sam Williams

Georges Périnal

John Armstrong

Muir Mathieson

A.W. Watkins

Ned Mann

Frank Wells

Robert Krasker

Nigel Tangye

William Hornbeck

Edward Cohen

Lawrence W. Butler

David B. Cunynghame

Geoffrey Boothby

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Science Fiction

Things to Come

London Films Productions

United Artists

United Kingdom

English

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This is a rather fanciful adaptation of the HG Wells tale. Mankind is all but obliterated by war; reduced to tribal existences - under the overly theatrical leadership of Ralph Richardson and Margaretta Scott - fighting plague, tyranny and the elements. Then they encounter Daniel Massey ("John Cabal") who helps reconcile and rebuild society to an almost Utopian level. It manages to intertwine megalomania with human aspiration; an overpoweringly rousing score and some truly Shakesperian style soliloquy. It comes to force a future upon us that is eerily portentous of an Orwellian style dictatorship; of interstellar exploration to spread our plague of self-destructive ambition to other worlds - and all, broadly speaking with the consent of the masses. Sadly, i saw a colourised version which robbed this film of almost every element of potency; indeed it rendered it little better than a very poor cartoon. It's still just about worth watching; but Massey is no Olivier and I found it all rather preposterous.

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