Things to Come (Whither Mankind) (1936)

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Directed by

William Cameron Menzies

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Raymond Massey
John Cabal / Oswald Cabal

Edward Chapman
Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy

Ralph Richardson
The Boss

Margaretta Scott
Roxana / Rowena

Cedric Hardwicke
Theotocopulos

Maurice Braddell
Dr. Harding

Sophie Stewart
Mrs. Cabal

Derrick De Marney
Richard Gordon

Written by

H.G. Wells
novel The Shape of Things to Come

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Monsters Mash #13 Things to Come

9 years, 7 months ago at Sep 27 1:56

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Well it's not really a horror but the concept is really terrifying it is based on the H.G. Wells novel Shape the Way and Things to Come like Metropolis it was one of the first movies to define a dystopia, H.G. Wells shows how the world will be after world war II actually this movie and the book were made before WWII that is so freaky the movie mainly takes place in London and shows 10,000 years in... read more

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2 years ago at Apr 27 17:17

fernando

(OK) Huge set imagination by Wells, Menzies and Korda. Not just in the futuristic sets, includin a rocket to the moon, and skycity; but in the pestilence/barbarism 1970 segment, anticipating the Mad max kind of aestetics...

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The city of Everytown endures thirty years of gruelling war, famine and disease. But in a distant future Everytown is rebuilt, heralding a new era of scientific progress.

Release date: 31 March 1936
UPC: 056775036294

Tags: Sci-fi (6), 1936 (5), 1930s (5), Future (3), Dystopia (3), Technology (3), Black And White (2), Scientist (2), Warrior (2), Post Apocalypse (2), Machinery (2), Philosophy (2), British (2), Drama (2), 30's (1), H. G. Wells (1), Barbarism (1), Science Runs Amok (1), Utopia Quest (1), Rocket (1)

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“(OK) Huge set imagination by Wells, Menzies and Korda. Not just in the futuristic sets, includin a rocket to the moon, and skycity; but in the pestilence/barbarism 1970 segment, anticipating the Mad max kind of aestetics...” read more

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"From first to last, Things to Come was intended to bear the unmistakable stamp of H.G. Wells’s personal vision. Adapted by the legendary science-fiction novelist from his nonfiction book of “future history” entitled The Shape of Things to Come, both book and film are earnest attempts to foretell the future, extrapolating from current conditions in the 1930s the course of human events over a 100-year period. William Cameron Menzies’s visual aesthetic is characterized by angular compositio"

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