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Bookmark this pageChildren of the Damned (1963)
Director: Anton M Leader
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From Time Out Film Guide
A fairly intriguing and atmospheric exercise in science fiction, made as a sequel to Village of the Damned (an adaptation of John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos). About a race of superchildren who (in the eyes of the authorities, at any rate) threaten to take over the world, it has some good moments, though its surreal beginning promises a generation war of apocalyptic dimensions that is never delivered, and the film finally falls into some unconvincing liberal moralising (one of the persisting curses of SF in the cinema).Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Anton M Leader
Producer: Ben Arbeid
Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, Martin Miller full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 90 mins
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