Things To Come
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Time Out says
HG Wells thought Metropolis to be 'quite the silliest film', but a decade later Alexander Korda gave him enormous creative freedom to write a movie version of The Shape of Things to Come, which turned out to be just as silly. However, like Metropolis, it isn't just silly. It is a spectacular production wherein Wells takes his 'science versus art' preoccupations into the future (as seen from the '30s); and to make it work, only lacks the kind of pure cinematic form which a Powell/Pressburger would have given it, for its scale and love of 'ideas' pre-figure their films and make it just as unique in British cinema history. In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.Author: CW
Release details
UK release:
1936
Duration:
113 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Ann Todd, Sophie Stewart, Cedric Hardwicke, Margaretta Scott, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Derrick de Marney
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Art Director:
Editor:
Francis D Lyon, Charles Crichton
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