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Things to Come

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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.

Written by CW

Release Details

  • Duration:113 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:William Cameron Menzies
  • Screenwriter:HG Wells
  • Cast:
    • Raymond Massey
    • Ralph Richardson
    • Edward Chapman
    • Margaretta Scott
    • Cedric Hardwicke
    • Sophie Stewart
    • Ann Todd
    • Derrick de Marney
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