Things to Come (Colorized and B&W Versions)
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Things to Come
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 1, 2008
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Legend Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Raymond Massey, Margaretta Scott & Ralph Richardson | |
| Performer: | Sophie Stewart, Maurice Braddell, Cedric Hardwicke, Derrick De Marney & Ann Todd | |
| Directed by | William Cameron Menzies | |
| Edited by | Charles Crichton | |
| Screenwriting by | H.G. Wells | |
| Composition by | Arthur Bliss | |
| Produced by | Alexander Korda | |
| Director of Photography: | Georges Périnal |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4 of 5 --
Everyone in this Wellsian future loves it, except for a Luddite (Cedric Hardwicke). "What is the good of all this progress?" he declares. "We demand a rest!" He's supposed to be the villain, but I find him to be the film's most sympathetic character.
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AARP Movies for Grownups
5 stars out of 5 -- [With] some stunning design and imagination....Quite amazing...
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 8/10 --
As troublesome as Wells' philosophy may be, especially his faith in technocracy, Things certainly helped urge the medium into a new era - another Nation's Birth of artistry, and ignorance.
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Film International
In all, this is a film which because of its conception and technical achievements demands to he seen and deserves careful and discriminating attention.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
a huge, wonderful, fantastic spectacle film which shows civilization wiped out within the lifetime of the present generation, then restored, wrapped in Cellophane, for those of our descendants who think it worth while to survive.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Things to Come (L'avenir) is a masterclass in restraint that proves that a film does not need to be ostentatious in order to be powerful.
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One Room With A View
Its lecture-dialogue stilted and ideas simplistic, 'Things to Come' is nevertheless a worthy visual experience.
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Product Description:
A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes, based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. Massey is a future leader determined to restore law and order.
Description by Legend Films:
From H.G. Wells' shocking book comes one of the most lavish science fiction epics ever to hit the screen! It is the year 1940 and civilization has been torn apart by a global war - transformed from a place of order and progress into a nightmarish landscape.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 117,206
- UPC: 844503000613
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