Title: Things To Come

Date: 1936
Type: Sci-Fi / Action
Rating: 3/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Producer: Alexander Korda

Comment
This is H G Wells vision of a science driven future. A long drawn out war leads to a break down in society, then a plague wipes out most of the population. A group of survivors start to rebuild society around science. Alexander Korda has produced a good version of story that covers a 1000 years of history. The three main episodes are disjointed, but it does give us a view of H G Well's vision of the future. Korda creates tropes that are used in later films with the plague victims becoming the styalised type of the later zombie films.
Actors
Raymond Massey
Edward Chapman
Ralph Richardson
Margueretta Scott
Cedric Hardwicke
Maurice Braddell
Sophie Stewart
Derrick DeMarney
Ann Todd
Pearl Argyle
Kenneth Villiers
Ivan Brandt
Anne McLaren
Patricia Hilliard
Charles Carson
Oscars
None
Novel
H G Wells