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31 March 1936 (Denmark) moreTagline:
What will the next hundred years bring to mankind? morePlot:
A story of 100 years: a decades-long second world war leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and tries space travel. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
A troubling epic. moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Raymond Massey | ... | John Cabal / Oswald Cabal | |
| Edward Chapman | ... | Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy | |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Rudolph - The Boss | |
| Margaretta Scott | ... | Roxana / Rowena (as Margueretta Scott) | |
| Cedric Hardwicke | ... | Theotocopulos | |
| Maurice Braddell | ... | Dr. Harding | |
| Sophie Stewart | ... | Mrs. Cabal | |
| Derrick De Marney | ... | Richard Gordon (as Derrick de Marney) | |
| Ann Todd | ... | Mary Gordon | |
| Pearl Argyle | ... | Catherine Cabal | |
| Kenneth Villiers | ... | Maurice Passworthy | |
| Ivan Brandt | ... | Morden Mitani | |
| Anne McLaren | ... | The Child | |
| Patricia Hilliard | ... | Janet Gordon | |
| Charles Carson | ... | Great Grandfather |
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H.G. Wells' Things to Come (UK) (complete title)The Hundred Years to Come (UK) (working title)
The Shape of Things to Come (UK) (working title)
Whither Mankind (UK) (working title)
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100 min | UK:117 min | Canada:91 min (VHS version) | UK:108 min (premiere cut) | UK:113 min (original version) | USA:92 min (cut version)Country:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System Noiseless Recording)Fun Stuff
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Music recorded at The Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street, London, England UK moreGoofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end of the film, we hear the helicopter's rotor slowing almost to a stop while it's still descending at constant speed. moreQuotes:
Raymond Passworthy: Oh, God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest?Oswald Cabal: Rest enough for the individual man - too much, and too soon - and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet with its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.
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I first saw this as a child living in East London. The scars of Hitlers Luftwaffe were all too evident and the landscape of the movie was reminiscent of our street. I remember having nightmares after seeing it. The odd thing is, it really hasn't dated if viewed as a piece of social history in Cinema fiction.
Apart from a globally destructive war, the scale of the machines was badly awry, more Nano-Technology now, but overall, an excellent and well-crafted work. It was interesting to see how space travel was perceived back then. I would think that firing a spacecraft from a gigantic gun would almost certainly kill the astronauts. However, much was right. Mans desire for war, mans inhumanity to man. The means of war as a catalyst for development.