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Things to Come (1936)
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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. Director:William Cameron Menzies |
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Raymond Massey | ... |
John Cabal
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Oswald Cabal
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Edward Chapman | ... |
Pippa Passworthy
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Raymond Passworthy
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Ralph Richardson | ... |
The Boss
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Margaretta Scott | ... |
Roxana
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Rowena
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Cedric Hardwicke | ... |
Theotocopulos
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Maurice Braddell | ... |
Dr. Harding
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Sophie Stewart | ... |
Mrs. Cabal
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Derrick De Marney | ... |
Richard Gordon
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Ann Todd | ... |
Mary Gordon
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Pearl Argyle | ... |
Catherine Cabal
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Kenneth Villiers | ... |
Maurice Passworthy
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Ivan Brandt | ... |
Morden Mitani
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Anne McLaren | ... |
The Child
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Patricia Hilliard | ... |
Janet Gordon
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Charles Carson | ... |
Great Grandfather
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Storyline
A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primitive localized communities. In 1966 a great plague wipes out most of what people are left but small numbers still survive. One day a strange aircraft lands at one of these communities and its pilot tells of an organization which is rebuilding civilization and slowly moving across the world re-civilizing these groups of survivors. Great reconstruction takes place over the next few decades and society is once again great and strong. The world's population is now living in underground cities. In the year 2035, on the eve of man's first flight to the moon, a popular uprising against progress (which some people claim has caused the wars of the past) gains support and becomes violent. Written by Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
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(Austria) See more »Also Known As:
H.G. Wells' Things to Come See more »Box Office
Budget:
£300,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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| UK: | Canada: (VHS version) | UK: (premiere cut) | UK: (original version) | USA: (cut version) | Spain: (DVD)Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System Noiseless Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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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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The part of Theotocopulos was originally filmed with Ernest Thesiger in the role. The scenes were re-shot with Sir Cedric Hardwicke because the producers wanted a better-known actor with more "marquee value". See more »Goofs
Continuity: During the bombing of Everytown, a man in a top hat follows several people across the hood of a car in an attempt to escape. There are footprints clearly all over the hood. A later scene shows more people using the same car, But this time the hood is clean. See more »Quotes
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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