These Are the Damned
(1963)
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These Are the Damned
(1963)
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Macdonald Carey | ... |
Simon Wells
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Shirley Anne Field | ... |
Joan
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| Viveca Lindfors | ... |
Freya Neilson
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| Alexander Knox | ... |
Bernard
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| Oliver Reed | ... |
King
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| Walter Gotell | ... |
Major Holland
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James Villiers | ... |
Captain Gregory
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Tom Kempinski | ... |
Ted
(as Thomas Kempinski)
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Kenneth Cope | ... |
Sid
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Brian Oulton | ... |
Mr. Dingle
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Barbara Everest | ... |
Miss Lamont
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Allan McClelland | ... |
Mr. Stuart
(as Alan McClelland)
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James Maxwell | ... |
Mr. Talbot
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Rachel Clay | ... |
Victoria
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Caroline Sheldon | ... |
Elizabeth
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Legal and illegal criminality. An American tourist with a boat is robbed by a gang of teenager boys, assisted by the leader's sister. But soon afterward she jumps to the victim's boat to escape her brother's incestuous jealousy. The couple fly together and is hunted by the entire gang. Both happen to enter high-classified military territory. There might be a third and atomic world war, after which no ordinary man could survive. But now and then children are born who are "naturally" radio-active and have cold blood. They might survive in the post-war world and carry on mankind. They are fetched and brought to an underground construction where they are educated by TV. They are told that they are on a space ship moving toward the earth, which they should eventually colonize. This military project seems to be a failure because of a high mortality among the children. - The military soon finds the gang. The couple finds the children and tries to help them to escape. This situation will ... Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
I haven't seen this film for a very long time,but would love to do so again.Most of the previous commentators have pretty much covered the film,several comparing it to 'A clockwork orange',but I can see another possible connection between the two films;the actual dress imagery of the two gangs is rather similar,as I recall(bowler hats in both,an umbrella aka Oliver Reed,& a large stick with Malcolm McDowell, plus rather uniform clothing).These 'looks' seem to me surrealist in style,maybe suggesting a link of mindless violence to mindless conformity,and I wonder if this less well known(now)film influenced 'A clockwork orange'?