Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
George Sanders | ... | Gordon Zellaby | |
Barbara Shelley | ... | Anthea Zellaby | |
Michael Gwynn | ... | Major Alan Bernard | |
Laurence Naismith | ... | Doctor Willers | |
John Phillips | ... | General Leighton | |
Richard Vernon | ... | Sir Edgar Hargraves | |
Jenny Laird | ... | Mrs. Harrington | |
Thomas Heathcote | ... | James Pawle | |
Martin Stephens | ... | David Zellaby | |
Richard Warner | ... | Harrington | |
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Sarah Long | ... | Evelyn Harrington |
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Charlotte Mitchell | ... | Janet Pawle |
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Pamela Buck | ... | Milly Hughes |
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Rosamund Greenwood | ... | Miss Ogle |
Susan Richards | ... | Mrs. Plumpton |
In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don't want to do. Written by Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
Village of the damned is a tense, well made film. It keeps you on the edge of your seat right the way through, and the ending is brilliant. It benefits from the quaint setting of an isolated English town, and the acting is largely pretty good, especially that of the creepy children.
This 1960 film is much better than the 1995 American remake, which went for gore and loud bangs rather than tension.