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Things to Come|Raymond Massey

Things to Come

Raymond Massey and Edward Chapman
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Overview

A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes, based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. Massey is a future leader determined to restore law and order.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
William Cameron Menzies - Director
Raymond Massey
Edward Chapman
Ralph Richardson
Margaretta Scott
Cedric Hardwicke
Ned Manning
Maurice Braddell
Sophie Stewart
Abraham Sofaer
Anthony Holles

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD
  • Color Format: B&W and Color
  • UPC: 715515107013
  • Genre: HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY
  • Rating: NR
  • Release Date: June 2013

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
In the years since they were published, H.G. Wells's words seem to have become prophecies... Society in 2036 has devolved into a leisure-saturated body of mass consumers. Important decisions are relegated to an elite few. World wars have left parts of the globe in ashes; localized conflicts continue as a way of life. Social and medical epidemics rage. The comfortable bourgeoisie dwells like moles, living below sea level. Its members rest on cellophane sofas, inhale filtered oxygen, ingest preserved food, and entertain themselves by synthetic light. While the intelligentsia obliterates the sick to create a utopia for the earthlings who remain, others plan a mysterious trip to the moon, purportedly for humanity to reach the next rung on its evolutionary ladder.

Notes:
Additional cast: Pearl Argyle (Katherine Cabal), Kenneth Villiers (Maurice Passworthy), Anne McLaren (The Child), and Patricia Hilliard (Janet Gordon). Additional credits: Nigel Tangye (aeronautical advisor) and Frank Wells (assistant art director).

Reviews:
Rating: B - 07/12/1996 Entertainment Weekly, pp.64-5


3 stars out of 5 -- "When it came to predicting the future, Herbert George Wells was no slouch....Wells' story takes in war, plague, destruction and rebirth." - 07/01/2007 Total Film, p.113


5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some stunning design and imagination....Quite amazing..." - 06/29/2007 Ultimate DVD, p.30


"Menzies' visionary if eccentric adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel is fascinating both as a record of 1930s England and for its apocalyptic vision of the future." - 09/01/2007 Sight and Sound, p.87


"Wells and his collaborators meant to offer a stern, though ultimately hopeful, vision of humanity’s halting progress across the century to come." - 06/28/2013 New York Times

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