Things to Come
The future is here!
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 9, 2018
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: DigiCom TV
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Raymond Massey | |
| Performer: | Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart & Derrick De Marney | |
| Directed by | William Cameron Menzies | |
| Edited by | Francis D. Lyon & Charles Crichton | |
| Screenwriting by | H.G. Wells | |
| Composition by | Arthur Bliss | |
| Produced by | Alexander Korda | |
| Director of Photography: | Georges Périnal |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 8/10 --
(Wells) never imagined our 21st century gadgets would be so tiny; pocket-sized streaming devices for a population more interested in gazing at navels than at stars.
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Movie Metropolis
Its lecture-dialogue stilted and ideas simplistic, 'Things to Come' is nevertheless a worthy visual experience.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Rating: 4 of 5 --
Everyone in this Wellsian future loves it, except for a Luddite (Cedric Hardwicke). "What is the good of all this progress?" he declares. "We demand a rest!" He's supposed to be the villain, but I find him to be the film's most sympathetic character.
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AARP Movies for Grownups
Rating: 4/5 --
Things to Come (L'avenir) is a masterclass in restraint that proves that a film does not need to be ostentatious in order to be powerful.
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One Room With A View
In all, this is a film which because of its conception and technical achievements demands to he seen and deserves careful and discriminating attention.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Rating: 2/4 --
a disappointing lesson learned about the limitations of amazing imagery bereft of interesting characters and narrative
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Q Network Film Desk
[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
After a decades-long World War leaves plague and anarchy, a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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- Sales Rank: 69,462
- UPC: 886470500987
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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