Things to Come

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Category: Sci-Fi
All Genres: Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1936
Country: UK
Runtime: 100
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

What will the next hundred years bring to mankind?

The future is here!

Writing by: H.G. Wells - novel "The Shape of Things to Come"
H.G. Wells - screenplay

Produced by: Alexander Korda - producer

Cast: Raymond Massey - John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
Edward Chapman - Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy
Ralph Richardson - The Boss
Margaretta Scott - Roxana / Rowena (as Margueretta Scott)
Cedric Hardwicke - Theotocopulos
Maurice Braddell - Dr. Harding
Sophie Stewart - Mrs. Cabal
Derrick De Marney - Richard Gordon (as Derrick de Marney)
Ann Todd - Mary Gordon
Pearl Argyle - Catherine Cabal
Kenneth Villiers - Maurice Passworthy

Music: Arthur Bliss
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Plot Outline: 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.
Plot: 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 primative 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 organisation 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 worlds population is now living in underground cities. In the year 2035, on the eve of mans 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.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
There is a short additional sequence with Michael Rapaport after the credits have ended.

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Near the end of the film, we hear the helicopters rotor slowing almost to a stop while its still descending at constant speed.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
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".
Music recorded at The Scala Theatre, Charlotte Street, London, England UK
The date on the newspaper in the scene in 1966 when the war ends is 21st September 1966--which would have been the 100th birthday of H.G. Wells.