Directed by:
William Cameron MenziesScreenplay:
H.G. WellsComposer:
Arthur BlissCast:
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, Patricia Hilliard, Terry-Thomas, George Sanders (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
A landmark collaboration between writer H.G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. Skipping through time, Things to Come bears witness to world war, disease, dictatorship, and, finally, utopia. Conceived, written, and overseen by Wells himself as an adaptation of his own work, this megabudget production, the most ambitious ever from Korda’s London Films, is a triumph of imagination and technical audacity. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Raymond Massey
Canada
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
East of Eden (1955)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Edward Chapman
UK
Best movies:
Mandy (1952)
The Early Bird (1965)
Night and the City (1950)
Ralph Richardson
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Heiress (1949)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Cedric Hardwicke
UK
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Rope (1948)
Richard III (1955)
Derrick De Marney
UK
Best movies:
Young and Innocent (1937)
Spitfire (1942)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Ann Todd
UK
Best movies:
Scream of Fear (1961)
Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952)
The Passionate Friends (1949)
Patricia Hilliard
India
Best movies:
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Things to Come (1936)
George Sanders
Russian Empire
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Love Is News (1937)
Rebecca (1940)
Abraham Sofaer
Burma
Best movies:
Stairway to Heaven (1946)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Chisum (1970)
Patrick Barr
India
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Great Train Robbery (1978)
The Dam Busters (1955)
John Clements
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Margaretta Scott
UK
Best movies:
The Moth (1997) (TV movie)
Things to Come (1936)
Percy (1971)
Allan Jeayes
UK
Best movies:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Elephant Boy (1937)
Charles Carson
UK
Best movies:
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Reach for the Sky (1956)