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No Blade of Grass is a 1970 apocalyptic dystopian film co-written, directed and produced by Cornel Wilde and starring Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, and John Hamill. It is an adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956) and follows the survivors of a plague that has hit London in the not too distant future
Oct 23, 1970 · With Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick. An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.
A Londoner (Nigel Davenport) leads his wife (Jean Wallace) and family through anarchy after a virus wipes out the world's crops.
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No Blade of Grass is an apocalyptic vision that Sam Peckinpah might have created, and it has more in common with Straw Dogs (which was released a year later, in 1971) than with most end-of-the-world movies before it.
Overview. A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them.
Now available in a full, uncut edition, No Blade of Grass can at last be seen in all its grim, daring, gory glory. A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos.
No Blade of Grass is a 1970 British-American apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Cornel Wilde and starring Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, and John Hamill. It is an adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956) and follows the survivors of a plague that has hit London in the not too distant future.
