Omus
Search results
The Shape of Things to Come: Directed by George McCowan. With Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland. Some time in the future, man has set up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable.
- (1.4K)
- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- George McCowan
- 1979-08
H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come is a 1979 Canadian science fiction film directed by George McCowan, and starring Jack Palance, Barry Morse, Nicholas Campbell, Anne-Marie Martin, Carol Lynley and John Ireland.
The Shape of Things to Come is a science fiction novel written by the British writer H. G. Wells published in 1933. It takes the form of a future history that ends in 2106. Synopsis. A long economic slump causes a major war that leaves Europe devastated and threatened by the plague.
- H. G. Wells
- 1933
After a nuclear holocaust, humans fight a dictator (Jack Palance) who has taken control of a radiation-fighting drug they need to survive. Prime Video Apple TV. Rent The Shape of Things to...
- (20)
- George Mccowan
- PG
- Jack Palance
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Reception
- Duration, Releases, and Surviving Versions
- Home Media
- Copyright Status
- See Also
- References
- External Links
In 1940, businessman John Cabal, living in the city of Everytown in southern England, cannot enjoy Christmas Day as the news speaks of possible war. His guest, Harding, shares his worries, while another friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Passworthy, believes that it will not come to pass, and if it does, it will accelerate technological progress. An...
+Cast notes 1. Theotocopulos's scenes were originally shot with Ernest Thesiger. Wells found his performance to be unsatisfactory, so he was replaced with Cedric Hardwicke and the footage reshot. 2. Terry-Thomas, who would become known for his comic acting, has an uncredited appearance as an extra in the film, playing a "man of the future." It was ...
Things to Come sets out a future history from 1940 to 2036. In the screenplay, or "treatment"that Wells published in 1935, before the film was released, the story ends in "A.D. 2054". Wells is sometimes incorrectly assumed to have had a degree of control over the project that was unprecedented for a screenwriter. Posters and the main title bill the...
Things to Come was voted the ninth best British film of 1936 by Film Weekly's readers. It was the 16th most popular film at the British box office in 1935–36. In 2005, it was nominated for the AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, a list of the top 25 film scores unveiled by the American Film Institute. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a...
The rough cut of the film was 130 minutes in length, while the version submitted for classification by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) was 117m 13s. By the time of the 21 February 1936 UK premiere and initial release, this had been reduced to 108m 41s, while the American print premiered on 18 April 1936 was further cut to 96m 31s. By late ...
A cut version of the 92m 44s print was digitally restored and colourised by Legend Films, under the supervision of Ray Harryhausen (who had no connection with the making of the film) and released on DVD in the United States in early 2007.[citation needed] In May 2007, Network DVD in the UK released a digitally restored copy of the 96m 31s version, ...
Although the film lapsed into the public domain in the US in 1964 due to non-renewal, copyright remained in force in the UK, the European Union, and elsewhere. In the UK, copyright for films as "dramatic works" subsists for seventy years after the end of the year of release, or the death of either the director, the writer (or author of original sto...
The Man Who Could Work Miracles, a 1937 film based on Wells' short story of the same name, which Wells co-wrote with Lajos BíróH. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come, a 1979 Canadian space operafilmNotes Bibliography 1. Cooley, Donald G. (May 1936). "H. G. Wells Photographs the Future in His Motion Picture "Things to Come"". Modern Mechanix. Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2017. 2. Cooper, Nick (2012) "Things to Come Viewing Notes", Network Blu-Ray 3. Frayling, Christopher (1995). Things to Come. British Film ...
Things to Come at the AFI Catalog of Feature FilmsThings to Come at IMDbThings to Come at Rotten TomatoesThings to Come at AllMovieOmus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus.
A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships, and only three people and their robot can stop him. Earth's a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonised the Moon in domed cities.
