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Things to Come
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019796545
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Legend
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Legend
MPN: 79654
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Legend
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: Legend
Theatrical Release Date: 1936
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Editorial Review:
Based on H.G. Wells's speculative meditation on the price of progress, this 1936 English science-fiction epic shows the painterly touch of director William Cameron Menzies, an American whose career in art direction and production design, as well as uncredited directorial work, attached him to such visual triumphs as Gone with the Wind, Alexander Korda's sumptuous 1940 Thief of Baghdad, and Menzies's better-known SF achievement as director, the original Invaders from Mars. Things to Come traces a generational saga that begins, presciently, with a global war that outlives its own political purpose, unraveling society to a Balkanized world of isolated communities. In the wake of a subsequent, devastating plague, a new technocracy arises, evolving toward Menzies's striking vision of vast, subterranean cities, rendered in matte paintings building on then-contemporaneous art-deco "streamlined" aesthetics. Driven more by theme than plot, Things to Come lacks the sheer momentum of other Wells classics brought to film (The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine, among them); but Menzies's bold look and a strong cast including Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke and a young Ann Todd explain the film's enduring appeal. --Sam Sutherland
A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. Massey is a future leader determined to restore law and order.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: UNRATED UPC: 796019796545 Manufacturer No: 79654
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - SCI-FI
AN WELL MADE FILM WITH HOPES FOR THE FUTURE. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE COVER...IT IS NOT A COLORIZED COPY OF THE FILM.
Rating:  - One of sci-fi's most underrated movies.
It's a great movie and like the best sci-fi it has a solid story to complement the special effects, it's a prophetic story even anticipating WWII, and giving a social critique about man's relationship with technology and where ourfuture might lead us, solid acting, good story, but bear in mind that it's from an era before CGI and in the infancy of big budgets and special effects.
Rating:  - THINGS TO COME (Colorized) - Definitely worth the price
First of all, I just wish to clear the air for those fans who may be sitting on the edge wondering if they should buy another poor copy of THINGS TO COME, a wonderful but extremely dated film. This DVD transfer is about the best I have watched since I started collecting copies of this old movie.
All my prior VHS and DVD copies were made from terribly degraded originals and could barely be watched without feeling like you weren't forcing the situation. This DVD is far from perfect, ... Read More
Rating: - Predictions of the future
It is hard to believe that the film was created so long ago. Although audiences back then laughed at the large screen televisions and the wrist comunicators, it was an accurate prediction of today. It also depicts that nothing really changes, the same people fight to stop other people from doing what they believe is right. They had the same "DO GOODERS" back then.
Rating: - There sure is a future for Wells, but what a future !
H.G. Wells in 1936 was past his prime and the books of his that will survive were long gone by. He was coming to the end of his life and he was confronted to his dream gone sour. At the very beginning of the 20th century he defended the idea that the world was doomed because the evolution of species, natural biology, on one side, and Marxism, market economy on the other side, were necessarily leading to the victory of the weaker over the stronger due to the simple criterion of number. The weaker ... Read More
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