View movie

View thumbnails
Run time: 00:93:00

Play / Download (help)

(338 B)QuickTime
(368 MB)Ogg Video
(384 MB)512Kb MPEG4
(456 MB)MPEG4

Resources

William Cameron MenziesThings to Come (1936)

Things to Come opens with a near-future forecast of Christmas 1940 in the metropolis of Everytown (obviously London), a city threatened by world war. Pacifist intellectuals, such as John Cabal (Massey), try to turn the tide. But Cabal's efforts go unheeded by the self-interested classes, and war arrives with tanks and aeroplanes and gas bombs. Everytown is destroyed by air raids (dramatically enacted four years before the real thing).The war continues for thirty years, its original purpose forgotten. As a result, civilization degenerates while "the Wandering Sickness" and devastation accelerate the spiral down until 1970, when the world has crumbled into a balkanized "Mad Max" Dark Ages. Everytown is ruled by a barbaric warlord, the Boss (Ralph Richardson), as the war continues on a Medieval scale.

FLV file

web page

Originally Submitted by: www.k-otic.com


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: William Cameron Menzies
Producer: Alexander Korda
Production Company: London Film Production Inc
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Sci-Fi

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Individual Files

Write a review
Downloaded 11,374 timesReviews
Average Rating:

Reviewer: moosie4242 - - March 22, 2008
Subject: ONE TO WATCH
With wars going on in all parts of the world this movie should be required watching for everyone. Perhaps a little too much of a doomsday message here, but one can easily relate to today's events. This film is easy to watch but hard to think about. Entertaing and frightning at the same time.