Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination.
Things to Come
The future is here!
1936 · 1h 40m · Not Rated
Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by
William Cameron Menzies
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Things to Come
Overview
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Director and cast
- William Cameron Menzies Director
- Raymond Massey as John Cabal / Oswald Cabal
- Edward Chapman as Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy
- Ralph Richardson as The Boss
- Margaretta Scott as Roxana / Rowena
- Cedric Hardwicke as Theotocopulos
- Maurice Braddell as Dr. Harding
- Sophie Stewart as Mrs. Cabal
- Derrick De Marney as Richard Gordon
- Ann Todd as Mary Gordon
- Pearl Argyle as Catherine Cabal
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.
[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.
This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream.
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