(Children of the Damned [de])
UK 1963
d: Anton Leader
Warner Home Video (Region 0 us)
sc: John Briley (based on the novel "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham)
c: Davis Boulton (b/w)
e: Ernest Walter
pd: Elliot Scott
m: Ron Goodwin
p: Ben Arbeid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM))
w: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, Patrick Wymark, Martin Miller, Harold Goldblatt, Patrick White, André Mikhelson, Bessie Love, Clive Powell, Yoke-Moon Lee, Roberta Rex
pr: 15 Dez 1963
rt: 89:18 min
dvd-rl: 10 Aug 2004
ar: 1.78:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono • French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono • Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
st: English, French, Spanish; CC
supp: Double Feature with "Village of the Damned" (1960)
• Audio Commentary by Screenwriter John Briley
• Original Theatrical Trailer (16:9, 2:21 min)
A fairly intriguing and atmospheric exercise in science fiction, made as a sequel to "Village of the Damned" (an adaptation of John Wyndham's novel "The Midwich Cuckoos"). About a race of superchildren who (in the eyes of the authorities, at any rate) threaten to take over the world, it has some good moments, though its surreal beginning promises a generation war of apocalyptic dimensions that is never delivered, and the film finally falls into some unconvincing liberal moralising (one of the persisting curses of SF in the cinema).
— DP, Time Out Film Guide
