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Posts Tagged "H G Wells"

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Things to Come **** (1936, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 905

In a future 1940, a 30-year-long global war and a black death plague destroys Everytown. Then in 1970, a band of scientists rebuild it into a great futuristic city. And by 2036, the first pair […]

Mar, 12

The Invisible Man ***** (1933, Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, E E Clive, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 778

The Invisible Man (1933) is one of the great Universal horror movies. Claude Rains became an overnight star as scientist Dr Jack Griffin, who invents an invisibility serum and turns himself invisible, but then terrorises […]

Jan, 31

The Time Machine *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons, Orlando Jones) – Classic Movie Review 662

Guy Pearce stars as haunted-looking Victorian scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen who, after his wife is killed, travels in his machine through time in search of her. Remaking the much-loved 1960 version by George Pal, The […]

Jan, 10

The Time Machine **** (1960, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux) – Classic Movie Review 661

After successfully producing the 1953 version of H G Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, George Pal profitably returns to the great author’s work to direct this entertaining and imaginative movie from Wells’s other […]

Jan, 10

The War of the Worlds ***** (1953, Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 485

In one of his most famed film roles, Gene Barry stars as Dr Clayton Forrester in director Byron Haskin’s and producer George Pal’s winning if unsubtle adaptation from the novel by H G Wells. It […]

Dec, 07

Dead of Night ***** (1945, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 399

‘Suitable only for adults’, according to the poster, the famous vintage 1945 British chiller Dead of Night about a man’s fear of impending doom is satisfying, polished and still truly creepy. The hero’s half-remembered recurring […]

Nov, 13

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