Things to Come
A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. Skipping through time, Things to Come bears witness to world war, disease, dictatorship, and, finally, utopia. Conceived, written, and overseen by Wells himself as an adaptation of his own work, this megabudget production, the most ambitious ever from Korda’s London Films, is a triumph of imagination and technical audacity.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat
- New interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling on the film’s design
- New visual essay by film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss’s musical score
- Unused special effects footage by artist László Moholy-Nagy, along with a video installation piece by Jan Tichy incorporating that footage
- Audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H. G. Wells’s writing about the Wandering Sickness, the plague in Things to Come
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
New cover by Laurent Durieux
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat
- New interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling on the film’s design
- New visual essay by film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss’s musical score
- Unused special effects footage by artist László Moholy-Nagy, along with a video installation piece by Jan Tichy incorporating that footage
- Audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H. G. Wells’s writing about the Wandering Sickness, the plague in Things to Come
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
New cover by Laurent Durieux
Cast
- Raymond Massey
- John Cabal/Oswald Cabal
- Edward Chapman
- Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy
- Ralph Richardson
- The Boss
- Margaretta Scott
- Roxana/Rowena
- Cedrick Hardwicke
- Theotocopulos
- Maurice Braddell
- Dr. Harding
- Sophie Stewart
- Mrs. Cabal
- Derrick de Marney
- Richard Gordon
- Ann Todd
- Mary Gordon
- Pearl Argyle
- Catherine Cabal
- Kenneth Villiers
- Maurice Passworthy
- Ivan Brandt
- Morden Mitani
- Anne McLaren
- The Child
- Patricia Hilliard
- Janet Gordon
- Charles Carson
- Great-grandfather
Credits
- Produced by
- Alexander Korda
- Director
- William Cameron Menzies
- Settings designed by
- Vincent Korda
- Photography
- Georges Périnal
- Special effects directed by
- Ned Mann
- Music specially composed by
- Arthur Bliss
- Musical director
- Muir Matheson
- Costumes designed by
- John Armstrong
- Costumes designed by
- René Hubert
- Costumes designed by
- Marchioness of Queensberry
- Production manager
- David B. Cunynghame
- Recording director
- A. W. Watkins
- Assistant art director
- Frank Wells
- Aeronautical adviser
- Nigel Tangye
- Supervising editor
- William Hornbeck
- Film editors
- Charles Crichton
- Film editors
- Francis Lyon
- Special effects photographed by
- Edward Cohen
- Assistant special effects
- Lawrence Butler
- Assistant director
- Geoffrey Boothby
- Camera operator
- Robert Krasker
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