Information
- BFI identifier50339
- Date1960 (Copyright)
1959-11-12 (Production)
1960-11-13 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThe residents of the small English village of Midwich are knocked unconscious by a mysterious force. When they wake, the women are all pregnant and the resulting children prove to be not of this earth. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe cast list divided into sections (The Villagers, Conference Members, etc.) appears in the closing credits. The first five actors in the cast list do not have a section heading. The opening credits list the actors in the following order: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon, Jenny Laird, Richard Warner, Thomas Heathcote, Martin Stephens, Charlotte Mitchell, Keith Pyott, John Stuart, Bernard Archard, Sheila Robins, Peter Vaughan, Tom Bowman, Susan Richards, Rosamund Greenwood, Sarah Long, Pamela Buck, and Alexander Archdale.
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- Subject
- Credits
- CastGeorge Sanders (Professor Gordon Zellaby)
Barbara Shelley (Anthea Zellaby)
Martin Stephens (David Zellaby)
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Title
Village of the Damned (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/4359-4D90-C584-7BD3-9F76-8Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Polyester - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Based on the novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos' by John Wyndham - SCR-18558
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-50339
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-50339
Medium and small pressbooks held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-d7n
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-d7m
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-d7l
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-rx8
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-qoa
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes September 2017
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Village of the Damned
Work - 50339 - 1960 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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