Information
- BFI identifier27167
- Date1961 (Copyright)
1963-05-20 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisAn American tourist in Dorset stumbles on a top secret government project to rear a brood of irradiated children they hope will survive a threatened nuclear war. (Synopsis)
- Work historySubmitted to the BBFC in 1961 and passed without cuts at 8500 feet (94 minutes 27 seconds). The film was then kept on the shelf by Hammer for two years and was finally trade shown on 13 March 1963 where it had a running time of 87 minutes. When then submitted to the Board of Trade it was registered on 19 March 1963 at 83 minutes (no footage count is provided in the Board's ledgers, only the running time).
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- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Joseph Losey
©: Ltd. Swallow Productions
a Hammer Film production: Hammer Film Productions
view all - CastMacDonald Carey (Simon Wells)
Shirley Anne Field (Joan)
Viveca Lindfors (Freya Neilson)
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Title
The Damned (Original)
The Children of Light (Working)
These Are the Damned (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/5353-6FA3-033B-99B9-93F0-YCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
- Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Novel by H.L. Lawrence - SCR-6322
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-27167
Small pressbook held. See JOSEPH LOSEY Collection List.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - very rough pencil sketch of adult and child figures - PD-21504
Design: production - very rough pencil sketch of columns supporting building - PD-21505
Design: production - pencil sketch of columns supporting building with figures - PD-21506
Design: production - pencil sketch of columns supporting building with figures - PD-21507
Poster: film - Single Sheet, Landscape, 1017mm X 763mm Poster - PD-3464
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-8my
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-spq
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00n-spp
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-spo
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-spn
view all - Articles
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes October 2014
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +The Damned
Work - 27167 - 1961 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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