Things to Come (Original title)Whither Mankind (Working title)Shape of Things to Come (Alternative title)H.G. Wells' Things to Come (Alternative title)
Date: 20 February 1936 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: William Cameron Menzies
Synopsis: Fantasy on the history of the world during the next 100 years.
Genre: Science Fiction
Subject: Future
Releases
Date: 20 February 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 108 mins Length: 9781 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 17 April 1936Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 20 February 1936 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: William Cameron Menzies
Synopsis: Fantasy on the history of the world during the next 100 years.
Genre: Science Fiction
Subject: Future
Releases
Date: 20 February 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 108 mins Length: 9781 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 17 April 1936Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Dialogue (original): English
Credits
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All copyrights controlled by: London Film Productions Limited, a London Film production: London Film Productions, Distributed by: United Artists, Distributed in the United States of America by [US prints]: London Film Productions Inc., Produced by: Alexander Korda, Production Manager: David B. Cunynghame, Assistant Director: Geoffrey Boothby, [Screenplay]: H.G. Wells, [Screen Treatment]: Lajos Biró, Above the Title Credit [for novel]: H.G. Wells, Photography by: Georges Perinal, Camera: Robert Krasker, [Assistant Cameraman]: Donald Gallai-Hatchard, [Camera Assistant]: Bernard Browne, Special Effects Directed by: Ned Mann, Special Effects Photographed by: Edward Cohen, Assistant Special Effects: Lawrence Butler, [Special Effects Camera Operator]: Jack Cardiff, [Special Effects]: Harry Zech, [Special Effects]: Wally Veevers, Ross Jackman, Supervising Editor: William Hornbeck, Film Editor: Charles Crichton, Francis Lyon, Settings Designed by: Vincent Korda, [Associate Art Director]: John Bryan, [Associate Art Director]: William Cameron Menzies, Fred Pusey, Assistant Art Director: Frank Wells, [Scenic Artist]: Adolph Montague, Costumes Designed by: John Armstrong, Costumes Designed by: Rene Hubert, The Marchioness of Queensberry, Music Specially Composed by: Arthur Bliss, Musical Director: Muir Mathieson, Recording Director: A.W. Watkins, Sound System: Western Electric Noiseless Recording, Aeronautical Advisor: Nigel Tangye, [Studio]: Worton Hall Studios, Denham Studios
Cast
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Raymond Massey (John Cabal/Oswald Cabal), Edward Chapman (Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy), Ralph Richardson (The Boss), Margueretta Scott (Roxana/Rowena), Cedric 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), John Clements ([the airman]), Abraham Sofaer ([Wadsky]), Antony Holles ([Simon Burton]), George Sanders ([pilot]), Patrick Barr ([World Transport official]), Allan Jeayes ([Mr Cabal]), Terry-Thomas ([extra, man of the future]), Pickles Livingston ([Horrie Passworthy]), Paul O'Brien, Victor Papanek, Gordon Bailey, Clarence Bigge, Hilda Davies, Aubrey Dexter, Colin Eaton, H. Fisher White, Don Gemmell, Jacqueline Giovanni, Florence Harwood, Eugene Leahy, Clifford Marquand, Kim Peacock, Charles Stuart ([uncredited]), Anthony Bruce