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| Credits | |
| Title: | Village of the Damned |
| Director: | Wolf Rilla |
| Writers: | Stirling Silliphant; Wolf Rilla; George Barclay |
| Producers: | Ronald Kinnoch |
| Composer: | Ron Goodwin |
| Cinematography: | Geoffrey Faithfull |
| Editors: | Gordon Hales |
| Production | |
| Distributed by: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Released: | December 7th, 1960 |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Running time: | 77 min. |
| Country: | UK |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $200,000 |
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| Next: | Children of the Damned |
Village of the Damned is an American horror film of the science fiction subgenre. It is based on the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The film was directed and co-written by Wolf Rilla with a screenplay written by Stirling Silliphant and Ronald Kinnoch (writing as George Barclay). It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (British studio) and released theatrically on December 7th, 1960. The movie was remade for the American market in 1995 by John Carpenter and was also titled Village of the Damned.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| George Sanders | Gordon Zellaby |
| Barbara Shelley | Anthea Zellaby |
| Michael Gwynn | Alan Bernard |
| Laurence Naismith | Doctor Willers |
| John Phillips | General Leighton |
| Richard Vernon | Sir Edgar Hargraves |
| Jenny Laird | Mrs. Harrington |
| Thomas Heathcote | James Pawle |
| Martin Stephens | David Zellaby |
| Richard Warner | Harrington |
| Sarah Long | Evelyn Harrington |
| Charlotte Mitchell | Janet Pawle |
| Pamela Buck | Milly Hughes |
| Rosamund Greenwood | Miss Ogle |
| Susan Richards | Mrs. Plumpton |
| Bernard Archard | Vicar |
| Peter Vaughan | Professor Smith |
| Keith Pyott | Doctor Carlisle |
| Alexander Archdale | The coroner |
| Sheila Robins | Nurse |
| Tom Bowman | Pilot |
| Anthony Harrison | Lieutenant |
| Diane Aubrey | W.R.A.C. secretary |
| Gerald Paris | Sapper |
| Bruno | The dog |
| June Cowell | Village child |
| Linda Bateson | Village child |
| John Kelly | Village child |
| Carlo Cura | Village child |
| Lesley Scoble | Village child |
| Mark Mileham | Village child |
| Roger Malik | Village child |
| Elizabeth Munden | Village child |
| Peter Preidel | Village child |
| Theresa Scoble | Village child |
| Peter Taylor | Village child |
| Howard Knight | Village child |
| Brian Smith | Village child |
| Janice Howley | Village child |
| Paul Norman | Village child |
| Robert Marks | Village child |
| John Bush | Village child |
| Billy Lawrence | Village child |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline to this film is "Beware the Stare! That will paralyze the will of the world!"
- Village of the Damned was first released on home video in VHS (NTSC) format on April 27th, 1995 by MGM/United Artists Home Entertainment. It was first released in DVD format by Warner Home Video on August 10th, 2004 as a double-feature with Children of the Damned.
- Village of the Damned made it's television network premiere in 1972 on CBS.
- Actress Teri Scoble is credited as Theresa Scoble in this film.
- Actress Janice Hawley is credited as Janice Howley in this film.
- Episode 2x08 of Scream: The Series titled, "Village of the Damned", was named after this film.
- Scenes from this film were shot at Letchmoor Heath in Hertfordshire, England. Another source that used this location is "The Bogman of Letchmoor Heath" episode of the She-Wolf of London television series. A notable locale notable to both sources is a pub called The Three Horseshoes.
Recommendations[]
External Links[]
- Village of the Damned at AMG
- Village of the Damned at TCM
- Village of the Damned at IMDB
- Village of the Damned at Themoviedb.org
- Village of the Damned at Rotten Tomatoes
References[]
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