Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. Based on The shape of things to come, by H.G. Wells. Special features: New high-definiton digital film restoration; Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat; Christopher Frayling on the design (interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling); Bruce Eder on the score (film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss's musical score); László Moholy-Nagy (unused footage by special effects artist Moholy-Nagy); The wandering sickness (audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H.G. Wells's writing). Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick DeMarney, Ann Todd, Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers, Ivan Brandt, Anne McLaren, Patricia Hilliard, Charles Carson.
Summary:
Takes the viewer on a hundred-year time trip to 2036 A.D. when a man and a woman are rocketed to the moon.
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