Director: William Cameron Menzies
Writing Credits: H.G. Wells
Starring:
Raymond Massey
Ralph Richardson
Cedric Hardwicke
Pearl Argyle
Margaretta Scott
Everytown resident John Cabal fears that war is imminent. When it breaks out, the war lasts 30 years, destroying the city and ushering in a new dark age of plagues and petty despots.
The dialogue and plot were devised by H. G. Wells as "a new story" meant to display the "social and political forces and possibilities" that he had outlined in his 1933 story The Shape of Things to Come, a work he considered less a novel than a "discussion" in fictional form that presented itself as the notes of a 22nd-century diplomat.
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