A visually sweeping sci-fi classic full of futuristic vistas and modern cityscapes, based on the story by H.G. Wells and written for the screen by Wells. Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. Massey is a future leader determined to restore law and order.

In the years since they were published, H.G. Wells's words seem to have become prophecies...
Society in 2036 has devolved into a leisure-saturated body of mass consumers. Important decisions are relegated to an elite few. World wars have left parts of the globe in ashes; localized conflicts continue as a way of life. Social and medical epidemics rage.
The comfortable bourgeoisie dwells like moles, living below sea level. Its members rest on cellophane sofas, inhale filtered oxygen, ingest preserved food, and entertain themselves by synthetic light.
While the intelligentsia obliterates the sick to create a utopia for the earthlings who remain, others plan a mysterious trip to the moon, purportedly for humanity to reach the next rung on its evolutionary ladder.

Additional cast: Pearl Argyle (Katherine Cabal), Kenneth Villiers (Maurice Passworthy), Anne McLaren (The Child), and Patricia Hilliard (Janet Gordon).

Additional credits: Nigel Tangye (aeronautical advisor) and Frank Wells (assistant art director).

Raymond Massey: Canadian actor, ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS
Ralph Richardson: British Actor
Cedric Hardwicke: British actor,THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE.../THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Ann Todd: British Actress
Margaretta Scott: British Actress
Maurice Braddell: British Actor
Sophie Stewart: British Actress
Derrick De Marney: British Actor

William Cameron Menzies: Epic director of the Silent Era

Alexander Korda: British Director/Producer

H.G. Wells: British Novelist, WAR OF THE WORLDS, TIME MACHINE

Arthur Bliss: English composer

Charles Crichton: British Director/Ealing

Rating: B
3 stars out of 5 -- "When it came to predicting the future, Herbert George Wells was no slouch....Wells' story takes in war, plague, destruction and rebirth."
5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] some stunning design and imagination....Quite amazing..."
"Menzies' visionary if eccentric adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel is fascinating both as a record of 1930s England and for its apocalyptic vision of the future."