Things to Come

Things to Come also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells Things to Come is a 1936 British blackandwhite science fiction film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells. The film stars Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Pearl Argyle, and Margaretta Scott.

In the British city of Everytown, businessman John Cabal Raymond Massey cannot enjoy Christmas Day, 1940, with the news everywhere of possible war. His guest, Harding Maurice Braddell, shares his worries, while his other friend, the overoptimistic Pippa Passworthy Edward Chapman, believes it will not come to pass, but if it does, it will accelerate technological progress. An aerial bombing raid on the city that night results in general mobilisation and then global war.Cabal, now piloting a biplane, shoots down a oneman enemy bomber. He lands and pulls his badly injured enemy John Clements from the wreckage. As they dwell on the madness of war, they have to put on their gas masks, as poison gas drifts in their direction. When a little girl runs towards them, the wounded man insists she take his mask, saying he is done for anyway. Cabal takes the girl to his aeroplane, pausing to leave the doomed man a revolver. The man dwells on the irony that he may have gassed the childs family and yet he has saved her. A gun shot is then heard. ........

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