Children of the Damned is a movie directed by Anton Leader in 1964 and based on the characters from the book The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, first published in 1957. The movie features Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, and others.
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Storyline
Six gifted children are found to pose a threat to the world in its chilling horror story from the makers of Village of the Damned. The Children, who all live in England but are from different parts of the world, are normal in all respects except that they are geniuses with acute psychic powers. They have more in common than their IQ, however: None of them have fathers, and no one seems to know where they came from.
Movie vs Book
Year
1964
Minutes
90
Movie Rate
6.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
Children of the Damned
Director: Anton Leader
Country: UK
Year: 1964
Length: 1h30m
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Year
1957
Pages
220
Book Rate
7.86
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Book
The Midwich Cuckoos
Author: John Wyndham
Country: UK
First published in: 1957
Length: 220 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Wolf Rilla
Movie by John Carpenter
TV Series by Alice Troughton, Jennifer Perrott
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