Village of the Damned is a movie directed by Wolf Rilla in 1960 and based on the book The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, first published in 1957. The movie features George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynne, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, and others.
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Storyline
A mysterious forcefield affects the English village of Midwich, causing everybody within its radius to fall asleep. Afterwards every women of child-bearing age is found to be pregnant, including teenage girls and women whose husbands were absent. All give birth to blonde-haired children who have remarkable intelligence and a complete lack of emotion.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1960
Minutes
77
Movie Rate
7.30
Source: IMDb
Movie
Village of the Damned
Director: Wolf Rilla
Country: UK
Year: 1960
Length: 1h17m
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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 Anton Leader
Movie by John Carpenter
TV Series by Alice Troughton, Jennifer Perrott
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