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Children of the Damned (1963)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1963
Running Times: 81m/90m
Length:
Format:
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: "widescreen"
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Directed by: Anton M. Leader

PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLXIII Children of the Damned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios Ltd
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Lawrence P. Bachmann production (opening credits) a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture
Associate Producer: Ben Arbeid
Production Manager: Albert Becket

SCRIPT
Original Screenplay by: John Briley
A sequel to "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Ted Sturgis
Continuity: Betty Harley

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Davis Boulton

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Ernest Walter

MUSIC
Music Composed and Conducted by: Ron Goodwin

SOUND
Recording Supervisor: A.W. Watkins
Sound Recordist: Dave Bowen
Dubbing Mixer: J.B. Smith
Sound Editor: Allan Sones
Westrex Recording System

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Tom Howard

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Elliot Scott

LOCATIONS
Locations: London, England, UK
Produced at M.G.M. British Studios Borehamwood, England

CASTING
Casting Director: Irene Howard

CAST

Ian Hendry
Alan Badel
Barbara Ferris
Alfred Burke

with
Sheila Allen
Ralph Michael
Patrick Wymark
Martin Miller
Harold Goldblatt
Patrick White
Andre Mikhelson
Bessie Love

The Children
Clive Powell (Paul)
Lee Yoke-Moon (Mi Ling)
Roberta Rex (Nina)
Gerald Delsol (Ago)
Mahdu Mathen (Rashid)
Frank Summerscale (Mark)

Five children with remarkable - possibly inhuman - intellectual and psychic powers are discovered by a group of scientists. But as the military cast their eager eye over the children, they escape and hide out in a church - the race is on to protect them before they can be used as weapons, or before the authorities, terrified by their increasing powers, order their destruction.