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Village of the Damned (M-G-M). One fine day at precisely 10:57 a.m., every living thing in the pleasant village of Midwich in the south of England suddenly and for no apparent reason drops senseless where it sits or stands, and lies as if dead. A mason jack-knifes over a wheelbarrow; a cow collapses in a field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable...
...aftermath is merely delayed. Two months later it becomes apparent to the village doctor that every Midwich woman of fertile years is pregnant-apparently without the assistance of a man. What, the village wonders, was responsible for the mysterious impersonal rape of Midwich. for this ominous plural parthenogenesis? What great beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Midwich to be born...
...that a picture with only one star (George Sanders) of second magnitude could not possibly be any good, M-G-M is hustling Village around the neighborhood circuits without even bothering to give it a Broadway sendoff. It is missing a good bet. Based on a clever thriller (The Midwich Cuckoos) by John Wyndham and made in Britain for about $500,000, Village is one of the neatest little horror pictures produced since Peter Lorre went straight...
...MIDWICH CUCKOOS (247 pp.)-John Wyndham-Ballantine...
Novelist Wyndham well knows the first rule in writing a chiller-effective specters must be ectoplasmatter-of-fact-and so he takes the dullest, most ordinary village in England to populate with his monsters. Nothing much noteworthy has happened in Midwich since the Black Death. One day something very odd does happen: every living thing falls into a trance. All who pass through an invisible perimeter pass out. Traffic piles up. Some victims are hauled out by hooks from the edge of this zone of silence: they wake up unharmed. Promptly, of course, official hush-hush seals off Midwich...
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