Word: wellses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idiot's Delight (by Robert Emmet Sherwood; Theatre Guild, producer), though all about the next World War, is nothing so pretentious as the film of Herbert George Wells's Things to Come (see p. 43). Playwright Sherwood got a belly-full of fighting in the last War, is...
Things to Come (London Films) is a $1,400,000, two-hour cinematic summary of the history of the next 100 years. It marks the debut of Herbert George Wells as a screenwriter. It places Alexander Korda's London Film Productions Ltd. on a par with Hollywood for production...
Beginning in 1940, the picture voices Author Wells's current theory that another world war will start that year. The operations of that war and the destruction of Everytown, which looks very much like London, by a fleet of airplanes should throw a highly practical scare into contemporary audiences...
Producer Korda's start as a journalist left him with a respect for the profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it...
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