"THINGS TO COME"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 15

"THINGS TO COME"

WELLS' NEW FILM REMARKABLE SUCCESS LONDON". Feb. 23. It is doubtful whether any first view of a film in England lias been so acclaimed as 11. G. Wells' "Things to Come. which cost £250,000 and required two years to produce. Newspapers and public consider U unsurpassed in film history, but like Chaplin's "Modern Times." Wells' specii lations on the fate of humanity under the machine are age questioned by the more thoughtful critics.

The Times says the film is so imposing that however doubtful Wells' implied arguments may be, it cannot fail to cany the spectator away.

The News-Chronicle calls its "tremendous, awe-inspiring, challenging, imaginative and technically magnificent" but, viewed in the light of sheer entertainment, "far too prolix and arugnientalive as a vision of the future.' The Manchester Guardian says it is a magnificent triumph of photography over the frailties of human invention. To some older members of till! audience it was no less than a vindication of .Jules Verne.

The Daily Herald I bought it an astounding piece of work, paralysing in its prophecies, noble in conception, magnificent in achievement and in many respects the most momentous thing the Armenia has ever done. , The Evening News says : "In Wells' conception the new world is an intolerably dull place in which to live." The films' technical achievement is so marvellous that Hollywood is already borrowing blueprints of Korda's devices. Alexander Korda. a Hungarian is the producer of the film.