Menzies, William Cameron, Chapman, Edward, Hardwicke, Cedric, Massey, Raymond, Richardson, Ralph, Scott, Margaretta	...	(Director)
H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells	...	(Writer)
Raymond Massey	...	John Cabal
Edward Chapman	...	Pippa Passworthy
Ralph Richardson	...	The Boss
Margaretta Scott	...	Roxana
Cedric Hardwicke	...	Theotocopulos
Maurice Braddell	...	Dr. Harding
Sophie Stewart	...	Mrs. Cabal
Derrick De Marney	...	Richard Gordon
Ann Todd	...	Mary Gordon
Pearl Argyle	...	Catherine Cabal
Kenneth Villiers	...	Maurice Passworthy
Ivan Brandt	...	Morden Mitani
Anne McLaren	...	The Child
Patricia Hilliard	...	Janet Gordon
Charles Carson	...	Great Grandfather
H.G. Wells	...	Screenplay
Noel Brophy	...	Irishman
Anthony Holles	...	Simon Burton
Pickles Livingston	...	Horrie Passworthy
Abraham Sofaer	...	The Jew
Arthur Bliss	...	Original Music Composer
Sir Cedric Hardwicke	...
Georges Périnal	...	Director of Photography
Charles Crichton	...	Editor
Francis D. Lyon	...	Editor
Vincent Korda	...	Art Direction
Patrick Barr	...	World Transport Official
John Clements	...	The Airman
John Armstrong	...	Costume Design
Allan Jeayes	...	Mr. Cabal
René Hubert	...	Costume Design
George Sanders	...	Pilot
Cathleen Mann	...	Costume Design
Terry-Thomas	...	Extra
Sam Williams	...	Costume Design
Isabelle Huppert	...	Nathalie Chazeaux
André Marcon	...	Heinz
Roman Kolinka	...	Fabien
Edith Scob	...	Yvette, la mère
Sarah Le Picard	...	Chloe
Solal Forte	...	Johann
Elise Lhomeau	...	Elsa
Lionel Dray	...	Hugo (as Lionel Dray-Rabotnik)
Grégoire Montana	...	Simon (élève lycée) (as Grégoire Montana-Haroche)
Lina Benzerti	...	Antonia
Guy-Patrick Sainderichin	...	L'éditeur
Yves Heck	...	Daniel
Rachel Arditi	...	Amelie
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet	...	La chef de rayon aux Editions Cartet
Larissa Guist	...	Ruth
Denis Lenoir	...	Cinematographer
Marion Monnier	...	Editor

Comments: DEN 105

Summary: Based on H.G. Wells's speculative meditation on the price of progress, this 1936 English science-fiction epic shows the painterly touch of director William Cameron Menzies, an American whose career in art direction and production design, as well as uncredited directorial work, attached him to such visual triumphs as Gone with the Wind, Alexander Korda's sumptuous 1940 Thief of Baghdad, and Menzies's better-known SF achievement as director, the original Invaders from Mars. Things to Come traces a generational saga that begins, presciently, with a global war that outlives its own political purpose, unraveling society to a Balkanized world of isolated communities. In the wake of a subsequent, devastating plague, a new technocracy arises, evolving toward Menzies's striking vision of vast, subterranean cities, rendered in matte paintings building on then-contemporaneous art-deco "streamlined" aesthetics. Driven more by theme than plot, Things to Come lacks the sheer momentum of other Wells classics brought to film (The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine, among them); but Menzies's bold look and a strong cast including Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke and a young Ann Todd explain the film's enduring appeal. --Sam Sutherland