Village of the Damned

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Village of the Damned

Credits
Title:	Village of the Damned
Directed by:	Wolf Rilla
Written by:	Stirling Silliphant; Wolf Rilla; George Barclay
Produced by:	Ronald Kinnoch
Music by:	Ron Goodwin
Cinematography:	Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by:	Gordon Hales
Production
Distributors:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Released:	December 7th, 1960
Rating:	Unrated
Running time:	77 min.
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Budget:	$200,000
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Village of the Damned is an American horror film of the science fiction subgenre. It is based on the 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. The film was directed and co-written by Wolf Rilla with a screenplay written by Stirling Silliphant and Ronald Kinnoch (writing as George Barclay). It was produced by Metro-Goldyn-Mayer (British studio) and released theatrically on December 7th, 1960. The movie was remade for the American market in 1995 by John Carpenter and was also titled Village of the Damned.

Plot

Actor

Role

George Sanders

Gordon Zellaby

Barbara Shelley

Anthea Zellaby

Martin Stephens

David Zellaby

Michael Gwynn

Alan Bernard

Laurence Naismith

Doctor Willers

Richard Warner

Harrington

Jenny Laird

Mrs. Harrington

Sarah Long

Evelyn Harrington

Thomas Heathcote

James Pawle

Charlotte Mitchell

Janet Pawle

Pamela Buck

Milly Hughes

Rosamund Greenwood

Miss Ogle

Village of the Damned was first released on home video in VHS (NTSC) format on April 27th, 1995 by MGM/United Artists Home Entertainment. It was first released in DVD format by Warner Home Video on August 10th, 2004 as a double-feature with Children of the Damned.