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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 12:10 pm Post subject: These are the Damned (1963)

[Also released as: "The Damned"]

Grim and gloomy story about an American (Macdonald Carey) in a coastal English town who flees from a youth gang led by Oliver Reed and stumbles upon a cave inhabited by emotionless children who are part of a government project which teaches them how to survive the expected nuclear war.

Directed by Joseph Losey from a script by Evan Jones, adapted from H. L. Lawrence's novel "Children of Light". American theater audiences saw a drastically cut and re-edited version, but TV prints are the original film.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1876

Black leather, black leather, rock, rock, rock,
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Black leather, black leather, crash, crash, crash,
Black leather, black leather, smash, smash, smash,
Black leather, black leather, kill, kill, kill...

Quasi-rock movie scores from the '50s and '60s always missed the mark, unless the singers and musicians who had made the charts actually appeared in the movie, performing their hits. If the music was composed by some movie studio writer, it invariably relied too much on sax and the lyrics were little more than parody.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 4:14 pm Post subject:

So, this is what Eric Von Zipper from the Beach Party movies would have looked like if he bought a suit and did his Oliver Reed impression.

I watched "These Are the Damned" once, and it was rough goin', to put it mildly. I think I liked "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" better. Oh well . . .
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1876

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:22 pm Post subject:

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Here's a YouTube video of the full movie.

Unfortunately the aspect ratio is screwed up (squeezed horizontally), so you'll have to either put up this clumsy crap or download the video, put it on a flashdrive, watch it on your TV, and adjust the aspect ratio — which I can do on mine, and I'm sure you can do it on yours, too. Cool

Anyway, here's this rather grim sci-fi movie.

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)