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[Bud Brewster]

Scientist Barry Jones steals an atomic bomb and threatens to blow up London if the Prime Minister doesn't call a halt to the production of nuclear weapons. London is evacuated while Andre Morell and his men from Scotland Yard try to find Barry.

The scenes of deserted London streets lend credibility to this suspenseful, well-made film, a four-star winner with an excellent script by Roy Boulting (who also co-produced and codirected) and Frank Harvey.

This is one of the earliest anti-nuclear films, and in many ways it's still the best. Directed by John and Roy Boulting.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Rick]

This is a goodie. Very tense.

It's also the answer to a nice, genre-friendly trivia question.

It's the movie for which famed Hammer composer James Bernard won an Oscar. And it had nothing to do with music. Bernard and Paul Dehn won for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story, for their piece which was adapted into a script by other hands.
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Man need not kneel before the angels,
Nor lie in death forever,
But for the weakness of his feeble will.

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has 11 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text.
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~ James Bernard was most famous for composing the scores to numerous Hammer horrors, including Horror of Dracula (1958). Ironically, however, it was for this film that he won his only Oscar - as co-writer of the screenplay, not the music.

Note from me: A multi-talented man who obviously had much to contribute the film industry.

~ Genuine BBC newscasters Frederick Allen and John Snagge, and NBC's Merrill Mueller appear as themselves.

Note from me: The Day the Earth Stood Still used a few real newscasters in the opening scenes!

~ Some presently available versions, like the one that used to be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies, have been cropped to fit the 1.78:1 wide screen ratio, despite the fact that this project was filmed in the traditional 1.37:1.

Note from me: This blatant hypocrisy by TCM!

For years they aired plugs for the importance of broadcasting movies in their original aspect ratio.

And yet recently we've all seen movies cropped to fit modern screens — even when they had to turn 4:3 movies like The Thing from Another World into 16:9 versions, cutting off the top-and-bottom of the image to make it wide enough to fit!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)