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- From: tim@smof.demon.co.uk (Tim Illingworth)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!smof.demon.co.uk!tim
- Subject: Re: VILLAGE OF THE DAMMNED
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- References: <1992Dec28.181956.6584@scorch.apana.org.au>
- Organization: None round here!
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:37:35 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec28.181956.6584@scorch.apana.org.au> jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au writes:
- >jeff.kling@brent.uucp (Jeff Kling) writes:
- >
- >|Just saw this movie the other night. Cool flick. I heard they made a
- >|sequal, Children of the Damned, but not confirmed. Has anyone else seen
- >|this neat B&W B-movie?
- >
- >Yes, it's based on John Wyndham's "The Midwich Cuckoos"
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- Both films (VotD 1960, CotD 1963) are based on "The Midwich Cockoos", the first
- in a rural setting, the second in a city. Both are MGM - it looks as if VotD
- was a success, so they remade it in a more 'commercially attractive' setting
- and, by all accounts, made a _much_ better film the second time around.
-
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