Cast: André Morell, Cec Linder, John Stratton, Christine Finn, Anthony Bushell,
Plot: A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
British black-and-white fantasies
Two excellent recent Blu-ray releases illuminate different strains of British fantasy. They Came to a City (1944), written by J.B. Priestley and directed by Basil Dearden is a Utopian political fable proposing a new Socialist society for post-war […]
Nigel Kneale & British genre television
British TV has always been primarily a writer’s medium; since the ’50s, the biggest stars have tended to be the writers, with writers’ names attached possessively to projects. Television production was often built around writers […]