Village of the Damned 1960

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Village of the Damned ★★★ 1960

A group of unusual children are born in a small English village. They avoid their fathers and other men, except for the one who is their teacher. He discovers they are the vanguard of an alien invasion and leads the counter-attack. Exciting and bone-chilling low-budget thriller. From the novel, “The Midwich Cuckoos,” by John Wyndham. 78m/B VHS, DVD . GB George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Laurence Naismith, Michael Gwynn, John Phillips, Richard Vernon, Jenny Laird, Richard Warner, Thomas Heathcote, Charlotte Mitchell, John Stuart, Bernard Archard; D: Wolf Rilla; W: Wolf Rilla, Stirling Silliphant, George Harley; C: Geoffrey Faithfull; M: Ronald Goodwin.

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