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The Damned

6.3

Released November 16, 1962Runtime 1h 27min

Children of Ice And Darkness! They Are the Lurking Unseen Evil You Dare Not Face Alone!

An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Finances

Budget: $500,000
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

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Cast

Macdonald CareySimon Wells

Shirley Anne FieldJoan

Viveca LindforsFreya Neilson

Alexander KnoxBernard

Oliver ReedKing

Walter GotellMajor Holland

James VilliersCaptain Gregory

Tom KempinskiTed

Kenneth CopeSid

Brian OultonMr. Dingle

Barbara EverestMiss Lamont

Allan McClellandMr. Stuart

James MaxwellMr. Talbot

Rachel ClayVictoria

Caroline SheldonElizabeth

Rebecca DignamAnne

Siobhan TaylorMary

Nicholas ClayRichard (as Nicolas Clay)

Kit WilliamsHenry

Christopher WittyWilliam

David PalmerGeorge

John ThompsonCharles

Fiona DuncanControl Room Guard (uncredited)

León GarcíaTeddy Boy (uncredited)

Victor Gorf(uncredited)

Crew

Joseph LoseyDirector

John PeverallAssistant Director

Pamela DaviesContinuity

Evan JonesScreenplay

H.L. LawrenceNovel

Michael CarrerasExecutive Producer

Anthony HindsProducer

Don WeeksProduction Manager

Stuart LyonsCasting

Anthony Nelson KeysAssociate Producer

James BernardOriginal Music Composer

Arthur GrantDirector of Photography

Bernard RobinsonProduction Design

Reginald MillsEditor

Don MingayeArt Direction

Molly ArbuthnotCostume Design

Malcolm CookeSound Editor

Roy AshtonMakeup Artist

John HollingsworthMusic Supervisor

Anthony HellerCamera Operator

Jock MaySound Recordist

Frieda SteigerHairstylist

Molly ArbuthnotWardrobe Supervisor

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Reviews

I live with one fact. A power has been released that will melt these stones. We must be ready when the time comes. The Damned (AKA: These Are The Damned) is directed by Joseph Losey and adapted to screenplay by Evan Jones from the novel The Children of Light written by H.L. Lawrence. It stars Ma...

_**Maybe not great, but an inspired, if downbeat, early 60’s curiosity from Hammer**_ On the southern coast of England, a gang of hooligans led by a man named King (Oliver Reed) harass an American yachtsman (Macdonald Carey) and a sculptor living on the shoreline (Viveca Lindfors). Shirley Anne ...

To be fair to this, it probably ought to be watched with an eye to the times it was made - at the height of the cold war, coupled with some adventurously far-fetched science fiction and a fair smattering of state.media-sponsored paranoia. A lot of Oliver Reed's roles in the 1960s saw him as the cha...