Directed by William Cameron Menzies
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
The future starts off bleak, with over 30 years of war, which must have been the way things looked in Europe in the year the film was made. The war finally ends in 1970, but first the survivors must take care of the "walking sickness", which turns people into zombies. Later, a futuristic airplane lands in the ruins of a city carrying Raymond Massey. He argues for a new society led by pilots and scientists, whether they like it or not. In 2036, that society builds a "space gun" which will shoot a couple of ambitious teenagers to the moon. Episodic, at times downright silly, and with special effects, which while good for 1936, are showing their age with wires frequently visible on the model airplanes.
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