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The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1962
Running Times: 93 mins (UK)
95 mins (USA)
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
CinemaScope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Security Pictures Inc
Producer: George Pitcher
Line Producer: Bernard Glasser
Executive Producer: Philip Yordan
SCRIPT
Script: Philip Yordan (real name: Bernard Gordon)
Novel: John Wyndham
DIRECTION
Director: Steve Sekely
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ted Moore
Camera Operator: John
Winbolt
EDITING
Supervising Editor: Spencer Reeve
MUSIC
Music: Ron Goodwin
Additional Music: Johnny Douglas
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Paul Rabiger
Hair: Eileen
Warwick
Wardrobe: Bridget Sellers
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: Wally Veevers
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Cedric Dawe
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Pamela Davies
LOCATION
Location Director: Bill Lewthwaite
CAST
Howard Keel
Nicole Maurey
Janette Scott
Kieron Moore
Mervyn Johns
Ewan Roberts
Alison Leggatt
Geoffrey Matthews
Janina Faye
Gilgi Hauser
John Tate
Carol Ann Ford
Arthur
Gross
Collette Wilde
Ian Wilson
Victor Brooks
Katya Douglas (uncredited)
Thomas Gallagher (uncredited)
Gary Hope (uncredited)
John Simpson (uncredited)
Sidney Vivian (uncredited)
SUMMARY
A spectacular meteor shower blinds anyone that looks
at it, leaving much of the population of Northern Europe sightless.
In the aftermath, a breed of experimental plants, the carnivorous, mobile
Triffids, escape and begin to attack the helpless humans around them.
Only a handful of sighted survivors can stop them.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A disappointing and lacklustre adaptation of the
John Wyndham novel. Howard Keel is miscast and unconvincing in the lead
role and the Triffids are far from convincing. The BBC
adaptation is by far prefererable to this
nonsense.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Allied Artists
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Germany
Rating: 16
Norway
Rating: 15
Sweden
Rating: 15
TIMELINE
1963
August
23: West Germany - theatrical release
1968
July
Sweden - theatrical release
2002
March
10: UK - television broadcast (on Carlton Cinema)
POSTER TAGS
Beware the triffids... they grow... know... walk... talk...
stalk... and kill!
TRIFFIDS TAKE OVER THE WORLD! From the greatest science-fiction
novel of all time!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Blumen des Schreckens - German title
Il giorno dei trifidi - Italian title
L'invasione dei mostri verdi - Italian title
Invasion of the Triffids
Revolt of the Triffids
LINKS
SEE ALSO
The Day of the Triffids
(1981)
Scary Movie 2
(2001)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Starlog Yearbook no.7 (1990)
interview with Bernard Glasser (by Tom Weaver)
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.91
credits, references
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.89
credits
KEYWORDS
blindness, book into film, disasters, hospitals,
london, meteorites, plants
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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