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Year: 1963 Production: Security Pictures / Allied Artists Director: Steve Sekely Starring: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore Screenwriter: Philip Yordan Based on The Day of the Triffids (1951) by John Wyndham 94 minutes; Color
This unsuccessful version of a good novel had a moderately generous budget, but no sense whatever of how sf works. Thus there is plenty of preaching, lots of florid love interest, but only intermittent attention paid to the basic situation, which, while silly, should have been interesting: most of England's population blinded by light from a meteor shower, and a small group, still sighted, trying to cope with attacks from lethal 7ft (2.1m) mobile vegetables. The triffids are more absurb than frightening. |
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