Tag: H.G. Wells

Empire Of The Ants Script

Script by:Jack Turley (Screenplay), Bert I. Gordon (Screenstory), H. G. Wells (Story)
Directed by:Bert I. Gordon
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0075989

Plot:Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
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The War Of The Worlds Script

Script by:Barré Lyndon (Screenplay), H. G. Wells (Novel)
Directed by:Byron Haskin
Year:1953
IMDb:tt0046534

Plot:The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Island Of Lost Souls Script

Script by:H. G. Wells (Novel), Waldemar Young (Screenplay), Philip Wylie (Screenplay)
Directed by:Erle C. Kenton
Year:1932
IMDb:tt0024188

Plot:An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
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Invisible Man Script

Script by:R.C. Sherriff (Screenplay), Preston Sturges (Screenplay), Philip Wylie (Screenplay), H. G. Wells (Novel)
Directed by:James Whale
Year:1933
IMDb:tt0024184

Plot:Working in Dr. Cranley’s laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley’s daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion’s Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
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Time Machine Script

Script by:H. G. Wells (Novel), John Logan (Screenplay)
Directed by:Simon Wells
Year:2002
IMDb:tt0268695

Plot:Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Things to Come Script

Script by:H. G. Wells (Screenplay), H. G. Wells (Novel)
Directed by:William Cameron Menzies
Year:1936
IMDb:tt0028358

Plot:The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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Island Of Dr. Moreau Script

Script by:H. G. Wells (Novel), Al Ramrus (Screenplay)
Directed by:Don Taylor
Year:1977
IMDb:tt0076210

Plot:A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
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First Men in the Moon Script

Script by:H. G. Wells (Story), Nigel Kneale (Screenplay), Jan Read (Screenplay)
Directed by:Nathan H. Juran
Year:1964
IMDb:tt0058100

Plot:Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
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Dead of Night Script

Script by:John Baines (Screenplay), Angus MacPhail (Screenplay), H. G. Wells (Original Story), E.F. Benson (Original Story), John Baines (Original Story), Angus MacPhail (Original Story)
Directed by:Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Year:1945
IMDb:tt0037635

Plot:Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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The Time Machine Script

Script by:H. G. Wells (Novel), David Duncan (Screenplay)
Directed by:George Pal
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0054387

Plot:A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
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