A global war begins in 1940. This war drags out over many decades until most of the people still alive (mostly those born after the war started) do not even know who started it or why. Nothing is being manufactured at all any more and society has broken down into primitive localized communities. In 1966 a great plague wipes out most of what people are left but small numbers still survive. One day a strange aircraft lands at one of these communities and its pilot tells of an organization which is rebuilding civilization and slowly moving across the world re-civilizing these groups of survivors. Great reconstruction takes place over the next few decades and society is once again great and strong. The world's population is now living in underground cities. In the year 2035, on the eve of man's first flight to the moon, a popular uprising against progress (which some people claim has caused the wars of the past) gains support and becomes violent.
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Things To Come H.G Wells 1936.
The effects of war are shown on an Everytown and its residents, it not so
coincidentally named Everytown. The story focuses largely on three different time
periods. The first is Christmas Day 1940. While there had been chatter about the
possibility of war, most people are enjoying the Christmas reverie. One exception
is John Cabal, who is worried about what war may mean, he right to be concerned as
bombs start dropping on Everytown that evening in the declaration of war. The second
is thirty years into the war in 1970. Plague and pestilence had been a direct effect
of the war, it killing approximately half the world's population. It is now largely
eradicated in the extermination of the wandering infected. Many traditional skills
have been lost in they not being needed during wartime. Most people in Everytown
have no memory of what caused the war, including Everytown's autocratic leader,
who, like most world leaders, veers toward barbarism in achieving his own desired
goals. Long away, John makes an auspicious return to Everytown, he now representing
an organization called Wings Over the World, who advocate for a different way of
doing things to rebuild civilization in an environment of peace. In his mission in
Everytown on behalf of the organization, John has the biggest obstacle in overcoming
the objections of the autocratic leader. The third is the year 2036. The effect of
progress in the aftermath of war is presented.
Stars.
=>-Raymond Massey....................: John Cabal : Oswald Cabal.
=>-Edward Chapman....................: Pippa Passworthy : Raymond Passworthy.
=>-Ralph Richardson..................: The Boss.
=>-Margaretta Scott..................: Roxana : Rowena.
=>-Cedric Hardwicke..................: Theotocopulos.
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