The Damned is a British science fiction film drama starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field and Oliver Reed. It was a Hammer Film production directed by Joseph Losey and based on H.L. Lawrence's story The Children of Light.
Made in 1961, it was not released in Britain until 1963 and the US until 1965 where it was renamed These Are the Damned.
Middle-aged divorcee American Simon Wells is on a boating holiday in the town of Weymouth on the sout...
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The Damned is a British science fiction film drama starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field and Oliver Reed. It was a Hammer Film production directed by Joseph Losey and based on H.L. Lawrence's story The Children of Light.
Made in 1961, it was not released in Britain until 1963 and the US until 1965 where it was renamed These Are the Damned.
Middle-aged divorcee American Simon Wells is on a boating holiday in the town of Weymouth on the south coast of England after divorcing his wife and leaving his career as an insurance executive. There he meets Joan, a 20-year-old girl, who lures him into a mugging staged by her biker Teddy Boy brother King and his gang. Wells is beaten up and robbed.
Later Joan approaches Wells on his small boat. He is prepared to forgive and forget, she implies that he asked for it after trying to pick her up. At that moment they are threatened by King and his gang. Wells sets off on his boat and calls on Joan to join him which she does, defying her over...
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