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the damned (1963)

aka These Are The Damned.
"My children are the buried seeds of life."
1963 saw the release of this great curio. A mix of Village of the Damned and The Wild One. Oliver Reed knocks around a seaside town causing trouble. When his sister takes up with an American, he makes his dislike plain to see. When they run off they stumble on a scientific establishment that is experimenting on a group of school children, and try to help them.
The film exudes a cold war paranoia where the bomb could be dropped at any moment, and asks a lot of questions, whilst giving no answers.

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