Dir: Wolf Rilla | Scr: Stirling Silliphant, Wolf Rilla, & George Barclay | Novel: John Wyndham | Ph: Geoffrey Faithfull | Prod: Ronald Kinnoch | Mus: Ron Goodwin | Ed: Gordon Hales | AD: Ivan King | Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, Richard Warner, Jenny Laird, Sarah Long, Thomas Heathcote, Charlotte Mitchell
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Soon after the entire population of a small village falls unaccountably unconscious for several hours, it becomes apparent that every one of its female residents of child bearing age has become pregnant. As the resultant blonde-haired children – all born on the same day – grow towards adolescence, it becomes clear that their connection to one another and their apparent telepathic powers are something to fear, leading the military and local populace to seek an (unlikely to be pleasant) solution to their problem, in Rilla’s creepy but inert piece of sci-fi. The film is generally well-crafted and the performances fine, but the talky script merely meanders towards its unearned ending.
