These Are the Damned

1962
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Simon Wells, a middle-aged American tourist, a youth gang leader named King, and his over-protected sister, Joan, find themselves trapped in a top-secret government facility experimenting on children, adapted from The Children of Light, a 1960 sci-fi novel by H.L. Lawrence (1908-1990).

According to Murray Ewing, Henry Lionel Lawrence was born in 1908 in Lambeth (and baptized Catholic), and died in Colchester in 1990...I’ve only been able to find one, which was subsequently anthologized, “A Journey by Train”, about an encounter with a man who was dead for four days before being revived, and is now overcome by occasional murderous urges. Lawrence worked as an advertising copywriter.

He moved to Australia for a while, then Ceylon, but was back in Britain in time to join the RAF during World War II when he served as a photographer with a Bomber Command Pathfinder unit. He was married, and had a daughter by the time of his first novel, at which point he was “a Senior Copywriter in a well-known London Agency” (according to the jacket blurb of Children of Light).
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https://www.murrayewing.co.uk/mewsings/2022/02/05/the-children-of-light-by-h-l-lawrence/​ and www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?127721

Hammer Film Productions, respected British horror studio, produced this dark, intelligent sci-fi film distributed by American Columbia Pictures. My rating is PG-13.

one hour, 35 minutes

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