The Earth Dies Screaming - Britmovie

DB7 · 01-04-2008, 07:49 AM

Would I be right in thinking the car crash scene in the opening is borrowed from Village of the Damned? And the train wreck sequence also used in Seven Sinners?

smudge · 01-04-2008, 08:36 AM

From memory you are right about the car crash. The plane crash from VILLAGE was similarly re-used elsewhere. Was it EARTH DIES, or somewhere different entirely...?

Smudge

dremble wedge · 01-04-2008, 08:39 AM

You'd suspect as much as the budget for The Earth Dies Screaming didn't extend to going far beyond the village pub!

Great film though.

DB7 · 01-04-2008, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by smudge

The plane crash from VILLAGE was similarly re-used elsewhere. Was it EARTH DIES, or somewhere different entirely...?

Smudge

I thought so too but haven't watched VotD for some time.

DB7 · 01-04-2008, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dremble wedge

You'd suspect as much as the budget for The Earth Dies Screaming didn't extend to going far beyond the village pub!

Great film though.

And the TA drill hall!

Rob Compton · 01-04-2008, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DB7

Would I be right in thinking the car crash scene in the opening is borrowed from Village of the Damned? And the train wreck sequence also used in Seven Sinners?

I haven't seen "The Earth Dies Screaming", DB7. But if your surmise about the train wreck is true, then that shown in "Seven Sinners" was itself borrowed from the earlier "The Wrecker" (1929), filmed on the same Basingstoke and Alton line that "Oh Mr Porter" would later be filmed upon, see The Wrecker (1929) - Trivia

So it would be going back a bit!

rgds
Rob

Rob Compton · 01-04-2008, 10:03 PM

Having now had a look on Youtube, the scene right at the start of "The Earth Dies Screaming" with the train crash is definitely the same one from "Seven Sinners" and originally "The Wrecker"

rgds
Rob

glyn horton · 13-04-2008, 12:54 PM

Yes, footage of The Wrecker crash was used for Seven Sinners and The Earth Dies Screaming. The shot of the commuter collapsing was filmed at Shepperton station.

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dremble wedge is sleepy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: derbyshire Posts: 1,713 Country: iTrader: (0)	You'd suspect as much as the budget for The Earth Dies Screaming didn't extend to going far beyond the village pub! Great film though.

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Rob Compton has no status. Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 1,274 Country: iTrader: (2)	Having now had a look on Youtube, the scene right at the start of "The Earth Dies Screaming" with the train crash is definitely the same one from "Seven Sinners" and originally "The Wrecker" rgds Rob

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glyn horton has no status. Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: newport Posts: 142 Country: iTrader: (0)	Yes, footage of The Wrecker crash was used for Seven Sinners and The Earth Dies Screaming. The shot of the commuter collapsing was filmed at Shepperton station.