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The Day of the Triffids (1962) was a Horror - Science Fiction Film directed by Freddie Francis and Steve Sekely and produced by Bernard Glasser, Philip Yordan and George Pitcher.

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The Day of the Triffids (1963)

By Beatrice on Oct 12, 2017 From Flickers in Time

The Day of the Triffids Directed by Steve Stekeley Bernard Gordon from a novel by John Wyndam 1963/UK Allied Artists Pictures/Security Pictures Ltd. First viewing/Amazon Prime Well, I can hardly think of anything cooler than a story about a small band of survivors that tries to battle carnivorous... Read full article


The Day of the Triffids (1963)

By Beatrice on Oct 12, 2017 From Flickers in Time

The Day of the Triffids Directed by Steve Stekeley Bernard Gordon from a novel by John Wyndam 1963/UK Allied Artists Pictures/Security Pictures Ltd. First viewing/Amazon Prime Well, I can hardly think of anything cooler than a story about a small band of survivors that tries to battle carnivorous... Read full article


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When the film was finished it was too short, so the entire sequence where the triffids attack the lighthouse was added. This sequence was directed by an uncredited Freddie Francis
The triffids inspired the E.T. plants of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
In an interview, producer Bernard Glasser said that in order to satisfy a British government requirement that productions shot in British have a certain percentage of British executives, George Pitcher, a retired film executive, was hired as basically a "frontman"; although credited as producer, he had no actual authority over the production.
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