Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers Of God - Plot & Excerpts
Although he had never concentrated exclusively on a single project, being relieved of the obligation to turn in one script every nine days, plus rewrite the old ones, plus plan the new ones, meant that he could make a new play for the movies. That was where the money was and, more than that, the prestige. Strictly speaking, he had never really left features, although Huk!, Maracaibo, and the other early attempts were not going to put him on Hollywood’s “A” list. As a matter of fact, when Route 66 had been fueling up in 1959, he delivered a stealth science fiction classic that was rushed into production for 1960. Based on John Wyndham’s 1957 novel The Midwich Cuckoos, the resulting film, directed by Wolf Rilla, was released by MGM as Village of the Damned. It was a major hit, and a major struggle. The story is profoundly creepy: One afternoon the entire British village of Midwich falls asleep for several hours. Months later every fertile woman in town delivers a blond, hauntingly intelligent child that may have been “fathered”
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