BarcelonaFilm Commission
The Day of the Triffids
Where was it filmed?
Shooting:
1962
Release:
1963
Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Production Co.:
Security Pictures Ltd, Allied Artists Pictures
Country:
UK
Based on:
The novel "The day of the triffids" by John Wyndham
Actors:
Howard Keel, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns, Janina Faye, Alison Leggatt, Ewan Roberts, Carole Ann Ford
Synopsis:
A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited to Phillip Yordan, who acted as a blacklist-era "front" for Gordon.
Shot in: Barcelona, Sitges.
