Bradbury 100 - Episode 44 - Film/Book/Film: Writing SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

Bradbury 100 - Celebrating the Life and Work of American Writer Ray Bradbury

It's forty years since the film version of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES was released! So in this episode, I take a detailed look at the origins of SWTWC, going all the way back to the short story "The Black Ferris" (1948) and working through to the shooting of the film. Bradbury wrote the screenplay, and the film was directed by his good friend Jack Clayton (director of Room at the Top (1959) and The Innocents (1961). So everything must have worked out really well...