December 7, 1960 –
MGM released the science fiction film Village of the Damned, directed by Wolf Rilla and starring George Sanders on this date
Originally begun in 1957 as an American picture, writer Stirling Silliphant said he wrote it with Ronald Colman in mind, but at the time producer Milo O. Frank Jr. was saying he wantedGlenn Ford to star. MGM had this scheduled for US filming inSpring 1958 and Spring 1959, and postponed both times. Coleman was gravely ill and housebound, dying soon after the script was completed. In an odd twist, his replacement was George Sanders, who had recently married Benita Hume, Colman’s widow. Glenn Ford was one of MGM’s few contracted big-named stars at the time and was in high demand for other MGM projects.
The Haus of Dcaligari 