These Are the Damned is a 1962 English-language Drama Fantasy motion picture directed by Joseph Losey and produced by Michael Carreras, Anthony Hinds and Anthony Nelson Keys under the banner of Hammer Film Productions. The middle-aged American Simon Wells sails in his boat to Weymouth and stumbles with the twenty year-old Joan on the street. He believes that she is a prostitute but she is actually part of a scheme of a motorcycle gang to rob tourists. Simon is brutally beaten up by her brother King and his gang. The policemen find the wounded Simon and take him to a bar to recover, where he meets the military Bernard and his mistress Freya Neilson. On the next morning, Joan challenges King and meets Simon in his boat, and King and his gang hunts Simon down. Joan and Simon spend the night together in an isolated house and on the morning, they are located by the gang. They try to flee and stumble in a top-secret military facility managed by Bernard. They are helped by children and brought to their hideout in a cave. King falls in the sea while chasing the couple and is also helped by a boy and brought to the same place. Soon Joan finds that the children are cold as if they were dead. What is the secret of the children and the military staff? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These are the damned stars Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox, Viveca Lindfors, Walter Gotell and Neil Wilson. The screenplay is written by Ben Barzman and Evan Jones which is inspired from The Children of Light by H.L. Lawrence. The music was composed by James Bernard. Cinematography was done by Arthur Grant and editing by Reginald Mills. The motion picture has a running time of 94 minutes. It was released on 16th November 1962. These Are the Damned was made on a budget of £0 million. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Columbia Pictures.