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The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
1955 · Directed by Val Guest · 82 min · Science Fiction · Horror · 18 frames
Tagline
You Can't Escape It!
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard H. Landau, Val Guest
- Cinematography: Walter J. Harvey
- Edited by: James Needs
- Music: James Bernard
- Produced by: Anthony Hinds
Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- Richard Wordsworth as Victor Carroon
- David King-Wood as Dr. Gordon Briscoe
- Jack Warner as Inspector Lomax
- Margia Dean as Judith Carroon
- Maurice Kaufmann as Marsh
- John Wynn as Detective Sergeant Best
- Harold Lang as Christie
- Lionel Jeffries as Blake
- Thora Hird as Rosie Wrigley
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Hammer Film Productions
- Themes: london, england, transformation, alien life-form, rocket, rocket crash, escaped patient, man hunt, hospital, black and white, campy
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