Overview:
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and 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.| Status: | Released (1955-08-26) |
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| Screen: | Richard H. Landau, Val Guest, Nigel Kneale |
| Productions: | Hammer Film Productions, Exclusive Films |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 41755: Brian Donlevy - Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- 30708: Richard Wordsworth - Victor Carroon
- 100344: David King-Wood - Dr. Gordon Briscoe
- 100343: Jack Warner - Inspector Lomax
- 100342: Margia Dean - Judith Carroon
- 92010: Harold Lang - Christie
- 30706: Lionel Jeffries - Blake
Crews
- 39853: Val Guest - Director - Directing
- 39853: Val Guest - Screenplay - Writing
- 30040: Richard H. Landau - Screenplay - Writing
- 30703: Philip Leakey - Makeup Artist - Costume & Make-Up
- 30137: James Bernard - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 992802: J. Elder Wills - Art Direction - Art
- 30168: Anthony Hinds - Producer - Production
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Reviews
John Chard
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In my simple Bible way I did a lot of praying. When an experimental rocket ship crashes back down to Earth, Bernard Quatermass is baffled as to why three astronauts went up, but only one has returned. The returning astronaut is Victor Carroon and he's in a bad way. Unable to spea ....
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American scientist Brain Donlevy sends a rocket with three men into space; it comes back with only one and he is very, very sick. What happened to the other two - the ship was hermetically sealed? Well this decent British sci-fi/horror film follows the investigation as together with ....
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