The Quatermass Xperiment

Aug 26, 1955

1h 22m

★ 6.5

You Can't Escape It!

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.

Genres

Science Fiction

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

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Cast

Bernard Quatermass

Brian Donlevy

Victor Carroon

Richard Wordsworth

Gordon Briscoe

David King-Wood

Inspector Lomax

Jack Warner

Judith Carroon

Margia Dean

Christie

Harold Lang

Blake

Lionel Jeffries

Rosie Wrigley

Thora Hird

BBC TV producer

Gordon Jackson

Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie

Sam Kydd

Marsh (uncredited)

Maurice Kaufmann

Detective Sergeant Best (uncredited)

John Wynn

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