The Quatermass Xperiment

Sep 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

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

The Quatermass Xperiment Trailers

Cast

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Brian Donlevy

Victor Carroon

Richard Wordsworth

Dr. Gordon Briscoe

David King-Wood

Inspector Lomax

Jack Warner

Judith Carroon

Margia Dean

Marsh

Maurice Kaufmann

Detective Sergeant Best

John Wynn

Christie

Harold Lang

Blake

Lionel Jeffries

Rosie Wrigley

Thora Hird

Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie

Sam Kydd

Little Girl (uncredited)

Jane Asher

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