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The Quatermass Xperiment

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Movie
1955
1h 22m
English
Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery
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.
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6.7
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CRITIC SCORE
88

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Brian Donlevy
Bernard Quatermass
Jack Warner
Inspector Lomax
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon
Margia Dean
Judith Carroon
Thora Hird
Rosie Wrigley
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh (uncredited)
Gordon Jackson
BBC TV producer
David KingWood
Gordon Briscoe
John Wynn
Det. Sgt. Best (uncredited)
Harold Lang
Christie
Toke Townley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Jane Asher
Little Girl (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
Margaret Anderson
Maggie (uncredited)
Eric Corrie
Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Henry B Longhurst
George (uncredited)
Ernest Hare
Crash Site Fire Chief (uncredited)
Michael Godfrey
Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)
John Kerr
Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
Bartlett Mullins
Zookeeper (uncredited)
Mayne Lynton
Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)
Barry Lowe
Nurse Tucker (uncredited)
Jane Aird
Mrs. Lomax (uncredited)
Directed By: Val Guest
Written By: Val Guest (Screenplay), Richard H. Landau (Screenplay)

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beardedmovienut says...
one year ago
Charming little sci-fi/horror with a dick scientist, space rockets, some body horror, and, for the time, pretty decent special effects. The only real gripes I have with it, is that the whole thing sounds like an old radio play, and that the pacing is not the best. Not the best Hammer production I have seen, but decent enough to keep me entertained.
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TKPNPodcast says...
3 years ago
I had heard about the Quatermass films from reading Starlog back in the day and finally got to see this. You certainly know it is a half century old film, no question, but there are some real moments of suspense and a good through line. The man that plays Victor is particularly chilling in his scenes.
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CinemaSerf
one year ago
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 police officer J More
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John Chard
4 years ago
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 speak and going thro More
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