The third and best of the Quatermass films.
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:6
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Workers renovating the London Underground discover what they at first take to be an unexploded World War II bomb. On closer inspection it turns out to be a great deal more mysterious - a spaceship,... Workers renovating the London Underground discover what they at first take to be an unexploded World War II bomb. On closer inspection it turns out to be a great deal more mysterious - a spaceship, millions of years old, bearing the fossilized bodies of dead aliens. Professor Quatermass, unconventional science expert, is brought in to bring to light this disturbing discovery, which turns out to have unforeseen effects on the local populace. One of the best of the science fiction films produced by Hammer in the 1960s, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT is a true sci-fi mindbender. [More]
Starring: James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover
Starring: James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, Maurice Good, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Grant Taylor, Robert Morris, Sheila Steafel, Hugh Futcher, Hugh Morton, Thomas Heathcote, Noel Howlett, Hugh Manning, June Ellis, Keith Marsh, James Culliford, Bee Duffell, Roger Avon, Brian Peck, John Graham, Charles Lamb
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Screenwriter: Nigel Kneale
Story: Nigel Kneale
Composer: Tristram Cary
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
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Reviews for Quatermass and the Pit
Routine, somewhat distended development blunts impact of this British-made programmer.
One of the high points of Hammer's film production, and a worthy addition to the cannon of films and TV realisations of the products of Nigel Kneale's probing, prescient imagination.
The brilliant pre-Von Daniken anthropological theme of Kneale's script still guarantees interest.
All of its pseudo-scientific talk seemed to short-circuit the audience's interest -- in it and in themselves.
This is a movie with, to be blunt, a twenty-dollar budget -- but billion-dollar ideas.
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