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Quatermass and the Pit

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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
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, millions of years old, bearing the fossilized bodies of dead aliens. Professor Quatermass,... [More]
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. [Less]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, Maurice Good

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Screenwriter: Nigel Kneale
Story: Nigel Kneale
Composer: Tristram Cary
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 1, 1998

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.66
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1.Roy Ward Baker - DIRECTOR
  • 2.Nigel Kneale - SCREENWRITER
  • Featurette - 1. WORLD OF HAMMER - "Sci-Fi"
  • Trailers - 1.Original U.S. Trailer
  • 2.Original U.K. Trailer
  • TV Promos

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The third and best of the Quatermass films.

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05/14/08 04:42 PM
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Routine, somewhat distended development blunts impact of this British-made programmer.

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05/14/08 04:41 PM
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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.

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05/14/08 04:40 PM
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The brilliant pre-Von Daniken anthropological theme of Kneale's script still guarantees interest.

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06/24/06 03:27 AM
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All of its pseudo-scientific talk seemed to short-circuit the audience's interest -- in it and in themselves.

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05/21/05 11:35 AM
Renata Adler
New York Times
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04/07/05 05:54 PM
Andy Klein
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This is a movie with, to be blunt, a twenty-dollar budget -- but billion-dollar ideas.

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11/07/02 01:22 PM
James Rocchi
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One of the few truly great sci-fi thrillers

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08/07/02 12:38 PM
Ken Hanke
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