The Quatermass Xperiment (Shock) (The Creeping Unknown) (1955)
Release Date: Sep 28, 1955 Wide
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A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a forceful, misanthropic American scientist, the Q-1 had three astronauts aboard when it left Earth, but only one of them, engineer Victor Caroon (Richard Wordsworth), is on board upon landing, and he is in a near-comatose state. Even more baffling, the spacesuits of the other two men are still aboard the wrecked ship and are still interlocked, as
Sep 28, 1955 Wide
Cast
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Brian Donlevy
Prof. Bernard Quatermas... -
Jack Warner
Inspector Lomax -
Margia Dean
Julia Carroon -
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon -
David King-Wood
Dr. Gordon Briscoe -
Gordon Jackson
TV Producer -
Thora Hird
Rosie -
Lionel Jeffries
Blake -
Harold Lang
Christie -
Stanley Van Beers
Dr. Ludwig Reichenheim -
Jane Asher
Little Girl -
Donald Gray
TV Announcer -
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh (uncredited) -
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Marianne Stone
Second Nurse -
Frank Phillips
BBC Announcer
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... the film is never less than intriguing and, at is best, is haunting, horrific and riveting.
This is Hammer's first major horror/science-fiction hit, but almost as notable is the fact that its doomed astronaut is the founding member of the studio's tragic rogues' gallery of transformed innocents -- monsters that didn't ask for their fates.
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Movie: ID: 770674097 Title: The Quatermass Xperiment (Shock) (The Creeping Unknown) Release Date: 1955-09-28 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 6 Status: 1
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Foreign Titles
- The Quatermass Xperiment (DE)
- The Quatermass Xperiment (UK)
