The Quatermass Xperiment
1955
You Can't Escape It!
Directed by Val Guest
User Rating
Intensity
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket 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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- Director
- Val Guest
- Written by
- Richard H. Landau, Val Guest
- Produced by
- Anthony Hinds
- Composer
- James Bernard
- Cinematographer
- Walter J. Harvey
- Editor
- James Needs
- Studio
- Hammer Film Productions
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Language
- English
- Also known as
- The Creeping Unknown
- TMDB
- 6.5/10 (237 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 91% Fresh
- IMDb
- 6.6/10 (8,063 votes)
Cast
Brian Donlevy
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon
David King-Wood
Dr. Gordon Briscoe
Jack Warner
Inspector Lomax
Margia Dean
Judith Carroon
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh
John Wynn
Detective Sergeant Best
Harold Lang
Christie
Lionel Jeffries
Blake
Thora Hird
Rosie Wrigley
Sam Kydd
Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
Jane Asher
Little Girl (uncredited)
Toke Townley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Gordon Jackson
BBC TV producer
Margaret Anderson
Maggie (uncredited)
Eric Corrie
Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Henry B. Longhurst
George, Maggie's father (uncredited)
Ernest Hare
Crash Site Fire Chief (uncredited)
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Podcasts
The Evolution of Horror — ALIENS Pt 6: The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) & Village of the Damned (1960)
Quatermass (Hammer) Collection
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