The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
You Can't Escape It!
78 min
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.
- Release date
- September 26, 1955
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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Trailer
Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- Richard Wordsworth as Victor Carroon
- David King-Wood as Dr. Gordon Briscoe
- Jack Warner as Inspector Lomax
- Margia Dean as Mrs. Judith Carroon
- Maurice Kaufmann as Marsh
- John Wynn as Detective Sergeant Best
- Harold Lang as Christie
- Lionel Jeffries as Blake
- Thora Hird as Rosemary 'Rosie' Elizabeth Wrigley
- Sam Kydd as Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
- Jane Asher as Little Girl (uncredited)
- Gordon Jackson as BBC TV producer
- Margaret Anderson as Maggie (uncredited)
- Henry B. Longhurst as George, Maggie's father (uncredited)
- Michael Godfrey as Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)
- Marianne Stone as Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)
- John Kerr as Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
- Bartlett Mullins as Zookeeper (uncredited)
- Mayne Lynton as Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)
- Barry Lowe as Nurse Tucker (uncredited)
- Jane Aird as Mrs. Lomax (uncredited)
- Arthur Gross as TV Show Floor Director (uncredited)
- Basil Dignam as Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)
- Donald Gray as TV Program Announcer (uncredited)
Crew
- Val Guest · Director
- Richard H. Landau · Writer
- Val Guest · Writer
- Nigel Kneale · Writer
- Anthony Hinds · Producer
- James Bernard · Composer
- Walter J. Harvey · Cinematographer
- James Needs · Editor