The Quatermass Xperiment (Original title)Shock!! (Alternative title)The Quatermass Experiment (Alternative title)The Creeping Unknown (Alternative title)
Dates: 1955 (Copyright), 28 November 1955 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Val Guest
Synopsis: Hunt in London for the survivor of a rocket ship who is being transmuted from a human being into a monster capable of reproducing itself at such a rate that in a short time the whole nation could be destroyed.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Subjects: Astronauts, Aliens, Scientists
Releases
Date: 1955Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 82 mins Length: 7372 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Exclusive
Dates: 1955 (Copyright), 28 November 1955 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Val Guest
Synopsis: Hunt in London for the survivor of a rocket ship who is being transmuted from a human being into a monster capable of reproducing itself at such a rate that in a short time the whole nation could be destroyed.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Subjects: Astronauts, Aliens, Scientists
Releases
Date: 1955Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 82 mins Length: 7372 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Exclusive
Credits
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©/Presents: Exclusive Films, [Production Company]: Hammer Film Productions, [Production Company]: Concanen Productions, Lippert Productions, Produced by: Anthony Hinds, Production Manager: T.S. Lyndon-Haynes, Production Secretary: Dora Thomas, [2nd Unit Director]: Jimmy Sangster, Assistant Director: Bill Shore, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Aida Young, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: John Pitcher, Continuity: Renee Glynne, Screenplay by: Richard Landau, Val Guest, Based on the B.B.C. Television Play by: Nigel Kneale, Director of Photography: Walter Harvey, Camera Operator: Len Harris, [2nd Camera Operator]: Richard Leatherbarrow, [Focus Puller]: Harry Oakes, [Clapper Loader]: Tom Friswell, [Stills]: John Jay, Special Effects: Les Bowie, [Special Effects]: Bowie Margutti, [Special Effects]: Roy Field, Ray Caple, Editor: James Needs, [Assistant Editor]: Henry Richardson, Art Director: J. Elder Wills, Wardrobe: Molly Arbuthnot, Make-up: Phil Leakey, Hairdresser: Monica Hustler, Music Composed by: James Bernard, [Music] Conducted by: John Hollingsworth, Recordist: H.C. Pearson, [Sound Camera Operator]: Don Alton, [Sound Maintenance]: John Woodiwiss, [Boom Operator]: Percy Britten, [Dubbing]: Ken Cameron, Thanked in credits: BBC Television Service, Thanked in credits: The Air Ministry, Thanked in credits: Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co, Thanked in credits: British Interplanetary Society, Thanked in credits: Port of London Authority, General Radiological Limited, [Studio]: Bray Film Studios, [Special Effects Studio]: Stoke Court
Cast
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Brian Donlevy (Professor Bernard Quatermass), Jack Warner (Chief Inspector Lomax), Margia Dean (Judith Carroon), Thora Hird (Rosemary 'Rosie' Rigley), Gordon Jackson (TV producer), David King-Wood (Dr Gordon Briscoe), Harold Lang (Christie), Lionel Jeffries (Blake), Sam Kydd (station sergeant), Richard Wordsworth (Victor Carroon), Maurice Kaufmann ([Marsh]), Gron Davies ([Charles Green]), Stanley van Beers ([Ludwig Reichenheim]), Frank R. Phillips ([BBC announcer]), Arthur Lovegrove ([Sergeant Bromley]), John Stirling ([major]), Margaret Anderson ([Maggie]), Eric Corrie ([young man with Maggie]), Henry Longhurst ([George, Maggie's father]), Michael Godfrey ([fireman]), Fred Johnson ([inspector]), George Roderick ([local policeman]), Ernest Hare ([fire chief]), John Kerr ([laboratory assistant]), John Wynn ([Best]), Toke Townley ([chemist]), Bartlett Mullins ([zoo keeper]), Mollie Glessing ([mother at zoo]), Mayne Lynton ([zoo official]), Harry Brunning ([Alf, hospital night porter]), Barry Lowe ([Tucker, the night nurse]), Jane Aird ([Mrs Lomax]), Arthur Gross ([floor boy]), James Drake ([sound engineer]), Edward Dane ([station policeman]), Basil Dignam ([Sir Lionel Dean]), Betty Impey ([first nurse]), Marianne Stone ([second nurse]), Jane Asher ([little girl with doll])