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The Terrornauts (Original title)
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 01 August 1971 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Montgomery Tully

Synopsis: Scientists working at a radio telescope laboratory are abducted by aliens and taken to an orbiting satelite run by robots.

Genre:
Science Fiction

Subject:
Aliens
Releases
Date: 1967Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 75 mins Length: 6750 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 1971Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 62 mins Length: 5554 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Avco Embassy Pictures (U.K.) Ltd.

Credits (30)
©: Amicus Productions, an Amicus Production: Amicus Productions, An Avco Embassy Film: Avco Embassy Pictures (U.K.) Ltd., Produced by: Max J. Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, Unit Manager: Tony Wallis, Production Manager: Ted Wallis, First Assistant Director: Tom Walls, Continuity: Phyllis Townshend, Screenplay by: John Brunner, From the novel "The Wailing Asteroid" by: Murray Leinster, Director of Photography: Geoffrey Faithfull, Camera Operator: Len Harris, Special Effects & Model Photography: Bowie Films, Special Photographic Models: Ernest Fletcher, [Editor]: Peter Musgrave, Production Designer: Bill Constable, Art Director: Scott Slimon, Set Decoration: Andrew Low, Wardrobe Mistress: Eileen Welch, Make Up: Dore Hamilton, Hairdresser: Olive Mills, Music Composed by: Elisabeth Lutyens, [Music] Conducted by: Philip Martell, Sound Recordist: Laurie Clarkson, [Sound Re-recording]: David Nimmo, Sound Editor: Stan Smith, Made at: Twickenham Film Studios, Processed by: Humphries Film Laboratories
Cast (15)
Simon Oates (Dr. Joe Burke), Zena Marshall (Sandy Lund), Charles Hawtrey (Joshua Yellowlees), Patricia Hayes (Mrs. Jones), Stanley Meadows (Ben Keller), Max Adrian (Dr. Henry Shore), Frank Barry (Burke as a child), Leonard Cracknell (Nick), Richard Carpenter (Danny), Frank Forsyth (Burke's uncle), Robert Jewell (robot operator), André Maranne (gendarme), Graham Corritt, Stephen Follett, Nigel Kingsley ([French boy])