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The Trollenberg Terror (Original title)The Crawling Eye (Alternative title)Creatures from Another World (Alternative title)
Date: 08 December 1958 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Quentin Lawrence

Synopsis: Mysterious force exerts hypnotic influence from a Swiss mountain peak on a female 'mind reader' but is crushed in the end by the desperate efforts of a group of resolute scientists.

Genres:
Horror, Science Fiction

Subject:
Aliens
Releases
Date: 1958Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 84 mins Length: 7502 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 84 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (23)
A Tempean Production: Tempean Films, Opening logo: Eros Films, Produced by: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Production Manager: Charles Permane, Production Supervisor: Ronald C. Lisles, Assistant Director: Norman Harrison, Continuity: Yvonne Richards, Screenplay by: Jimmy Sangster, From a Story by: Peter Key, Director of Photography: Monty Berman, Camera Operator: Desmond Davis, Special Effects by: Anglo-Scottish Pictures Ltd, [Special Effects]: Les Bowie, Editor: Henry Richardson, Art Director: Duncan Sutherland, Make Up: Eleanor Jones, Hairdresser: Joy Vigo, Music Composed by: Stanley Black, Sound Recordist: Dick Smith, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Made at: Alliance Film Studios Limited
Cast (20)
Forrest Tucker (Alan Brooks), Laurence Payne (Philip Truscott), Jennifer Jayne (Sarah Pilgrim), Janet Munro (Anne Pilgrim), Warren Mitchell (Professor Crevett), Andrew Faulds (Brett), Stuart Saunders (Dewhurst), Frederick Schiller (Klein), Colin Douglas (Hans), Derek Sydney (Wilde), Richard Golding (first villager), George Herbert (second villager), Garard Green (pilot), Anne Sharp (German woman), Jeremy Longhurst (first student climber), Anthony Parker (second student climber), Leslie Heritage (Carl), Theodore Wilhelm (Fritz), Jack Taylor (.), Caroline Glaser (little girl)