The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

You Can't Escape It!

Part of Quatermass (Hammer) Collection

1955•1h 22m•6.5/10

Science FictionHorror

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6.5/10(221)

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and 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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Production

Hammer Film Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Brian Donlevy

Brian Donlevy

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Richard Wordsworth

Richard Wordsworth

Victor Carroon

David King-Wood

David King-Wood

Dr. Gordon Briscoe

Jack Warner

Jack Warner

Inspector Lomax

Margia Dean

Margia Dean

Judith Carroon

Maurice Kaufmann

Maurice Kaufmann

Marsh

John Wynn

Detective Sergeant Best

Harold Lang

Harold Lang

Christie

Lionel Jeffries

Lionel Jeffries

Blake

Thora Hird

Thora Hird

Rosie Wrigley

Sam Kydd

Sam Kydd

Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie

Jane Asher

Jane Asher

Little Girl (uncredited)

Toke Townley

Toke Townley

The Chemist (uncredited)

Gordon Jackson

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)

Michael Godfrey

Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)

Marianne Stone

Marianne Stone

Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)

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