The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - You Can't Escape It!

The Quatermass Xperiment

You Can't Escape It!
( Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi )

US Runtime: 82 min

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Premiere Date:
Aug 26, 1955 [USA]

Director:	Val Guest [Director]

Writers:	Val Guest [Screenplay] Nigel Kneale [Teleplay] Richard H. Landau [Screenplay]

Producer:	Anthony Hinds [Producer]

Cinematography:	Walter J. Harvey [Director of Photography]

Edited by:	James Needs [Editor]

Music Composed by	James Bernard [Original Music Composer]

Production Company:	Hammer Film Productions (GB)

Plot Summary:

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

Cast:

Brian Donlevy Prof. Bernard Quatermass Richard Wordsworth Victor Carroon David King-Wood Dr. Gordon Briscoe Jack Warner Inspector Lomax Margia Dean Judith Carroon Maurice Kaufmann Marsh		John Wynn Detective Sergeant Best Harold Lang Christie Lionel Jeffries Blake Thora Hird Rosie Wrigley Sam Kydd Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie Gordon Jackson BBC TV producer

Uncredited Cast:

Jane Asher Little Girl (uncredited) Toke Townley The Chemist (uncredited) 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 Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited) John Kerr Photo Lab Technician (uncredited) Bartlett Mullins Zookeeper (uncredited) Mayne Lynton Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)		Barry Lowe Nurse Tucker (uncredited) Jane Aird Mrs. Lomax (uncredited) Molly Glessing Mother at Zoo (uncredited) Arthur Gross TV Show Floor Director (uncredited) Basil Dignam Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited) Donald Gray TV Program Announcer (uncredited) Gron Davies Charles Greene (uncredited) Stanley Van Beers Ludwig Reichenheim (uncredited) Arthur Lovegrove Sergeant Bromley (uncredited) James Drake Sound Engineer (uncredited)

Sound Crew:

John Hollingsworth Music Director		H. C. Pearson Sound Recordist

Special Visual Effects Crew:

Les Bowie Special Effects

Directing Crew:

Bill Shore Assistant Director

Costume and Wardrobe Department:

Molly Arbuthnot Wardrobe Supervisor

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