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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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CinemaSerf
American scientist Brain Donlevy sends a rocket with three men into space; it comes back with only one and he is very, very sick. What happened to the other two - the ship was hermetically sealed? Wel... read more
over 2 years ago
John Chard
In my simple Bible way I did a lot of praying. When an experimental rocket ship crashes back down to Earth, Bernard Quatermass is baffled as to why three astronauts went up, but only one has retur... read more
about 5 years ago
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Cast
Brian Donlevy
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon
David King-Wood
Dr. Gordon Briscoe
Jack Warner
Inspector Lomax
Margia Dean
Judith Carroon
Harold Lang
Christie
Lionel Jeffries
Blake
Thora Hird
Rosie Wrigley
Gordon Jackson
BBC TV producer
Sam Kydd
Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh (uncredited)
John Wynn
Detective Sergeant Best (uncredited)
Jane Asher
Little Girl (uncredited)
Toke Townley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Margaret Anderson
Maggie (uncredited)
Eric Corrie
Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Henry B. Longhurst
George (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)
Director
Val Guest
Director
Bill Shore
Assistant Director
Creator
Richard H. Landau
Screenplay
Val Guest
Screenplay
Nigel Kneale
Teleplay
