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The Quatermass Xperiment

You Can't Escape It!

1955 · 1h 22m

Directed by Val Guest

6.5

TMDB audience score
244 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket 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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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

  • Jane Asher
    Little Girl (uncredited)

  • Toke Townley
    The Chemist (uncredited)

  • 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)