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.
The Quatermass Xperiment
“You Can't Escape It!”
Overview
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.
Director
Val Guest
Status
Released
Production
Hammer Film Productions
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)
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)
Video Gallery
Ernest Dickerson on THE CREEPING UNKNOWN
Original Theatrical Trailer (1955)
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