You Can't Escape It!
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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Brian DonlevyProf. Bernard Quatermass
- Richard WordsworthVictor Carroon
- David King-WoodDr. Gordon Briscoe
- Jack WarnerInspector Lomax
- Margia DeanJudith Carroon
- Maurice KaufmannMarsh
- John WynnDetective Sergeant Best
- Harold LangChristie
- Lionel JeffriesBlake
- Thora HirdRosie Wrigley
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- Val GuestDirector
- Val GuestScreenplay
- Richard H. LandauScreenplay
- Walter J. HarveyDirector of Photography
- James BernardOriginal Music Composer
- James NeedsEditor
- Anthony HindsProducer
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