The Quatermass Xperiment
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The Quatermass Xperiment

Duration:
82 min | USA:78 min
Genres:
Horror | Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
6.8
Director:
Val Guest
Details
Country: UK
Filming Locations: Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK
Cast
Actor
Character
Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy
The Quatermass Xperiment
Jack Warner
Insp. Lomax
Margia Dean
Mrs. Judith Carroon
Thora Hird
Rosemary 'Rosie' Elizabeth Wrigley
Gordon Jackson
BBC TV producer
David King-Wood
Dr. Gordon Briscoe
Harold Lang
Christie
Lionel Jeffries
Blake
Sam Kydd
Police sergeant questioning Rosie
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon
Jane Aird
Mrs. Lomax (uncredited)
Margaret Anderson
Maggie (uncredited)
Jane Asher
Little Girl (uncredited)
Harry Brunning
Night Porter (uncredited)
Eric Corrie
Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Edward Dane
Station Policeman (uncredited)
Gron Davies
Charles Green
Basil Dignam
Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)
James Drake
Sound Engineer (uncredited)
Molly Glessing
Mother at Zoo (uncredited)
Michael Godfrey
Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)
Donald Gray
TV Announcer (uncredited)
Arthur Gross
TV Floor Director (uncredited)
Ernest Hare
Crash Site Fire Chief (uncredited)
Betty Impey
Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)
Fred Johnson
Inspector (uncredited)
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh (uncredited)
John Kerr
Film Lab Technician (uncredited)
Henry B. Longhurst
George - Maggie's Father (uncredited)
Arthur Lovegrove
Sgt. Bromley (uncredited)
Barry Lowe
Tucker - Night Nurse (uncredited)
Mayne Lynton
Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)
Bartlett Mullins
Zookeeper (uncredited)
Frank Phillips
BBC Announcer (uncredited)
George Roderick
Local Policeman (uncredited)
John Stirling
Major at Crash Site (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)
Toke Townley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Stanley Van Beers
Dr. Ludwig Reichenheim
John Wynn
Det. Sgt. Best (uncredited)
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Trivia
The film achieved a degree of notoriety Stateside when in 1956 the parents of Stewart Cohen attempted to sue the Lake Theater and distributors United Artists for negligence after their nine-year-old son died of a ruptured artery in the cinema lobby at a double-bill of this and The Black Sleep (1956). Cohen entered the Guinness Book of Records as the only known case of someone literally dying of fright at a horror film.
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Val Guest heavily reworked Richard Landau's story draft (which assumed Quatermass would be British so changed Briscoe into a USAF Flight Surgeon), particularly tailoring the dialogue to compliment Donlevy's punchy no-nonsense acting style, which he believed helped to sell the more obscure SF plot elements to audiences.
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HD TV reveals even more clearly that the Abbey monster is mostly made of pieces of tripe.
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Goofs
Volkswagen Bus en route to the crash site is not the same Volkswagen Bus that arrives through the gate at the crash site. VW badge is larger, chrome trim is missing and license plate is different.
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At the crash site, in the engine compartment of the VW micro bus , there is radio equipment instead of an engine.
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When Victor Caroon's wife tries to get him out of the hospital, she and her friend Christie are standing outside in the rain, and you can clearly see that Christie's lab coat is getting wet. When he walks in the hospital, it is dry. He walks in and out a couple of times, but inside the hospital his lab coat is always dry.
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Quotes
Insp. Lomax: Nobody ever wins a cold war.
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Prof. Bernard Quatermass: There's no room for personal feelings in science, Judith!
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Photos from cast
Brian Donlevy
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