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Enemy from Space

Duration:

85 min

Genres:

Sci-Fi | Horror

IMDB rate:

Director:

Val Guest

Details

Country: UK

Filming Locations: Canvey Island, Essex, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Brian Donlevy

Enemy from Space

John Longden

Lomax

Sidney James

Jimmy Hall

Bryan Forbes

Marsh

William Franklyn

Dr. Brand

Vera Day

Sheila

Charles Lloyd Pack

Dawson

Tom Chatto

Broadhead

John Van Eyssen

The P.R.O.

Percy Herbert

Gorman

Michael Ripper

Ernie

John Rae

McLeod

Marianne Stone

Secretary

Ronald Wilson

Young Man

Jane Aird

Mrs. McLeod

Betty Impey

Kelly

Lloyd Lamble

Inspector Baker

John Stuart

Commissioner

Gilbert Davis

Banker

Joyce Adams

Woman M.P.

Edwin Richfield

Peterson

Howard Williams

Michaels

Phillip Baird

Lab. Assistant (as Philip Baird)

Robert Raikes

Lab. Assistant

John Fabian

Intern

George Merritt

Super

Arthur Blake

Constable

Michael Balfour

Harry

Leslie Crawford

Guard (uncredited)

Vernon Greeves

First Man (uncredited)

Jan Holden

Young Girl (uncredited)

Alastair Hunter

Labour MP (uncredited)

Barry Lowe

Chris (uncredited)

Henry Rayner

Drunk (uncredited)

Joan Schofield

Woman Shopper (uncredited)

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Trivia

In between takes Brian Donlevy's toupee was accidentally blown off by the aeroplane engine wind machines used during the film's climax.

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Brian Donlevy reprises his role as Professor Bernard Quatermass from The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), making him the only actor to play the character on screen twice. In spite of this, he was reportedly "Quatermass" creator Nigel Kneale's least favourite actor in the role.

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At no point during either of the Hammer/Donlevy Quatermass films is the central character referred to as a professor.

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Goofs

In the shot revealing that the Police Commissioner has 'the mark' he is consulting a typewritten checklist. Closer examination reveals this text to be the repeated phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party".

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When bodies are used to clog the oxygen pipe, the blood could not drip in the control room. The distance is way too far, the pipes have bends, plus it would be in reverse direction of the oxygen flow.

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When Quatermass pulls up at the traffic lights in London a car to his left does likewise, but this car is not seen in the following close up of Quatermass at the wheel.

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