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The Crawling Eye

Year:

1958

Duration:

Germany:82 min | USA:84 min

Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

IMDB rate:

4.7

Director:

Quentin Lawrence

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1958-12-31

Filming Locations: Alliance Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Jennifer Jayne

The Crawling Eye

Forrest Tucker

Alan Brooks

Laurence Payne

Philip Truscott

Janet Munro

Anne Pilgrim

Warren Mitchell

Prof. Crevett

Frederick Schiller

Mayor Klein

Andrew Faulds

Brett

Stuart Saunders

Dewhurst

Colin Douglas

Hans

Derek Sydney

Wilde

Richard Golding

First Villager

George Herbert

Second Villager

Anne Sharp

German Woman with Little Girl

Leslie Heritage

Carl

Jeremy Longhurst

First Student Climber

Anthony Parker

Second Student Climber

Theodore Wilhelm

Fritz

Garard Green

Search Plane Pilot

Caroline Glaser

Little Girl

Jack Taylor

Jim

Did you know?

Trivia

John Carpenter has said that this film, with its creatures hidden in the clouds, was the inspiration for his film The Fog (1980).

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This was the last film produced by Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios of the United Kingdom.

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Warren Mitchell was a 11th hour choice after the original choice went on holiday (interview in book X Cert).

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Goofs

The jet bomber at the end of the film is an English Electric Canberra, except for one shot where it mysteriously becomes a late-model Gloster Meteor jet fighter.

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In the train scene early on Forrest Tucker is reading a fresh, crisp, unwrinkled newspaper when Janet Munro has one of her bad spells and falls in his lap. As she falls, Tucker's newspaper looks like it has gone through a few takes already.

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In the lab Prof. Crevett states the walls are steel reinforced. Yet when the monster breaks through the office wall where Anne Pilgrim is, there is obviously no reinforcement in the wall or in the piece of fallen wall shown.

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Quotes

Sarah Pilgrim: *Was* there an accident, Mister Klein?

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Jim: Hey! Wait a minute. There's someome coming.

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Philip Truscott: Cute little things, aren't they?

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