The Quatermass Xperiment

Overview

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.

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)

Crew

Director

Val Guest

Writer

Val Guest, Richard H. Landau

Cinematography

Walter J. Harvey

Music

James Bernard