The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
79 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1955 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Val Guest

Written By:
Richard H. Landau
Val Guest

Actors:
Brian Donlevy ..... Prof. Bernard Quatermass
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

Synopsis:

Britain's first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth but communication has been severed. Only one of the three spacemen (Richard Wordsworth) remains on board whose physical and mental health has been severely damaged. He is put under strict observation but his wife smuggles him out of the hospital only to unleash the biggest threat ever to civilisation. For the survivor is being consumed by an alien force, who gains strength from human flesh to multiply and grow, threatening to engulf and kill all living organisms. Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) must find a way to overcome the alien threat before it's too late.

Professor Bernard Quatermass is in charge of a manned rocket mission that has gone awry. They lost contact with the spaceship at one point and have no idea how far into space it may have traveled. When the rocket crash lands in a farmer's field they find that only one of the three occupants, Victor Carroon, is on board; the others have simply vanished. Slowly, the surviving astronaut begins to transform into a hideous creature and Quatermass realizes that Carroon may have been infected by an alien being. When Carroon escapes from the hospital with the help of his unsuspecting wife, the authorities race to destroy it before it multiplies.

A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. The third one, barely alive, undergoes an horrible metamorphosis turning into a monstrous 'thing'. When he breaks out and, chased in vain by inspector Lomax, starts killing humans and animals to feed his transformation, Quatermass realizes that this is the way chosen by an alien form of life to invade the Earth.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 24 November, 2019.