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A Balasaur Score of 72 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%. Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series. It runs a compact 1h 22m. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
237 audience votes
Key crew
- Val GuestDirector
- Val GuestScreenplay
- Richard H. LandauScreenplay
- James BernardOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Brian DonlevyProf. Bernard Quatermass
- Richard WordsworthVictor Carroon
- David King-WoodDr. Gordon Briscoe
- Jack WarnerInspector Lomax
- Margia DeanJudith Carroon
- Maurice KaufmannMarsh
- John WynnDetective Sergeant Best
- Harold LangChristie
- Lionel JeffriesBlake
- Thora HirdRosie Wrigley
- Sam KyddPolice Sergeant Questioning Rosie
- Jane AsherLittle Girl (uncredited)
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Themes
london, englandtransformationalien life-formrocketrocket crashescaped patientman hunthospitalblack and whitemetamorphosisalien monsterspace exploration