The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Review: The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Director: Val Guest

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, Jack Warner, David King-Wood, Margia Dean,

Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy
Richard Wordsworth
Richard Wordsworth
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
David King-Wood
David King-Wood
Margia Dean
Margia Dean

Plot: The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and 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.

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Val Guest on Blu-ray

Val Guest on Blu-ray

Surprisingly, the underrated British director Val Guest has recently been represented by a flurry of Blu-ray releases, two of which highlight some of his finest work while the third makes available one of his lesser known minor films of the […]

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Nigel Kneale & British genre television

Nigel Kneale & British genre television

British TV has always been primarily a writer’s medium; since the ’50s, the biggest stars have tended to be the writers, with writers’ names attached possessively to projects. Television production was often built around writers […]

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