Director: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean, Thora Hird,
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.
Val Guest on Blu-ray
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Nigel Kneale & British genre television
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