Recent miscellaneous viewing
A random selection of recent viewing, from Nazi propaganda to British Angry Young Men, from classic sci-fi to the 1960s revival of a French criminal mastermind as slapstick […]
Review: Quatermass II (1957)
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn, Bryan Forbes, Charles Lloyd Pack,
Brian Donlevy
John Longden
William Franklyn
Bryan Forbes
Charles Lloyd Pack
Plot: In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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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 […]