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A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth! - Quatermass 2
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Title: Quatermass 2

Release Date: 24 May 1957

Runtime: 1h 25m

Genre: Science Fiction, Horror

Director: Hammer Film Productions

Production Companies: Hammer Film Productions

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 6.378 (127 votes)

Cast

  • Prof. Bernard Quatermass: Brian Donlevy
  • Chief Inspector Lomax: John Longden
  • Dr. Tom Brand: William Franklyn
  • Marsh: Bryan Forbes
  • Work Camp Manager Dawson: Charles Lloyd Pack
  • Vincent Broadhead, M.P.: Tom Chatto
  • The Plant Tour Guide: John Van Eyssen
  • Jimmy Hall: Sid James
  • Paddy Gorman: Percy Herbert
  • Ernie the Bartender: Michael Ripper
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