Movie
Quatermass 2
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1957-06-17
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
- John Longden as Chief Inspector Lomax
- William Franklyn as Dr. Tom Brand
- Bryan Forbes as Marsh
- Charles Lloyd Pack as Work Camp Manager Dawson
- Tom Chatto as Vincent Broadhead, M.P.
- John Van Eyssen as The Plant Tour Guide
- Sidney James as Jimmy Hall
- Percy Herbert as Paddy Gorman
- Michael Ripper as Ernie the Bartender
- John Rae as E. J. Macleod
- Philipp Baird as Lab Assistant
Crew
- Val Guest - Director
- Nigel Kneale - Screenplay
- Val Guest - Screenplay
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