Quatermass and the Pit
Summary:
Nigel Kneale's Quatermass TV series spawned a brief film series produced over an eleven-year period; 1967's Quatermass and the Pit, released in the US as Five Million Years to Earth, was the third and (until 1979's Quatermass Conclusion) last of the features. As with previous chapters in the Kneale saga, the film begins with a baffling scientific discovery. This t... Full Summary >>
Cast:
James Donald - (Dr. Matthew Roney)
Barbara Shelley - (Barbara Judd)
Andrew Keir - (Prof. Bernard Quatermass)
Julian Glover - (Col. Breen)
Maurice Good - (Sgt. Cleghorn)
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Review:
One of the most startling and ambitious science fiction films of the 1960s, Quatermass and the Pit starts like any number of other sci-fi cheapies, as an alien space craft is found during the excavation of a new subway line. The movie ends up somewhere else altogether, after calling into question the historical, philosophical, and theological ba... Continue >>
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