Released
IMDb
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.
Keywords
london, england
transformation
alien life-form
rocket
rocket crash
escaped patient
man hunt
hospital
metamorphosis
alien monster
space exploration
slimy monster
alien organism
westminster abbey
cactus
death of astronaut
rocket scientist
Casts
Brian Donlevy
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon
David King-Wood
Dr. Gordon Briscoe
Jack Warner
Inspector Lomax
Margia Dean
Judith Carroon
Harold Lang
Christie
Lionel Jeffries
Blake
Thora Hird
Rosie Wrigley
Gordon Jackson
BBC TV producer
Sam Kydd
Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh (uncredited)
John Wynn
Detective Sergeant Best (uncredited)
Jane Asher
Little Girl (uncredited)
Toke Townley
The Chemist (uncredited)
Margaret Anderson
Maggie (uncredited)
Eric Corrie
Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Henry B. Longhurst
George (uncredited)
Ernest Hare
Crash Site Fire Chief (uncredited)
Michael Godfrey
Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)
John Kerr
Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
Bartlett Mullins
Zookeeper (uncredited)
Mayne Lynton
Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)
Barry Lowe
Nurse Tucker (uncredited)
Jane Aird
Mrs. Lomax (uncredited)
Molly Glessing
Mother at Zoo (uncredited)
Arthur Gross
TV Show Floor Director (uncredited)
Basil Dignam
Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)
Donald Gray
TV Program Announcer (uncredited)
Gron Davies
Charles Greene (uncredited)
Stanley Van Beers
Ludwig Reichenheim (uncredited)
Arthur Lovegrove
Sergeant Bromley (uncredited)
James Drake
Sound Engineer (uncredited)
Crews
Val Guest
Director
Val Guest
Screenplay
Richard H. Landau
Screenplay
Anthony Hinds
Producer
James Bernard
Original Music Composer
Walter J. Harvey
Director of Photography
James Needs
Editor
J. Elder Wills
Art Direction
Philip Leakey
Makeup Artist
Nigel Kneale
Teleplay
Les Bowie
Special Effects
John Hollingsworth
Music Director
H. C. Pearson
Sound Recordist
Bill Shore
Assistant Director
Molly Arbuthnot
Wardrobe Supervisor
Monica Hustler
Hairstylist
T.S. Lyndon-Haynes
Production Manager
Backdrops & Posters
