Hammer films burst onto the horror and sci-fi scene in 1955 with the release of this excellent film about an alien life form that returns to earth via the body of an astronaut.
Brian Donlevy plays Prof. Bernard Quatermass, a man driven by science and knowledge who sends three men into space and has them return, but with much more trouble than he ever anticipated.
Only one astronaut returns and Quatermass and the police at Scotland Yard attempt to find out why. In the meantime the returned astronaut, played very very well by Richard Wordsworth begins to mutate into a multi-tentacled monster that must suck the life force from human and animals in order to live.
This film is one of the best ever with a great tight script, a super cast which also includes Jack Warner as Inspector Lomax, Sam Kydd, Margia Dean and Lionel Jefferies. The bantering back and forth between Lomax and Quatermass is well done and very real, much like in the 1951 production of "The Thing".
MGM has issued this in an MOD disc which is widescreen and almost perfect in every way. It looks cleaner than I have ever seen it and nobody plays Quatermass like Donlevy. He returned in the second film entitled "Quatermass 2" also known as "Enemy From Space". I give this film the highest Recommendation.
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