SPACEWAYS (1952)
Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver. Scientists Stephen
and Vanessa Mitchell are part of a British team testing the nation's
first rocket, but their personal lives are ruined by their bickering
and by Vanessa's affair with fellow scientist Philip Crenshaw. The
rocket is launched but malfunctions and is left stranded in orbit -
and Vanessa and Crenshaw have gone missing. Has Mitchell murdered
them and hidden their bodies aboard the ruined rocket?
FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (1953)
Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephan Murray, John Van Eyssen.
Scientists Bill, Robin and Lena invent a machine capable of exactly duplicating any
object. But their elation at their breakthrough is tempered by the
relationship that develops between Lena and Robin, devastating the
jealous Bill when the couple marry. Bill uses the device to make a
duplicate of Lena which he names Helen. But Helen soon falls in love
with Robin and Bill has to resort to more extreme methods to solve the
problem...
THE CREEPING UNKNOWN (1955) aka QUATERMASS XPERIMENT;
Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth.
A space mission overseen by Professor Bernard Quatermass ends when the rocket crashlands in
the English countryside. Two of the crew have mysteriously disappeared
and the third, Victor Carroon, has been infected by an alien organism
and is undergoing a painful metamorphosis. Driven by the need to consume
lifeforce from other living creatures, Carroon escapes and goes on the
rampage before, finally evolving into a giant, plant-like creature, he
is cornered in Westminster Abbey.
X THE UNKNOWN (1956)
Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley. A troop of
British commandos return from a covert mission suffering from mysterious
symptoms and horrific burns. Dr. Adam Royston, an atomic scientist,
suspects lethal radiation, and must track down the source of this
menace before it overtakes humanity. A desolate area of Scotland
is threatened by the cyclical appearance of a giant radioactive
blob of mud that arises from the depths of the Earth to consume
everything in its path.
ENEMY FROM SPACE (1957) aka QUATERMASS 2;
Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day.
Professor Bernard Quatermass uncovers a plot to invade the Earth
by a race of aliens that are hiding in a factory for synthetic food
based on the designs created by Quatermass for a Moonbase. But the
aliens have already infiltrated the upper ecehelons of power within
British society and Quatermass no longer knows who he trust.
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS (1957)
Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker. At a remote Tibetan monastery in the
Himalayas, a botanical expedition has been collecting and categorizing
rare plants. Dr. John Rollason, however, has an ulterior motive for
his visit; he has plans to meet up with another party lead by an
American entrepreneur, Tom Friend, whose goal is to discover the
mysterious Yeti. Against the pleadings of his wife Helen and the
warnings of the Llama, Rollason leaves with Friend's party to
investigate the high valleys. Neither Rollason nor Friend is
prepared for what they find there.
5 MILLION YEARS TO EARTH (1967) aka QUATERMASS AND THE
PIT;
James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley.
Work on a new London underground line is halted
when a skeleton and what appears to be World War II missile are
uncovered. But the 'missile' turns out to be an alien spacecraft
and Professor Bernard Quatermass is called in to investigate. It
soon turns out that the locust like aliens entombed in the ship are
not as dead as they seem and that millions of years before they had
had arrived on Earth from Mars to tamper with the brains of primitive
ape creatures. The opening of the ship unleashes the ancient forces of
evil that have lain dormant in humanity for millenia.
MOON ZERO TWO (1969)
James Olson, Catherina von Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri.
A gang of crooks is
planning to capture a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing
it into the moon so that they can salvage it. But the only place
they can bring it down undetected is on a mining claim on the dark
side of the moon and they murder the miner who owns it. But the
salvage team the crooks have hired to help them retrieve the asteroid
is also working for the miner's sister, who is paying them to search
for her missing brother...
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