The Creeping Unknown
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The Creeping Unknown (1955, UK) is a Science Fiction film directed by Val Guest.
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Main Details
- Released in 1955
- B & W
- Running Time: 82 min | USA:78 min
- Production Co: Hammer Film Productions
- Distribution Co: Exclusive Films (1955) (UK) (theatrical) (present) | United Artists (1956) (USA) (theatrical) (retitled) (slightly edited)
- Directed by Val Guest
- Written by Nigel Kneale & Richard H. Landau, Val Guest
- Starring Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean
- Produced by Anthony Hinds, Robert L. Lippert
- Original Music by James Bernard
- Cinematography by Walter J. Harvey
- Film Editing by James Needs
Plot Summary
- Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Also Known as
- Le Monstre (Belgium) (French title) / France | Xperiment Q (Denmark / Sweden) | Astronave atomica del dottor Quatermass (Italy)| El Experimento del Dr. Quatermass (Spain) | O Monstro do Espaço (Portugal | Quatermass (Finland) | Schock (Germany) | Shock | The Creeping Unknown (USA) | The Quatermass Experiment (USA) | X the Experiment (UK) (informal alternative title) | The Quatermass Experiment
Taglines
- Beware of "THE CREEPING UNKNOWN!"
- It's coming for YOU from Space to wipe all living things from the face of the Earth! CAN IT BE STOPPED?
- You Can't Escape It!
- Nothing Can Destroy It!
- All Earth Stands Helpless! Spawned in the depths of outer space -- a monster so horrible, so vicious, so incredible -- even when you see it you won't believe it could be! (U.S. poster for The Creeping Unknown)
- It creeps, it crawls, it kills!
