Quatermass and the Pit

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Quatermass and the Pit

(1967)

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An ancient Martian spaceship is unearthed in London, and proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

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Nigel Kneale

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Roy Ward Baker

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James Donald

Dr. Mathew Roney
Andrew Keir

Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Barbara Shelley

Barbara Judd
Julian Glover

Colonel Breen
Duncan Lamont

Sladden

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A review by John Chard

9.0

Written by John Chard on September 25, 2014

Creepy, interesting, above all else...intelligent.

Whilst excavating at the site of a new underground tube station, workers unearth a mysterious object. On to the case comes Professor Quatermass who deduces that the object is Martian in origin. Initially viewed with scorn and disbelief, it becomes apparent that the Martian race have been involved in the human race before, and now they have been awoken again.

This was the third Hammer film adaptation of Nigel Kneale's BBC-TV Quatermass serial, with previous entries being The Quatermass Experiment & Quatermass 2. This to me, tho, is undou... read the rest.

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