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Quatermass and the Pit [Five Million Years to Earth] **** (1967, Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 3166

Director Roy Ward Baker 1967 sci-fi horror movie is the third and last of the Hammer Films’ versions of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass BBC television serials. It has London Underground excavators digging up a spaceship and […]

Dec, 18

Quatermass 2 [Enemy from Space] *** (1957, Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 3165

American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]

Dec, 17

Look Back in Anger ***** (1959, Richard Burton, Mary Ure, Claire Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 1474

Director Tony Richardson admirably brings so-called ‘Angry Young Man’ playwright John Osborne’s famous, world-renowned play for London’s Royal Court Theatre to the screen in 1959 with all its challenging words, raging spirit and anti-establishment appeal […]

Jul, 26

The Abominable Snowman *** (1957, Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown) – Classic Movie Review 1,267

Writer Nigel Kneale turns his 1955 BBC TV play The Creature into the intriguing, intelligently written, decently acted 1957 Hammer horror film The Abominable Snowman, with Peter Cushing reprising his star TV role.  Writer Nigel […]

May, 31

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