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With James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover. A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.
- (12K)
- Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Roy Ward Baker
- 1968-02-07
Plot. Workers building an extension to the London Underground at Hobbs End dig up an odd-looking skull. Palaeontologist Dr Matthew Roney identifies it as a five-million-year-old apeman, more ancient than previous finds. One of Roney's assistants uncovers part of a metallic object nearby.
Like its predecessors, Quatermass and the Pit was written by Nigel Kneale. The serial continues the loose chronology of the Quatermass adventures. Workmen excavating a site in Knightsbridge, London, discover a strange skull and what at first appears to be an unexploded bomb.
Quatermass took science fiction and brought it to a captivated, not to say terrified, mass British audience, while innovating with the multi-camera format of the period, and creating something...
- Adam Scovell
6 days ago · Quatermass and the Pit was released in late 1967, almost eight years after the broadcast of the serial it was based on, and ten years since the previous film release. Review by Daniel Tessier. Had they had their way, Hammer would have released Quatermass and the Pit as early as 1961. Nigel Kneale had adapted his own script into a cinematic ...
Nov 27, 2018 · A scene from the new HD remaster of 'Quatermass and the Pit' - the classic BBC television chiller from writer Nigel Kneale and director Rudolph Cartier.
- 2 min
- 165.3K
- BBC Studios
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Extending the hand of friendship, Breen invites Quatermass (Andrew Keir) to join him for dinner at his club. Digging further uncovers something that should not be there. It’s not a pipe, it’s not a wall…. It could be a bomb, so Colonel Breen (Julian Glover) is called in to investigate. Quatermass tags along.
