The Quatermass Xperiment

Hammer Films' first excursion into horror is a sci-fi chiller, based on the acclaimed TV series. A space mission goes disastrously wrong, and when the rocket is recovered, two of the crew have vanished without trace while the third undergoes a bizarre transformation. An alien life form has taken over his body, and intends to use it in a plot to take over the Earth. Brian Donlevy stars as the professor trying to stop his rampage on the streets of London, with Jack Warner and Margia Dean. The first in a double bill of big screen adaptations of classic sci-fi TV shows, shown as part of the Summer of British Film season