I remember once when back in the day there was some consideration of making an incarnation of Doctor Who an American. The British protested and rightly so. The show is so quintessentially British that the idea was quickly dropped and it would have been a disaster.
The Quatermass Experiment isn't a disaster, but I'm not certain getting an American actor, even as good a one as Brian Donlevy to play Doctor Quatermass was a good thing. Donlevy doesn't even attempt to imitate an English accent, probably because he knew he'd be laughed at.
At this point in the unnamed future, the British are experimenting in space and a rocket sent up with three astronauts is lost in space and then reappears and crashes on the English countryside. Only one man out of the three is still there and he's in a catatonic state.
Some really dumb decisions are made by Quatermass and the man's wife and he's on the loose. It turns out that Richard Wordsworth is a carrier for an alien energy creature who absorbs the life it comes in contact with.
The Quatermass Xperiment uses some script ideas borrowed from Frankenstein and from Godzilla which was out in Japan, but not yet released in America.
Seen today it's an earnest effort, but the only other Quatermass I've seen is Andrew Keir and he's far more suited to the role than Donlevy.
The Quatermass Experiment isn't a disaster, but I'm not certain getting an American actor, even as good a one as Brian Donlevy to play Doctor Quatermass was a good thing. Donlevy doesn't even attempt to imitate an English accent, probably because he knew he'd be laughed at.
At this point in the unnamed future, the British are experimenting in space and a rocket sent up with three astronauts is lost in space and then reappears and crashes on the English countryside. Only one man out of the three is still there and he's in a catatonic state.
Some really dumb decisions are made by Quatermass and the man's wife and he's on the loose. It turns out that Richard Wordsworth is a carrier for an alien energy creature who absorbs the life it comes in contact with.
The Quatermass Xperiment uses some script ideas borrowed from Frankenstein and from Godzilla which was out in Japan, but not yet released in America.
Seen today it's an earnest effort, but the only other Quatermass I've seen is Andrew Keir and he's far more suited to the role than Donlevy.