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Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
John Longden
- Lomax
- (as John Longdon)
Sidney James
- Jimmy Hall
- (as Sydney James)
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- TriviaThis is believed to be the first film ever to use the arabic numeral 2 as an indicator that it was the sequel to another film (as opposed to Roman numerals).
- GoofsIn London, when the inspection tour guide has closed the door of the second Rolls Royce, a lorry is just about to pass by, but in the next shot it has become a bus.
- Quotes
Quatermass: They tell me you have no police here?
Dawson: Police? We don't need them - we're a law-abiding community, aren't we?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Saturday Afternoon Movie: Enemy From Space (1966)
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Excellent Brit shocker. One of the best in the underrated Quatermass series.
'Quatermass 2' is even better than the excellent 'The Quatermass Xperiment'. Like the first movie it was a remake of the original British TV production which I have sadly not seen (both are lost I think). Val Guest directs once again, Brian Donlevy reprises the role of the crusty Professor Quatermass, and this time Nigel Kneale was allowed to adapt his own original script, which probably explains why it improves on the first movie. Quatermass stumbles across a mysterious secret Government installation which is supposedly developing synthetic food, but is in fact something quite different and frightening. Donlevy isn't my favourite Quatermass but he is better here than in the first movie, and the supporting cast includes John Longden in the role originally played by Jack Warner, Bryan Forbes as Quatermass' assistant Marsh (another change of actor), comedian Sid James of 'Carry On' fame, and Hammer regular Michael Ripper. 'Quatermass 2' is a very entertaining and suspenseful thriller, which hasn't dated as half as much as you'd expect. It will particularly be interesting to fans of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers', which it shares certain themes with, and 'The X-Files', which many people, myself included, would argue owes this movie and the next in the series 'Quatermass and the Pit' a large debt. Nigel Kneale is one of the most underrated writers of SF and horror of our time (over 80 years old and still active!), and the Quatermass movies are his best known and enjoyable achievements. I highly recommend them all.
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- May 27, 2003
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- Budget
- £92,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
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