The Trollenberg Terror 1958   N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Crawling Eye
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Cast: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell, Andrew Faulds, Frederick Schiller, Stuart Saunders, Colin Douglas, Derek Sydney
Based on a BBC TV series, this film takes place in a remote mountain area of Switzerland where decapitation of people is occurring. The culprits are tentacled creatures with one eye who are also able to take over people by telepathy. They're hiding in a radioactive cloud in the mountains, and somebody has to do something to save humanity. I'm scared. 2 User Reviews
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| | Atmospheric and well done. | Mark Davidson 06/27/2009 | | A favorite for decades. It's an English 1950's sci-fi movie. So story, rather than special effects, is the main strength of the picture. One special effect sequence (planes bombing) is poor, but the balance is fairly well done. The story is very good, the characters are intelligent, and the acting is realistic and excellent. The movie starts as a mystery with horror overtones that, with discovery and disclosure of a back story, turns into a sci-fi "reasoning-alien" monster movie. Beautiful Janet Munro becomes telepathically linked to "something" in the Swiss Alps that has a purpose. On 1-10 scale: Story and acting = 7; monster/creature = 6 special effects, for English mid-50s = 5. Overall = 6.5-7 (I like it). Up there with the Quartermass movies. |
| | Anonymous 03/09/2007 | | A strange film, bad special effects and dodgy buildings... Sooner or later I know hollywood will remake it. |
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Who Done It? 1956  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, George Margo, Ernest Thesiger, Denis Shaw, Frederick Schiller, Thorley Walters, Nicholas Phipps, Gibb McLaughlin, Ernest Jay
Popular British TV comedian Benny Hill makes his screen debut playing the role of Hugo, an ice-rink sweeper, who wins money in a contest. His ambition to become a detective is fulfilled when he uses the money to open a detective agency. But he gets more than he bargained for when he quickly gets involved in an assassination plot. For Benny Hill fans only.
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aka: The Crawling Eye
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