... Ship (Denison Clift, 1935), it was not until The Quatermass Xperiment (Val Guest, 1955) that the studio began to ... Women of the Moon (Roy Hamilton, 1953), but The Quatermass Xperiment marked its foray into innovative creative areas utilizing ... of Cold War-era Britain. On the surface, The Quatermass Xperiment resembled other sci-fi vehicles of the period from both America and Britain in terms ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2007 - | Cineaction!
... fiction films, for reasons perhaps less obvious. In The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), directed by Val Guest, Battersea Power Station represents London’s entire power-generating capacity, which must be channelled to kill a growing, mutating alien. Guest’s 1961 film The Day the Earth Caught Fire has the building ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2022 - Wiley | Critical Quarterly
... including Just Imagine, three British adaptations from television - The Quatermass Xperiment (Guest UK 1955), Quatermass 2 (Guest UK 1957) and Quatermass and the Pit (Baker UK 1967) - and that strange intersection ...
Tópico(s): Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
2014 - Liverpool University Press | Science Fiction Film & Television