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	Scifilm -- Reviews, "Quatermass and the Pit" (1958)
		"Quatermass and the Pit" is the third of three science fiction serials chronicling the adventures of Professor Bernard Quatermass produced by the BBC in the 1950s.
		Quatermass is in London for a conference at the War Office, where he is to meet with the Minister of Defense and colleagues on the future of the British Rocket Group, which Professor Quatermass founded and has directed since its inception.
		Professor Quatermass is of course furious at this perversion of his Rocket Group, which he always intended for "peaceful scientific exploration." Unfortunately, the decision has been made, and one Colonel Breen (Anthony Bushell) has been assigned to join Professor Quatermass at the Rocket Group to oversee the transition to military authority (i.e.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/quatermasspit58.html (2541 words)

	Video Review @ Stomp Tokyo - Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
		Quatermass and the Pit was the last of Quatermass' cinematic adventures, and was based on a 1955 TV serial of the same name.
		The film's token woman, Barbara (Barbara Shelley), is both pretty and smart, keeping her cool and actually making a contribution to the plot, unlike her contemporaries.
		Quatermass and the Pit was recently re-released to video by Anchor Bay in a gorgeous widescreen print, but it's unlikely you'll find it for rent.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/q/quatermass-and-the-pit.html (738 words)

	QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
		All of the Quatermass stories are among the best of intelligent filmed science fiction, weaving scientific theories and speculation into a scenario that seems both plausible and frightening.
		In 1980 Kneale wrote one last Quatermass story for TV that has yet to be transferred to the big screen but with it's extremely downbeat ending I doubt it would survive the process intact.
		Quatermass begins to believe that the insect creatures were from Mars and the object was a spacecraft bringing genetically mutated apes to Earth.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/quatermass_pit.htm (1098 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1967)
		Quatermass (played by the excellent Scottish actor Andrew Keir) has been in a conference with a bunch of government big wigs who want to take control of his British Rocket Group—a government-funded space exploration agency—and use it for military purposes, specifically to put nuclear missiles on the moon or Mars.
		QUATERMASS AND THE PIT is undoubtedly the strongest of all of Nigel Kneale's screenplays; all of which are excellent.
		However, the quick pace of the Hammer film is a positive, in that maintains the tension at a much higher level than the BBC version.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/quatermasspit.html (1620 words)

	Quatermass And The Pit (1967)
		The film would seem to have been the inspiration for one of the main story lines for the popular X-Files TV series.
		Professor Quatermass and the Army are called in to investigate the remains of an ancient spacecraft that is unearthed during the
		Quatermass determined that the vision is source of the signal and must be destroyed.
	www.kensforce.com /Quatermass_And_The_Pit.html (523 words)

	Quatermass
		The top images are from the film sequences at the beginning of the first episode and demonstrate how much additional image was lost due to the scanning of the original film sequences in the 1958 telecine, compared to the lower images, which are from the studio sequences.
		Because many of the insert film shots mix to or from the studio shots at their beginning or end, the compilation editor in the early sixties had tried to maximise the amount of true film material by cutting from film back to the film-recording just prior to the mix.
		Unlike a conventional projector, where the film motion is intermittent due to the frame being pulled down into position and stopped before the shutter opens, the Mechau system used a continuous film motion, with the position of the moving image accurately tracked back to the lens by rotating mirrors.
	www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /rtwebsite/quatermass-article.htm (7932 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit
		Quatermass and the Pit (Pit) is one of a handful of TV programmes that have transcended their genre boundaries.
		Professor Quatermass, facing a Whitehall takeover of his Rocket Group, is enlisted for his advice and he soon deduces that the cylindrical object is not an unexploded WW II missile but something far older and stranger.
		Kneale has remarked that Pit has "a cast of thousands" and that he wrote a bevy of colourful supporting characters to illustrate his plot and bearing in mind that it was still live television, allow the cast to shine through.
	www.shigson.freeserve.co.uk /Fineline/qua_pit.htm (4808 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit
		Instead, ‘Quatermass and the Pit' identifies itself within the sci-fi/horror boundaries and the structure of the scientific aspects to the story is rooted firmly in mankind's desire to substantiate and attest to its own existence while offering a theatrical explanation for those supernatural occurrences that have besieged history yet remain startlingly inexplicable.
		However, it would be somewhat ludicrous to suggest that ‘Quatermass and the Pit' has accurately realised the truth behind humanity; instead it has given itself a base and a reality.
		When considering the movie within the confines of itself and accepting the story as just a story, ‘Quatermass and the Pit' has successfully been able to attain its own veracity and this is the reason why the film is able to become great.
	www.horrormoviefans.com /new_page_1.htm (601 words)

	10,000 Bullets » Quatermass and the Pit
		Quatermass and the good doctors become convinced that the structure is a space ship and that the remains were brought from Mars.
		Quatermass and the Pit was Hammer’s third attempt at bringing Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass character to the screen.
		Quatermass and the Pit has a plot which on paper may sound like preposterous notion placed on preposterous notion and at one point when Colonel Breen says to Quatermass “you’re mad” it is hard not to feel some sympathy.
	10kbullets.com /reviews/quatermass-and-the-pit (764 words)

	Quatermass and ther Pit DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Their horror and genre films were well received in the international market, and they felt the time was right to create a new, cerebral, science fiction film.
		Professor Quatermass and Dr. Mooney postulate a theory whereby these aliens are Martians that visited the Earth five million years ago, and performed experiments with life forms that led to the evolution of man. They conclude that the unidentified object is a kind of space craft.
		QUATERMASS AND THE PIT is a chilling combination of science fiction and Lovecraftian horror, bolstered by the great performances by Andrew Keir, James Donald, Julian Glover, and Barbara Shelley.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_Quatermass3.htm (2046 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit/Quatermass 2
		Quatermass 2 (released in the U.S. as Enemy from Space), released a decade earlier, is Britain's answer to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
		Quatermass 2 may seem a bit derivative in the wake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it still manages to tell a compelling story, as well as including a few sly comments on British bureaucracy.
		Both films benefit from appropriately low-key performances, tight pacing and intelligent scripts, which help detract from the rather clumsy visual effects (though, in the case of Quatermass and the Pit, some of the imagery during the climax is admittedly unique and chilling).
	dvdcorner.net /html/quatermas.html (790 words)

	Amazon.ca: Quatermass and The Pit (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: Roy Ward Baker,James Donald,Andrew Keir,Barbara ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If Quatermass and the Pit isn't 100% successful in what it sets out to do (which outstrips the ambitions of most sci-fi movies), it comes close enough to have left a strong impression on those who saw it in its short theatrical release and long but fitful life on television.
		Quatermass and the Pit (1968) is the third in the Quatermass series, beginning with The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), and followed by Quatermass 2 (1957), all written by Nigel Kneale, and is certainly one of the better Hammer Studios releases.
		Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Kier), a physicist and rocket scientist, along with Colonel Breen (Julian Glover, who later appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and the military soon arrive to deal with the situation, but further digging reveals the large object not to be a remnant of a past war.
	www.amazon.ca /Quatermass-Pit-Widescreen-Full-Screen/dp/6305095477 (2132 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit Movie Review - BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
		Quatermass and the Pit was the third Quatermass movie released theatrically, and was in fact a remake of an earlier BBC miniseries version from the 50’s.
		Quatermass and the Pit is the story that most explicitly reflects memories of the Blitz and the terror it inspired in a country that had barely had time to recover from the previous devastating war.
		Quatermass and Roney do the usual experiments we see in old movies like this, full of machines that go ping and make woo-woo noises when their knobs are turned.
	www.bloody-disgusting.com /review.php?id=1203 (1257 words)

	The Best Science Fiction Film of 1968: Quatermass and the Pit - Associated Content
		Quatermass and the Pit is also known as Five Million Years to Earth.
		Produced under the title Quatermass and the Pit, but released in the US as Five Million Years to Earth, the film is one that should definitely be on your Netflix queue.
		In Quatermass and the Pit, the discovery is here on Earth and eventually the realization comes that Martian colonists have been buried deep beneath the ground for millions of years.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/107437/the_best_science_fiction_film_of_1968.html (595 words)

	The Quatermass Trilogy - A Controlled Paranoia
		Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) is involved in a road accident with a young couple and the man appears to have been affected by a meteorite that fell from the sky.
		Quatermass deduces that the arthropods are Martians who performed selective breeding on Earth hominids to increase their intelligence, changing the course to evolution to produce Homo sapiens and thereby colonizing the Earth by proxy.
		Quatermass himself is affected and attacks Roney who is “different.” The immune Roney destroys the evil emanating from the pit, sacrificing himself in the process.
	members.aol.com /cinemabritain/quatermass.html (6659 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit - www.webhorror.com reviews
		The same writer was used on the film and much of the same dialogue is used.
		A little bit of detective work by Professor Quatermass and his assistant Barbara Judd (Barbara Shelley) turns up that the area of London that the object was discovered at, Hobbs Lane, has had a history of strange phenomena going back centuries.
		Quatermass proposes that the object is an alien craft that has been buried for centuries, if not millennia, despite the military's insistence that it is a German dud.
	www.webhorror.com /reviews/m_r/quatermass_pit/quatermass_pit.html (600 words)

	Mappa.Mundi Magazine - Reviews - Quatermass and the Pit
		Since Dr Quatermass, the hero of both the TV series and the movie, was unknown to American audiences, it was released in the USA as Five Million Years to Earth, where prospective viewers were wooed with a hilariously lurid trailer that is included on this DVD release.
		Quatermass and Judd learn that the area has been considered to be evil and unholy since Roman times, and that rows of abandoned houses nearby were deserted decades earlier by inhabitants who claimed to see demons there.
		Quatermass and another scientist investigating the phenomenon quickly note the similarity between the horned heads of the insect-aliens and the representations of devils and demons going all the way back to the cave painters.
	mappa.mundi.net /reviews/review_004 (1293 words)

	Third Quatermass--Not The "Pits" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, Hammer did produce a final Quatermass film, one that is generally regarded to be the best of the three and certainly deserves to be regarded by fans everywhere as the...
		Quatermass And The Pit is one of those rare (these days) films that allows the discoveries and the horror to emerge bit by bit, for one implausible event to lay the foundation for the next, so that the audience is swept up in the drama as it unfolds for our characters.
		Just as Quatermass himself is made a believer in the enduring power of an evil "as ancient and diabolic as anything on record," so too is the audience sucked into the amazing events that play out before our eyes, bringing us to a pulse-pounding climax.
	www.horror-wood.com /pit_quatermass.htm (1731 words)

	Quatermass And The Pit (1967) - Channel 4 Film review
		Keir stars as the eponymous scientist, who is convinced that a mysterious cache of skulls unearthed in London during the building of a new Underground line are not of this earth, and indeed, when they begin to have some strange hypnotic effect on those around them, it turns out he might just be right.
		Given that it was made in 1967, the special effects are remarkably hi-tech (almost ahead of their time), other than the alien corpses, and their living counterparts, glimpsed in recovered ancestral memory flashback dream sequence.
		The film itself, which is daring enough to question the very notion of human existence, may ultimately require suspension of disbelief but provides plenty of scary moments en route.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=107384 (351 words)

	Quartermass And The Pit
		But to be frank, it doesn't matter a jot as Quatermass and the Pit is simply one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made.
		The film develops from the discovery of some skeletal remains in a tube station to being a terrific head fuck.
		The film is expertly paced and the soundtrack is as likely to scare you as the story.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/Q-T/quartermass_and_the_pit.htm (754 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit and Hob Lane
		In one scene in the film Quatermass is shown pondering the nature of "coincidence" and whether it is "simply coincidence"
		The story is prodigal with ideas, and is the first film to send science-fiction backwards in time, with the suggestion that the evolution of mankind owed much, if not everything, to the intervention of aliens.
		So he saw the hobgoblins, and satyrs, and dragons of the Pit, according to that which is written, that He should discover deep things out of the darkness.
	www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk /quatermass.htm (1459 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit - Hammer
		Quatermass is upset because he, a pacifist who believes in peaceful scientific research, is going to have to work with the Colonel, who is going to help convert the Professor's rockets to military use, and who gleefully describes setting up ballistic missile bases on the moon and Mars within ten years.
		Quatermass, taking a look at the area, learns from a policemen that the area has been abandoned for years - supposedly because it is haunted.
		Quatermass states that the ship got a huge intake of energy and seems to be coming alive.
	www.nigelkneale.cwc.net /Qpitmov.htm (1459 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Visible crew/equipment: As Quatermass drives back to the spaceship in a cab, just before it is to be drilled, the film crew can be easily seen in the cab's windows.
		Later when the police use a megaphone on their car to announce the spaceship is a hoax, you can again see the same woman with a white cap in one of the windows of the police car.
		Continuity: Quatermass used tweezers to pull away the membrane covering the eye of a dead martian.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film3735 (439 words)

	heron61: Quatermass and the Pit: Analysis and Musings
		However, the film also goes out of its way to assure us that this problem is far older than the Nazis and is far from limited just to them.
		The female scientist (Barbara Judd) is barely a character in the BBC version, and while she has a far more active and heroic role in the film, the attitudes found in the film are still very much the attitudes of pre-feminist discourse.
		In any case, definitely a film or mini-series to watch both learn more about the attitudes of that era and also for a vision of a hopeful union of peace, science, and (to a degree) spirituality that is so very much needed today.
	heron61.livejournal.com /456699.html (1089 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit \| Classic Movie and TV Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Filmed science fiction generally comes in two flavors: British, which has a unique and distinctive character, and everything else.
		Quatermass and the Pit--released in America as Five Million Years to Earth--is an archetype of the genre.
		Quatermass and the Pit is a compelling example of how an innovative story, strong acting, and powerful directing can obviate the need for spectacle.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/screen/classic/sfw4530.html (519 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the most intelligently paranoid science fiction films ever produced, this pessimistic masterpiece functions as a dark flip side to the relatively optimistic alien-induced evolution theory presented in the later 2001: A Space Odyssey.
		Nigel Kneale's brilliant script (which posits a surprisingly plausible, otherworldly rationale for the existence of the supernatural) was later appropriated by acknowledged fan John Carpenter for his underrated Prince of Darkness.
		This film is also known as Five Million Years to Earth.
	www.horrorfime.com /movies/quatermass_and_the_pit.htm (169 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hammer's third Quatermass film, a decade after the second and the only one with an English actor (Keir) in the title role.
		The first two were The Quatermass Xperiment (The Creeping Unknown) (1955) and Quatermass II (Enemy from Space) (1957).
		Quatermass and the Pit is surely the inspiration for Stephen King's novel The Tommyknockers (1987).
	www.csie.ntu.edu.tw /~ntucs82/PEOPLE/b2506017/sf/4p.html (145 words)

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