Spend a little time looking into 1950's British science fiction and your sure to come across this title. 'The Quatermass Xperiment' started off as a tellaplay, then was adapted into this movie which would yield sequels and revivals into the 21st century. Bernard Quartermass (Brian Donlevy) is a brilliant scientist, he's also more then a bit of a single minded asshole, which makes him interesting. His initial rocket mission returns days later with two crewmen missing and one near catatonic. This is an "astronauts brought something alien back with them" story. Quatermass is teamed reluctantly with Scotland Yard Inspecter Lomax (Jack Warner, but not "that" Jack Waner). There are some close calls but the world is saved, after which Quatermass immediately sets to work preparing a second space flight, that man is out of control, he will kill us all. **1/2
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