Five Million Years to Earth
Directed by:
Roy Ward BakerScreenplay:
Nigel KnealeCinematography:
Arthur GrantComposer:
Tristram CaryCast:
James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Bryan Marshall, Duncan Lamont, Keith Marsh, John Bown, James Culliford, Hugh Manning, Eric Kent (more)Plots(1)
When workers building an extension to the London Underground dig up skeletal remains, palaeontologist Dr Matthew Roney is called in and deduces that they are the remnants of a group of apemen over five million years old. But Professor Bernard Quatermass draws other conclusions, suspecting something alien afoot. As theories swirl on the origins of these three-legged insectoid creatures with horned heads – Nazi propaganda? Demonic forces? – a drill operator is overcome by sudden telekinetic powers, and something very dark that has lurked deep within the bowels of the tube for millennia is unleashed onto the streets of London. (Independent Cinema Office)
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I’m adding the third star for the atmospheric ending, where at last something interesting happens. Otherwise, it’s a weak film, and I’m saying this as someone who loves science fiction and horror.
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Professor Quatermass is quite an interesting character, but in this film, I was more captivated by the colorful execution and the individual special effects, which are quite good. The story felt like a mishmash of everything possible that sci-fi offered at the time, although it's true that the author of the source material had this story out for quite a while with the screenplay. But somehow I couldn't get into the story.
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