Quatermass 2 – 1957

A Hammer film production released by Exclusive films (UK)I and Warner Brothers (USA)
A Hammer production released by United Artists
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 18126

Opening credit;- “The Producers acknowledge the assistance received from the Hemel Hempsted New Town Development Corporation during the Shooting of this film”

Closing credit;-“The Producers Wish to acknowledge with thanks, the facilitie, extended to them by “Shell” Refining arId Marketing Company for the shooting of many scenes, at Shell Haven Refinery, Essex”

RCA Sound Recording
Produced at New EIstree Studios
Black & White 85 mins

Storyline

Professor Quatermass is working on a moonbase project from which the government suddenly and inexplicably withdraws funding. At the same time, instruments at his laboratory pick up a strange shower of meteor-like objects in the area of a village called Winterton Flats.
Quatermass and one of his colleagues, Marsh, set out for the village and to their shock find a gigantic complex of buildings, which bears an uncanny resemblance to his moonbase plans. Then Marsh finds a meteorite still intact and picks it up.
As he examines it, it explodes in his face, leaving a black wound on his cheek. Before the Professor can help him, armed guards, all bearing similar marks, arrive and take Marsh to the complex, a place shrouded in secrecy which the locals are unwilling to discuss. As he investigates further, Quatermass uncovers a terrifying scheme by Martian beings for an imminent invasion of earth…

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Director	Bernard Robinson	44	28 Jul 1912		2 Mar 1970	57	46	3	49
Ast. Director	Don Weeks	52	15 Nov 1904		Mar 1988	83	30		30
Camera Operator	Len Harris	41	19 May 1916		21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Conductor	John Hollingsworth	41	20 Mar 1916		29 Dec 1963	47	36	2	38
Continuity	June Randall	29	26 Jun 1927		18 Jan 2015	87	6		6
Director	Val Guest	45	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Director of Photog.	Gerald Gibbs	49	7 Nov 1907		23 Jan 1990	82	3		3
Editor	James Needs	37	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Executive Producer	Michael Carreras	29	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Make-up	Phil Leakey	49	4 May 1908		26 Nov 1992	84	48		48
Music	James Bernard	31	20 Sep 1925		12 Jul 2001	75	24	1	25
Producer	Anthony Hinds	34	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84	1	85
Production Manager	John Workman	37	28 May 1920		1973	52	2		2
Production Supervisor	Anthony Nelson-Keys	45	13 Nov 1911		19 Mar 1985	73	41		41
Screenplay	Val Guest	45	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Screenplay	Nigel Kneale	35	18 Apr 1922		29 Oct 2006	84	6		6
Sound	Cliff Sandall	54	24 Apr 1903		1988	84	2	1	3
Sound Editor	Alfred Cox	32	1 Jan 1925		1 Jan 2005	80	21	4	25
Special Effects	Henry Harris	57	13 Nov 1899		1971	71	1		1
Special Effects	Bill Warrington	47	1 Jan 1910		11 Sep 1981	71	2	2	4
Special Effects	Frank George						3		3
Story	Nigel Kneale	35	18 Apr 1922		29 Oct 2006	84	6		6
Wardrobe	Rene Coke						1		1
Uncredited
Ast. Editor	Alfred Cox	32	1925		2005	80	21	4	25
Ast. Editor	Michael Hart							2	2
Boom Operator	Claude Hitchcock	38	8 Nov 1918		4 Oct 2010	91	14	4	18
Chief Electrician	Jack Curtis						3	23	26
Clapper Loader	Alan Gatward	27	16 May 1930		2000	69		1	1
Construction Manager	Fred Ricketts	44	1913		19 Jan 1968	55		4	4
Draughtsman	Don Mingaye	28	1 Jan 1929		8 Nov 2017	88	26	14	40
Draughtsman	David Butcher							1	1
Electrician	Steve Birtles	42	12 Nov 1914		2003	88	13	14	27
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	36	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53
Master Plasterer	Arthur Banks						18	29	47
Matte Painter	Les Bowie	43	10 Nov 1913		27 Jan 1979	65	32	11	43
Production Secretary	Angela Dunsford	23	1934	01.01.1934		89		1	1
Property Master	Tom Money	40	1917		1974	56	2	20	22
Publicist	Bill Batchelor	58	3 May 1899		23 Sep 1990	91		3	3
Second Ast. Director	Stanley Goulder	36	28 Feb 1921		15 May 2006	85		2	2
Sound Ast.	J. West							1	1
Sound Camera Operator	Bill Robson							1	1
Special Effects Ast.	Brian Johnson	17	29 Jun 1939	29.06.1939		84	3	7	10
Still Photog.	John Jay	36	14 Nov 1920		29 Apr 2005	84	13	22	35
Third Ast. Director	Hugh Harlow	18	17 Jun 1939	17.06.1939		84	3	28	31

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Banker	Gilbert Davis	58	9 May 1899		28 Feb 1983	83	1		1
Brand	William Franklyn	31	22 Sep 1925		31 Oct 2006	81	3		3
Broadhead	Tom Chatto	36	1 Sep 1920		8 Aug 1982	61	1		1
Commissioner	John Stuart	58	18 Jul 1898		17 Oct 1979	81	7	1	8
Constable	Arthur Blake	27	7 Nov 1929		27 Nov 2001	72	1		1
Dawson	Charles Lloyd-Pack	54	10 Oct 1902		22 Dec 1983	81	8		8
Ernie	Michael Ripper	44	27 Jan 1913		28 Jun 2000	87	34	2	36
Gorman	Percy Herbert	36	31 Jul 1920		6 Dec 1992	72	6		6
Harry	Michael Balfour	39	11 Feb 1918		24 Oct 1997	79	3		3
Inspector	Lloyd Lamble	43	8 Feb 1914		17 Mar 2008	94	3		3
Intern	John Fabian	30	19 May 1927		11 Apr 2012	84	1		1
Jimmy Hall	Sidney James	44	8 May 1913		26 Apr 1976	62	7		7
Kelly	Betty Impey	26	5 Dec 1930	05.12.1930		92	1		1
Lab. Ast.	Robert Raikes	28	1 Jan 1929	01.01.1929		94	1		1
Lab. Ast.	Philip Baird						1		1
Lomax	John Longden	56	11 Nov 1900		26 May 1971	70	4		4
Marsh	Bryan Forbes	30	22 Jul 1926		8 May 2013	86	2		2
McLeod	John Rae	61	21 Jun 1895		4 Jun 1977	81	1	1	2
Michaels	Howard Williams	25	10 May 1932	10.05.1932		90	3	2	5
Mrs McLeod	Jane Aird	46	12 Jul 1910		26 May 1979	68	2	1	3
Peterson	Edwin Richfield	35	11 Sep 1921		2 Aug 1990	68	10		10
Professor Quatermass	Brian Donlevy	56	9 Feb 1901		5 Apr 1972	71	2		2
Secretary	Marianne Stone	34	23 Aug 1922		21 Dec 2009	87	9	2	11
Sheila	Vera Day	21	4 Aug 1935	04.08.1935		87	4		4
Super	George Merritt	66	10 Dec 1890		27 Aug 1977	86	3		3
The P.R.O.	John Van Eyssen	35	19 Mar 1922		13 Nov 1995	73	4		4
Woman M.P.	Joyce Adams						1		1
Young Man	Ronald Wilson	27	2 Apr 1930		17 Jul 2014	84	1		1
Uncredited
Chris	Barry Lowe	32	1 Jan 1925		12 Dec 2011	86	6	2	8
Drunk	Henry Rayner	41	23 Sep 1915		2 Nov 2005	90		1	1
First Man	Vernon Greeves	32	18 Aug 1924		6 Jul 1999	74		1	1
Guard	Arthur Howell	37	5 Jan 1920		Aug 2003	83		5	5
Guard	Leslie Crawford	23	24 Dec 1933		1 Dec 2006	72		1	1
Guard	Jim O'Brady	50	13 May 1907		1 Jan 1991	83		18	18
Guard	George Hilsdon	50	25 Apr 1907		28 May 1982	75		7	7
Guard	Peter Brace	32	30 Aug 1924		29 Oct 2018	94		3	3
Guard	Colin McKenzie							3	3
Intern	Norman Morris							1	1
Labour MP	Alastair Hunter	44	20 Mar 1913		1996	82	1	3	4
Policeman	John Adams							4	4
Woman Shopper	Joan Schofield							1	1
Worker	Chris Adcock	35	7 Apr 1922		1 Jan 1998	75		4	4
Worker	Alfred Wright	69	18 Feb 1888		8 May 1963	75		1	1
Worker	Charles Stevenson							1	1
Worker	Daniel Brown							5	5
Worker	Paula Wright							1	1
Worker	Tony Castleton							1	1
Young Girl	Jan Holden	26	9 May 1931		11 Oct 2005	74	3	1	4

Production


FILMING BEGAN	21 May 1956
UK RELEASE	17 June 1957
STUDIO	New Elstree Studios, Elstree Road, Borehamwood. Hertfordshire, England
LOCATION	Chobham Common, Surrey, England
	Shell Haven Refinery, Essex, England
	Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
	House of Lords, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London, England
	Ivinghoe Beacon, The Ridgeway, Buckinghamshire, England	Winnerden Flats
	Parliament Square, Westminster, London, England
	South Downs outside Brighton, East Sussex, England
	Trafalgar Square, St James's, London, England
	Canvey Island, Essex, England

Footnotes

Versatile actor Bryan Forbes also turned his hand to screenwriting, production and direction. His credits as director include “Whistle down the Wind” (1961), “The L-Shaped Room” (1962), “Seance on a Wet Afternoon” (1964) and “The Wrong Box” (1966). He is married to actress Nanette Newman, who appears in Hammer’s “Man at the Top” (1974).

Charles Lloyd Pack is a fairly regular face in Hammer’s repertory company of actors. Other appearances by him for them include “Dracula” (1958), “The Revenge of Frankenstein” (1958), “The Man Who Could Cheat Death” (1959), “The Reptile” (1966) and “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell” (1973).

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection