

26/08/1955
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Brian Donlevy
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Richard Wordsworth
as Victor Carroon

David King-Wood
as Dr. Gordon Briscoe

Jack Warner
as Inspector Lomax

Margia Dean
as Judith Carroon

Maurice Kaufmann
as Marsh

John Wynn
as Detective Sergeant Best

Harold Lang
as Christie

Lionel Jeffries
as Blake

Thora Hird
as Rosie Wrigley

Sam Kydd
as Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie

Gordon Jackson
as BBC TV producer

Jane Asher
as Little Girl (uncredited)

Toke Townley
as The Chemist (uncredited)

Margaret Anderson
as Maggie (uncredited)

Eric Corrie
as Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)

Henry B. Longhurst
as George, Maggie's father (uncredited)

Ernest Hare
as Crash Site Fire Chief (uncredited)

Michael Godfrey
as Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)

Marianne Stone
as Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)

John Kerr
as Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)

Bartlett Mullins
as Zookeeper (uncredited)

Mayne Lynton
as Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)

Barry Lowe
as Nurse Tucker (uncredited)

Jane Aird
as Mrs. Lomax (uncredited)

Molly Glessing
as Mother at Zoo (uncredited)

Arthur Gross
as TV Show Floor Director (uncredited)

Basil Dignam
as Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)

Donald Gray
as TV Program Announcer (uncredited)

Gron Davies
as Charles Greene (uncredited)

Stanley Van Beers
as Ludwig Reichenheim (uncredited)

Arthur Lovegrove
as Sergeant Bromley (uncredited)

James Drake
as Sound Engineer (uncredited)
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