Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver.
and Vanessa Mitchell are part of a British team testing the nation's
first rocket, but their personal lives are ruined by their bickering
and by Vanessa's affair with fellow scientist Philip Crenshaw. The
rocket is launched but malfunctions and is left stranded in orbit -
and Vanessa and Crenshaw have gone missing. Has Mitchell murdered
them and hidden their bodies aboard the ruined rocket?
FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (1953)
Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephan Murray, John Van Eyssen.
Scientists Bill, Robin and Lena invent a machine capable of exactly duplicating any
object. But their elation at their breakthrough is tempered by the
relationship that develops between Lena and Robin, devastating the
jealous Bill when the couple marry. Bill uses the device to make a
duplicate of Lena which he names Helen. But Helen soon falls in love
with Robin and Bill has to resort to more extreme methods to solve the
X THE UNKNOWN (1956)
Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley.
A troop of
British commandos return from a covert mission suffering from mysterious
symptoms and horrific burns. Dr. Adam Royston, an atomic scientist,
suspects lethal radiation, and must track down the source of this
menace before it overtakes humanity. A desolate area of Scotland
is threatened by the cyclical appearance of a giant radioactive
blob of mud that arises from the depths of the Earth to consume
everything in its path.
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS (1957)
Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker.
At a remote Tibetan monastery in the
Himalayas, a botanical expedition has been collecting and categorizing
rare plants. Dr. John Rollason, however, has an ulterior motive for
his visit; he has plans to meet up with another party lead by an
American entrepreneur, Tom Friend, whose goal is to discover the
mysterious Yeti. Against the pleadings of his wife Helen and the
warnings of the Llama, Rollason leaves with Friend's party to
investigate the high valleys. Neither Rollason nor Friend is
prepared for what they find there.
THE DAMNED (1963) aka THESE ARE THE DAMNED
Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox.
In Weymouth, American Simon Wells is attacked by a gang of
local thugs led by the brutal King, who resents Wells flirting with
his sister Joanie. When King and his gang later try to attack Wells
again, he and Joanie fall from a cliff and are rescued by a group of
children who emerge from a nearby research facility run by scientist
Bernard. The children are the radioactive subjects of experiments
being run by Bernard, the offspring of women exposed to high levels
of radiation to produce children capable of surviving a nuclear war.
MOON ZERO TWO (1969)
James Olson, Catherina von Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri.
A gang of crooks is
planning to capture a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing
it into the moon so that they can salvage it. But the only place
they can bring it down undetected is on a mining claim on the dark
side of the moon and they murder the miner who owns it. But the
salvage team the crooks have hired to help them retrieve the asteroid
is also working for the miner's sister, who is paying them to search
for her missing brother...