UK, 1965
85m
36mm film, black and white
mono, English
A British science fiction film directed by John Gilling.
Plot Summary
A trio of scientists track the progress of a gigantic mass as it falls to Earth somewhere in the UK. Amazed to find only a football size object at the crash site, they return it to their London lab where it turns out to be a matter transference device being used by a deformed alien posing as the editor of a glamour magazine in order lure attractive young women back to his dying world.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: John Gilling
© 1965 by Armitage Films Limited
An Armitage Films production
Released by Butchers Film Distributors Ltd in association with New Art Productions Inc.
Executive Producer: John Phillips
Produced by: Ronald Liles
Screenplay by: Jim O’Connolly
From the novel [The Night Callers] by Frank Crisp
Assistant Director: Ray Frift
Continuity: Marjorie Lavelly
Director of Photography: Stephen Dade
Camera Operator: David Harcourt
Film Editor: Philip Barnikel
Music Composed and Conducted by: Johnny Gregory
Title Music: ‘Image‘ by Joe Glenn, Larry Greene, Bob Sande
Sound Supervisor: John Cox
Sound Recordist: Kevin Sutton
Westrex Recording System
Wardrobe: Duncan McPhee
Make-up: Bunty Phillips
Hair Stylist: Joyce James
Art Director: Harry White
Made at: Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, England
Cast
John Saxon (Dr Jack Costain)
Maurice Denham (Professor Morley)
Patricia Haines (Ann Barlow)
Alfred Burke (Detective Superintendent Hartley)
Warren Mitchell (Reg Lilburn)
Stanley Meadows (Detective Tom Grant)
Aubrey Morris (Thorburn)
Ballard Berkeley (Commander Savage)
Marianne Stone (Madge Lilburn)
Geoffrey Lumsden (Colonel Davy)
Barbara French (Joyce Malone)
Anthony Wager (Private Higgins)
David Gregory (Private Jones)
Douglas Livingstone (2nd R/T soldier)
Tom Gill (police commissioner’s secretary)
Vincent Harding (1st R/T soldier)
Romo Gorrara (lieutenant)
Robert Crewdson (Medra)
John Carson (major)
Jack Watson (Sergeant Hawkins)
John Sherlock [TV newsreader] *
Alternative Titles
Blood Beast from Outer Space – US promotional title
Bloodbeast from Outer Space – alternative US promotional title
Night Caller from Outer Space – USA
References
Periodicals
- Monthly Film Bulletin March 1968 p.42 (USA) – credits, synopsis, review
Books
- Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again by John Stanley p.271 – credits, review
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis p.27 – credits
- Island of Terror: A Book of 60 Great* British SF and Fantasy Movies from 1936-1984 *And not so Great by Keith Topping pp.304-310
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.40 – credits
