UK, 1958
82m (Germany), 84m – 35mm film, black and white
35mm film, black and white
mono, English
A British science fiction film directed by Quentin Lawrence.
Plot Summary
A mysterious cloud descends upon a mountainside village in Switzerland, heralding the arrival of hideous aliens that begin decapitating the locals.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Quentin Lawrence
Eros Films Ltd. [logo] A Tempean production
Produced by: Robert S. Baker & Monty Berman
Screenplay by: Jimmy Sangster
From a Story by: Peter Key
Director of Photography: Monty Berman
Editor: Henry Richardson
Music Composed by: Stanley Black
Sound Recordist: Dick Smith
Make Up: Eleanor Jones
Hairdresser: Joy Vigo
Special Effects by: Anglo Scottish Pictures; Les Bowie *
Art Director: Duncan Sutherland
Made at: Alliance Film Studios Ltd, Southall Studios, Middlesex, England
Cast
Forrest Tucker (Alan Brooks)
Laurence Payne (Philip Truscott)
Jennifer Jayne (Sarah Pilgrim)
Janet Munro (Anne Pilgrim)
Warren Mitchell ([Professor] Crevett)
Andrew Faulds (Brett)
Stuart Saunders (Dewhurst)
Frederick Schiller (Klein)
Colin Douglas (Hans)
Derek Sydney (Wilde)
Richard Golding (first villager)
George Herbert (second villager)
Garard Green (search plane pilot)
Anne Sharp (German woman)
Jeremy Longhurst (first student climber)
Anthony Parker (second student climber)
Leslie Heritage (Carl)
Theodore Wilhelm (Fritz)
Jack Taylor (Jim)
Caroline Glaser (little girl)
Alternative Titles
The Crawling Eye – USA
Creature from another World
The Creeping Eye
The Flying Eye
I mostri delle rocce atomiche – Italy
Links
Remake of
The Trollenberg Terror (1956-1957)
Extracts included in
Explorers (1985)
Invasion Earth: The Aliens are Here (1987)
It Came from Hollywood (1982)
Small Soldiers (1998)
References
Periodicals
- The Dark Side no.206 (2019) pp.14-21 – illustrated article (The original eye cloud by Clive Dawson)
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.63, 354
- Island of Terror: A Book of 60 Great* British SF and Fantasy Movies from 1936-1984 *And not so Great by Keith Topping pp.165-172
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.77 – credits
- Serials on British Television 1950-1994 by Ellen Baskin p.21
- Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976 by Gary A. Smith pp.219
