#Bernard Quatermass

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Sketchbook Quatermass & the Pit, 1958.

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Awwwww, Quatermass caught Roney a fish and Roney kept it like a fucking trophy.

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Richard Wordsworth and Jane Asher in The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Dir.Val Guest

In the English countryside, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. The rocket was launched by Prof. Quatermass with the astronauts Victor Carroon, Greene and Reichebheim; however only Carroon is found very sick in the cabin. He is transported to a private clinic to stay under observation despite the protests of his wife Mrs. Judith Carroon. She bribes a nurse to bring Carroon to her and she finds that he is transforming into a monster. Carroon escapes, killing people and animals during his metamorphosis while the Scotland Yard is hunting him down and Dr. Quatermass discovers that his process is an alien invasion.

*Among the materials used by Les Bowie to embellish the monster were bovine entrails and tripe.

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Acrylic painting of André Morell as Professor Bernard Quatermass from the BBC’s Quatermass and the Pit.

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The Quatermass Xperiment will be released on Blu-ray on December 12 via Kino Lorber. The 1955 British sci-fi horror film includes reversible artwork featuring its alternate US title, The Creeping Unknown.

Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire) directs from a script he co-wrote with Richard H. Landau (The Black Hole), based on the 1955 BBC serial from Nigel Kneale. Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, Jack Warner, David King-Wood, Margia Dean, and Maurice Kaufmann star.

Special features - including an interview with master of horror John Carpenter - are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Gary Gerani (new)

Audio commentary by director Val Guest, moderated by film historian Marcus Hearn

Interview with filmmaker John Carpenter

Interview with director Val Guest

QX: From Reality to Fiction featurette

QX: Comparing the Versions featurette

Trailers From Hell with Ernest Dickerson

Alternate main title

Theatrical trailer

A spacecraft returns to Earth with a frightening surprise on board. Two of the ship's three astronauts have mysteriously vanished, while the third is sick with an unidentifiable illness. While doctors try to help the third man recover, an investigation takes place to figure out just what happened to his comrades. As it turns out, the survivor’s body has been taken over by an alien fungus that needs blood to survive. After the astronaut escapes from the hospital, he transforms into a monster, attacking everyone who gets in its way. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard detective Lomax (Jack Warner) and Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a determined scientist, attempt to track down the creature before it finds new victims.

Pre-order The Quatermass Xperiment.

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Quatermass and the Pit (Film) | Television Heaven

Halloweently review of the 1967 Hammer movie of Quatermass and the Pit (AKA Five Million Years to Earth)

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Quatermass and the Pit (1967) aka Five Million Years to Earth Hammer Film Productions Dir. Roy Ward Baker

James Donald as Doctor Roney Andrew Keir as Professor Bernard Quatermass Julian Glover as Colonel Breen

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Scottish actor Andrew Keir passed away on October 5th 1997 at a hospital in London, aged 71.

Andrew Keir was born in the coal mining town of Shotts in 1926 and as a teenager worked in the pit alongside his father before gaining a spot as an actor in the town’s local theatre company after a regular performers didn’t show up for a performance.

Keir liked his first acting experience so much that he decided to pursue it further by attending the Unity Theatre in Glasgow at the age of 20 before later joining Glasgow’s Citizens’ Theatre.

Keir’s film career started in the early 1950s with character roles in the comedy The Lady Craved Excitement, the mine accident drama The Brave Don’t Cry, and the romantic comedy Scotch on the Rocks. He would continue to land various character roles in both film and television throughout the 1950s before getting larger roles mostly in horror films produced by Hammer Productions during the 1960s.

Andrew Keir’s most notable role was as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Quatermass and the Pit. He would continue to provide solid character performances in film and television throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he frequently played Scotsmen, especially in the latter part of his career, playing Ruthven in the 1971 version of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Duke of Argyll in Robroy alongside Liam Neeson.

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ELDRITCH ELDRITCH ELDRITCH!!!!

as said Prof. Bernard Quatermass https://fnord.forumeiros.com/t748-galdrux-is-the-eye-of-anticosm

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Sci Fi Month Rrview 6 :Quatermass and the Pit

For this review of Sci Fi month we are looking at a important but now lesser known sci fi franchise withthe film Quattermass and the Pit

In this 1967 film a mysterious object is found next to human skeletons from 5 million years ago,and the object maybe a martian ship and may be more dangerous then it seems

Quattermass is a British Sci Fi franchise ,starting as a series of TV serials,then becoming a trilogy of films by Hammer .My only other exposure to the series has been the first Hammer film Quatermass Xperiment.Quatermass and the Pit is the third in Hammers Quattermass series and an adaptation of the third serial

Thought this was a very good movie,very much deserving its place as a classic .....At the same time I dont know if I have much to say about it

Pros:The film explores some good concepts like residual psychic energy (Heck I woud argue this is pure sci fi cause the concepts are the star ),I like that while the martians are dead and dont come back ,we still see them and they look decent ,kind of giant grasshoppers .PErfromances are all good but the standouts are Andrew Kier as Bernard Quattermass who brings this intelligent yet grumpy "Tis is how it is "energy , thought Barbra Shelley was very good ,I think Julian Glover as the in denile military official is a perfect foil (also his fate is YIKES ) ,and was really impressed by the third act,I thought it was very cool

The cons:I got a little lost near the end and I kind of kept forgetting James Donalds character ,and he is TOP BILLED AND ONE OF THE HEROES .Also Quatermass has encountered at least two extraterrestrial disasters before this movie,why are people acting like aliens are prepostrus ??I dunno ,trope that bugs me

Overall this is a sci fi must watch I feel ,not a personal fave but I really liked it

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Chapter 2 - X-Manson by Doctor Benway - Annotated By Tsar.

Many of you are familiar with Hank "The Tank" McCoy and his works. my college @brw is the formost McCoy Scholar. But as you'll see here this AU's version of Hank takes many cues from his Age of Apocalypse self. But he lacks any kind of the fuzzy goodness of your average Hank McCoy.

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[Shot of a very large man in an expensive suit in a lushly appointed office, possibly that of an investment banker but possibly that of a professor who is very good at getting grants. The man is wearing rimless high-fashion European glasses and a look of extreme urgency. Plainly, this interview is keeping him from something very important. He also has unusually large hands.]

[Caption: Henry McCoy, Trofim Lysenko Professor of Genetics at Northwestern University, Chicago IL]

*I didn't catch this on my first read through, but Trofim Lysenko is a soviet pseudo-scientist who rejected the idea of Medelivian genetics. He was primarily focused on hybridizing crops by grafting them together. It's frankly bizarre that an american institution in a post-soviet world would have such a position, but it's a weird world, isn't it?

HM: I was at the School For Gifted Youngsters for three of the best years of my life.

Int: You chose to attend?

HM: I had a rough time at my first high school, very rough. It was in the Midwest, where any deformities would make one the object of the most vicious ridicule. At the School, I set myself on the path to understanding that which had made me different.

Int: You worked with Charles Xavier on his genetic experiments?

HM: Charles Xavier had a profound intellect. Everything I am today I owe to him. His breakdown and demise were most unfortunate.

Int: You are aware of the controversy surrounding his background?

HM: Overblown, completely overblown. Xavier had a remarkable mind, one that transcended the petty certifications that we so often use to indicate the size of a mind.

Int: Such as your PhD from Princeton?

HM: Such as that, yes. I am certain that Charles Xavier could have easily attained all that I learned at Princeton in a much shorter time, had he not known it already. He was a most remarkable teacher, and I am but a humble fool by comparison.

*Simp.

Int: Were you close to the other students?

HM: As close as my studies would allow. My program of study was quite intensive, and I spent little time with them. I found their company pleasant, when I had time to indulge in it.

Int: Were they happy at the School?

HM: So far as I knew.

Int: What do you think happened to Robert Drake?

HM: I have no idea. He was still there when I left the School and went up to Princeton.

Int: Didn't you stay in touch with the others?

HM: I had limited contact with the Professor. Otherwise, I lost touch with them. I certainly wish I had not, knowing now what happened. If only I had known, I might have been able to prevent it.

[Shot of a much less well-appointed office with no windows but plenty of steam pipes. The place is in a state of almost pure chaos, with books and papers piled on every free surface. A middle aged man who obviously runs marathons is staring a little too keenly into the camera.]

[Caption: Sir Bernard Quatermass, RA Fisher Professor of Eugenics at the London School of Hygiene]

*Bernard Quartermass is another cross-media reference. He is derived from a 1955 british sci-fi serial called "The Quartermass Experiment. Quartermass is however not a Professor of Eugenics but an Aerospace Engineer.

**The London School of Hygiene is somewhat real, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has had a few reports of eugenicist attitutes and white supremacy stances, though that can be expected from an institution that was founded as Britain was colonizing the world.

BQ: McCoy would sell his own mother to the gypsies to get the Nobel. For that matter, he missed his mother's funeral on account of some experiment he was involved in. Disgusting man. No one with any sense of honour will work with him.

*The only reason why B.Q isn't seen as a monster is because he is being placed in comparrison with this AU's Hank McCoy.

Int: Why is that?

BQ: His early career consisted almost entirely of publishing work weeks or even days ahead of others who had been working on their ideas for decades.

Int: So he had no ideas of his own?

BQ: Oh no, no, no. He did have some very good ideas, completely original ones as far as anyone could tell. He developed the anti-retrovirals that cured that awful venereal disease that the Africans caught from monkeys and that infected all those pederasts in California twenty years back. He has a better understanding of mutant genetics than almost anyone in the field. Of course, he would have, given his connections.

*evil Hank McCoy cured AIDS.

Int: How do you mean?

BQ: His work, and indeed all of our work, depends upon getting large quantities of genetic material in a fresh condition. He's always had and still has the best supplies of it.

Int: This material, it comes from cadavers?

BQ: Cadavers and those on their way to becoming them. It may be something as simple and harmlessly taken as blood, it might be a pituitary gland torn from a technically still-living brain. Brain, kidney, and liver tissue in particular can't be taken ethically until the source has died, and Henry always has had an unusually good supply of brains and kidneys.

*i think Bernard is jealous because he wants to get in on some illegal organ harvesting.

Int: You're suggesting that he may have gotten these by illegal means?

BQ: All I'm saying is, he always had tissue, whenever he needed it. If you want a subject for another documentary, try looking at how much cable traffic there is from his lab to China every time they have one of their anti-corruption campaigns.

[Shot of Dwight Hammer]

DH: The autopsy report on Robert Drake showed that he was missing several organs.

Int: Which ones?

DH: Brain, both kidneys, liver. Maybe more, he was down in that muck over ten years, but the coroner was sure that those ones were missing.

Int: Were any of the other bodies found in the lake missing organs?

DH: Some of them. Usually brains. Only one of the bodies was fully intact, the one that they call the Lady of the Lake. Some of the live ones we arrested were missing parts. Summers was missing a kidney and both eyes.

*two victims in the lake now, six remaining:

Robert Drake

Rogue

Int: What do you think happened to them?

DH: We know what happened to Summer's eyes, but we don't know what happened to his kidney. Maybe they ate it. Just assumed it was some sort of mutant thing.

*i think they took Summers' eyes as a means of keeping him powerless to stop them.

Int: Did you vote for the Kelly Amendment?

DH: Way I see it, the founding fathers set everything up assuming we were all equal. There's no call to make some more equal than others.

Int: So you don't feel that mutants need extra protection?

DH: Hell, no. Some of my best friends are mutants, and they never complained.

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So, the last episode of Quatermass II involves Bernard Quatermass and his friend/colleague Leo Pugh traveling in a rocket to destroy the asteroid carrying the invading aliens. Once there, it's revealed that Leo has been infected by the aliens - he tries to shoot Quatermass and the recoil shoots him off the asteroid and into space.

During the final five minutes, we can hear him screaming over the radio every time Quatermass talks to Earth. The asteroid then gets blown up, destroying the alien influence over all those infected. This means that the very last moment of the serial is spent in the realization that Leo (who had definitely become my favorite character) has regained his own mind and will only to find himself drifting helplessly in space, without hope of rescue, listening to his friend returning to earth while he has only the prospect of a lonely and horrible death. I had expected Leo to die (the fact of his infection was not exactly subtle) but I had not expected that.

So, y'know, well done, Nigel Kneale - that is an impressively fucked up downer ending. Good job.

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The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) Movie Review

The Quatermass Xperiment – Movie Review ABC Film Challenge – Set in the UK – Q Director: Val Guest Writer: Richard H Landau, Val Guest (Screenplay) Cast Brian Donlevy (Beau Geste) Jack Warner (Boys in Brown) Richard Wordsworth Margia Dean Thora Hird (Lost for Words) Plot: Professor Bernard Quatermass’ manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the…

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Ghastly Phantasms zine spotlights Quatermass

The latest issue of the digital zine "Ghastly Phantasms" spotlights American actor Brain Donlevy, who played Professor Bernard Quatermass in the first two big screen outings of Nigel Kneale's fondly-remembered SF saga

The latest issue of Ghastly Phantasms, a digital fanzine described as “a love letter to classic horror films and the people we love who made them happen”, spotlights American actor Brain Donlevy, who played Professor Bernard Quatermass in the first two big screen outings of Nigel Kneale’s fondly-remembered SF saga. Ghastly Phantasms #14 – cover art by Diana Robertson What started as a group of…

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The Quatermass Xperiment : Val Guest : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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So Clarke was Bernard Quatermass.