The Quatermass Xperiment

1955 · 82 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 7,633 VOTES · DIR. Val Guest

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,078 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:41 What's that?
00:05:34 For the last 20 miles I've been painfully aware of that.
00:07:48 Q-1, Q-1, This is Marsh.
00:09:39 Nothing Quatermass. You know what you've done.
00:11:40 There's someone alive in there. We don't know what condition they'll be.
00:15:27 Are they all right?
00:18:21 - Inspector Lomax. - I'm Lomax.
00:20:33 Feel it.
00:23:13 - Would you help me, please? - Of course.
00:25:56 I do not know a thing, I'm not sure.
00:28:55 - Is that the slide? - That's the slide.
00:31:03 That's exactly why you must tell them nothing.
00:36:46 Ooh, not for a moment.
00:39:56 - What time are you off? - Ask him whether he's going to live or not.
00:43:50 - And Carroon? - No sign of him.
00:46:47 Now look sir, I'm not over intelligent, but when you ...
00:49:36 What I'm going on is no picnic.
00:53:51 And cakes too.
00:59:57 - Complete absorption this time. - That's what I've been afraid of.
01:02:26 I refuse to talk about it to any common constable ...
01:04:16 Well, I couldn't make out the shape properly.
01:07:39 this would have been a jungle of living tendrils.
01:10:32 - He fell from the scaffold. - Slipped?
01:12:58 How long before it starts reproducing?

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,078
Dialogue density13.1 lines / min
First line00:01:41
Final line01:12:58

Production Record

DirectorVal Guest
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes7,633