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Quatermass and the Pit (1967) was a Science Fiction - Horror Film directed by Roy Ward Baker and produced by Anthony Nelson Keys.

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Classics Revisited: Quatermass and the Pit

By Barry P. on Jul 8, 2017 From Cinematic Catharsis

(1967) Directed by Roy Ward Baker; Written by Nigel Kneale; Original story by Nigel Kneale; Starring: Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, James Donald and Julian Glover; Available on Blu-ray (Region B) and DVD (Region 2). Rating: ***** “I wanted a scientist who was on the edge of terri... Read full article


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The outside broadcast television cameras (and the TV channel glimpsed on a pub monitor) bear the genuine logo of ITV regional broadcaster ABCTV - ironic for an adaption of a serial made by the rival BBC channel.
The producers requested both orchestral and electronic cues from composer Tristram Cary in order to have a choice of scores to use. He provided around thirty minutes of symphonic music plus electronic pieces (to represent the Martian threat), though much of it was lost during post-production editing and recutting, occasionally being replaced with stock tracks.
Duncan Lamont, here playing the tormented drill operator Sladden, played the doomed astronaut Victor Carroon in the very first Quatermass TV series, The Quatermass Experiment.
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