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When Was The Crawling Eye filmed?
1958
The Crawling Eye is an independently made 1958 British black-and-white science fiction film drama. It was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman and directed by Quentin Lawrence. The film is based on a 1956 British ITV “Saturday Serial” television program.
What Is The Crawling Eye movie about?
In a small Swiss resort town, sisters Anne (Janet Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jennifer Jayne) are worried by Anne’s telepathic sense, which goes haywire. Reporter Philip Truscott (Laurence Payne) and U.N. worker Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker), who’s in the area to investigate unusual radiation levels, also sense something is amiss. It turns out vicious extraterrestrials are living in a radiation cloud in the Alps, brutally killing anyone who comes near and threatening to descend upon the town.
The Trollenberg Terror/Film synopsis
Was there a movie called The Crawling Eye?
The Trollenberg Terror (released as The Crawling Eye in the United States) is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction drama film, produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, directed by Quentin Lawrence, that stars Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne and Janet Munro.
Who wrote the Trollenberg terror?
Jimmy Sangster
The Trollenberg Terror/Screenplay
Is there a Trollenberg mountain?
Trollenberg refers to a mountain and village somewhere before the train stop to Geneva, Switzerland. Besides this film, I never heard of Trollenberg, so I Googled the place. It actually exists, but not in Switzerland, or the Alps. Trollenberg is located in the Black Forest region of Germany!
What kind of bomber fights the Crawling Eye?
The Bombers use to fight the Crawling Eyes are English Electric Canberras. They are the British first-generation jet powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid-to-late 1940s. They were in service in the RAF for over 50 years.
Who is the director of the Crawling Eye?
It was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman and directed by Quentin Lawrence. The film is based on a 1956 British ITV “Saturday Serial” television program. The film was distributed in the UK by Eros Films Ltd. as The Trollenberg Terror, and in the US by Distributors Corporation of America as The Crawling Eye.
Who are the characters in the Crawling Eye?
Two climbers ( Jeremy Longhurst and Anthony Parker) huddle together on a ledge overlooking the valley below as a third climber, ( Jack Taylor ), calls to them from above. complains to them of a sudden bitter cold and a fog that has abruptly reduced visibility.
What was the award for the Crawling Eye?
The Crawling Eye was nominated in The Golden Turkey Awards series for “Most Idiotic Ad Lines in Hollywood History” for “The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world!” It lost to Kwaheri.
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