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Quatermass and the Pit Overview:

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 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.
Roney's mental image, seen on a small screen when the apparatus is being calibrated, is a shot from early in Four Sided Triangle, an earlier Hammer science fiction film.
Andrew Keir celebrated his 41st birthday on set on April 3rd 1967.
Three decades on, Andrew Keir reprised the rôle of the Professor in "The Quatermass Memoirs", a five-part docudrama scripted by Nigel Kneale and transmitted on BBC Radio 3 in March 1996.
If you look closely at the London Underground station walls, you can see quite a few posters from other Hammer projects such as The Reptile, Dracula: Prince of Darkness and The Witches, as well as My Fair Lady and Hotel. An old, partially-ripped poster for Sex and the Single Girl can be seen on the wall opposite the entrance to Hobbs End station.
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