Residents of a radio telescope laboratory are kidnapped when they answer a mysterious signal from outer space. They are taken to a spacecraft inhabited only by robots, where they are presented with a series of intelligence tests. They subsequently attempt to find out why they’ve been kidnapped, and how they will get back to earth.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Twickenham Studios
77 Mins
Stills from film
Click an image for enlarged slideshow
Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Direction | Scott Slimon | 51 | 8 Aug 1915 | 1980 | 64 | 1 | |
Assistant Director | Tom Walls | 54 | 31 May 1912 | 28 Nov 1992 | 80 | 11 | |
Camera Operator | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/len-harris/# | 50 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 55 | |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull | 74 | 28 Jan 1893 | 1 Dec 1979 | 86 | 1 | |
Conductor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 59 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 | |
Continuity | Phyllis Townshend | 1 | |||||
Director | Montgomery Tully | 62 | 6 May 1904 | 10 Oct 1988 | 84 | 4 | |
Film Editing | Peter Musgrave | 36 | 1931 | May 2018 | 87 | 1 | |
Music | Elisabeth Lutyens | 60 | 9 Jul 1906 | 14 Apr 1983 | 76 | 2 | |
Producer | Max Rosenberg | 52 | 13 Sep 1914 | 14 Jun 2004 | 89 | 1 | |
Production Design | Bill Constable | 61 | 8 Mar 1906 | 22 Aug 1989 | 83 | 1 | |
Set Dresser | Andrew Low | 5 | |||||
Sound Re-recordist | David Nimmo | 36 | 8 Oct 1930 | 1975 | 44 | 1 | |
Sound Editor | Stanley Smith | 1 | |||||
Special Effects | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/les-bowie/# | 53 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 86 | 43 | |
Special Effects Assistant | Terry Schubert | 29 | 1938 | 01.01.1938 | 0 | 6 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | 93 | Hammer Productions | |
Ben Keller | Stanley Meadows | 35 | 14 Jul 1931 | 14.07.1931 | 0 | 1 | |
Dig Site Worker | Eric Kent | 29 | 16 Jul 1937 | 5 Dec 2012 | 75 | 6 | |
Joshua Yellowlees | Charles Hawtrey | 52 | 30 Nov 1914 | 27 Oct 1988 | 73 | 3 | |
Mrs. Jones | Patricia Hayes | 57 | 22 Dec 1909 | 19 Sep 1998 | 88 | 2 | |
Sandy Lund | Zena Marshall | 42 | 1 Jan 1925 | 10 Jul 2009 | 84 | 1 | |
Uncle | Frank Forsyth | 61 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 6 |
Original Poster
Click to enlarge
Footnotes
This was Hammer cameraman Len Harris’s only film for Amicus