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Quatermass and the Pit / Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2019 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks, Maurice! I love the Internet Archive. Finding the Cinefantastique article on Forbidden Planet was a dream come true, because I wanted to post it here on All Sci-Fi. I wish they had the novelization, but they don't seem to.

I checked the picture quality of the episodes you posted the link for, and they look pretty good! Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2019 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Butch posted the novelization in several parts on the old board. Do you want me to re-post it? If yes then in which thread?
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2019 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
Thanks, Maurice! I love the Internet Archive. Finding the Cinefantastique article on Forbidden Planet was a dream come true, because I wanted to post it here on All Sci-Fi. I wish they had the novelization, but they don't seem to.

I checked the picture quality of the episodes you posted the link for, and they look pretty good! Very Happy

I volunteer there and do contract work. If someone has the text of the novel and wants to post the novel there I can explain how to do it. If I had a physical copy of the book I'd take it in and have it digitized.
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2019 3:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Butch also posted both the Forbidden Planet shooting script and novelization. Our home library has books and magazines going back to the early 1930s.
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PostPosted: Fri May 31, 2019 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thank you, Eadie, but I think I have a better idea. Very Happy

Maurice, on behalf of All Sci-Fi, I accept your generous offer. Please check your PMs and confirm the address you sent me a while back. If it's correct or if you wish to change it, please let me know.

I'll mail you a copy of the novelization from Amazon so that you can make a high-quality scan that all fans of this great movie can enjoy.

I wish the hardcover edition wasn't $200, because it would be easier for you to scan, but hopefully you'll manage with the $40 paperback. Sad

The copy will be yours to keep, just my way of thanking you you for adding the novel to Archive.org and allowing all of us to read it. Frankly I think I'll enjoy it on my laptop even more than squinting at a paperback, so I'm not really loosing a thing on this deal. Laughing

We're all looking forward to enjoying this novel, one which I owned back in high school (around 1965) and actually made a book report about in English class! Cool

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without a doubt one of my favorite films. Andrew Kerr is great as Quatermass and it's a very interesting concept.
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I DVRed this movie from TCM recently, and when I watched it today I gained a new appreciation for it. Very Happy

The premise is brilliant, and the concepts are presented extremely well in view of the limited FXs techniques of the 1960s. This is especially true of the scenes which were intended to show events on Mars when hords of the insect-like Martians were shown purging their population of unwanted mutations.

I enjoyed the way poor Professor Quatermass struggled to convince the boneheaded military men and and politicians that they had no idea what the spaceships was. In the end we get to enjoy the scene in which the high ranking military pays a heavy price for his stupidity.

I was impressed by the fact that the lovely Barbara Shelley figured prominently in the scientists' efforts to unravel the incredible mystery concerning the ancient Martian's plan to colonize Earth in a very unusual manner.

And she occupied the center stage again a while later when she was the first to realize that the Martian spacecraft was a dormant A.I. entity which came back to life in the dramatic climax!

In other words, Miss Shelley was not just a pretty face.

The story is so complex that non-science fiction fans will be totally baffled by it. But even hardcore sci-fi enthusiast will need to watch this movie more than once before they'll fully appreciate it.

It's an extremely imaginative story, told with great skill.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree, this movie requires more than viewing.

I guess I'll have to watch it again!

Sadly, we lost Barbara to the pandemic in early 2021.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Quatermass and the Pit / Five Million Years to Earth (19 Reply with quote

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To me, though, this is undoubtedly the shining light of the bunch. Chiefly what works the best in this one is the wonderful fusion of mystery and intelligence, the eerie sense of dread only off-set by a yearning to find out just what has happened.

I agree that this movie has much praise! Very Happy

However, the plot gets a bit murky in the climax when a giant, glowing, translucent Martian grasshopper head appears, and the London populace go bananas for reason that aren't quite clear.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Quatermass and the Pit / Five Million Years to Earth (19 Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
However, the plot gets a bit murky in the climax when a giant, glowing, translucent Martian grasshopper head appears, and the London populace go bananas for reason that aren't quite clear. Confused

The people who had "Martian faculties" instilled in them were culling the rest from the populace (also dogs, cats, etc) to reclaim their dominance. The other, normal people are just running around trying to escape being killed.

The giant head is the focus of the energy (that maybe should have been released 5 million years prior) and is what is causing the people to go "nuts". Grounding the big, giant head (no, not Shatner) to the earth dissipates it and the control over the Martian-ized people is broken.

Though it is explained in the film, it could have been explained a lot more clearly.

Have you ever seen the original BBC TV version?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Thanks, Tim! That clears things up for me. Very Happy

No, I haven't seen the original BBC TV version. I'll see if I can find it and give it a try. Mr. Green

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
Thanks, Tim! That clears things up for me. Very Happy

No, I haven't seen the original BBC TV version. I'll see if I can find it and give it a try. Mr. Green

Here you go:

https://archive.org/details/QuatermassAndThePit-EpisodeOne

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