
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

as Prof. Bernard Quatermass

as Victor Carroon

as Dr. Gordon Briscoe

as Inspector Lomax

as Judith Carroon

as Marsh

as Detective Sergeant Best

as Christie

as Blake

as Rosie Wrigley

as Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie

as Little Girl (uncredited)

as The Chemist (uncredited)

as BBC TV producer

as Maggie (uncredited)

as Maggie's Boyfriend (uncredited)

as George, Maggie's father (uncredited)

as Crash Site Fire Chief (uncredited)

as Crash Site Fireman (uncredited)

as Central Clinic Nurse (uncredited)

as Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)

as Zookeeper (uncredited)

as Zoo Superintendent (uncredited)

as Nurse Tucker (uncredited)

as Mrs. Lomax (uncredited)

as Mother at Zoo (uncredited)

as TV Show Floor Director (uncredited)

as Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)

as TV Program Announcer (uncredited)

as Charles Greene (uncredited)

as Ludwig Reichenheim (uncredited)

as Sergeant Bromley (uncredited)

as Sound Engineer (uncredited)