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The Trollenberg Terror( 1958)

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The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world!

Overview

An American investigator for the U.N., a German scientist and a British reporter join forces to investigate a series of disappearances and mutilation-deaths confined to a Swiss Alp and involving a thick, mobile cloud, a telepathic girl, an animate dead man, and tentacled, cyclopean beings from another planet.

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      Forrest Tucker

      Alan Brooks

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      Jennifer Jayne

      Sarah Pilgrim

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      Janet Munro

      Anne Pilgrim

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      Laurence Payne

      Philip Truscott

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      Warren Mitchell

      Prof. Crevett

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      Frederick Schiller

      Mayor Klein

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      Colin Douglas

      Hans

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      Andrew Faulds

      Brett

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      Stuart Saunders

      Dewhurst

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      Derek Sydney

      Wilde

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      Richard Golding

      First Villager

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      George Herbert

      Second Villager

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      Jeremy Longhurst

      First Student Climber

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      Anthony Parker

      Second Student Climber

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      Leslie Heritage

      Carl

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      Theodore Wilhelm

      Fritz

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      Anne Sharp

      The Mother

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      Caroline Glazer

      The Child

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      Garard Green

      The Spotter Pilot

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      Jack Taylor

      Voice of Beheaded Climber Jim

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    Review 1Discussion

    A review by John Chard

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    Written by John Chard on Fri Nov 21 2014
    The Crawling Eye. The filmic adaptation of a 1956 UK TV serial of the same name, The Trollenberg Terror is a whole bunch of fun and not deserving of the stinker reputation it has in some sci-fi loving circles. Action is set in Trollenberg, Switzerland and concerns a creature from outer space that has taken residence in a radioactive cloud atop of the Trollenberg mountain. As the bodies start to pile up and various climbers go missing on the mountain, the United Nations send a boffin to help the local scientists to hopefully solve the mystery. The effects work has been the source of som...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • monster
    • switzerland
    • mountain
    • cloud
    • alien life-form
    • radioactivity
    • psychic power
    • decapitation
    • trance
    • subzero
    • mountain climbing
    • observatory
    • mind reading act
    • fire bombing
    • cable car
    • animated corpse
    • mountain rescue
    • molotov cocktail
    • alpine village
    • isolated hut