(Das grüne Blut der Dämonen [de] • Five Million Years to Earth [us])
UK 1967
d: Roy Ward Baker
Anchor Bay Entertainment (Region 0 us)
sc: Nigel Kneale
c: Arthur Grant (DeLuxe Color)
e: Spencer Reeve
pd: Kenneth Ryan
m: Tristram Cary
p: Anthony Nelson Keys (Hammer Film Productions / 20th Century Fox / Seven Arts)
w: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Maurice Good, Grant Taylor, Robert Morris, Sheila Steafel, Hugh Futcher, Hugh Morton, Thomas Heathcote
pr: 19 Nov 1967
rt: 97:33 min
dvd-rl: 20 Okt 1998
ar: 1.66:1 (4:3 Letterboxed Widescreen)
sd: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • English Dolby 2.0 Surround • Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
st: --
supp: SIDE A
• The Film
• Audio Commentary by Roy Ward Baker
SIDE B
• Exclusive "World of Hammer" episode entitled "Sci-Fi" (24:41 min)
• UK Theatrical Trailer (2:33 min)
• US Theatrical Trailer
• 2 US TV spots
The third and most interesting of Nigel Kneale's "Quatermass" parables, scripted without interference by Kneale himself from his original TV series, so that his richly allusive web of occult, anthropological, religious and extraterrestrial speculation emerges intact as excavations at a London underground station turn up what appears to be an unexploded Nazi bomb, but proves to be a mysterious space craft. Hammer unfortunately delayed filming for several years, partly because of the sheer elaborateness of the subject matter, and partly because the plot did not lend itself to instant monster treatment. By the time the project came to be filmed, the company had moved from Bray and much of the atmosphere of their productions had been lost; but the brilliant pre-Von Daniken anthropological theme of Kneale's script still guarantees interest.
— DP, Time Out Film Guide
