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Based On Tv Series | London, England
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In the London Underground, there are quite a few posters from other Hammer projects such as The Reptile (1966), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), and The Witches (1966), as well as My Fair Lady (1964) and Hotel (1967), on the station walls. An old, partially-ripped poster for Sex and the Single Girl (1964) can be seen on the wall opposite the entrance to Hobbs End station.
When Dr. Roney is picking at the eyeball of the dead Martian creature in his laboratory, the pupils of the compound eye are a rectangular slot shape rather then round like a human eye. This is reminiscent of a goat's eye, a creature that, for centuries, has been associated with witchcraft and sorcery.
Director Roy Ward Baker subsequently looked back on the film as one of the happiest shoots of his career.
The original BBC serials were not shown on American television. As a result "Quatermass" was unknown to potential U.S. audiences. As was done with the previous two movie adaptations, the title was changed. Twentieth Century Fox released this in the United States as "Five Million Years to Earth" (1967).
A Sony CV-2000B Videocorder - a very early and primitive form of videotape recorder - is on display during the sequences in which the Martian race memory is both recorded and later played back to the skeptical military.
"Professor Bernard Quatermass: The will to survive... it's an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out earth was doomed - say, by climatic changes - what would we do about it? Dr. Mathew Roney: Nothing. Just go on squabbling as usual. Professor Bernard Quatermass: Yes, but if we weren't men?"
"Col. Breen: Mars is dead, nothing there but a few scraps of lichen. Professor Bernard Quatermass: Five million years ago it may have been very different. Suppose at that time there were living beings on it with techniques that let them visit the Earth at a time when the most highly evolved creatures here, our own ancestors, were only a type of Pliocene ape. Minister of Defense: Go on. Professor Bernard Quatermass: They may have wanted to found another colony, when their own world was doomed, but couldn't endure our atmosphere, so they experimented. Minister of Defense: Oh, and the insects were responsible? Professor Bernard Quatermass: There is clearly some connection. My guess is that those were ape mutations being brought back for release on Earth. Col. Breen: And you really believe this was possible? That apes were systematically taken from this planet to another and... Professor Bernard Quatermass: Altered, by selective breeding, atomic surgery, methods we can't guess, and with new faculties instilled in them, high intelligence, perhaps something else. Howell: In effect, a colonization. Professor Bernard Quatermass: It would be a way of possessing the Earth. Only a colony by proxy, but better than leaving nothing at all behind. Howell: Surely it had to be carried out on a hugh scale. Professor Bernard Quatermass: Yes, if I'm right, if I'm right, we've come on a single instance, probably an accident, a landing that went wrong and they all died. The Thames valley was swamp then. Minister of Defense: You realize what you are implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects. Professor Bernard Quatermass: I suppose I am."
