The Gamma People (1955)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1955
Running Times: 76 mins     79 mins
Format: bw
Ratio:
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Warwick
Executive Producers: Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli
Producer: John W. Gossage

SCRIPT
Screenplay: John Gilling, John Gossage
Story: Louis Pollock

DIRECTION
Director: John Gilling

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ted Moore
Camera Operator: Ernest Day
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Skeets Kelly

EDITING
Editors: Jack Slade, Alan Osbiston

MUSIC
Music: George Melachrino
Orchestrator: William Hill Bowen

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Olga Lehmann

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Photography: Tom Howard

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: John Box

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Pamela Davies

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Peter Berg

CAST
Paul Douglas (Mike Wilson)
Eva Bartok (Paula Wendt)
Leslie Phillips (Howard Meade)
Walter Rilla (Boronski)
Philip Leaver (Koerner)
Martin Miller (Lochner)
Michael Caridia (Hugo Wendt)
Pauline Drewett (Hedda Lochner)
Jackie Lane (Anna)
Olaf Pooley (Bikstein)
Rosalie Crutchley (Frau Bikstein)
Leonard Sachs (telegraph clerk)
Paul Hardmuth (Hans)
St John Stuart (head goon)
Cyril Chamberlain (Graf)

EXTRAS
Howard Garstka (uncredited)

An American journalist is stranded behind the Iron Curtain and uncovers a plot to use gamma rays on children, turning them into a mutant, radioactive army.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia

1955
December
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release

Het Gamma-Schrikbewind - Dutch title
La gente gamma - Italian title

MAGAZINES

Monthly Film Bulletin March 1956 p.31
credits, review

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991-1992 p.149
credits, short review

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films II p.156
credits