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The Gamma People (1955)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1955
Running Times: 76m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directed by: John Gilling
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLV by Warwick Film Productions Ltd.
Production Company: A Warwick Film production
Executive Producers: Irving Allen, Albert
R. Broccoli (both uncredited)
Produced by: John Gossage
Production Supervisor: John Palmer
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: John Gilling and John Gossage
Based on an Original Story by: Louis Pollock
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Robert Lynn
Continuity: Pamela Davies
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ted Moore
Camera Operator: Ernest Day
2nd Unit Cameraman: Skeets Kelly
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Alan Osbiston
Editor: Jack Slade
MUSIC
Music Composed and Directed by: George Melachrino
Orchestrations by: William Hill Bowen
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Peter Davies
Sound Editor: Frank Goulding
Western Electric Recording
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Olga Lehmann
Make-up Artist: Georeg Frost
Hairdresser: Waleen Whitworth
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Photographic Effects: Tom Howard
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: John Box
Assistant Art Director: Syd Cain
OTHER CREW
LOCATIONS
Produced at: M.G.M. British Studios, Elstree, England
Location Manager: Peter Berg
CAST
Paul Douglas (Mike Wilson)
and
Eva Bartok (Paula Wendt)
with
Leslie Phillips (Howard Meade)
Walter Rilla (Boronski)
Martin Miller (Lochner)
Philip Leaver (Koerner)
Rosalie Crutchley (Frau Bikstein)
Leonard Sachs (telegraph clerk)
Paul Hardmuth (Hans)
Jackie Lane (Anna)
Olaf Pooley (Bikstein)
Pauline Drewett (Hedda Lochner)
St John Stuart (head goon)
and introducing
Michael Caridia (Hugo Wendt)
UNCREDITED CAST
Cyril Chamberlain (Graf)
EXTRAS
Howard Garstka (uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
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.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia
TIMELINE
1955
December
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Het Gamma-Schrikbewind - Dutch title
Gente gamma, La - Italian title
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
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
Last Updated:
22 February, 2009
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