The Crawling Eye
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| Directed by | Quentin Lawrence |
| Produced by |
Robert S. Baker Monty Berman |
| Written by | Jimmy Sangster |
| Story by | Peter Key |
| Based on | 1956 TV series |
| Starring |
Forrest Tucker Laurence Payne Jennifer Jayne |
| Music by | Stanley Black |
| Cinematography | Monty Berman |
| Edited by | Henry Richardson |
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Eros Films Ltd. (UK) Distributors Corporation of America (US) |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Trollenberg Terror (a.k.a. The Crawling Eye in the United States) is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction film produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, directed by Quentin Lawrence, that stars Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne and Janet Munro. The film is based on a 1956 British ITV "Saturday Serial" television programme. The film was distributed in the UK by Eros Films Ltd. as The Trollenberg Terror, and in the US by Distributors Corporation of America as The Crawling Eye. In the US it was released on a double bill with the UK film Cosmic Monsters (a.k.a. The Strange World of Planet X).
The Trollenberg Terror's storyline concerns United Nations troubleshooter Alan Brooks, later joined by journalist Philip Truscott, investigating unusual accidents occurring in the area of a resort hotel on (the fictional) Mount Trollenberg in Switzerland. Brooks suspects these deaths are related to a series of similar incidents that occurred three years earlier in the Andes mountains, which involved an unexplained radioactive mist and odd cloud formation believed by locals to be inhabited.
On the Swiss mountain Trollenberg, one of three student climbers is suddenly killed, his head ripped from his body. Two sisters, Anne (Munro) and Sarah Pilgrim (Jayne), a London mind-reading act, are travelling by train to Geneva when Anne faints as the train passes the mountain. Upon waking, Anne insists that they must get off at the next stop.
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