The Gamma People
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| Directed by | John Gilling |
| Produced by | John Gossage |
| Screenplay by | John Gilling John Gossage |
| Story by |
Robert Aldrich Louis Pollock |
| Starring |
Paul Douglas Eva Bartok Leslie Phillips Walter Rilla Martin Miller Philip Leaver |
| Music by | George Melachrino |
| Cinematography | Ted Moore |
| Edited by | Jack Slade |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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30 January 1956 (United Kingdom: general release)
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Running time
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76 or 78 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
The Gamma People is a 1955 British-American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by John Gossage, directed by John Gilling, that stars Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, and Leslie Phillips. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and evolved from a script treatment originally written in the early 1950s by Robert Aldrich.The Gamma People was released theatrically in the U.S. on a double bill with the British science fiction film 1984.
A train passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from its locomotive, accidentally ending up on a remote sidetrack in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style, one-village Eastern Bloc dictatorship. The newsmen discover a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans, all at the bidding of an equally mad dictator.
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