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The Trollenberg Terror
The Crawling Eye
UK 1958
produced by Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman for Tempean Films
directed by Quentin Lawrence
starring Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell, Frederick Schiller, Andrew Faulds, Stuart Saunders, Colin Douglas, Derek Sydney, Richard Golding, George Herbert, Anne Sharp, Leslie Heritage, Jeremy Longhurst, Anthony Parker, Theodore Wilhelm, Gerard Green, Caroline Glaser, Jack Taylor (II)
story by Peter Key, screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, music by Stanley Black, special effects by Les Bowie
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A part of the Trollenberg in the Swiss alps is covered by a stationary
cloud that's of all things radioactive, plus, a ton and a half of
mountaineers have died on the Trollenberg only recently under mysterious
circumstances - so professor Crevett (Warren Mitchell) of the local
observatory has invited a scientist Alan Brook (Forrest Tucker) to
investigate, but at first the whole mystery leaves the two of them
baffled. Then young and pretty Ann (Janet Munro), who does a mindreader
act with her sister (Jennifer Jayne) seems to receive telepathic signals
from the cloud - and suddenly a believed dead mountaineer (Andrew Faulds)
returns and tries to kill Ann. When he's wrestled down, it is found out
that he has been dead for 24 hours but reanimated by some weird force. Finally,
the cloud decides to leave its position on Trollenberg and attack the
valley below. Crevett, Brook, Ann, her sister, journalist Truscott
(Laurence Payne) and a few others decide to take cover in the observatory,
which is soon under heavy attack by the creatures who hide in the cloud,
some sort of one-eyed octopusses from outer space. Brook finds out that
they are allergic to fire, so armed with Molotov cocktails, he and
Truscott fight the extraterrestrials until the airforce arrives to throw
fire bombs and save our heroes (and maybe the world) from certain doom. It's
hard not to be of two minds about this film: On one hand it features a
good deliberately unhurried narrative build-up featuring many macabre
details and carried by a very decent cast. But then the pay-off - it's
monsters from outer space - feels somehow blunt, disappointing and not
really thought through. And the fact that they look as trashy and as cheap
as they do might make a good camp moment, but doesn't do the preceding
story justice. In all by no means a total disaster - more like drive-in
science fiction that had the potential of being so much mroe ...
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