The Gamma People
| The Gamma People | |
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| Directed by | John Gilling |
| Screenplay by | John Gilling John Gossage |
| Story by | Robert Aldrich Louis Pollock |
| Produced by | John Gossage |
| Starring | Paul Douglas Eva Bartok Leslie Phillips Walter Rilla Martin Miller Philip Leaver |
| Cinematography | Ted Moore |
| Edited by | Jack Slade |
| Music by | George Melachrino |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | 30 January 1956 (United Kingdom: general release)[1]
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Running time | 76 or 78 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
The Gamma People is a 1956 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.[2] The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and evolved from a script treatment originally written in the early 1950s by Robert Aldrich.[3] The Gamma People was released theatrically in the U.S. on a double bill with the British science fiction film 1984.
Plot
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.
Cast
- Paul Douglas as Mike Wilson[4]
- Eva Bartok as Paula Wendt[5]
- Leslie Phillips as Howard Meade
- Walter Rilla as Boronski[6]
- Philip Leaver as Koerner
- Martin Miller as Lochner
- Michael Caridia as Hugo Wendt
- Pauline Drewett as Hedda Lochner
- Jocelyn Lane as Anna
- Olaf Pooley as Bikstein
- Rosalie Crutchley as Frau Bikstein
- Leonard Sachs as Telegraph Clerk
- Paul Hardtmuth as Hans
- Cyril Chamberlain as Graf
See also
References
- ^ F Maurice Speed, Film Review 1956-57, Macdonald & Co 1956
- ^ The Gamma People at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ^ p.14 Aldrich, Robert with Arnold, Edwin T. & Miller, Eugene L. Robert Aldrich: InterviewsUniv. Press of Mississippi, 2004
- ^ "Pat Medina Set In 'The Gamma People'". The Hartford Courant. October 9, 1955. p. A9. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
- ^ "British woman, 36, claims she is Sinatra's daughter". Chicago Tribune. August 17, 1994. p. 2. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
- ^ "Rilla Joins 'Gamma People'". The Hartford Courant. September 11, 1955. p. D12. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
