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The Terrornauts is a British film of genre Science fiction directed by Montgomery Tully released in USA on 17 may 1967 with Zena Marshall
The Terrornauts (1967)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 may 1967
Length 1h15
Directed by Montgomery Tully
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Science fiction
Rating48%
The Terrornauts is a 1967 science fiction film produced by Amicus Productions. It went out on a double bill with They Came from Beyond Space. This double bill has been called "the two worst films the company ever produced".
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Project Star Talk is based at a UK radio telescope site, its mission is to listen for radio signals from other intelligences. Dr. Joe Burke (Simon Oates) is the head of the project assisted by his small team consisting of electronics expert Ben Keller (Stanley Meadows) and office manager Sandy Lund (Zena Marshall). Due to the lack of success reported by the Site Manager, Dr. Henry Shore (Max Adrian), Project Star Talk is given 90 days in order to report positive results. During this period an accountant, Mr. Yellowlees (Charles Hawtrey) is sent to look over the project's accounts. As luck would have it, a repeating signal is received by the project, but the signal is only coming from a small asteroid with no atmosphere in the outer Solar System. Despite this, Dr. Burke spends the balance of his grant to equip the telescope with a powerful transmitter to contact the source of the signals. The night of the transmission, Mr. Yellowlees and Mrs. Jones (Patricia Hayes) who runs the tea trolley, stay to witness this historic event. While waiting for a response, Dr. Burke tells of his father's discovery at an archaeological dig in France of a cube that gave him strange dreams as a boy, inspiring him to become an astronomer. The signal is sent and reaches the asteroid. The asteroid has on it a huge installation that receives the radio signal and answers it with a spaceship sent riding down the radio beam to the point of transmission. When the spacecraft arrives at Project Star Talk, it picks up the transmitter shed and carries it, the project staff and the 2 witnesses to the alien installation. The telescope staff's leader believes, despite eyewitnesses that the transmitter shed exploded, killing the Star Talk team.Actors
Zena Marshall
(Sandy Lund)
Max Adrian
(Dr. Henry Shore)
Simon Oates
(Dr. Joe Burke)
Charles Hawtrey
(Joshua Yellowlees)
Patricia Hayes
(Mrs. Jones)
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