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The Terrornauts

  • 19671967
  • 1h 15m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
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The Terrornauts (1967)
  • Sci-Fi
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a saucer.A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a saucer.A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a saucer.
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
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  • Director
    • Montgomery Tully
  • Writers
    • John Brunner(screenplay)
    • Murray Leinster(novel "The Wailing Asteroid")
  • Stars
    • Simon Oates
    • Zena Marshall
    • Charles Hawtrey
Top credits
  • Director
    • Montgomery Tully
  • Writers
    • John Brunner(screenplay)
    • Murray Leinster(novel "The Wailing Asteroid")
  • Stars
    • Simon Oates
    • Zena Marshall
    • Charles Hawtrey
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 27User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
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    The Terrornauts (1967)
    Charles Hawtrey, Patricia Hayes, Zena Marshall, Stanley Meadows, and Simon Oates in The Terrornauts (1967)
    Zena Marshall and Simon Oates in The Terrornauts (1967)
    Charles Hawtrey, Zena Marshall, Stanley Meadows, and Simon Oates in The Terrornauts (1967)
    Max Adrian and Simon Oates in The Terrornauts (1967)
    Simon Oates in The Terrornauts (1967)
    The Terrornauts (1967)
    Zena Marshall in The Terrornauts (1967)
    Charles Hawtrey, Patricia Hayes, Zena Marshall, Stanley Meadows, and Simon Oates in The Terrornauts (1967)
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    Simon Oates
    Simon Oates
    • Dr. Joe Burke
    Zena Marshall
    Zena Marshall
    • Sandy Lund
    Charles Hawtrey
    Charles Hawtrey
    • Joshua Yellowlees
    Patricia Hayes
    • Mrs. Jones
    Stanley Meadows
    Stanley Meadows
    • Ben Keller
    Max Adrian
    Max Adrian
    • Dr. Henry Shore
    Frank Barry
    • Burke as a child
    Richard Carpenter
    Richard Carpenter
    • Danny
    Leonard Cracknell
    • Nick
    André Maranne
    André Maranne
    • Gendarme
    Frank Forsyth
    Frank Forsyth
    • Uncle
    Robert Jewell
    Robert Jewell
    • Robot Operator
    Graham Corrit
    • French Boy
    • (uncredited)
    Stephen Follett
    • French Boy
    • (uncredited)
    Eric Kent
    • Dig Site Worker
    • (uncredited)
    Nigel Kingsley
    • French Boy
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Montgomery Tully
    • Writers
      • John Brunner(screenplay)
      • Murray Leinster(novel "The Wailing Asteroid")
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Last feature of Zena Marshall.
    • Goofs
      Smoke from an explosion rises in the air and goes behind the twin moons of the alien planet. Obviously the moons were painted on a sheet of glass set in front of the camera.
    • Quotes

      Mrs. Jones: [Examining the alien complex] They're houseproud, I'll say that for them. They're houseproud!

    • Connections
      Featured in Shiver & Shudder Show (2002)

    User reviews27

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    Top review
    4/10
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    Like Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine' forty years later this film starts promisingly enough with the receiving of a mysterious distress signal from the depths of space, but completely unravels towards the end; 'The Terrornauts' because it just didn't have the funds for slam-bang special effects at the finale, 'Sunshine' precisely because it did, and like so many movies these days ends up so bludgeoning you with visual effects you end up begging for it to stop.

    Several earlier reviewers have compared 'The Terrornauts' (a totally meaningless title by the way) to 'Dr Who', but one thing it has that British TV then lacked was bright shiny sixties Eastman Colour (sic) - a first for this director - and as long as the action remains indoors it passes painlessly enough. (Respected British sci-fi author John Brunner - whose only film script it was - said that producer Milton Subotsky "was a very reasonable guy" and a pleasure to work with, that Brunner scrapped most of the original splendidly titled pulp novel 'The Wailing Asteroid' (1960) by Murray Leinster, and later got "a fan letter from someone in Indiana who'd seen it on TV and who said what a pleasure it was to hear the technical terms used correctly for a change".)

    It all goes pear-shaped unfortunately when bug-eyed monsters and galactic battle-cruisers are finally called for.
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    • Release date
      • February 1967 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Rapto espacial
    • Filming locations
      • Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Amicus Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 15 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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