Rent The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
2.7 of 5 from 54 ratings
1h 18min
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- Synopsis:
Scientific investigator Alan Brooks (Forrest Tucker) is summoned to the remote Alpine village of Trollenberg following the recent decapitation of a mountain-climber. On the way to Trollenberg he encounters a mind-reading act, Sarah and Anne Pilgrim (Jennifer Jayne and Janet Munro). Anne suffers a powerful psychic experience and insists that she and her sister follow Brooks to the village. At a mountainside observatory Brooks discovers a sinister radioactive cloud below the summit. What is the horrifying alien secret that lurks within the poisonous fog? And why does Anne represent such a threat to it? As the cloud descends the mountain, the besieged humans confront the horror of the crawling eyes... - Actors:
- 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, Garard Green, Caroline Glaser, Jack Taylor
- Directors:
- Quentin Lawrence
- Producers:
- Robert Baker, Monty Berman
- Writers:
- Jimmy Sangster, Peter Key
- Studio:
- Simply Home Entertainement
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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- A History of Cinemas in Films, A Brief History of Film...
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An Unpretty Pass - The Trollenberg Terror review by CH
A sultry presence in The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Janet Munro had appeared a little earlier in The Trollenberg Terror. She is a mind-reader able to detect the presence of one-eyed alien spirits who are descending in the clouds upon a Swiss mountain pass visible from the observatory headed by one of the country's seemingly mad professors - none other than a Warren Mitchell whose wire spectacles appear to have crept from within his face.
Put like this, the film sounds preposterous. Of course it is, but this is done with such panache, and a relish of backdrops and model sets, that one soon becomes absorbed in the yarn even if it is not a match for Janet Munro's other tale of the planet under pressure. And if there are regrets at the vanishing of the television series from which it sprang, these are perhaps eased by the thought it is better at eighty minutes than drawn out further.
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