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| X THE UNKNOWN Year: 1957 Rates: **** |
Hammer's science-fiction/horror hybrid X THE UNKNOWN came out the same year as QUATERMASS 2, sequel to THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT where Brian Donlevy played the inevitable creature-seeking Dr. Quatermass in both...
And this production was supposed to be yet another of that franchise, which makes sense since Dean Jagger plays central investigative scientist Dr. Adam Royston with more genuinely cerebral concentration and would have made a far superior, more effective title character... but being a standalone makes X a solidly entertaining thriller about a
mysterious atomic substance that first kills a soldier (Kenneth Cope) and then a child in a rural wide-open field...
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| William Lucas in X THE UNKNOWN |
Then transcending inside a hospital to a womanizing doctor (and his screaming nurse), making for what could otherwise be a serial-killer body-count crime flick where Jagger... alongside young William Lucas as his boss's adventurous, risk-taking son (two suspenseful near-death sequences involve only his character) and Leo McKern as a detective... remains one step behind the deaths while progressively figuring out the origin and vulnerability...
Keeping in equal step with neatly-paced direction for what's extremely dangerous and, like the Quatermass double-feature, inevitably monstrous while never taking from the human characters that, in these kind of vehicles, have to be as intriguing as whatever enigmatic force they're after... for the ongoing exercise and eventual outcome to even matter.
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William Lucas and Dean Jagger in SHAKEDOWN
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Neil Hallett in X THE UNKNOWN
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