The Monteville Devil Cloud

Movie
German title	The Monteville Devil Cloud
Original title	The Trollenberg Terror
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1958
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Quentin Lawrence
script	Jimmy Sangster Peter Key
production	Robert S. Baker Monty Berman
music	Stanley Black
camera	Monty Berman
cut	Henry Richardson
occupation
Forrest Tucker : Alan Brooks Laurence Payne : Philip Truscott Jennifer Jayne : Sarah Pilgrim Janet Munro : Anne Pilgrim Warren Mitchell : Prof. Crevett Frederick Schiller : Small Andrew Faulds : Brett Stuart Saunders : Dewhurst Colin Douglas : Hans Derek Sydney : Wild Richard Golding : 1st villager George Herbert : 2nd villager Anne Sharp : mother Caroline Glaser : daughter Leslie Heritage : Carl Jeremy Longhurst : 1st climber Anthony Parker : 2nd climber Theodore Wilhelm : Fritz Garard Green : Pilot Jack Taylor : Jim

The devil cloud of Monteville (original title: The Troll Mountain Terror ), a black-and-white horror film directed by Quentin Lawrence , an adaptation of a is ITV - serial of 1956, and the last film by the British Southall film studios .

action

In the Swiss Alps people keep disappearing without leaving a trace; At the same time, inexplicable radioactive clouds were registered in the area around the town of Trollenberg.

When one-eyed, telepathic monsters hunt the people of the area out of the radioactive fog that has now formed, a small group, including the journalist Philip Truscott, the sisters Anne and Sarah Pilgrim and UN investigator Alan Brooks, rescues themselves to the professor's observatory Crevett, to put up a desperate defense from here. They find out that the monsters react to heat and drive them away with the help of fire, for destruction they call on the help of bombers who kill the monsters with incendiary bombs.

Others

The Death Clouds of Monteville , originally The Trollenberg Terror and also known as Creature from Another World , The Creeping Eye and The Flying Eye , was published in Germany on July 24, 1959.

The film's monsters appear in Stephen King's novel Es .

criticism

The lexicon of international films rated the film as a "clumsy science fiction film" that offers "involuntarily exhilarating [...] comedy".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Devil Cloud of Monteville. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 5, 2015 .  

Web links

• The devil cloud of Monteville in the Internet Movie Database (English)