Quatermass and the Pit

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

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Visible crew/equipment: The very last scene, something swings in and out of the frame, on the right, just as Quartermass is rounding the corner.

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Suggested correction: After viewing the scene frame by frame, it is clear that something grey and textured enters the edge of the shot from behind the wall for a few frames, but it is not identifiable. Given the turbulence of the disaster setting it could as easily be identified as a flapping wall poster or a piece of torn curtain as set crew or equipment.

I have studied the image frame by frame and you can see it is a right hand of someone, possibly a crew member not getting out of shot quick enough. The strange thing is that the hand is dark and hairy almost werewolf like. Obviously not a werewolf but maybe someone in makeup from another Hammer movie was visiting the set.

Other mistake: During the press conference, Dr Roney (James Donald) says they have only found parts of skulls and fragments of bone. However a nearly intact skeleton was uncovered by a workman in an earlier scene.

Factual error: Barbara takes an ancient document out of a filing cabinet. One of the words in its title is HIFTORIE, for "history." The old-fashioned way of writing the letter "s" was the so-called long s (ſ), not the letter "f", and this was only ever used as a lowercase letter. So the word would have been written as HISTORIE.

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Character mistake: Colonel Breen theorises to Quatermass that the spaceship is an experimental German V-weapon from the second world war: However according to the story, the underground station (Hobbs End) was dug in 1927: The V-weapons first landed in London in 1944, so how was it possible for a V-weapon to land where it did underground, impacted soild in clay right next to a deep level underground railway station seventeen years later without anyone noticing at the time? Breen should realise that his theory makes no sense.

Will

Visible crew/equipment: A gloved arm pulls out of the shot as Quatermass comes around the corner of Hobbs End to find a thoughtful Barbara. It is the very last scene of the film before the titles.

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Minister of Defense: You realise what you're implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects?

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Trivia: The workman who digs through the wall of clay to reveal the skeletons was played by an uncredited Gareth Thomas, who went onto play the lead of Roj Blake in the BBC Sci-Fi series Blake's Seven. (00:02:00)

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