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From: leeper@ahuta.UUCP (m.leeper)
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Subject: Re: Best SF Films
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 23:53:58 EST
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At the risk of boring most people who know me, I would say that the
science fiction film that has impressed me the most for its
sophisticated ideas and quality of narrative is QUATERMASS AND THE PIT,
known in this country by the forgetable title FIVE MILLION YEARS TO
EARTH.  In this the British start by digging a subway tunnel in London
and by the end of the film they have explanations for telekinesis,
ghosts, race memories, race prejudice, similar myths in different
cultures, and a heck of a lot more.  The BBC tv-play, shown at Seacon,
was even better than the film and a little less cryptic at times.  I
cannot remember reading a novel as thought provoking as this film.  The
story was by Nigel Kneale, one of a series of tv-plays he did revolving
around a fictional rocket scientist, Bernard Quatermass.

Incidently, while I have your attention, anyone out there know where I
can get a VHS copy of a very good and almost unknown science fiction
film called UNEARTHLY STRANGER.  It is quite a good science fiction
tale and done in black and white with no special effects at all.  That
is probably why it disappeared.  Watch for it, though.  It is really
worth it.
				Mark Leeper
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