The Gamma People

The Gamma People is a 1955 British-American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by John Gossage, directed by John Gilling, that stars Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, and Leslie Phillips. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures and evolved from a script treatment originally written in the early 1950s by Robert Aldrich. The Gamma People was released theatrically in the U.S. on a double bill with the British science fiction film 1984.

Contents

• Joe dante on the gamma people trailer commentary
• George melachrino music excerpts from the gamma people 1956
• Plot
• Cast
• References

Plot

A train passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from its locomotive, accidentally ending up on a remote sidetrack in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style, one-village Eastern Bloc dictatorship. The newsmen discover a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans, all at the bidding of an equally mad dictator.

Cast

Paul Douglas as Mike Wilson

Eva Bartok as Paula Wendt

Leslie Phillips as Howard Meade

Walter Rilla as Boronski

Philip Leaver as Koerner

Martin Miller as Lochner

Michael Caridia as Hugo Wendt

Pauline Drewett as Hedda Lochner

Jocelyn Lane as Anna

Olaf Pooley as Bikstein

Rosalie Crutchley as Frau Bikstein

Leonard Sachs as Telegraph Clerk

Paul Hardtmuth as Hans

Cyril Chamberlain as Graf