Turned out to be a good movie. Just the right amount of suspense, danger and a mad scientist, all with a happy ending. Quaint little town too. Thanks for posting. Joe S
I don't believe the ruse is that smart: many of us would rather watch 60s-70s films than modern rubbish invariably containing actors with no personality.
michaelhughes4466 I'm in to min 8 and not one love scene, matter of fact not even one female. Why do you need to exaggerate? Do you always make things up to get attention?
A comedic take on commie dictators of old from the western perspective. Now USA has all the bio labs and nefarious stuff with goon squads and controlled media.
I think the United States after WW II became a lot that the public didn't see. The money families aren't different today. They had to play a more patient hand after the failed attempts in the early 20th century. The US has been systematically dismantled and it didn't begin with Barak.
As a child this film really frightened me and I never saw the comic elements. The “goons” terrified me and memories of them stayed with me over the years. Great colourisation for the scenery and carnival sequences but in black and white the film is rather more frightening and the Goons more stark in appearance. The Ruritanian feel is enhanced by a score by the great George Melachrino, occasionally reminiscent of Ivor Novello. What a strange mix it all is but quite entertaining in its way too!
After a few minutes I've realized that it's rather a persiflage than a " serious" SF flic but why not and all above directed by John Gilling, a very gifted director who had directed also some superb Hammer movies.
Colorising is pointless. I fail to see the value in it. Ted Turner has a lot to answer for. Just made-up greens and blues. Black and white photography was an art form.
Never seen this one before, unusual role for the ever suave Leslie Philips complete with blazer & cravat, Leslie was the housewives hearthrob, my dear old mum loved him.
When I was 18 I was subjected to a gamma scan. Radioactive dye and heavy lead shielding over the important bits I wanted to keep. In my 60s so the gamma rays are certainly taking their time killing me. 😊
Unusual; I'm not 100% convinced the mix of sci-fi/horror and light comedy entirely work (the colourisation certainly doesn't), but an enjoyable watch overall.
I already knew it was a clickbait thumbnail, and also the movie date is false. I was looking up 1950's sci fi and was scrolling through all of them. So far the movie is enjoyable. Thumbs up for the movie, so far (it's pretty weird).
Great idea to have a British and an American character as leads. Fun now, but brings back echos of Nazi experimentations. Loved the train sequence at the beginning of the journey.
Paul Douglas is pretty good and though a bit out of place does fine in this movie. His comedic talents flourished with the religious comedy "Angels in the Outfield", but he could play anything really. Looking like a set of a Bavarian town from the early 1900'set in an English landscape this movie has a bit of everything. A runaway stray train car with only two guys in it sidetracked into a weird pseudo mad doctor experimental town with nazi overtones. They don't get a lot of visitors, a turn of century constabulary and no one thinks anything is wrong, there is a festival, and then there is not one and the natives are revolting. Aren't they always, and then there one again. What a tease, as it the probably the best thing in the movie, aside from the piano playing. Well, that's about all, you get the picture. I give it three stars* and 1/2 a moon.
Very interesting movie in terms of local color - should be rural Austria, some village in the Alps. Would be nice to know !! The colorization of this B/W movie sadly cannot be enjoyed since the 720p stream is very blocky and full of artifacts. The first half an hour is indeed quirky enough to catch our attention, but later it gets very formulaic. Interesting enough, Gamma rays are indeed used today in curing brain tumors, with a device called "Gamma knife".
On a side note, the commercial about the "free $5800 card" the gov't is handing out..... This country is already $34.5 trillion in debt and counting, a sum in one dollar bills that would surpass the distance from the Sun to Neptune. If you take one of these cards, kiss my ass. I don't get out of bed every morning and drag off to work to pay for your crap. That is all. Carry on.
I really liked your comment, I am Canadian but we have the same kind of stupidity coming from our government it's almost as if they are trying to screw the economy on purpose at the same time making an even larger portion of the population dependent on them for everything, during the pandemic they were handing out money like candy $2,500. checks for everyone They stopped at 12grand per person, the thing is they were only giving it to those they considered poor and it wasn't a gift it had to be paid back (something that wasn't made clear) none of those who received it were in a position to pay off a 12 thousand dollar loan before or after the pandemic, It's starting to look like the governments of the world know something we don;t I understand your anger, you have to work hard for everything while some who don't do anything get the governments help
The Gamma People (1956) An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
7:30 .. paused after a few minutes just to comment that I hope somebody in the film mentions the fact that there is no locomotive for the train car. And therefore a mishap must have occurred.. But, we'll see
No, he's supposed to be a genius...and they are sometimes significantly dumber than the goons...trust me, as a genius myself, I had to learn that the hard way 😤😉
@@pontram lmao, I understand completely.. I can be dence as a brick, but I can build anything, drew anything except men,, don't ask.. lol, I can play most musical instruments, and I had to steal my education, because the faculty was afraid I was smarter than They were, and put me in remedial classes to make sure I quit school, and it back fired on Them.. lmfao. I even, in the 70's , almost got Johny Carson fired from the tonight show, with an idea my teacher took away from me in class, and disappeared with for a year, made a bigger one, and made the same mistake I did,, and didn't put a brake on it. Lmfao, the government didn't want anyone to know what was working on stage that night was possible, and still doesn't.. it was the last, live broadcast in America..
Turned out to be a good movie. Just the right amount of suspense, danger and a mad scientist, all with a happy ending. Quaint little town too. Thanks for posting. Joe S
Degrees Fahrenheit? In a German laboratory?
This movie was actually way more enjoyable than I ever would've guessed. I just looked up where it was filmed: Austria.
Charming B movie gem, with many unique A+ qualities... somewhat
like discovering a hidden 1956 fusion, of 1984 & The Wizard of Oz.. H.
Gracias y Bendiciones 🙏
Or a 1958 movie, which is when this was made 😅
Movies were better back then!
I can't believe I just watched it all the way through!
great movie with just the right mix of comedy and drama with a most heartwarming end. Well worth the watch.
This is a good movie. It doesn't deserve to be peddled with that clickbait thumbnail that has nothing to do with it.
I don't believe the ruse is that smart: many of us would rather watch 60s-70s films than modern rubbish invariably containing actors with no personality.
@@michaelhughes4466absolutely, trash actors trash stories.
Sickening love scenes every 2 minutes
michaelhughes4466 I'm in to min 8 and not one love scene, matter of fact not even one female. Why do you need to exaggerate? Do you always make things up to get attention?
Most 'old movies' ARE BETTER!
@@Imtheverdant1 He wasn't referring to this film.
A comedic take on commie dictators of old from the western perspective. Now USA has all the bio labs and nefarious stuff with goon squads and controlled media.
Did'nt they always...
I have known people from behind the iron curtain, it was worse.
I think the United States after WW II became a lot that the public didn't see. The money families aren't different today. They had to play a more patient hand after the failed attempts in the early 20th century. The US has been systematically dismantled and it didn't begin with Barak.
第三者目線ではリベラルの皮を被ったアナーキストやコミュニストに侵食されつつある様に見えてアメリカのこれからが心配でなりません。
Fox fake news (no publishing license no credibility ) Might tell u that other countries have bio labs too. And they do.
My uncle, Louis Pollock, wrote the original short story.
cool!
This movie deserve to be awarded an Oscar: USA circa 2024
Tampoco exageres
As a child this film really frightened me and I never saw the comic elements. The “goons” terrified me and memories of them stayed with me over the years. Great colourisation for the scenery and carnival sequences but in black and white the film is rather more frightening and the Goons more stark in appearance. The Ruritanian feel is enhanced by a score by the great George Melachrino, occasionally reminiscent of Ivor Novello. What a strange mix it all is but quite entertaining in its way too!
Yes. I can see how the goons would scare a kid. I thought they were creepy, too, and I'm in my 60's. Almost as creepy as that huge mask Hugo made.
Yes, I think it was that mask that did it but they all look more frightful in black and white! Lol.
Yes, it terrified me a child. Has taken me years to track it down again!
silly fantasy with some good comedic moments and elements of Frankenstein complete with monsters. Great fun to watch!
"Must be a pack of local Teddy Boys" nearly spit out my coffee laughing....wish in a comic book way, the sequel would be "The Gamera People"...
I just don't understand why mad scientists and aliens always have shiny clothes.
Another damned mystery.
Too much starch when they iron them.
@@Kneon_Knight Ahh.
I always knew there was something odd about Liberace and Elton John.
@@awickedtribe Okay. Okay. So, if I put on shiny pants, I'll become, maybe, an alien pianist.
@@johndavidmyself8039 LOL
Very good 👏👏👏
After a few minutes I've realized that it's rather a persiflage than a " serious" SF flic but why not and all above directed by John Gilling, a very gifted director who had directed also some superb Hammer movies.
This is an obscure one. Didn't know there was a colorized version. Thanks Ted Turner
Colorising is pointless. I fail to see the value in it. Ted Turner has a lot to answer for. Just made-up greens and blues. Black and white photography was an art form.
This movie looks interesting. It's different.
It seemed odd to watch Leslie Philips playing a straight role, I kept hearing ding dong in my head all the time 😂😊
Very enjoyable
A good old fashioned movie with good morales and no gorey stuff. Very good movie!
Doesn't the use of Gama rays...make the children Trans? 👀👀
@@sectureverothoughtcriminal7734 The scientists are all wrong.. they've been looking for the wrong Rays.. It's "Gamera" waves their seeking...
Is that you Marjorie Taylor Green?
I enjoyed that movie.
This movie came out in 1955...The Hulk debuted in 1962...I wonder did Stan Lee get any inspiration from this movie 🤔🤷🏾♂️😄😎✊🏽
This is starting out very well! Probably gonna bee a HOOT!!
100% Quality Show!
Never seen this one before, unusual role for the ever suave Leslie Philips complete with blazer & cravat, Leslie was the housewives hearthrob, my dear old mum loved him.
Worth it just for the "Burgher" line 🤣
What a movie. Profound. Ty.
Pretty darn good , thanks for the show
I loved it. Never saw it before.
Gamma rays absolutely kills everything..
When I was 18 I was subjected to a gamma scan. Radioactive dye and heavy lead shielding over the important bits I wanted to keep. In my 60s so the gamma rays are certainly taking their time killing me. 😊
Fascinating film ! Leslie Philips in almost an "action role" - he's quite good !
An excellent film !
Thanks for the movie
Interesting 🧐
Great clean Movie😅
It was a joyful and triumphant (music) ending.
Lesley Philips Action Hero: 'Left a bit, right a bit, and POW!
More please……❤❤❤
It's almost like a sci-fi version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which scared the hell out of me as a child!
Very enjoyable movie. I would have enjoyed a quick scene about the Music Writers put words to paper about the young virtuoso girl pianist.
Unusual; I'm not 100% convinced the mix of sci-fi/horror and light comedy entirely work (the colourisation certainly doesn't), but an enjoyable watch overall.
I already knew it was a clickbait thumbnail, and also the movie date is false. I was looking up 1950's sci fi and was scrolling through all of them. So far the movie is enjoyable. Thumbs up for the movie, so far (it's pretty weird).
Great idea to have a British and an American character as leads. Fun now, but brings back echos of Nazi experimentations. Loved the train sequence at the beginning of the journey.
It has been decades since I first saw this movie. Thanks.
The set designs, the filming of the railroad operation...
Paul Douglas is pretty good and though a bit out of place does fine in this movie. His comedic talents flourished with the religious comedy
"Angels in the Outfield", but he could play anything really. Looking like a set of a Bavarian town from the early 1900'set in an English landscape this movie has a bit of everything.
A runaway stray train car with only two guys in it sidetracked into a weird pseudo mad doctor experimental town with nazi overtones.
They don't get a lot of visitors, a turn of century constabulary and no one thinks anything is wrong, there is a festival, and then there is not one and the natives are revolting. Aren't they always, and then there one again. What a tease, as it the probably the best thing in the movie, aside from the piano playing.
Well, that's about all, you get the picture. I give it three stars* and 1/2 a moon.
Very interesting movie in terms of local color - should be rural Austria, some village in the Alps. Would be nice to know !! The colorization of this B/W movie sadly cannot be enjoyed since the 720p stream is very blocky and full of artifacts. The first half an hour is indeed quirky enough to catch our attention, but later it gets very formulaic. Interesting enough, Gamma rays are indeed used today in curing brain tumors, with a device called "Gamma knife".
❤️❤️❤️no es muy brillante pero es buena y atrapante en su parte promedio... bien!!!
This may have been colorized in 2024, but this English movie was made in 1956.
The music score haunted me for years until I rediscovered the film.
WELL THAT CERTAINLY WAS A UNEXPECTED MYSTERY MOVIE FOR SURE! !!👍👍
VERY GOOD MOVIE...... 10++++++++++++++
loved good movie
Vary amusing!
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👍👍
❤❤❤❤
Yet roughly another advertisement two minutes later. This is demented!
Paul Douglas is so cool; even after a death struggle with Evil his coat is still buttoned. Now that's a man!
This plays like an Abott and Costello movie
As you watch the older stuff, you realize how much disclosure was evident
Now that is a train sound.
My hero
In the first 3/4 of movie the little boy Hugo acted and thought just like Hitler! Glad Hugo at end of movie changed and was a caring little Boy❤❤
I used to live next door to the Gamma people. Crap neighbors.
😅
Comedy / lite science fiction? Good location and sets... an odd one
Retro spoof! Hilarious!
Those older people who run a loooong way and are never out of breath. Reminds me of Tom Cruise in those MI movies.
I've seen this movie but NEVER in color! Thanks so much! Just for that, you get a thumbs up and I subscribed!
Really good movie
Fortunately I read the first comments, otherwise seeing HD2024 I wasn't watching it thinking it was a crappy modern thing
🤣The way it opens is priceless. I'm for sure gonna keep watching . . get back later. Oh, I saw someone saying it's a COMEDY?
One Scene reminds me The Sound of Music ..... When they Scape ,,,,
On a side note, the commercial about the "free $5800 card" the gov't is handing out..... This country is already $34.5 trillion in debt and counting, a sum in one dollar bills that would surpass the distance from the Sun to Neptune. If you take one of these cards, kiss my ass. I don't get out of bed every morning and drag off to work to pay for your crap. That is all. Carry on.
I really liked your comment, I am Canadian but we have the same kind of stupidity coming from our government it's almost as if they are trying to screw the economy on purpose at the same time making an even larger portion of the population dependent on them for everything, during the pandemic they were handing out money like candy $2,500. checks for everyone They stopped at 12grand per person, the thing is they were only giving it to those they considered poor and it wasn't a gift it had to be paid back (something that wasn't made clear) none of those who received it were in a position to pay off a 12 thousand dollar loan before or after the pandemic, It's starting to look like the governments of the world know something we don;t I understand your anger, you have to work hard for everything while some who don't do anything get the governments help
BUT YOU COULD HAVE ONE TOO AND GET MONEY FROM EVERYONE ELSE!!!
😂😂😂. Si Senior!!
I wish the American and British passion for freeing countries would always remain only in the movies.
The Gamma People (1956) An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
No, not 2024, why do uploaders lie more often than not?
This actually isn't a bad movie.
I used to work with The Gamma People but i had quit because the gangstalking got to be to much.
Hadn't seen this one before.
It's like in North Korea. Thanks.
I'm old. Can't believe I never saw this one. Really liked it.
Ditto.
I find that Paul Douglas is really out of character for this sci-fi film.....but it had its moments,
I realized pretty early on this was colorized so I stopped watching this video and went and watched an original B&W copy of the movie.
*MADMEN, ALIENS, M.I.B, AND SECRET AGENTS HAVE THE BEST WARDROBES* 🤷🏽♂️
🇮🇹 *ABBRACCI ENORMI A TUTTO!!!* 🇮🇹
tha plane, tha plane!
7:30 .. paused after a few minutes just to comment that I hope somebody in the film mentions the fact that there is no locomotive for the train car. And therefore a mishap must have occurred..
But, we'll see
MST3K Should've done their treatment 😅😅
"Let's all stare at the poster that says, 'Festival Verboten'!"
This film reminds me of 'Frankenstein'.
Imagine living in that house near the bridge in the opening scene, when the steam train sounds its whistle 😮😂
Where's Bond , James Bond
The artistry of B&W is removed by colorization.
I love you
The Englishman can run.
Ding dong!!!
Hugo,,is supposed to be,,🤔 smart..? 😮 Wow,, the goons were smarter.. lmao
No, he's supposed to be a genius...and they are sometimes significantly dumber than the goons...trust me, as a genius myself, I had to learn that the hard way 😤😉
@@pontram lmao, I understand completely.. I can be dence as a brick, but I can build anything, drew anything except men,, don't ask.. lol, I can play most musical instruments, and I had to steal my education, because the faculty was afraid I was smarter than They were, and put me in remedial classes to make sure I quit school, and it back fired on Them.. lmfao. I even, in the 70's , almost got Johny Carson fired from the tonight show, with an idea my teacher took away from me in class, and disappeared with for a year, made a bigger one, and made the same mistake I did,, and didn't put a brake on it. Lmfao, the government didn't want anyone to know what was working on stage that night was possible, and still doesn't.. it was the last, live broadcast in America..
That is 156 advertisements for the whole movie length One hour and eighteen minutes and 32 seconds long! Who is responsible for this?
He was trying to break a bulletproof window with a padded part of a cocktail stool
Clearly, not a movie from 2024. Yet it has 2024 in the title.
Movie credits indicate 1955 (MCMLV); it may be that the transfer for digital upload is from 2024.
Still projecting, after all these years.
In the beginning, there is an ad, then two minutes later another ad, what for, may I ask