The Gamma People

The Gamma People
Directed byJohn Gilling
Screenplay byJohn Gilling
John Gossage
Story byRobert Aldrich
Louis Pollock
Produced byJohn Gossage
StarringPaul Douglas
Eva Bartok
Leslie Phillips
Walter Rilla
Martin Miller
Philip Leaver
CinematographyTed Moore
Edited byJack Slade
Music byGeorge Melachrino
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
30 January 1956 (United Kingdom: general release)[1]
  • December 1956 (1956-12) (United States)
Running time
76 or 78 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget£85,060[2]

The Gamma People is a 1956 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.[3] The film, shot in Imst, Austria, was distributed by Columbia Pictures and evolved from a script treatment originally written in the early 1950s by Robert Aldrich.[4] The Gamma People was released theatrically in the U.S. as a double feature with the 1956 British science fiction film 1984.[5]

  1. ^ F Maurice Speed, Film Review 1956–57, Macdonald & Co 1956
  2. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 359
  3. ^ The Gamma People at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
  4. ^ p.14 Aldrich, Robert with Arnold, Edwin T. & Miller, Eugene L. Robert Aldrich: InterviewsUniv. Press of Mississippi, 2004
  5. ^ McGee, Mark Thomas; Robertson, R.J. (2013). "You Won't Believe Your Eyes". Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-273-2. Page 254