The Trollenberg Terror

The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye, Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye) is a 1958 film about a series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside that appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
 * Directed by Quentin Lawrence. Written by Jimmy Sangster.

The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world! taglines

Prof. Crevett

 * D'you see? Television cameras on da roof. We watch everywhere. You know, da government - da government, they say to me, "Professor, do you have to have such expensive things? Windows are much cheaper!" And I say I have to have, and I have! Dat over there, dat is the only window. And even for dat, we have protection. Look. [activates electric window cover] Dat will stand up to any avalanche. Uh, dat too was very expensive. All this to study cosmic rays, huh?

Dialogue

 * First Student Climber: You idiot! We nearly had him. Why did you let him go?
 * Second Student Climber: Didn't you see?
 * First Student Climber: What are you talking about?
 * Second Student Climber: His head! It was torn off!


 * Alan Brooks: Looks like you're goin' for a climb.
 * Dewhurst: Yes, we're going up the Trollenberg. Gonna have a noggin before we start. Care to join us?
 * Alan Brooks: All right.
 * Dewhurst: What's it goin' to be?
 * Alan Brooks: Scotch, please.
 * Dewhurst: Scotch and the two brandies. Better give me a bottle of brandy to take with us. Keep the cold out tonight.


 * Prof. Crevett: And then dere is da cloud.
 * Alan Brooks: What cloud?
 * Prof. Crevett: Come on, Alan, you know what I'm talking about. Da cloud where there should be no cloud.
 * Alan Brooks: Where there are mountains, there are always clouds.
 * Prof. Crevett: But dis one remains static. On da side of da Trollenberg it never moves.
 * Alan Brooks: A freak of nature.
 * Prof. Crevett: A radioactive freak of nature?


 * Prof. Crevett: Well, Alan. For the first time in weeks, the Trollenberg is free from clouds.
 * Alan Brooks: Yes - and let's hope it stays that way.

Taglines

 * WARNING: If you've ever been hypnotized, do not come alone!
 * A man dissolves...and out of the oozing mist comes the hungry eye, slave to the demon brain!
 * The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world!
 * It's looking for you!

Cast

 * Forrest Tucker — Alan Brooks
 * Laurence Payne — Philip Truscott
 * Jennifer Jayne — Sarah Pilgrim
 * Janet Munro — Anne Pilgrim
 * Warren Mitchell — Professor Crevett
 * Frederick Schiller — Klein
 * Andrew Faulds — Brett
 * Stuart Saunders — Dewhurst
 * Colin Douglas — Hans