The Gamma People

The Gamma People is a 1956 British science fiction film directed by John Gilling and starring Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips.

Plot

A passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from their train, accidentally ending up on a side track in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style one-village Eastern Bloc dictatorship. The newsmen find a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into geniuses and subhumans at the bidding of a 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

External links

The Gamma People at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Gilling

1940s	Escape from Broadmoor (1948) A Matter of Murder (1949)

1950s	No Trace (1950) The Quiet Woman (1951) The Frightened Man (1952) Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952) The Voice of Merrill (1952) Deadly Nightshade (1953) Recoil (1953) Escape by Night (1953) Three Steps to the Gallows (1953) Destination Milan (1954) Double Exposure (1954) The Embezzler (1954) The Gilded Cage (1955) Tiger by the Tail (1955) Odongo (1956) The Gamma People (1956) Interpol (1957) High Flight (1957) The Man Inside (1958) Idol on Parade (1959) The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)

1960s	The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) The Challenge (1960) Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961) Shadow of the Cat (1961) The Pirates of Blood River (1962) Panic (1963) The Scarlet Blade (1964 ) The Brigand of Kandahar (1965) The Night Caller (1965) Where the Bullets Fly (1966) The Plague of the Zombies (1966) The Reptile (1966) The Mummy's Shroud (1967)

1970s	La cruz del diablo (1975)