The Gamma People (1956) on Netflix
Approved19561h 16mComedyDramaHorrorMysterySci-FiThriller
Their railway carriage breaks loose and rolls across the border into Gudavia, a country missing from their maps. Reporter Mike Wilson and photographer Howard Meade are jailed, then released.
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Plot summary
Mike Wilson, an American reporter, and Howard Meade, a photographer, are traveling by rail to a music festival in Salzburg when their carriage comes uncoupled and rolls across the frontier into Gudavia, a one-village dictatorship that has had no trains for five years. Troops board and arrest them, and the men cannot find Gudavia on any map. Commander Koerner has them released and lodged in a hotel, where Meade's telegram is torn up unsent. Doctor Bronski runs a school where the children's brains are treated with gamma rays. Anna, who works at the hotel, passes them a note asking that the children of Gudavia be saved and Bronski destroyed.
Cast
- Pauline Drewettas Hedda Lochner
- Michael Caridiaas Hugo Wendt
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Gamma People (1956)
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- Writer Louis Pollock was blacklisted for five years after being mistaken for Los Angeles clothier Louis Pollack, who had refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Patricia Medina was meant to co-star but was called away for another commitment, on a Sam Katzman film, so Eva Bartók took her place.
- Warwick Productions wanted Trevor Howard to co-star in The Gamma People opposite Paul Douglas, who was cast in the lead role.
