The Trollenberg Terror (1958) on Netflix
Climbers vanish on Mount Trollenberg, where a cloud that never moves registers as radioactive. UN troubleshooter Alan Brooks investigates; mind-reader Anne Pilgrim is drawn to the peak.
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Plot summary
On Mount Trollenberg, a climber falls past two companions on a ledge below, and the body they haul up has had its head torn off. His is not the first death there; people who go up the mountain are never found. On the train through the Alps, Anne Pilgrim faints at the sight of the peak and insists that she and her sister Sarah get off at Trollenberg, though she has never been there and cannot explain how she knows the town. Alan Brooks, a United Nations troubleshooter on his way to the observatory, hears from Professor Crevett of a cloud on the south face that never moves and gives off radiation, and recalls a similar pattern in the Andes three years earlier.
Cast
- Derek Sydneyas Wilde
- Richard Goldingas First Villager
- George Herbertas Second Villager
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trollenberg Terror (1958)
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- In Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It, protagonist Richie Tozier watches The Trollenberg Terror and it terrifies him; a crawling-eye creature later appears as a manifestation of Pennywise, the novel's title monster.
- The Crawling Eye was the film shown in the first episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 after the show moved from KTMA to The Comedy Channel; the episode aired on November 25, 1989.
- The Trollenberg Terror was the final film shot at Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios in the United Kingdom; it was also one of the last films released by Distributors Corporation of America.
- The role that went to Mitchell in The Trollenberg Terror was originally meant to be played by Anton Diffring, who pulled out of the part at the last minute.
