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Hammer's film Quatermass and the Pit released

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Newspaper cinema advertisement for the film under its U.S. title
A 1968 U.S. cinema ad for the film, released there as Five Million Years to Earth Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hammer released Roy Ward Baker's film of Nigel Kneale's serial Quatermass and the Pit, titled Five Million Years to Earth in the U.S. Workers extending the London Underground uncover an ancient Martian spacecraft. The story turns on Martians having visited Earth millions of years ago.

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  1. OtherQuatermass and the PitThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Clute and Langford) / 2024-09-16
  2. OtherQuatermass and the Pit (1967)Hammer Graveyard

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