Night of the Big Heat
Searing Terror! Burning In Its Intensity!
1967 · 1h 34m · GP
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Terence Fisher
Overview
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Director and cast
- Terence Fisher Director
- Christopher Lee as Godfrey Hanson
- Patrick Allen as Jeff Callum
- Peter Cushing as Dr. Vernon Stone
- Jane Merrow as Angela Roberts
- Sarah Lawson as Frankie Callum
- William Lucas as Ken Stanley
- Kenneth Cope as Tinker Mason
- Percy Herbert as Gerald Foster
- Thomas Heathcote as Bob Hayward
- Anna Turner as Stella Hayward
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