Could he be conflating the Quatermass with SOYLENT GREEN, which has EG Robinson dying in comfort to TV images, only to wind up on a conveyor belt as the eponymous food product? Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------- "Only connect!" --E.M. Forster Donald F. Larsson Department of English Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Richard J. Leskosky Sent: Mon 4/12/2004 12:04 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: sci-fi flick query At 12:44 AM -0400 4/11/04, Hr Greenberg wrote: >what a strange and creepy movie the second quatermass film was at one >point, as i recall, the unseen workers in the refinery are being processed for >food and sent through the pipes presumably digested or something >like that very >uncanny hr greenberg md endit It's a bit more complicated and nasty than that, as I recall. Prof. Quatermass pumps some gas into the alien enclave to incapacitate them, and then some foolish officials go to parlay with the aliens or their human zombies, despite Quatermass' warnings. After hearing some screams echoing down the pipes and then observing the red fluid dripping from a pipe weld, Quatermass deduces that the parlay team has been used to plug up the pipe so no more gas can be pumped through it. --Richard J. Leskosky Also, my apologies for misidentifying the original film in this inquiry. I must have stopped reading before the mention of the ending at the installation and the description of the alien. It definitely does sound like "It Came from Outer Space." -- ===================================================== Richard J. Leskosky Office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-4019 Unit for Cinema Studies <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3035 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org