Quatermass tries to report the incident, but finds himself rebuffed by the local authorities. With the aid of a suspicious Member of Parliament, Quatermass uncovers that the objects falling from the sky contain living organisms capable controlling the people they infect. Unfortunately, with the government under alien control, Quatermass is forced find an alternate way to fight the enemy from space before all of mankind is infected. The DVD comes with a disclaimer indicating that the 35mm fine grain print supplied by the British Film Institute is the best element available, even though the first two minutes of the film have deteriorated due to age. In fact, most of the print is in pristine condition, which is why the loss of the first two minutes serves as a good reminder of how easily cinematic treasures on fragile motion picture film stock can be lost to the ravages of time.
Image quality is excellent, once one gets past the deteriorated section of the film.
Everything appears crisp and nicely detailed. Blacks and whites are pure, with all the shades of gray between being rendered quite faithfully. Digital compression artifacts do not make their presence known. The Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack is quite good for its age. Dialogue is clean, intelligible and distortion free.