Trollenberg Terror, The
Date: 1958
Director: Quentin Lawrence
Production Company: Tempean Films
Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell
Location(s): Middlesex, Switzerland
Region(s): South East R-Z, Switzerland
Storyline:
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
Additional Information:
Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson
Also known as ‘The Crawling Eye’ (US Title)
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- Capture 1
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During the opening scenes, an express train of the Swiss Federal Railways from Bern leaves the Krattighalde Tunnel on the branch line of the private Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway that runs from Spiez to Interlaken along Lake Thun. Screen capture and identification provided by Manuel Gurtner.
- Capture 2
- 25 May 2018
The train carrying sisters Anne and Sarah Pilgrim and United Nations trouble-shooter Alan Brooks draws into to a small, but fictional, resort town of Kleindorf in Switzerland. Manuel Gurtner advises that this is Leissigen station and the train from Interlaken is travelling towards Bern.
Manuel provides this modern view of the location. Image copyright Google.
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The three are met by Mayor Klein who drives them from the station.
- Capture 4
- 02 Jun 2018
The Mayor stops the car at a hotel at the foot of the Trollenberg. Manuel advises that this is outside Wilderswil in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with the Hotel “Schlössli” on Unspunnenstrasse and adds that the car was heading towards Interlaken.
Manuel provides this view of the former hotel which is now a homestead for mentally ill patients. In the background the farmer's sheds still stand and on the horizon the Jungfrau massif can be seen. Image copyright Google.
- Capture 5
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From a search plane, climbers are seen on the Trollenberg mountainside.
- Capture 6
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A cable car takes everyone up to Professor Crevett’s observatory for safety. A car of the Wengen–Männlichen aerial cableway which connects Wengen with the Männlichen in Switzerland. It is operated by the Luftseilbahn Wengen–Männlichen AG, hence the initials LWM, climbing from Wengen in the Bern Canton of Switzerland.