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   On Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 9:42:12 AM UTC-5, Kerrison Spartan wrote:   
      
   > Another of these 1950s British sci-fi films requiring an American actor to   
   help sell the movie in the States was "X the Unknown." Dean Jagger was brought   
   over and according to Wiki, his fee of $30,000 accounted for half the film's   
   budget. The film was    
   set in Scotland and Jagger played the head of a nearby Atomic Energy   
   Laboratory. It was there that an enormous radioactive creature resembling   
   moving sludge, which had laid dormant since pre-history, crawled out of the   
   ground in search of food and most    
   inconsiderately began to melt anyone who got in its way. I don't think it's   
   quite up there in scariness with the two Quatermass films but here's the   
   trailer, complete with James Bernard's instantly recognizable music ...    
   >    
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krz8ym_TdSs   
      
   The Brits also imported numerous US actors to appear in crime films.   
      
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