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X The Unknown 80 minutes, UK (1956), PG

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Radioactive mud goes on the rampage in the Highlands of Scotland, turning the locals into deep-fried Mars Bars. A less-than-gripping precursor to The Blob from Hammer Studios

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Leslie Norman

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X The Unknown: When troops practice locating fallout in a remote Scottish quarry, an apparently bottomless fissure opens in the Earth, critically injuring a soldier with radioactive burns...

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