suddenly turns up at the observatory. Once inside, he begins exhibiting the same obsession with Anne. Hans tries to strangle her, but Brooks and Truscott stop him as Brooks stabs him. As the monsters near the observatory, everyone makes Molotov cocktails to combat them. By radio, Alan orders an aerial firebombing raid against the observatory, which has a reinforced concrete roof and walls that can withstand the assault. Truscott strikes one of the creatures with a Molotov cocktail, setting it ablaze. He is caught by a tentacle from another monster now atop the observatory's roof. Brooks sets that one ablaze with another Molotov cocktail, forcing it to drop Truscott. Later, Truscott firebombs another creature that manages to breach a portion of thick wall to get at Anne. The aerial firebombing assault begins and successfully torches the remaining monsters. Cast Forrest Tucker as Alan Brooks Laurence Payne as Philip Truscott Jennifer Jayne as Sarah Pilgrim Janet Munro as Anne Pilgrim Warren Mitchell as Professor Crevett Frederick Schiller as Mayor Klein Andrew Faulds as Brett Stuart Saunders as Dewhurst Colin Douglas as Hans Derek Sydney as Wilde Richard Golding as first villager George Herbert as second villager Anne Sharp as German woman Leslie Heritage as Carl Jeremy Longhurst as first student climber Anthony Parker as second student climber Theodore Wilhelm as Fritz Garard Green as pilot Caroline Claser as little girl Production The Trollenberg Terror was the final film produced by Southall Studios, one of the earliest pioneer film studios in the U.K., and was one of the last films released by Distributors Corporation of America. Mitchell's role was originally meant to be played by Anton Diffring, but Diffring pulled out of the part at the last minute. Reception In the January 1, 1959 issue of The New York Times, film critic Richard W. Nason reviewed the double feature starring Forrest Tucker and opined that "...The Crawling Eye and The Cosmic Monsters do nothing to enhance or advance the copious genre of science fiction". Film historian and critic Leonard Maltin considered The Trollenberg Terror as "ok, if predictable", a feature that showed its humble origins, being adapted by Jimmy Sangster from the British TV series (also called The Trollenberg Terror) about cloud-hiding alien invaders on a Swiss mountaintop. Maltin noted that the film was "hampered by low-grade special effects". The Trollenberg Terror was one of the inspirations for writer/director John Carpenter's 1980