 Almost simultaneously with the transmission of Quatermass II in the autumn of 1955 , Hammer Film Productions released The Quatermass Xperiment , their film adaptation of the first serial . Kneale was not pleased with the film , and particularly disliked the casting of Brian Donlevy as Quatermass , as he explained in a 1986 interview . " [ Donlevy ] was then really on the skids and didn 't care what he was doing . He took very little interest in the making of the films or in playing the part . It was a case of take the money and run . Or in the case of Mr Donlevy , waddle . " 
