The Thing From Another World (1951)

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00:02:00of Newfoundland, Cam brightest

00:02:05Hello, I'm only faintly alive. It's 25 below.

00:02:07You know everybody? We haven't met.

00:02:10McPherson.

00:02:11Hi.

00:02:12Ned Scott, Captain Henry. Scotty just got in today.

00:02:14Hi. Care to join us?

00:02:15Oh, wait till I count my fingers. I may have lost one.

00:02:18Scotty's a warm-weather man.

00:02:20We met at Akron. Quite a spot.

00:02:22105 in the shade and the women hardly wore anything at all.

00:02:25She was very intelligent of them.

00:02:26You just lie there in a hammock while three of them stand there fanning you.

00:02:29Remember, Scotty?

00:02:30I remember.

00:02:31Oh, boy, when I die, I hope I go to Akron.

00:02:34I was there.

00:02:36I'm in.

00:02:37What are you doing here, Mr. Scott?

00:02:38Looking for a story.

00:02:40Scotty's a newspaper man.

00:02:41How many?

00:02:42Three.

00:02:44Cards?

00:02:45I play these.

00:02:47Caught from ambush.

00:02:48Check.

00:02:50Well, I'll bet a buck.

00:02:52And I'll fold.

00:02:54Call.

00:02:56Pair of queens?

00:02:57I thought so, Aces.

00:02:58You ought to know better than to try fooling our captain.

00:03:00Only dames can do that.

00:03:02Slip of the tongue, Captain.

00:03:04What do you hear from the General, Scotty?

00:03:05I hear General Fogarty's nursing his secrets like a June bride.

00:03:08You know, I got an idea.

00:03:10There's a guy in Seattle who knows the whole radar defense story.

00:03:12Loves to talk. General McLaren.

00:03:13You tell General Fogarty you want to go to Seattle,

00:03:16and Captain, I'll fly you there.

00:03:17I met General McLaren, too.

00:03:19It's warm in Seattle. They got girls there.

00:03:21Without fur pants on.

00:03:23What about it, Captain?

00:03:24I could be right.

00:03:25You'll never be able to shoo our captain southward

00:03:27with his heart wrapped around the North Pole.

00:03:29That'll do, Mr. MacPherson.

00:03:30What's going on at the North Pole?

00:03:31Some scientists are holding a convention up there.

00:03:33Looking for polar bear tails.

00:03:35Ever hear of Dr. Carrington?

00:03:36The fellow who was at Bikini?

00:03:38The same.

00:03:39Well, they're holding about 2,000 miles north of here

00:03:41a whole bunch. Botanists, physicists, electronics.

00:03:43Including a pinup girl.

00:03:44Very interesting type, too.

00:03:46Very.

00:03:47Captain Henry can give you any data you want on her.

00:03:48Sure.

00:03:49Ken, you probably shouldn't have said that.

00:03:50You know, I didn't care.

00:03:51Now, look.

00:03:53Someday I hope to have a navigator and a co-pilot

00:03:55who are at least dry behind the ears.

00:03:57Oh, Captain.

00:03:58You have mail order in?

00:03:59Captain Henry.

00:04:00Report to General Fordy's quarters at once, please.

00:04:038 o'clock at night and a general yelling for his troops.

00:04:06Sounds like the old days.

00:04:07Pick my head, will you?

00:04:08Yeah.

00:04:09Hey, Captain.

00:04:10If it amounts to anything, ring me in on it, will you, please?

00:04:13Sure.

00:04:14I gotta get a story someplace.

00:04:20Come in.

00:04:23Close the door.

00:04:24Yes, sir.

00:04:30Good evening, sir.

00:04:31Fred, I didn't take you long to get here.

00:04:33Not many places around here to hide, sir.

00:04:35Just got a queer message from your picnic party up north.

00:04:37From Dr. Carrington himself.

00:04:39Believe an airplane unusual type crashed in our vicinity.

00:04:43Please send facilities to investigate.

00:04:45Most urgent.

00:04:46What do you suppose you'd find up there besides a good-looking girl?

00:04:49I don't know, sir.

00:04:50Any of our ships missing?

00:04:51No Canadians, either.

00:04:52Could be Russians.

00:04:53They're all over the pole like flies.

00:04:54Don't get nervous.

00:04:55You're going.

00:04:56Yes, sir.

00:04:57If you need a name or anything you might need for rescue work.

00:04:59Yes, sir.

00:05:00Come in.

00:05:01Didn't smash into the landing ski this time.

00:05:02That was an unavoidable accident, sir.

00:05:04Yeah.

00:05:05Well, look, I'll expect you back sometime tomorrow night.

00:05:06Yes, sir.

00:05:07And I'll close the door.

00:05:08Just tell me what you find up there.

00:05:10No one tells me anything around here.

00:05:28Want some coffee?

00:05:29Okay, thanks.

00:05:30Yes, sir.

00:05:40Mr. Scott?

00:05:41Coffee.

00:05:43Oh, over there?

00:05:44No, sir.

00:05:45Hot coffee up front, sir.

00:05:49Lieutenant?

00:05:50Coffee, sir.

00:05:51Thank you, sirs.

00:05:54Coffee?

00:05:55Yeah, thanks.

00:05:57We're far away from camp.

00:05:59Three hours, we slowed down.

00:06:00A little headwind.

00:06:01A little headwind?

00:06:03Close to 40 miles.

00:06:04Our captain has some funny ideas about the North Pole.

00:06:07He thinks it's a garden spot.

00:06:09Come and bring the kiddies.

00:06:10Now, look, don't you two guys start.

00:06:12You know, Perry went to the North Pole once.

00:06:14He retired with a sack full of medals.

00:06:17Hey, Pat.

00:06:18We go there every three weeks, just like it was Lover's Lane.

00:06:21Mr. Scott, some people seem to think...

00:06:23Wait a minute.

00:06:24Hello, Air Force 191191 from Polar Expedition 6.

00:06:28Can you read me?

00:06:29Air Force 191.

00:06:30Here you are, Tex.

00:06:31Go ahead.

00:06:32What's your position?

00:06:34Three hours out.

00:06:35Captain, switch over to your radio compass

00:06:37and check it against your magnetic heading.

00:06:40What's on your mind, Tex?

00:06:41We've got some kind of disturbance up here

00:06:43and it's whacking away at everything.

00:06:45What do you figure it's from?

00:06:46Don't know.

00:06:47We noticed it last night.

00:06:48Six to eight degrees difference, Pat.

00:06:50We're quite a bit off here, Tex.

00:06:52You better home in on me.

00:06:53I'll leave the key open.

00:06:54Or would you rather have me sing to you?

00:06:56Leave the key open.

00:06:58I was afraid you'd say that.

00:07:18Hey, taxpayers ought to see this.

00:07:23Oh, yeah.

00:07:53Oh, yeah.

00:08:23Oh, yeah.

00:08:49Hello, Doctor, Professor.

00:08:51All right.

00:08:52Same game?

00:08:53Yes.

00:09:00Ken, I bet you forgot my head.

00:09:02I'm practically at the North Pole.

00:09:03Looks more like my old Kentucky home.

00:09:05Mr. Scott, Mrs. Chapman.

00:09:06Pleasure, Mr. Scott.

00:09:07Hello, Doctor.

00:09:08Nice to see you.

00:09:09Dr. Chapman, Mr. Scott.

00:09:10Dr. Chapman.

00:09:11Scott, he's a newspaper man.

00:09:12You've come at an opportune time, Mr. Scott.

00:09:14Well, I just happened to be in Anchorage

00:09:15when your message came through.

00:09:16I hope you have a good story.

00:09:18No more than you probably know already.

00:09:19Nothing more at all, huh?

00:09:20Nothing but discussions as to what it might be.

00:09:22We all have different ideas.

00:09:23There's been quite an argument about it.

00:09:25Where's Dr. Carrington?

00:09:26He's in the lab.

00:09:27Dr. Chapman, does that mean that you've actually seen...

00:09:29Coffee, Captain?

00:09:30No, thanks. I'll be back.

00:09:31Our captain seems in a hurry, Lee.

00:09:32Yeah.

00:09:33Where do you two think you're going?

00:09:34What, with you?

00:09:35We want to tell her that was an awful way to treat our captain.

00:09:37Of course, if you don't want us to go, we don't want to go.

00:09:39I'm going to get even with you two guys someday.

00:09:50Come in.

00:09:53Hi, Pat.

00:09:54Welcome to our igloo.

00:09:55How was your...

00:09:59Well...

00:10:01How was your trip?

00:10:02It's all right.

00:10:03Not usual.

00:10:05That's fine.

00:10:06I think Dr. Carrington wants to see you.

00:10:08Dr. Carrington's going to have to wait.

00:10:10I want to talk to her.

00:10:11What about?

00:10:12There's a downright dirty trick you played on me.

00:10:13Now, Pat, don't lose your temper.

00:10:14Why did you do it?

00:10:15Just tell me why.

00:10:16Well, your legs aren't very pretty,

00:10:18and I didn't...

00:10:19I didn't have to write it on a note and put it on my chest.

00:10:21Other people got up before I did.

00:10:22I'm sorry, Pat.

00:10:23I really didn't mean...

00:10:24Six people read that note before I woke up.

00:10:25Now the whole Air Force is laughing at me.

00:10:26Not so loud.

00:10:27They'll hear you.

00:10:28They probably already heard.

00:10:29The only place it hasn't been is on a billboard.

00:10:30Oh, I didn't know you had such a nasty temper.

00:10:33Oh, that's true.

00:10:34Now, Pat, just careful.

00:10:36Now, take it easy.

00:10:37Now, wait a minute.

00:10:39We had a lot of fun when you were up here.

00:10:41And then when you asked me down to Anchorage,

00:10:43you deliberately fed me a lot of...

00:10:45Tell me something.

00:10:46Did you really drink all those drinks?

00:10:47Mm-hmm.

00:10:48You didn't throw any away or anything?

00:10:49Not a one?

00:10:50No.

00:10:51Holy cat.

00:10:52I thought I was good.

00:10:53And another thing.

00:10:54Why did you leave?

00:10:55When I woke up in the morning, you were gone.

00:10:57Well, I told you I had to take that cargo plane back here.

00:11:00You told me?

00:11:01Don't you remember?

00:11:02No.

00:11:04Right after dinner.

00:11:05You were telling me all about a night in San Francisco...

00:11:08Did I hear that?

00:11:09Mm-hmm.

00:11:10Oh.

00:11:12What else did I do?

00:11:13Well, you had moments of kind of making you like an octopus.

00:11:17I never saw so many hands in all my life.

00:11:19All right, all right.

00:11:23Look, my only excuse is that I liked you.

00:11:25Right away.

00:11:27So I started wrong.

00:11:28Can't we begin all over?

00:11:29How would you begin?

00:11:32Well, I can think of several.

00:11:33Never mind.

00:11:35We don't have time for that now anyway.

00:11:37I know Dr. Carrington's waiting to see you.

00:11:44What about this business of starting over again?

00:11:46We'll talk about that later.

00:11:50Hello, Captain.

00:12:04Dr. Carrington, Captain Henry's here.

00:12:07Yes, I know.

00:12:08How do you do, Captain, Doctor?

00:12:10Miss Nicholson, would you add a note to the others?

00:12:12Sure.

00:12:14November 2nd, 11.30 a.m.

00:12:18Deviation in sector 19 continues 12 degrees 20 minutes east.

00:12:23No lessening or wavering of disturbing element.

00:12:27That's all.

00:12:29Well, Captain, can we start now?

00:12:31You mind telling me where we're going, Doctor?

00:12:3348 miles due east from here.

00:12:34He must have said an airplane crash.

00:12:36Is that what we're looking for?

00:12:37I don't know, Captain.

00:12:39I don't know, Captain.

00:12:40I think you better explain, Doctor.

00:12:41Oh, I'm sorry.

00:12:42Miss Nicholson, would you read Captain Henry my first notes?

00:12:45I was thinking only of the vagueness of my information.

00:12:47I dislike being vague.

00:12:50November 1st.

00:12:51Yesterday.

00:12:526.15 p.m.

00:12:53Sound detectors and seismographs registered explosion due east.

00:12:57At 6.18, magnetometer revealed deviation 12 degrees 20 minutes east.

00:13:01That deviation has been constant since then.

00:13:03We ran into it just before we reached it.

00:13:04Such deviation possible only if a disturbing force equivalent to 20,000 tons of steel or iron...

00:13:0920,000 tons?

00:13:11...had become part of the Earth at about a 50-mile radius.

00:13:14You're getting a bit beyond me, but it sounds like a meteor, doesn't it, Doctor?

00:13:17Yes, very much, except for one thing.

00:13:20We'll show it to Captain Henry.

00:13:21Oh, yes, sir.

00:13:23We have some special telescopic cameras.

00:13:26On the appearance of radioactivity, a Geiger counter trips the release into the camera's function.

00:13:31They were working last evening.

00:13:32This is the result.

00:13:37This first picture was taken three minutes before the explosion, or 6.12.

00:13:42You can see the small dot low there in the corner.

00:13:46On the next picture, one minute later, that dot is moving from west to east, moving fast enough to form a streak.

00:13:52What shutter speed were you using?

00:13:53Thousands of a second.

00:13:54Moving pretty fast, wasn't it?

00:13:57Here at 6.14, it's moving upward.

00:14:026.15, it drops to the Earth and vanishes.

00:14:07A meteor might move almost horizontal to the Earth, but never upward.

00:14:11Then it isn't a meteor.

00:14:12That's obvious.

00:14:13How do you determine the distance to the point of impact from here?

00:14:15By computation.

00:14:17Ready?

00:14:18That's quite simple, Captain.

00:14:19We have the time of arrival of the sound waves and the detectors,

00:14:23and also the arrival time of the impact waves and the seismograph.

00:14:27By computing the difference, it becomes quite obvious that they were caused by the traveling object,

00:14:31and the distance from here is approximately 48 miles.

00:14:33You lost me again.

00:14:34I'll take your word for it.

00:14:35One thing, Doctor.

00:14:3620,000 tons of steel is an awful lot of metal for an airplane.

00:14:39It is for the sort of airplane we know, Captain.

00:14:43Where are we going?

00:14:44I thought you'd think so.

00:14:45Redding, you'll check every quarter hour.

00:14:46Yes, sir.

00:14:47No, it won't be necessary, Mr. Redding.

00:14:49Did you come to this bill?

00:14:50Yes, Doctor.

00:14:58We'll be there pretty soon now, Pat.

00:15:01Bob, get Carrington up here.

00:15:04Doctor!

00:15:11We're almost 50 miles out, Doctor.

00:15:13With your compass deviation, how are you navigating, Captain?

00:15:16That peak ahead is practically due east.

00:15:18We'll be there pretty soon, Pat.

00:15:20Bob, get Carrington up here.

00:15:22Doctor!

00:15:27We got the wind before we left camp.

00:15:29Pretty good, Captain.

00:15:30We should be there about now, Pat.

00:15:3210...

00:15:339...

00:15:348...

00:15:357...

00:15:366...

00:15:37Picking up something on the Geiger counter, sir.

00:15:395...

00:15:404...

00:15:413...

00:15:422...

00:15:431...

00:15:44Look there.

00:15:49Pat, the compass is in a spin.

00:15:51Geiger's up to the top.

00:15:53Yeah, that's it all right.

00:15:58Did you see someplace to sit down?

00:16:00Looks smooth about a half a mile back. We'll take a look.

00:16:02Bob!

00:16:03Yes, sir?

00:16:04Get him ready. It might be rough.

00:16:05Right, sir.

00:16:06Fasten your seatbelts, gentlemen. We're gonna land.

00:16:09Sit down and hold on back there.

00:16:15All set for landing, sir.

00:16:23Half flaps.

00:16:25Full ridge.

00:16:27Full ridge.

00:16:28Half flaps.

00:16:52Yeah.

00:17:23There we are.

00:17:24Holy cat! What a weird-looking thing.

00:17:27Let me get a picture before you track up the whole place.

00:17:30This Geiger counter's going crazy.

00:17:32Something smelled of that surface crust. It's frozen over again into clear ice.

00:17:35The bottle shape apparently was caused by the aircraft first making contact with the earth out there at the neck of the bottle,

00:17:41sliding toward us and forming that larger area as it came to rest.

00:17:45Were the engine or engines generating enough heat to melt that path through the crust then sink beneath the surface?

00:17:51I don't think it could melt that much ice.

00:17:52Let's go down and see.

00:17:53Barnes.

00:17:57Link the docks over on that side.

00:18:08Dr. Chapman, could an airplane melt that much ice?

00:18:11One of our own jets generates enough heat to warm a 50-story office building.

00:18:22It's part of an airfoil, probably a stabilizer of some sort.

00:18:25It's an airplane, all right.

00:18:26Boris, can you tell what metal that is?

00:18:28I'll need some tools.

00:18:29Barnes, bring some tools.

00:18:35Hey, it's down pretty deep over here. I can't see anything but a dark mass.

00:18:39Steeper over here.

00:18:40Captain, may I suggest that we spread out and try to determine the size and shape?

00:18:45Right. Spread out, everybody.

00:18:47Spread out and try to determine the size and shape.

00:18:49Right. Spread out, everybody.

00:18:51We're going to try to figure out the shape of this thing.

00:18:54Here are the tools, sir.

00:19:10Holy cats.

00:19:12Hey.

00:19:14It's almost...

00:19:16Yeah.

00:19:18Almost a perfect...

00:19:20It is.

00:19:21It's round.

00:19:24We finally got one.

00:19:26We found a flying saucer.

00:19:27Can anybody see anything through the ice from where we are?

00:19:30Only an outline.

00:19:31Nothing but a dark shape there.

00:19:32Beam's perfectly smooth. No doors or windows.

00:19:35I can't see any engine.

00:19:36I doubt if we find anything we call an engine.

00:19:38Dr. Carrington.

00:19:40This isn't any metal I know.

00:19:42Probably some new alloy.

00:19:44Get some filings for analysis.

00:19:46Right.

00:19:48Captain, I don't think we have a chance of chopping through the ice with axes.

00:19:52I know, doctor. We think so too.

00:19:53We're going to try to melt it out with thermite bombs.

00:19:55Oh, excellent.

00:19:56Doctor, where do you figure it's from?

00:19:58I don't know, Mr. Scott.

00:19:59Well, from this planet?

00:20:00I doubt it.

00:20:01Well, then do you think that...

00:20:02The answers to your questions will be much easier after we've examined the interior of the aircraft.

00:20:06It's occupants, if there are any.

00:20:08Occupants?

00:20:09Well, I never...

00:20:10What a story! Where's every...

00:20:12Hey, Barn!

00:20:13Hold it, Scott.

00:20:14Sorry, no private messages.

00:20:15What do you mean, private? I'm going to send it to the whole world.

00:20:17I wish you could, but this is Air Force information.

00:20:19We'll have to wait for authority to let you file a story.

00:20:21Why, you've got your authority in the Constitution of the United States.

00:20:24For your information, it's called freedom of the press, and I'm sending a story, Captain.

00:20:27How's your marksmanship, Scotty?

00:20:28Where do you want these bombs, sir?

00:20:29One over there by the stabilizer.

00:20:30Look, Pat.

00:20:31Another one over on the far side in case we need it.

00:20:32Pat, this is the biggest story since the parting of the Red Sea.

00:20:35You can't cover it up.

00:20:36Think what it means to the world.

00:20:37I'm working for the world, Scott.

00:20:38I'm working for the Air Force.

00:20:39Look, Sonny, if you think I'm going to...

00:20:40I'll take that.

00:20:41Here's the detonator.

00:20:42Oh, even the Russians wouldn't like that.

00:20:43Get back on the ship and call the camp.

00:20:44Have Tex radio Fogarty.

00:20:45We found a flying saucer, disk, whatever you call it, intact,

00:20:48embedded in the ice.

00:20:49We're going to try to get it out.

00:20:50What about me?

00:20:51Also ask if Scott can have clearance to send a story.

00:20:52Yes, sir.

00:20:53That's all I can do for you, sir.

00:20:54Don't apologize.

00:20:55You're just going to grow up to be another Fogarty.

00:20:56Where are we going to touch this thing on?

00:20:57Over there.

00:20:58Have you looked toward the west lately?

00:21:00That front's moving fast, and the temperature's dropping, too.

00:21:02Yeah, we don't have more than an hour.

00:21:06Where do you put those, Bob?

00:21:07Right on the surface.

00:21:08Oh, tell Stone, will you, sir?

00:21:10Right.

00:21:11Say, um, what will this thermite do?

00:21:13This is SOP, standard operating procedure for removing ice.

00:21:17Hook this wire up, will you, Lieutenant?

00:21:19It just melts it.

00:21:20How fast does it work?

00:21:22It'll uncover the whole saucer in 30 seconds.

00:21:24Oh.

00:21:25Already over here, Pat.

00:21:26Be right with you.

00:21:27Better clear the field, you fellas.

00:21:28Over near the dog sled.

00:21:29Gonna get pretty hot around here in a minute.

00:21:47Okay, Bob, hook her up.

00:21:48Try the stabilizer first.

00:21:49Use the other one if we need it.

00:21:51A few minutes from now, we may have the key to the stars.

00:21:54A million years of history are waiting for us in that ice.

00:21:57Let me know when.

00:21:58I want to get a picture.

00:21:59All ready, sir.

00:22:00Ready here.

00:22:01Let her go, Bob.

00:22:11Okay, all clear.

00:22:12Wait a minute, everybody.

00:22:13Stay back.

00:22:16Burning under the ice.

00:22:18Careful, Captain.

00:22:23What's happening?

00:22:24Tell me, Doctor.

00:22:28Get down front, everybody.

00:22:48Everybody all right?

00:22:49That last explosion was the engine.

00:22:52Sergeant, will you try your Geiger counter?

00:22:55Only a trace.

00:22:56That's just residual.

00:22:59It's all gone.

00:23:00Secrets that might have given us a new science.

00:23:03Gone.

00:23:04That's just dandy.

00:23:05Standard operating procedure.

00:23:07I should have thought.

00:23:09You sure should.

00:23:10Greatest discovery in history up in flames.

00:23:12Turning a new civilization into a Fourth of July piece.

00:23:19Captain, I'm getting something over here.

00:23:21Probably a fragment from the saucer.

00:23:23You may salvage something yet.

00:23:27Hold it, everybody.

00:23:28I'm getting a reaction.

00:23:29Let me get a reading.

00:23:33Getting warm.

00:23:36Hotter now.

00:23:46Here's where it's coming from.

00:23:56What is it?

00:23:57Looks like a man.

00:23:58He's got legs and a head.

00:23:59I can see him.

00:24:00Yeah.

00:24:01He must be over eight feet long.

00:24:03Somebody got out of that saucer?

00:24:04Got out or was thrown out and frozen fast before he could get clear.

00:24:08Man from Mars.

00:24:09How do you propose getting him out, Captain?

00:24:11I don't know.

00:24:12More thermite.

00:24:13Whatever's quickest.

00:24:14We don't have much time.

00:24:15Here's some axes.

00:24:16You can chop around to put the whole block in the sled and take it to the plane.

00:24:19I agree with that.

00:24:20Get started.

00:24:21Bob, clear the sled off and bring it over here.

00:24:23Eddie, get the ship warmed up.

00:24:26Be ready to get out of here in a hurry.

00:24:28All right.

00:24:54Pat.

00:24:55I think we made a mistake.

00:24:57What do you mean?

00:24:58Did you ever read this?

00:24:59Department of Defense Office of Public Information, Washington, D.C., December 27, 1949.

00:25:04Bulletin 629-49 regarding item 6700, extract 75,131.

00:25:11The Air Force has discontinued investigating and evaluating reported flying saucers on the basis that there is no evidence.

00:25:18Probably make you a general for just drawing evidence that they're wrong.

00:25:21The Air Force said that all evidence indicates that the reports of unidentified flying objects are the result of one misinterpretation of various conventional objects.

00:25:30Doesn't look very conventional to me.

00:25:32Second, a mild form of mass hysteria.

00:25:35That'd be when General Fogarty got to shaking hands with that thing in the ice.

00:25:41What are the other reasons?

00:25:43Third, that they're jokes.

00:25:45Why don't you say the number that bulletin was?

00:25:47629-49, item 6700, extract 75,131.

00:25:54Oh.

00:25:55Oh, that one.

00:26:17Whoa.

00:26:18Whoa.

00:26:19Whoa.

00:26:20Whoa.

00:26:21Whoa.

00:26:22Whoa.

00:26:23Get on that rope, Professor.

00:26:24All right.

00:26:25Watch your feet, watch your feet.

00:26:51Keep tight on that rope, don't go down.

00:26:54Here we go.

00:26:55Hold it tight.

00:26:56You're out of here.

00:26:57Hold it back, pal.

00:26:58Hold it.

00:26:59Hold back there.

00:27:00Oh, boy.

00:27:01Keep tight on that rope.

00:27:02Easy.

00:27:03Keep it going.

00:27:04Keep it going.

00:27:05Whoa.

00:27:06Take it easy.

00:27:07Can't see through the ice too good.

00:27:08Good enough to know that where he came from, they sure don't breed him for beauty.

00:27:24Well, what are we doing now, defrost him?

00:27:27Well, this ice will melt pretty soon.

00:27:29Doctor, can you control the heat in this room?

00:27:31No, Captain.

00:27:32This is our storeroom.

00:27:33The temperature is constant here.

00:27:34It won't be necessary to melt the ice.

00:27:36We can probably chip it away.

00:27:37I'm sorry, Professor.

00:27:38We're not going to melt it or chip it.

00:27:40Eddie, open that window, will you?

00:27:41You mean we're not allowed to examine it?

00:27:43I mean just that, Doctor.

00:27:44This is stupid.

00:27:45We're scientists.

00:27:46And Dr. Carrington's in charge here.

00:27:48Hey, Pat, these windows don't open.

00:27:50It's practically certain we'll be asked by your superiors to make a study of it.

00:27:53Probably will, Doctor, but we can't permit it now.

00:27:55We don't have to have any permission.

00:27:56Eddie, break that window.

00:27:57All right.

00:28:01Sorry.

00:28:02We already pulled one boner out there in the ice.

00:28:04I'll admit, I don't know anything about this.

00:28:06But until I receive instructions from my superior officer on what to do,

00:28:09we'll just have to mark time.

00:28:10Captain, you have no authority.

00:28:11I'd like to talk about it further.

00:28:12We'd better do it in the corridor.

00:28:13It's going to get pretty cold in here.

00:28:14At last, it's a very sensible suggestion, Captain.

00:28:17Come along.

00:28:18Mac?

00:28:19Yeah?

00:28:20You stay here.

00:28:21We'll take four-hour shifts.

00:28:23That's hands-off for everyone.

00:28:24Understand?

00:28:25Yes, sir.

00:28:26You going to be warm enough?

00:28:27If I'm not, you'll hear me squawking.

00:28:28Bob will bring us some dinner.

00:28:29I could use something to read.

00:28:30Nice, quiet horror story.

00:28:33It might be containing for you, sir.

00:28:39Well, gentlemen.

00:28:40Captain Henry.

00:28:41Excuse me, Doctor, may I?

00:28:42Certainly.

00:28:43Captain, in relation to removing the body from the ice,

00:28:45I'd like to point out there are organisms that survive after death.

00:28:48Yeah.

00:28:49What cold can destroy them?

00:28:50Now, in view of that...

00:28:51Doctor, I don't know anything.

00:28:52On the other hand, these same organisms may be dangerous.

00:28:54They may be carrying disease germs from another planet,

00:28:57germs we couldn't cope with medically.

00:28:59Thank you, Doctor.

00:29:00No, I can't agree with you, Doctor Chapman.

00:29:01I don't either.

00:29:02Well, here's another.

00:29:03We don't know what effect the air of our Earth may have on this creature's remains.

00:29:07Sort of go up in smoke like the saucer, huh?

00:29:09Nonsense.

00:29:10Isn't that a little far-fetched?

00:29:11So is it.

00:29:12Gentlemen.

00:29:13We're getting nowhere.

00:29:14We're consistent.

00:29:15I suggest that Captain Henry communicate with his superior at once.

00:29:18I'm getting senile.

00:29:19We should have done that first thing.

00:29:22I'm surprised, Captain, that you didn't try to reach your general on our way back here.

00:29:26We did.

00:29:27Lawrence.

00:29:28I tried to send a message through your radio operator, sir.

00:29:30Couldn't get through this time.

00:29:31Too much interference.

00:29:32I see.

00:29:33My apologies, Captain.

00:29:34Yes, Doctor.

00:29:37Hi, Captain.

00:29:38Hi, Tex.

00:29:39You sure set up a fine lot of trouble.

00:29:41Sorry, Tex.

00:29:42We're in a hurry.

00:29:43Did you send out my message?

00:29:44Sure did.

00:29:45Did you get an answer back?

00:29:46This came about an hour ago.

00:29:47Can you read it?

00:29:48No, you'd better.

00:29:49Fogarty to Henry.

00:29:50Withhold newspaper story until permission from Air Force HQ.

00:29:52Here they are, Scotty.

00:29:53Oh, fine.

00:29:54Now somebody else will get the stuff, Scotty.

00:29:55Remove aircraft from ice at once.

00:29:57Use thermite bombs if necessary to melt ice.

00:30:00Oh, that's what I like about the Army.

00:30:02Smart all the way to the top.

00:30:04Well, Captain, I'd let you off the hook for the thermite bomb.

00:30:07Take it easy, Scotty.

00:30:08Go ahead, Tex.

00:30:09Erect temporary structure to protect aircraft until my arrival.

00:30:12And here's another one.

00:30:13Came a few minutes ago.

00:30:14Could only get part of it.

00:30:15Go ahead.

00:30:16Everything grounded.

00:30:17Can't join you.

00:30:18Something or other.

00:30:19Want you.

00:30:20Something or other.

00:30:21Advise immediately.

00:30:22That sounds like Fogarty.

00:30:23And then it got really fouled up.

00:30:24You mean you're not getting anything?

00:30:25Not a thing.

00:30:26I'm getting it right out of the air.

00:30:27Voice and keyboard.

00:30:28What about yourself?

00:30:29Don't know if they're getting it or not.

00:30:30I doubt it.

00:30:31I don't believe it.

00:30:32Even the Pony Express got through.

00:30:33Well, Doctor?

00:30:34In view of this new situation, I suggest...

00:30:36It doesn't alter the old one, sir.

00:30:37We don't agree with you, Captain.

00:30:38There's no reason to delay...

00:30:39Sorry, gentlemen.

00:30:40That's it.

00:30:41Tex, I'd like to leave Barnes here to help out all he can.

00:30:43Sure, Captain.

00:30:44Barnes, keep trying to get through.

00:30:45I want to get a message to the General.

00:30:47Yes, sir.

00:30:48Tell him the aircraft was completely destroyed by the thermite bomb.

00:30:51Tell him we found a passenger at the wreck.

00:30:53You got a fellow from Mars?

00:30:54Where?

00:30:55On ice.

00:30:56Tell him we're keeping the body in a block of ice,

00:30:57and Dr. Carrington wants permission to remove the body from the ice for examination.

00:31:01We're standing by for instruction before further action.

00:31:03Yes, sir.

00:31:04You got anything to add to that, Doctor?

00:31:06Yes, one very essential point.

00:31:08That I consider it vitally important that the examination be made.

00:31:11By all means.

00:31:12Have that, Barnes.

00:31:13Thank you, Captain.

00:31:14That's all that concerns me.

00:31:16Richards, when you get your answer, I'll expect you to let me know.

00:31:19Yes, Doctor.

00:31:25How long until I interview the doctor about what he thinks of you?

00:31:27Thought it'd be pretty good.

00:31:28If it isn't, I'll make it good.

00:31:30Takes keep drying.

00:31:31Barnes, if he gets through, ask the General again about 30 minutes from now.

00:31:34Yeah, try the soft soapy.

00:31:35I don't like you any better.

00:31:36Mind your business, Skye.

00:31:37I'll leave him with you, Eddie.

00:31:38Send your boys back some chow.

00:31:44What is it, Barton?

00:31:45I don't like to bother you like this, Captain,

00:31:46but it's about Lieutenant McPherson sitting in there with that thing in that block of ice.

00:31:50You're getting nervous.

00:31:52He wouldn't want me to tell you, sir, but he's having kittens.

00:31:55I haven't heard him squawk like this since we were over Reckon.

00:31:58Really?

00:31:59You see, sir, the ice is clearing up, and we can see that thing pretty good now.

00:32:03It's got crazy hands and no hair.

00:32:06And the eyes, well, they're open, and they look like they can see.

00:32:10Bob, I haven't heard you before.

00:32:12It's got me, too, sir, and I wasn't in there very long.

00:32:15Besides that, it's pretty cold.

00:32:16I got the lieutenant an electric blanket.

00:32:18Good.

00:32:20Captain, I got a suggestion.

00:32:22Go ahead.

00:32:23Well, now, instead of these four-hour shifts, we could cut them in half.

00:32:26Okay.

00:32:27You tell Barnes to take over in a half an hour at 2200.

00:32:30You take over at 2400, and I'll relieve you at 0200.

00:32:33I think you're right, sir.

00:32:34I think you are.

00:32:35Yes, sir.

00:32:36Thank you, sir.

00:32:39Hi, Pat.

00:32:40Hi.

00:32:41Barnes just got here.

00:32:42I'm sure glad I'm not looking at that guy anymore.

00:32:44You all set, Barnes?

00:32:45Yes, sir.

00:32:46Got an electric flying suit and a pot of coffee.

00:32:47Bob, I'll relieve you at 2400.

00:32:48Great, sir.

00:32:49Take it easy.

00:32:50Yeah.

00:33:17That's better.

00:33:48Oh, no!

00:33:49Oh, no!

00:33:50Oh, no!

00:33:51Oh, no!

00:33:52Oh, no!

00:33:53Oh, no!

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00:33:55Oh, no!

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00:33:59Oh, no!

00:34:00Oh, no!

00:34:01Oh, no!

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00:34:43Oh, no!

00:34:44Oh, no!

00:34:45Captain Henry!

00:34:47That thing's alive, sir, I saw it, I shot at it, I hit it, I know I hit it.

00:34:51Nothing happened, it just kept coming at me, making a noise like a cat mewing.

00:34:54Captain, it was awful!

00:34:55If you could have seen those hands and those eyes!

00:34:57Captain, you've got to do something about it, you've got to!

00:35:04All right, Bob, get some guns.

00:35:05Yes, sir.

00:35:06Now, Burns, what happened?

00:35:07I'm sorry, sir, I don't know exactly, but all of a sudden, it was out of the ice and alive and coming at me.

00:35:12I shot at it and hit it, nothing happened, so I slammed the door and ran.

00:35:15Easy, easy.

00:35:16I'm sorry, sir.

00:35:17Hey, I can't, I can't help you.

00:35:18Eddie.

00:35:19Take care of him, will you?

00:35:20I'll be all right.

00:35:23Get back here, please.

00:35:29Get back with the rest of them.

00:35:43What could have...

00:35:44The kid said he was alive, and I believe him.

00:35:47I knew it.

00:35:48All the time I was here, I could feel it.

00:35:50Here's what did it.

00:35:51This blanket was on, and it's still warm.

00:36:00Hey, all right, get some parkas and boots and bring a flashlight.

00:36:03Listen, don't tear him to pieces.

00:36:06What are you saying?

00:36:07Hold it, Doctor.

00:36:08You mustn't do that.

00:36:10We must save him.

00:36:11Hold it, Doctor.

00:36:12You mustn't do that.

00:36:13Use your head.

00:36:15I expect you're right, Captain.

00:36:16I was a little over-anxious.

00:36:17Look over here, Captain.

00:36:28May I have one, Captain?

00:36:29Let's go, Doctor.

00:36:33Hey, Doc, can you see anything out there?

00:36:35Not much.

00:36:39You all set?

00:36:40Let's go.

00:37:09No!

00:37:40Captain Hendry, it would help me if you...

00:37:42any of you would describe what you saw out there.

00:37:45Well, it was too cold to see well, but the dogs had him down tearing at him.

00:37:48Yeah, I saw him get up with three of them hanging on his arm.

00:37:50Then he threw one dog at the rest.

00:37:52When we got there, two of them were dead.

00:37:53Well, they looked like they'd been through a chopper.

00:37:55Where did you find the arm?

00:37:56It was partly under one of them, wasn't it?

00:37:58Couldn't dogs tear off an arm?

00:38:01It's kind of an arm.

00:38:03Be careful, Doctor.

00:38:04Those barbs, whatever they are, are very sharp.

00:38:06Seems to be a sort of chitinous substance.

00:38:08Something between a beetle's back and a rose thorn.

00:38:11Thorn-fingered, huh?

00:38:12Amazingly strong.

00:38:13Very effective if used as a weapon.

00:38:15You don't have to worry about that.

00:38:17Not with an arm off and out in that cold.

00:38:19He's dead now.

00:38:20He got along all right in a block of ice for over 24 hours.

00:38:22Pretty spry for a guy with 12 dogs on him.

00:38:24He sure was.

00:38:25After losing an arm.

00:38:26Reminds me of something.

00:38:27I don't know.

00:38:28I don't know.

00:38:29I don't know.

00:38:30I don't know.

00:38:31He sure was.

00:38:32After losing an arm.

00:38:33In my mind.

00:38:34Amazing, isn't it?

00:38:35Amazingly strong.

00:38:37Strange.

00:38:39I'm sure of it.

00:38:40There is blood on the hand, isn't it, Doctor?

00:38:42Yes, but not his blood.

00:38:44Probably from one of the dogs.

00:38:45No blood in the arm.

00:38:47No animal tissue.

00:38:49Doctor Stern.

00:38:51Would you have a look at this under the microscope?

00:38:56No, Mr. Scott.

00:38:57I doubt very much if it can die.

00:39:00As we understand, dying.

00:39:02Cancer.

00:39:03Yes.

00:39:05Well, Doctor?

00:39:07No arterial structure indicated.

00:39:10No nerve endings visible.

00:39:14Porous, unconnected cellular growth.

00:39:17Just a minute.

00:39:18Just a minute, Doctor.

00:39:20It sounds like you're trying to describe a vegetable.

00:39:23I am.

00:39:24Are you getting all of this?

00:39:25Oh, for Pete's sake.

00:39:26Quiet, Mr. Scott.

00:39:27You know, Doctor,

00:39:28that could be why the bullets fired by Sergeant Barnes had no seeming effect.

00:39:32That's right.

00:39:33Merely holes drilled into vegetable matter.

00:39:35This green fluid here.

00:39:37Like plant sap.

00:39:38We'll probably find it has a sugar base.

00:39:40Please, Doctor.

00:39:41I've got to ask this.

00:39:42Mr. Scott.

00:39:43It sounds like, well,

00:39:44just as though you're describing some form of super carrot.

00:39:49That's nearly right, Mr. Scott.

00:39:51This carrot, as you call it,

00:39:53is constructed in aircraft capable of flying some millions of miles through space.

00:39:57Propelled by a force as yet unknown to us.

00:40:00An intellectual carrot.

00:40:02The mind boggles.

00:40:03It shouldn't.

00:40:04Imagine how strange it would have seemed during the Pliocene age

00:40:08to forecast that worms, fish, lizards that crawled over the earth

00:40:12were going to evolve into us.

00:40:14Look, Doctor.

00:40:15On the planet from which our visitor came,

00:40:17vegetable life underwent an evolution similar to that of our own animal life,

00:40:21which would account for the superiority of its brain.

00:40:24Doctor Carroll.

00:40:25Development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.

00:40:30Doctor Carrington, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize.

00:40:33You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain.

00:40:36If you were for sale, I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government.

00:40:40I'm not, therefore, going to stick my neck out

00:40:42and say that you're stuffed absolutely clean full of wild blueberry muffins.

00:40:46But I promise you my readers are going to think so.

00:40:49Not for long, Mr. Scott.

00:40:51Not if they happen to know anything about the flora of their own planet.

00:40:54You mean there are vegetables right here on earth that can think?

00:40:58Certain kind of thinking, yes.

00:41:01You ever hear of the telegraph vine?

00:41:03Not recently.

00:41:04How are these?

00:41:06Is it the acanthus century plant, Dr. Stern?

00:41:08Yes.

00:41:09Go ahead, Doctor. That's your field.

00:41:11Well, the century plant catches mice, bats, squirrels, any small mammals,

00:41:16uses a sweet syrup as bait,

00:41:19then holds on to its catch and feeds on it.

00:41:21May I have a snack, please?

00:41:22And what's the telegraph vine?

00:41:23Well, a vine, research has proven, can signal to other vines of the same species.

00:41:27Vines 20 to 100 miles away.

00:41:30Intelligence in plants and vegetables is an old story, Mr. Scott.

00:41:34Older even than the animal arrogance that has overlooked it.

00:41:37That's one for Ripley.

00:41:39Look here. I took this from under the soft tissue on the palm of the hand.

00:41:44Seed pod.

00:41:45Seed pod.

00:41:46Yes.

00:41:47A neat and unconfused reproductive technique of vegetation.

00:41:52No pain or pleasure, as we know.

00:41:55No emotions.

00:41:57No heart.

00:41:59Our superior.

00:42:01Our superior in every way.

00:42:04Gentlemen, do you realize what we've found?

00:42:07A being from another world as different from us as one pole from the other.

00:42:12If we can only communicate with it,

00:42:15we can learn secrets that have been hidden from mankind since the beginning of...

00:42:22Time.

00:42:32It's moving.

00:42:34Snickleson.

00:42:36Yes, Doctor.

00:42:37At 12.10 a.m., the hand became alive.

00:42:43Temperature of the forearm showed a 20 degree rise.

00:42:48Because of this rise in temperature,

00:42:50I believe it was able to ingest the canine blood with which it was covered.

00:42:54I believe that this...

00:42:56You mean it lives on blood.

00:43:01This is the best we could find, Pat.

00:43:02If this doesn't work, I don't know what will.

00:43:04Where are you going, Captain?

00:43:05To find our visitor, if we can.

00:43:07One moment, Captain.

00:43:10Bob and Mac, check the storeroom again. Both at the outside door.

00:43:13Captain, when you find what you're looking for,

00:43:15remember it's a stranger in a strange land.

00:43:17The only crimes involved were those committed against it.

00:43:19The canister woke from a block of ice, was attacked by dogs,

00:43:22shot by a frightened man.

00:43:24All I want is a chance to communicate with it.

00:43:26Doctor, you can do anything you want with it,

00:43:28provided it's locked up in a safe place.

00:43:29Nothing in here, Pat.

00:43:30Captain, if we catch up with our pal,

00:43:32give me a chance to get a picture before somebody makes a salad of him, huh?

00:43:35Sure, Scotty.

00:43:40Bob, get up with him.

00:43:41Hey, what's up?

00:43:43Looks like a lynching party.

00:43:44Are they visitors?

00:43:45Not a soul.

00:43:46Captain, I got part of a message from the General.

00:43:48He said to wait on Mr. Scott's story.

00:43:50Oh, what's the difference? Nothing's going on anyway.

00:43:53Let's get out of here.

00:43:54Hey, what are you guys looking for?

00:43:55Couldn't have come in here.

00:43:56Who couldn't come in?

00:43:57A man from Mars.

00:43:58You mean he's alive and running around loose?

00:44:00Keep your door locked, Tix, and watch where you let in.

00:44:01Use your fire exit if you have to. Gun's no good.

00:44:03What do you mean a gun's no good?

00:44:09Eddie.

00:44:13Hold it, Captain.

00:44:16Hold it.

00:44:38There's something in here, all right.

00:44:39No, you're a little off base.

00:44:41That's the mineralogy lab.

00:44:42We've got radioactive isotopes in there.

00:44:44Your Geiger's reacting to a room full of uranium ore samples.

00:44:48Yeah.

00:45:02This door's locked.

00:45:03Dr. Stern has the key.

00:45:04Oh, yes.

00:45:05None of the others are locked.

00:45:06What's in here?

00:45:07The greenhouse.

00:45:08Eskimos have a weakness for our strawberries.

00:45:10Strawberries of the North Pole.

00:45:12Excuse me.

00:45:19Mac, Bob.

00:45:21Look under these tables.

00:45:29Bob, check that outside door.

00:45:37Door's locked, sir.

00:45:38Up and up here, Pat.

00:45:39Still batting zero.

00:45:41Hello, Doctor.

00:45:42Captain, I...

00:45:43I'll hang up that other quarter, Pat.

00:45:44Any suggestions, Doctor?

00:45:46It's obviously not inside.

00:45:47I've heard looking outside is sinister.

00:45:49Will you close the door, please?

00:45:50Never mind, Doctor.

00:45:51We're going.

00:45:52Captain, half an hour outside now is about all we can stand.

00:45:54We'd better do it and relax.

00:45:56You're right, Doctor Chapman.

00:45:57We'll have to work out a schedule.

00:45:58Will you close the door, please?

00:46:00That reminds me.

00:46:01We're going to have to tell General Fogarty what happened.

00:46:03We're liable to become famous.

00:46:05So few people can boast that they've lost a flying saucer and a man from Moscow.

00:46:09A flying saucer and a man from Mars all on the same day.

00:46:13I wonder what they'd have done to Columbus if he'd discovered America a bit misled.

00:46:17A bunch of butterfingers.

00:46:19Gentlemen, I just happened to notice...

00:46:22Look at these molds.

00:46:30Well, they're wilted.

00:46:32The only thing...

00:46:33A blast of icy air if that rear door was opened.

00:46:35Have another look at that lock, will you, Professor?

00:46:37Yes.

00:46:38Only 15 seconds of such exposure would do it.

00:46:41Exactly.

00:46:43What would that lead you to?

00:46:46That it may have been in here.

00:46:50Without a doubt.

00:46:52Dr. Carrington, you were right.

00:46:54The lock's been forced and bent back into position again.

00:46:56The key's gone.

00:46:57Someone has entered and gone and locked the door from...

00:47:01From the outside.

00:47:02See how it glistens in the light?

00:47:04It's a smear of...

00:47:06Blood, sir.

00:47:09From the wounded dog?

00:47:10You don't suppose?

00:47:11Open it, please.

00:47:23One of the sweat dogs.

00:47:25Not even cold yet.

00:47:29It doesn't seem kind of shrunken.

00:47:32Is there any blood in there?

00:47:34None.

00:47:35No blood.

00:47:36Its blood has been drained.

00:47:38Everything falls right into line.

00:47:40What could be more natural for a being of its kind

00:47:43than seeking out the only open earth within miles?

00:47:46It came here for refuge, heard us, and ran.

00:47:50It's been here, it'll come back again.

00:47:53We'd better tell Captain...

00:47:54I don't agree with you, Doctor.

00:47:56I think it far better if science rather than the army...

00:47:58Doctor, are you sure this is the best thing...

00:47:59I'm sure we can communicate with it.

00:48:01We must.

00:48:02It's wiser than we are.

00:48:04It's our only chance to talk to it,

00:48:06to learn so many things.

00:48:08Surely you can understand that, Stern.

00:48:11Will you stand guard here with me tonight, Louries?

00:48:13And you, Laurens?

00:48:14Very clearly, Doctor.

00:48:15Good.

00:48:16Stern, tell Dr. Auerbach and Dr. Olsen what we've found.

00:48:19Ask them to come back and relieve us in the morning.

00:48:23And tell them, please, to confide in Noah.

00:48:35Good luck, Captain.

00:48:36Oh, Lee!

00:48:37Lee, you'd better get some more hot coffee ready.

00:48:39Find anything, Captain?

00:48:40Not a sign.

00:48:41We've poked in at every snowbank within miles.

00:48:43Lawrence likes to follow me.

00:48:44Sure did.

00:48:45Scare you?

00:48:46Not after I saw I was only a bear.

00:48:48Too cold out there for that.

00:48:50Didn't find anything, did you?

00:48:51I didn't think you would.

00:48:53When we lose them, they stay lost.

00:48:55Not that it makes much difference.

00:48:56There's nothing going on out there.

00:48:58I'm sure you'll find something.

00:49:00I'm sure you'll find something.

00:49:02Not that it makes much difference.

00:49:03There's nothing going on on the radio.

00:49:05Nothing coming in.

00:49:06Hey, Tex, don't tell me you got something.

00:49:08Well, Captain, your general Fogarty's running the temperature.

00:49:10This came in clear about ten minutes ago,

00:49:12and then it got fouled up again.

00:49:13Fogarty to Hendry.

00:49:14Take all precautions to preserve aircraft carefully until my arrival.

00:49:18Same to same.

00:49:19Use same precautions with corpses of any occupants.

00:49:22Same to same.

00:49:23Forward detail description of aircraft.

00:49:25Oh, measurements, approximate weight and so forth.

00:49:28Important.

00:49:29Fogarty to Hendry.

00:49:30Why haven't you answered?

00:49:31Want immediate answer.

00:49:32Same to same.

00:49:33Radio silence unnecessary.

00:49:35Reference message Fogarty to Hendry.

00:49:37Acknowledge immediately.

00:49:39Fogarty to Hendry.

00:49:40Waiting report.

00:49:41Silence confusing.

00:49:42Same to same.

00:49:43Acknowledge.

00:49:44Same to same.

00:49:45Acknowledge at once.

00:49:46I gather he wants to hear from me.

00:49:47You mean there's nothing for me?

00:49:48You got it all.

00:49:49Oh, for Pete's sake, I don't believe it.

00:49:50How can a man get to be a general without even knowing?

00:49:57In the greenhouse.

00:49:58Seat.

00:50:01Guards, get out there and watch that corner.

00:50:02Somebody bring the first aid kit, please.

00:50:04Captain, this is my job.

00:50:05Bob, you better start warning everybody else in the camp.

00:50:08Does that speaker system work from here?

00:50:10Yes, a switch on the left goes all the way.

00:50:12Attention, everybody in camp.

00:50:14Stay where you are and bolt your doors.

00:50:16Our visitor has returned and is dangerous.

00:50:18Stay where you are until notified and bolt your doors.

00:50:20Stay where you are.

00:50:28Easy, doctor, easy.

00:50:29It'll be all right.

00:50:30What happened, doctor?

00:50:31In the greenhouse, I was working.

00:50:33I couldn't see.

00:50:34Then a blast of cold air and I heard Olsen scream.

00:50:38When I turned, the thing struck at me.

00:50:40Go on.

00:50:42I don't remember my head.

00:50:43I must have fallen.

00:50:46When I came to, I saw Olsen and Auerbach.

00:50:48They were...

00:50:49Give me some more of that.

00:50:50Get those axes.

00:50:51Go ahead, doctor.

00:50:55They were both hanging from the beams upside down.

00:50:57They were dead.

00:50:58Their throats were cut.

00:50:59I crawled out from under them.

00:51:00Was it still there when you left?

00:51:01I couldn't see.

00:51:04Wait for me, Pat.

00:51:05I want to get a picture.

00:51:15Wait a minute.

00:51:16This greenhouse has an outside door.

00:51:18You get out that way.

00:51:19Captain, we can get to it from here through the generator room.

00:51:21You two go with him.

00:51:23You mean you want us to go in?

00:51:24Just seal the door with lumber, oil drums, anything you can find.

00:51:27That's better.

00:51:28Easy now.

00:51:29Give him time to get there.

00:51:30Pat.

00:51:32Pat, I want a picture.

00:51:33You get back with the rest.

00:51:34Don't be silly.

00:51:36It'll cost you a drink, Scott.

00:51:38I'm a beer.

00:51:43Ready, Bob?

00:51:44No, but go ahead and open it.

00:51:59Get something to prop this door.

00:52:01Quick!

00:52:02Something short enough to get under this boat.

00:52:05Did you get your picture, Scotty?

00:52:07No, you were in the way.

00:52:08And the door was not long enough.

00:52:10You want me to open it again?

00:52:11No.

00:52:12Bring a hammer and some spikes.

00:52:13Put that in, will you, Captain?

00:52:18There.

00:52:19That ought to do it.

00:52:20Dr. Chapman, you're sure there's no other way out?

00:52:22No windows, skylights, or vents of any kind?

00:52:24Only the front and back door.

00:52:25Is this wall solid?

00:52:26Corrugated iron.

00:52:27You don't think that...

00:52:32Dr. Carrington, we just learned you found a dog in there,

00:52:34bled white by a visitor.

00:52:35He didn't report it.

00:52:36Why?

00:52:37I didn't consider it necessary.

00:52:38But it was necessary to let two of your friends in there to be killed.

00:52:40I posted them as a guard.

00:52:41I was in there myself for five hours.

00:52:42Dr. Stern was right.

00:52:43I just looked through that door.

00:52:44They're hanging in there upside down, like in a slaughterhouse.

00:52:46I wish you'd seen it.

00:52:47Isn't there something we can do about it?

00:52:48They're dead, and our job is to see nobody else join them.

00:52:50As for you, Doctor, you're limited to your room, laboratory,

00:52:52and the mess hall until this thing's finished.

00:52:54Captain, you have no authority of any kind to issue such orders.

00:52:56Doctor...

00:52:57No right to assume...

00:52:58You'd better move along.

00:53:06Well, Pat, we got the rear door blocked.

00:53:07If he gets out, he'll have to dig his way through 20 or 30 oil drums

00:53:10and a couple of tons of snow and ice.

00:53:11Good.

00:53:12And, Bob, next time you use that cannon, raise the sights a little.

00:53:14I'm sorry, sir.

00:53:15I was too busy to think about that.

00:53:16It's okay.

00:53:17Gentlemen, we're going to have to set up a guard here

00:53:19at the junction in the corridor.

00:53:20Two-hour shifts.

00:53:21We'll need volunteers.

00:53:22I'll be glad to, Captain.

00:53:23Come in, Captain.

00:53:27Come in.

00:53:34You sent for us, Doctor?

00:53:40You said you had news for us, Doctor.

00:53:43Sorry, I'm very tired.

00:53:44I haven't slept.

00:53:46It's difficult...

00:53:48Difficult to talk.

00:53:51Read my notes, Miss Nicholson.

00:53:53Doctor, we need some rest.

00:53:55Yes, I know, but...

00:53:59Please read my notes.

00:54:01At 9 p.m., I placed the seeds taken from the severed hand of X

00:54:05in four inches of earth.

00:54:07I saturated the earth...

00:54:11I saturated the earth with two units of plasma

00:54:13taken from our blood bank.

00:54:15The condition of the dog found in the greenhouse

00:54:18indicated that blood was a primal factor

00:54:20in the cultivation of the seeds.

00:54:22At 2 a.m.,

00:54:25at 2 a.m.,

00:54:26the first sprouts appeared through the soil.

00:54:29Five hours?

00:54:30Yes.

00:54:31I used another two units of plasma.

00:54:34At 4 a.m.,

00:54:35the sprouts began to take on definite form.

00:54:39I came to be...

00:54:44I see by your faces you don't believe me.

00:54:48Well, you're going to have to make judge for yourselves.

00:54:55Come on.

00:55:11Oh, no, it isn't possible.

00:55:13It reproduces itself at amazing speed.

00:55:17That's Woodburrow at Captain Henry's impression.

00:55:20When he saw the creature in the door of the greenhouse,

00:55:22it seemed to have grown a new arm.

00:55:24It's pulsating, Doctor.

00:55:26And they were breathing.

00:55:28Yes.

00:55:30Human plants.

00:55:31Superhuman.

00:55:32All of this because of the blood plasma, Doctor?

00:55:34That's correct.

00:55:36Notice these closer to the source of the plasma

00:55:39while these farther away.

00:55:40How many units have we?

00:55:42Enough, I hope.

00:55:44Do you care to listen to them, Professor Wilson?

00:55:47Yes, thank you.

00:55:48I should.

00:55:55♪

00:56:08Well?

00:56:11Almost like the wail of a newborn child that's hungry.

00:56:15That's the way I would have described it.

00:56:17Doctor.

00:56:18Yes, Miss Nicholson.

00:56:19Do you mind very much if I...

00:56:21Will you...

00:56:22Will you be needing me anymore?

00:56:23No, just finish typing my notes.

00:56:25Return them to me.

00:56:27Let no one see them.

00:56:30Doctor.

00:56:32I think you should get some sleep.

00:56:33There's too much to do, Professor Wilson.

00:56:35But your mind can't work if you're exhausted.

00:56:37My mind's still perfectly clear.

00:56:38No, it isn't, Doctor.

00:56:40You aren't thinking of what's happening there in the greenhouse.

00:56:43He's growing those seeds in there using blood, just as you are.

00:56:47You've seen what one creature like that can do.

00:56:50Just imagine a thousand...

00:56:51I have imagined it.

00:56:52Arthur.

00:56:54What if that aircraft came here not just to visit the Earth,

00:56:57but to conquer it?

00:56:59To start growing some kind of horrible army.

00:57:03Turn the human race into food for it.

00:57:05There are many things threatening our world.

00:57:07New stars, comets shooting through space.

00:57:10Those are theories.

00:57:11This is an enemy right here.

00:57:12There are no enemies in science, Professor.

00:57:14Only phenomena to study.

00:57:17We are studying one.

00:57:18What?

00:57:31Come in.

00:57:38Hello, Pat.

00:57:39Hi.

00:57:40Nikki, I want to ask you something.

00:57:41Has anybody up here been hurt lately?

00:57:43Anybody shot or stabbed or operated on?

00:57:45No, that what is it in the greenhouse has been our first aversion.

00:57:49I brought up 35 units of blood plasma two months ago.

00:57:52Let's be calm a bit.

00:57:53Why do you want to know?

00:57:55I wondered why they're not giving it to Dr. Stern.

00:57:57They're giving him blood transfusions instead of plasma.

00:57:59Two live donors.

00:58:02What's Carrington doing with 35 units of blood plasma, Nikki?

00:58:05I guess...

00:58:07I guess you better take a swing at my chin and have a look at those notes.

00:58:12He should be trying to stop you.

00:58:16No.

00:58:21So that's what he's been doing.

00:58:22Mm-hmm.

00:58:24Thanks.

00:58:25Thanks for not stopping.

00:58:29Pat.

00:58:30Would you remember something?

00:58:32He's tired.

00:58:33He hasn't slept since you found that thing.

00:58:36And he's not thinking right.

00:58:37I know him and he doesn't think the way we do anyway.

00:58:40But he's found something that no one can understand.

00:58:42And until he can solve it, he'll...

00:58:45You know, like a kid with a new toy, he'll just...

00:58:48Only this toy is level to bite him.

00:58:49Thanks again.

00:58:59Where's Dr. Carrington?

00:59:01Sorry, Captain, I have no authorization to give you any...

00:59:04I'm very busy.

00:59:05I know you're busy, Doctor.

00:59:07I understand you've been doing a bit of gardening.

00:59:08Where are they?

00:59:10They're in the nursery, Pat.

00:59:11Pat.

00:59:14I don't tolerate intrusions into my laboratory.

00:59:16Please don't touch me.

00:59:18This is what your late colleagues are doing in the greenhouse, Doctor.

00:59:20Except this is a distinct improvement.

00:59:22What happened in the greenhouse was not my fault.

00:59:24We've read your notes, Arthur.

00:59:25Yeah?

00:59:26I think you should have consulted the rest of us.

00:59:27I have all the help I need.

00:59:28Your opinion has not been asked.

00:59:30It has by Captain Henry, and I've given it to him.

00:59:33I'll repeat it for you.

00:59:34We're facing something unpredictably dangerous.

00:59:36A creature in the greenhouse is obviously multiplying itself in this identical fashion.

00:59:40And we have no way of finding out how much it can multiply.

00:59:42It'll need more blood, and it'll make every effort to obtain what it needs.

00:59:45It's been imprisoned, and is therefore harmless.

00:59:47How can you be sure of our safety?

00:59:49Or, more important, the safety of the world?

00:59:51Think of a thousand of such creatures.

00:59:52Ten thousand.

00:59:53Yes, it must be destroyed.

00:59:54No.

00:59:55It's progeny along with it.

00:59:56No.

00:59:57We can burn these.

00:59:58What about that thing in the greenhouse?

00:59:59You're talking like frightened schoolboys.

01:00:01You're right, Doctor.

01:00:02I am frightened.

01:00:03Any destruction would be an outrage, a betrayal of science.

01:00:05It may be a betrayal of science, Doctor, but it'll make me and some of the other people out better if we get rid of it.

01:00:09There'll be no...

01:00:10Captain, I finally got a message through, and here's the answer.

01:00:12Go ahead.

01:00:13Fogarty to Henry.

01:00:14Carrington informs me Martian are alive.

01:00:16You are directed to make effort to keep it alive and protect it against injury.

01:00:19Under no circumstances take action against it until my arrival when weather permits.

01:00:23You have your orders, Captain Henry.

01:00:25I consider them sane and intelligent.

01:00:28But, Tex, what about me?

01:00:29Nothing, Scotty.

01:00:30What do we do, Pat?

01:00:31Get on that radio and try changing the Army's mind.

01:00:45Hey!

01:00:46Hey, it's me!

01:00:47Eddie!

01:00:53What are you doing in here?

01:00:54We can't take it out there anymore, Pat.

01:00:56We'll have to drop the idea, can't we?

01:00:58We'll have to drop the idea of guarding Greenhouse from the outside.

01:01:01It's blowing so hard you can't see a hand in front of your face.

01:01:03Besides, it can go through any wall as easy as a door.

01:01:06How could it get through corrugated iron walls?

01:01:08Use a can opener.

01:01:09Tell the others we're dropping the outside guard.

01:01:11Put that hand of yours in some ice water and rub it.

01:01:14Who's out on the course?

01:01:15Stone and Wilson, sir.

01:01:16Barnes.

01:01:17Yes, sir.

01:01:18Tell them I'm the only one who's on guard now.

01:01:19Yes, sir.

01:01:20Tell them to watch it.

01:01:24Tex.

01:01:25Here I am.

01:01:27You won't be there long.

01:01:28We're dropping the outside guards.

01:01:30You better come up here and join the rest of them in the mess hall.

01:01:32I'll be all right.

01:01:33I got the door braced good and there's no outside windows.

01:01:36All right, if you want to be brave.

01:01:40Well?

01:01:41Pat, what are we going to do?

01:01:46Anybody around here want some coffee?

01:01:48No, but you can come in.

01:01:50That's the only reason I brought it.

01:01:51I was hoping you might ask me in.

01:01:54Who wants some?

01:01:55I could use a half.

01:01:57What were you saying, Scotty?

01:01:58I was just wondering if that's enough.

01:02:01What happens if our boyfriend gets lonely and starts strolling around?

01:02:05Ends up in here.

01:02:06What do we do?

01:02:07I've been trying to figure that, too.

01:02:08Nothing seems to hurt it.

01:02:09Sixty-four dollar question.

01:02:10What do you do with a vegetable?

01:02:12Boil it.

01:02:13What'd you say?

01:02:15Boil it.

01:02:16Stew it.

01:02:17Bake it.

01:02:18Fry it.

01:02:19Hey, that makes sense.

01:02:20Cold doesn't bother it.

01:02:21Maybe Dr. Carrington will ask it to crawl into a double boiler.

01:02:24Maybe you could borrow a flamethrower from somebody.

01:02:26Captain, I've got a crazy idea.

01:02:28We've got lots of kerosene, and if we could...

01:02:36Point three.

01:02:38Point four.

01:02:39This is where we start cooking.

01:02:40Point five.

01:02:42Point six.

01:02:44Watch it, everybody.

01:02:45Get things out of the greenhouse.

01:02:46Be sure and stay together.

01:02:47Point nine.

01:02:48Captain, what about throwing the kerosene out and setting it on fire?

01:02:51We can try. Get that...

01:02:52Here's a bulk can.

01:02:54We'll need something to put it in.

01:02:55Here's a pair.

01:02:57One point two.

01:02:58We need one more.

01:02:59Hey, Pat, this ought to work all right.

01:03:01Good.

01:03:02Watch that cigarette, Lieutenant.

01:03:03One point two.

01:03:04Now we've got to set it on fire.

01:03:05Grab two sticks together.

01:03:06There's a very pistol in my bag.

01:03:07I'll get it.

01:03:08If it comes in, you wet it down.

01:03:10And you, Matt, touch it off.

01:03:11And don't miss.

01:03:12You two be ready in case it needs more.

01:03:14I think you're right, Captain.

01:03:15Oh, sure.

01:03:16One point three now.

01:03:17You know how to shoot that thing, don't you?

01:03:19I saw Gary Cooper at Sergeant York.

01:03:20One point four.

01:03:21Come here.

01:03:23I'll get in the corner.

01:03:24Now hold this in front of you.

01:03:25Stay by the light switch.

01:03:27One point five.

01:03:28One point six.

01:03:30Seven.

01:03:31What was that?

01:03:32Sounds like a window.

01:03:34One point eight.

01:03:35Come up those pipes.

01:03:36One point nine.

01:03:37The needle's hit the top.

01:03:46Come on, now!

01:03:53Look at it!

01:04:13Watch it, Captain!

01:04:20Watch that window!

01:04:21Hey, Scott!

01:04:23Come on!

01:04:37Here you are, sir.

01:04:38This will make your hand feel better.

01:04:39Thank you, Bob.

01:04:44This ought to be enough kerosene, Pat.

01:04:45Let's get it ready.

01:04:46How's it coming, Barnes?

01:04:47It'll be okay.

01:04:48What makes me mad is that he didn't do it.

01:04:50I busted it falling over the bunk.

01:04:53Now listen, everybody.

01:04:54I want you all to stay here.

01:04:55We found a way to fight this thing off,

01:04:57but we burned out a room doing it.

01:04:58I don't think it was hurt much,

01:04:59judging from the way it took off.

01:05:01About as much effect as a good hot foot.

01:05:03It's sure to come back here again.

01:05:04We don't want to burn up the whole place,

01:05:06so as soon as we're organized,

01:05:07we're going after it.

01:05:08It probably went back to the greenhouse,

01:05:09so we'll start there.

01:05:11In the meantime, stay here.

01:05:12Watch the door into the hallway.

01:05:15And keep your eye on the Geiger counter.

01:05:16Here are the fire extinguishers.

01:05:18Who's your electrical expert here?

01:05:19I can help you, Captain.

01:05:20That's my line.

01:05:21Can you hook into the intercom system

01:05:22from the corridor?

01:05:23Oh, easily.

01:05:24We can take one from any of the other rooms.

01:05:25I can help you on that, too.

01:05:26Mac, we'll be in the radio room.

01:05:27Let us know when you're ready.

01:05:29You all right?

01:05:30Yeah, but I'd like to tag along with you.

01:05:31Haven't you had enough?

01:05:33Look, if I start burning up again,

01:05:34who's going to put out the fire?

01:05:35We're very proud of our captain.

01:05:40Now look.

01:05:42Put one of the intercoms here.

01:05:43That'll take care of this end.

01:05:45And we'll put another down here

01:05:46at the junction in the corridor.

01:05:47Check them to see if they work through the mess hall.

01:05:49Right.

01:05:50Captain, I just thought of something.

01:05:51You said you were going to use kerosene again.

01:05:52You know anything better?

01:05:53Or something hotter.

01:05:54We have enough cable to stretch to the greenhouse.

01:05:55Why not use electricity?

01:05:56You mean your lighting system?

01:05:57No.

01:05:58No, we can hook in a new transformer

01:05:59Dr. Chapman's been using.

01:06:00It's a high-voltage outfit

01:06:01and will give us plenty of amps.

01:06:03Enough to burn them?

01:06:04More than enough.

01:06:05Well, could you use leads to two poles

01:06:06and catch them between them?

01:06:07If you insulate the poles.

01:06:08Sounds good.

01:06:09Bob, give him a hand.

01:06:11Come on, Tex.

01:06:12You go to work.

01:06:13Get anchorage if you can.

01:06:14Tell them the whole story.

01:06:16Tell them we're in bad shape.

01:06:17The sooner they get here, the better.

01:06:18Tell them to bring hand grenades, mortars, flame throwers,

01:06:20anything they can think of.

01:06:21Tell them if I don't get permission to send a story out,

01:06:23I'm going to shoot myself.

01:06:24You better comb your hair first.

01:06:26What hair?

01:06:28Hey, say that again.

01:06:29Oh, Nicky, not you too.

01:06:30He's sensitive about his hair.

01:06:31You too.

01:06:32I've got hair.

01:06:33It doesn't make you any prettier.

01:06:34No, no, you're Brad.

01:06:35I'm sorry.

01:06:36He's sensitive about that too.

01:06:37I've been very upset lately, my...

01:06:39Oh, you ninny.

01:06:41Look, that's what I mean.

01:06:42Hey, look.

01:06:43You too.

01:06:45It's getting cold in here.

01:06:46The heat must be off.

01:06:47It is off.

01:06:50It's not getting any oil.

01:06:52See if it's the same way in the room across the hall.

01:06:53Tex, where do these heaters get their oil from?

01:06:55Around behind, outside.

01:06:59Hey, Pat!

01:07:00Heat's off in the mess hall.

01:07:01No.

01:07:02No more oil coming in.

01:07:03Pat, it's off in there too.

01:07:04Could the tank be empty?

01:07:05Filled day before yesterday.

01:07:07The main line could be plugged.

01:07:09We'd better get outside and fix it.

01:07:10It'll probably run smack into our visitor.

01:07:11They'd be waiting for you to do just that.

01:07:13We underestimate this guy.

01:07:14It's a little bit turned off.

01:07:15Trying to freeze us out, huh?

01:07:16That isn't going to be hard.

01:07:17Down to 40 degrees now.

01:07:18It's 60 below outside.

01:07:20How long do these rooms hold any heat?

01:07:21Half an hour at the most.

01:07:22By then we'll all be stiff as a...

01:07:23Well, look, if no one goes out to fix that oil line,

01:07:25won't it think of something else?

01:07:27You'll think the same thing I am.

01:07:28That our only chance to keep warm would be electricity.

01:07:30Heaters, blankets, anything like that.

01:07:32Yes, it could break the circuit, cut a line anywhere,

01:07:35except at the source.

01:07:36Sure, the generator room.

01:07:37Get them all in there.

01:07:38I'll tell Tex.

01:07:39Bring any electrical stuff.

01:07:40Food, medicine, blankets, warm clothes,

01:07:41anything you can find.

01:07:42And Mac, bring our flying clothes.

01:07:43Pat, most of them got burned.

01:07:44But I'll see what I can see.

01:07:45Sure, but I'll see what I can salvage.

01:07:47Get the transformer.

01:07:48I'll check that.

01:07:49There's an awful cold in here.

01:07:50I know, the thing's turned the heat off.

01:07:51What?

01:07:52That'll change things.

01:07:53What are we going to do about it?

01:07:54I don't know.

01:07:55Next thing it'll think of is the electricity,

01:07:56so we're putting everybody in the generator room

01:07:57and try to fight her from there.

01:07:58Lieutenant, did you do a good job

01:07:59in the outside door of the generator room?

01:08:00Houdini'd find it tough getting in.

01:08:01It's better than even money

01:08:02he'll come through this corridor.

01:08:03Yeah, it's the only way left.

01:08:04Me too.

01:08:05You got any fence wires strong enough

01:08:06to take your voltage?

01:08:07All rolls over here.

01:08:08That'll work, Lieutenant.

01:08:09Sure.

01:08:10What'll work?

01:08:11One on each side,

01:08:12and when that thing gets to the right spot,

01:08:13juicing.

01:08:14I don't get you.

01:08:15Where's the fence wire?

01:08:16Right down here.

01:08:17Hey, give me those cutters.

01:08:18What are you talking about?

01:08:19We're talking about rigging an electric fly trap

01:08:20right here for him to walk into.

01:08:21What do you mean, fly trap?

01:08:22Hey, Scotty, get me a hammer

01:08:23and some nails out of the generator room.

01:08:24Sure, sure.

01:08:25You better get out of the way.

01:08:26Well, it looks like they have

01:08:27the situation well in hand.

01:08:28It's all right with me.

01:08:29I've given all the orders I want to give

01:08:30for the rest of my life.

01:08:31If I thought that were true,

01:08:32I'd ask you to marry me.

01:08:33Here's your coat.

01:08:35Shut up.

01:08:37Where do you want us, Captain?

01:08:38In the generator room, Doctor.

01:08:39All right, move along, please, everybody.

01:08:40Keep moving.

01:08:41Please, keep moving.

01:08:42Sorry, General.

01:08:43Change my mind.

01:08:44It's all off.

01:08:45Keep moving, everybody.

01:08:46Captain, I want another word.

01:08:47No, try not, Doctor.

01:08:48Move along.

01:08:49Make way here.

01:08:50Clear this out.

01:08:51Clear this place.

01:08:52Thanks.

01:08:53Where are those cutters?

01:08:54Here they are.

01:08:55Where'd you get your cutter, Bob?

01:08:56Back there in that barrel.

01:08:57I got one, too, Captain.

01:08:58Go down to the assembly room.

01:08:59If you get anything, come running.

01:09:00Somebody get me a pair of gloves.

01:09:01Here, use my hand.

01:09:07Leave enough to hook to the overhead wire.

01:09:20I've got plenty.

01:09:21Here we are, Lieutenant.

01:09:23You'll give us a ground?

01:09:24No.

01:09:25Here she is, Captain.

01:09:26Down to five degrees now, perfect for skiing.

01:09:35I'm going to get a pair of rubber boots, Scotty.

01:09:37Why?

01:09:38Insulation when I turn the juice on.

01:09:40Oh, yeah.

01:09:41We're right here, Scott.

01:09:42Where?

01:09:43Wait a minute, Scotty.

01:09:44You won't need any boots.

01:09:45When it comes, you go back with the others.

01:09:46You don't belong out here.

01:09:47I didn't belong at Alameda or Bougainville or Okinawa.

01:09:50I was just kibitzing.

01:09:51And I also write a very good old-bit obituary to you.

01:09:54Just ignore me, please.

01:09:55Captain Henry.

01:09:56Captain Henry.

01:09:57Go ahead.

01:09:58Just took this thing up.

01:09:59Checking to see if it works.

01:10:00That's fine.

01:10:01Watch your Geiger counter.

01:10:02Yes, sir.

01:10:03Mac, did you hear that?

01:10:04Yes, sir.

01:10:05I hope that's all I hear.

01:10:06So do I.

01:10:07Oh, Captain, here's another message.

01:10:08This one relayed from Washington.

01:10:09Oh, goody to Henry.

01:10:10Use every means to protect lives of entire party, but take no steps against your prisoner.

01:10:15Our prisoner.

01:10:16There you are again.

01:10:17You can't ignore orders from your commanding officer.

01:10:19Anticipated that effect in my court martial.

01:10:21You're doing more than breaking army orders.

01:10:22You're robbing science of the greatest secret that's ever come to it.

01:10:25Better go back, Doctor.

01:10:26Knowledge is more important than life, Captain.

01:10:28We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

01:10:31What can we learn from that thing?

01:10:33Except a quicker way to die.

01:10:34Doesn't matter what happens to us.

01:10:36Nothing counts except our thinking.

01:10:38We've thought our way into nature.

01:10:39We've split the atom.

01:10:40Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?

01:10:43We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die without destroying a source of wisdom.

01:10:48Captain Henry.

01:10:49Civilization has given us orders.

01:10:51Get him out of here.

01:10:52Come on, Doctor.

01:10:53Oh, you fools.

01:10:54You'll never hurt it twice.

01:10:55Go ahead.

01:10:56Captain, I'm getting a reaction from the Geiger counter.

01:10:58What's your reading?

01:10:59Only .2, but steady.

01:11:01Watch it.

01:11:02Tell us any change.

01:11:03Mac, anything your way?

01:11:04Not a glimmer, Pat.

01:11:05Watch it.

01:11:06Where's the operating switch?

01:11:07Right here.

01:11:08How can it get cold so quick?

01:11:09Keep moving around.

01:11:10You're no good if you're too cold.

01:11:12Must be zero.

01:11:13Well, his neck stops far too long.

01:11:16Come on, Mr. Martian, and get some nice scotch blood.

01:11:19100 proof.

01:11:20Nothing like it for babies.

01:11:22Tell him to cut it out.

01:11:24No, no, let him go on.

01:11:25I like goose pimples.

01:11:26They keep me warm.

01:11:29Hey, Scotty, did you get a picture of that thing when it was on fire?

01:11:32No.

01:11:33I shot one while I was falling backward over the bed.

01:11:35Probably got the ceiling in my own big feet.

01:11:38Captain Henry, Captain Henry.

01:11:39Going up a little.

01:11:40.4 now.

01:11:41Hang on.

01:11:42Mac, any change?

01:11:43Just the same.

01:11:44Only colder.

01:11:45Probably means he's coming by the mess hall.

01:11:47Excuse me, sir.

01:11:48I got an idea.

01:11:49What?

01:11:50Here we go again.

01:11:51My new boy's pretty smart.

01:11:52He might see these wires we got rigged here and sit down and think it over.

01:11:55Yeah.

01:11:56If he thinks too long, we're cold meat.

01:11:58What if we met him over there by the junction?

01:12:00Let him see us there and chase us back here?

01:12:02Yes, sir.

01:12:03And the less light, the better.

01:12:04Turn off this light and this one down here.

01:12:06And don't tell me I'm right.

01:12:07Yes, sir.

01:12:08Captain Henry.

01:12:09Going up .8 now.

01:12:11I'm getting something, too, Pat.

01:12:12It's showing here now.

01:12:13All right, you fellas, both of you.

01:12:14Back here and come running.

01:12:15Halfway there.

01:12:17Redding, if you speed up that generator, can you get any more out of it?

01:12:19I certainly do no harm to try.

01:12:21Bill, you and Dex go with him.

01:12:22Mickey, you too.

01:12:23Pat, good night.

01:12:24Good luck to you.

01:12:27What's the matter?

01:12:28I was just wishing we'd had a chance to test this thing to see if it would work.

01:12:31What if we haven't enough foliage?

01:12:32This keeps swinging on its arms.

01:12:341.2.

01:12:35It's on its way.

01:12:36You know, I got to worry.

01:12:37Report from the front, Captain.

01:12:38Lieutenant McPherson has a worry.

01:12:39This is no joke.

01:12:40What?

01:12:41What if he can read our minds?

01:12:42He's going to be real mad when he gets to me.

01:12:451.4.

01:12:46Keep moving around, you guys.

01:12:47Keep it quiet.

01:12:49I remember the first execution I ever covered.

01:12:52Bruce Snyder and Judd Gray.

01:12:54Did you get a picture of that, Scotty?

01:12:56No, they didn't allow cameras.

01:12:57But one guy...

01:12:581.6.

01:12:59Going up fast.

01:13:00Stop moving back till he sees us.

01:13:01Give him a chance to get a look.

01:13:02Leave him room to reach that switch.

01:13:04Stay away from the walls when he hits the juice.

01:13:07Everybody got rubber boots on?

01:13:09Yes, sir.

01:13:101.8.

01:13:14I thought I heard something.

01:13:21It's getting near the top.

01:13:52What the...

01:13:53Juice is off.

01:13:54Cod!

01:13:55Cod!

01:13:56Carrington's turned off the generator.

01:13:57Bring the flashlight.

01:13:58Eddie, hold him off the floor.

01:13:59Roger.

01:14:00Watch out.

01:14:01He's got a gun.

01:14:02Keep away.

01:14:03Keep away.

01:14:04Keep away.

01:14:05I won't allow you to destroy...

01:14:06Turn on the generator.

01:14:07Get back here, Eddie.

01:14:08Eddie, get back here.

01:14:25Stay away from that wire.

01:14:26Listen, I'm your friend.

01:14:27Look, I have no weapons.

01:14:28I'm your friend.

01:14:29You're wiser than I.

01:14:30You must understand what I'm trying to tell you.

01:14:33Don't go any farther.

01:14:34They'll kill you.

01:14:35They think you mean to harm us all.

01:14:36But I want to know you, to help you.

01:14:38Believe that.

01:14:39You're wiser than anything on Earth.

01:14:41Use that intelligence.

01:14:42Look at me and know what I'm trying to tell you.

01:14:44I'm not your enemy.

01:14:45I'm a scientist.

01:14:46I'm a scientist who's trying to...

01:14:53The building is right in the middle of it, sir.

01:15:00He's got to be on that walk, Captain.

01:15:10The building is right in the middle, sir.

01:15:29Oh, that's enough.

01:15:48Turn it off.

01:15:49Let it go.

01:15:50Let it go.

01:16:16You can get a picture for us.

01:16:17Come on.

01:16:47So take a minute to warm up.

01:16:48Okay.

01:16:49We can get through.

01:16:50Is there any reason now why I can't send out my story?

01:16:52Only take five minutes.

01:16:53I guess it's okay.

01:16:54Go ahead, Scotty.

01:16:55You're going to look a lot better to me than you used to.

01:16:58All done, Pat.

01:16:59You get everything?

01:17:00Yeah, we burned everything in Carrington's lab and in the greenhouse.

01:17:03Burnt the arm, too.

01:17:04Nothing left but ashes.

01:17:05How is Dr. Carrington?

01:17:06He's got a broken car bone and a bad headache.

01:17:08Not getting enough voltage.

01:17:10I'll check the generator for you.

01:17:11Good.

01:17:12Anybody want some coffee?

01:17:13No, but you can come in.

01:17:15You better have some.

01:17:16You look awfully tired.

01:17:17He should look tired.

01:17:19He's had two things on his mind.

01:17:21We've only had one.

01:17:22Now our worries are over while our captain is...

01:17:24Oh, shut up.

01:17:25Isn't there something you can do about it, Nicky?

01:17:28I don't know.

01:17:29You know, I'm getting pretty fed up with the North Pole.

01:17:32How much does the captain make a month?

01:17:33Not very much.

01:17:34That's a good start.

01:17:35Go ahead.

01:17:36Enough to support two people?

01:17:37Not nearly enough.

01:17:38Oh, Captain, you get flight pay and some for each dependent.

01:17:41Oh, we can't have that.

01:17:42Now look, I'm not going to be a railroad engineer.

01:17:44I've got an idea if you'll pardon me, sir.

01:17:46This is going to work.

01:17:47You ought to settle down, sir.

01:17:49There you are.

01:17:50It would be so much better for us.

01:17:51Sure.

01:17:52Our captain always flitting around and getting into trouble.

01:17:54You remember that night in Honolulu?

01:17:56Oh, that was pretty bad.

01:17:58I don't know what they're talking about.

01:17:59He ought to like somewhere.

01:18:00See, they know what's best for you.

01:18:02Here we are.

01:18:03On your voltage now.

01:18:07Anchorage from Polar Expedition Six.

01:18:09Anchorage from Polar Expedition Six.

01:18:10Can you hear me?

01:18:11Over.

01:18:12Anchorage, reception clear.

01:18:13Press the button to speak, Scottie.

01:18:15Over.

01:18:17Tell General Fogarty we've sent for Captain Hendry.

01:18:19He'll be here in a few minutes.

01:18:20Over.

01:18:21Roger.

01:18:22Over.

01:18:23Are there any newsmen there who can hear me?

01:18:24Over.

01:18:25Place is full up.

01:18:26Over.

01:18:27All right, fellas, here's your story.

01:18:28North Pole, November 3rd.

01:18:30Ned Scott reporting.

01:18:32One of the world's greatest battles was fought and won today by the human race.

01:18:35Here at the top of the world, a handful of American soldiers and civilians met the first invasion from another planet.

01:18:41A man by the name of Noah once saved our world with an arc of wood.

01:18:45Here at the North Pole, a few men performed a similar service with an arc of electricity.

01:18:49The flying saucer which landed here and its pilot have been destroyed, but not without casualties among our own meager forces.

01:18:56I would like to bring to the microphone some of the men responsible for our success,

01:19:00but a senior Air Force officer, Captain Hendry, is attending to demands over and above the call of duty.

01:19:07Dr. Carrington, the leader of the scientific expedition, is recovering from wounds received in the battle.

01:19:12Good for you, Scotty.

01:19:13And now, before giving you the details of the battle, I bring you a warning.

01:19:17Every one of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are, watch the skies everywhere.

01:19:27Keep looking.

01:19:29Keep watching the skies.

01:19:37The End

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