On a remote island, a team of scientists conducts secret genetic experiments that go horribly wrong—unleashing a horde of oversized, mutant shrews with a thirst for blood. As a violent storm traps a group of survivors in a fragile shelter, they must battle both nature and the nightmarish creatures stalking them.
Night of the Shrews is a chilling creature feature packed with claustrophobic tension, practical effects, and 1950s-style thrills that deliver old-school sci-fi horror at its campy best.
Night of the Shrews is a chilling creature feature packed with claustrophobic tension, practical effects, and 1950s-style thrills that deliver old-school sci-fi horror at its campy best.
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00:00:00First in Alaska and then invading steadily southward, there were reports of a new species, the giant killer shrew.
00:00:30The End
00:01:00There's a lot of quiet out there. Almost smell it, can't you?
00:01:23No, but I can feel it. That pressure's dropped so fast, it almost made my ears pop.
00:01:30The hurricane's got different ways of telling you it's there. Where is it?
00:01:36Get ahead.
00:01:39What's that mean to us?
00:01:41Now, boy, that puts our port right in the middle of it.
00:01:48There's a cove on the lee side, though. We'll snuggle up close to the bluff and ride it out.
00:01:52What about the bottom?
00:01:53Well, the chart shows it's good holding ground. It's clay.
00:01:56You know something? If this thing had an automatic pilot, I wouldn't have to put up with you.
00:02:04Then you wouldn't have nobody to chew out.
00:02:08We should be there in a couple of hours. These mills of yours keep running.
00:02:13Look, automatic pilots can't play Dixieland jazz on them engines like I can.
00:02:17Hey, Rook. Rook. Rook, come here.
00:02:32Take a look.
00:02:35There she is, dead ahead.
00:02:36Man, that sure do look good.
00:02:45A man named Craggers owns this island, doesn't he?
00:02:48That's the name on the crate, Dr. Milo Craggers.
00:02:50We'll unload tomorrow. I don't want this craft sitting high in that water when that blow hits.
00:02:55You're going to ride stern, too, with a lot of water under?
00:02:57That's right.
00:02:58That sea won't make up in that cove.
00:03:00That wind will have her whipping around like a kite.
00:03:01Step forward and break out the heavy-weather hook.
00:03:05Check it and make sure it's free to run.
00:03:07I'll mount the shack.
00:03:08Good.
00:03:31Oh, she'll ride like a duck.
00:03:50If she swings too far to starboard, we might have to take a check line to shore.
00:03:55Hey, Rook.
00:03:56Take a slant up that trail.
00:03:57Now, that's a rather strange set-up, wouldn't you say?
00:04:04Looks like somebody's getting rid of somebody, huh, Captain?
00:04:08Maybe.
00:04:09Hard to tell.
00:04:10I'm Dr. Craggers.
00:04:29Thorne Sherman.
00:04:31I have your supplies aboard.
00:04:32That's good.
00:04:33Nothing wrong with Captain Ferguson, I hope.
00:04:35Well, I wouldn't know.
00:04:38I just bought his run.
00:04:39Oh, I see.
00:04:41Were you able to fill our order?
00:04:43Everything on the list.
00:04:44Here's the manifest.
00:04:46Missing last week's supply has run us a little short, you know.
00:04:50Captain, after you have unloaded, I have a passenger for you.
00:04:54Anne.
00:04:56Captain Sherman, this is my daughter, Anne Craggers.
00:05:00Hello.
00:05:01So you're the passenger?
00:05:02That's right, Captain.
00:05:04Oh, it's going to be nice having you aboard.
00:05:07I'm getting a little tired looking at Griswold.
00:05:09But we're, uh, we're not leaving today.
00:05:16In fact, we're not even unloading.
00:05:20That load will cut the roll in half.
00:05:24You expecting an invasion?
00:05:27Yes, animals.
00:05:29Game or otherwise?
00:05:30Well, there's certain conditions that could be dangerous.
00:05:38Hey, Ruff.
00:05:39You want to shake the kinks out?
00:05:40Limber up a little?
00:05:42Not me, Captain Blythe.
00:05:43You go right ahead and stretch your legs.
00:05:45That ship's going to be bugging like a bugging bronc for long.
00:05:48Besides, I got some work left to do.
00:05:50If you do come ashore, wear a gun.
00:05:53Got you, Captain.
00:05:54See you later.
00:06:10When I told you about the hurricane, you act like you didn't know anything about it.
00:06:28What's the matter? You're set broken down?
00:06:30You've been out of communication for more than a week, Captain.
00:06:34Can't it be fixed?
00:06:35It's totally out of commission.
00:06:37My assistant, Mr. Ferrell, Jerry Ferrell.
00:06:50Father, perhaps the captain would enjoy a drink.
00:06:53Well, of course.
00:06:56Will you join us in a cocktail?
00:06:57Well, I've never been known to turn down a drink yet.
00:07:00I'll be glad to accept.
00:07:02Fine. In that case, we'll have martinis.
00:07:05Mario?
00:07:05Si, senor.
00:07:08Mix them, please.
00:07:13Right this way, Captain.
00:07:15Come in.
00:07:15You have everything here you need?
00:07:25Oh, we are self-sufficient here.
00:07:41We have cows for fresh milk and chickens for fresh eggs.
00:07:44We even have saddle horses.
00:07:47Sort of a world all your own.
00:07:48That's exactly what I've tried to create.
00:07:50Well, to each his own.
00:07:53If you have to be isolated for your work, you've picked a lonely little island.
00:07:58Excuse me, please.
00:07:59I think I'll change.
00:08:00Well, she's a little worried because you aren't leaving until tomorrow.
00:08:12Well, I can understand that.
00:08:13But there's something else bothering her.
00:08:15Yes, sir.
00:08:28Rathford.
00:08:30Rathford.
00:08:32Rathford, would you please step over here?
00:08:34Would I like you to meet someone?
00:08:36Just a second, Doctor.
00:08:38That could go on for hours.
00:08:41Dr. Baines!
00:08:43There's no need to shout, Doctor. I'm right here.
00:08:46I'd like you to meet Captain Thorne Sherman.
00:08:48This is my other assistant, Radford Baines.
00:08:51How do you do?
00:08:52Two new litters since lunch, Doctor.
00:08:54Both support GT 116.
00:08:57That's good, but...
00:08:58We can breed them to the 205 group in about three weeks.
00:09:01But I'd prefer to wait and expose about half of them to the Hoskins factor first.
00:09:06If you agree.
00:09:08Good idea.
00:09:10Do you know there's a hurricane coming?
00:09:13A hurricane?
00:09:15Well, I don't suppose there's much we can do about that.
00:09:20Glad to meet you.
00:09:22Sherman, wasn't it?
00:09:24You have to excuse Radford.
00:09:26Anything that does not concern his project does not get through to him.
00:09:29Brilliant mind.
00:09:30He was doubted if someone didn't remind him to eat.
00:09:32Must be very interesting work.
00:09:33What's his field?
00:09:34Biology.
00:09:35We specialize in genetics, heredity.
00:09:36I'm afraid my interest doesn't run in that line, you know.
00:09:39Think what would happen if you could isolate and identify the inherited fact on each gene.
00:09:41Now wait a minute.
00:09:42I'm afraid my interest doesn't run in that line, you know.
00:09:44Think what would happen if you could isolate and identify the inherited fact on each gene.
00:09:47Now wait a minute.
00:09:48I'm afraid I'm not very good with pure research.
00:09:50This is practical research.
00:09:51Generally among mammals, the smaller the size, the higher the metabolism and the shorter the life span.
00:09:55Is that right?
00:09:56Well, I'm attempting to decrease the size while maintaining a low metabolism and resultant a longer life span.
00:10:02What reason?
00:10:03Over population.
00:10:04I'm not sure.
00:10:05You're not sure.
00:10:06I'm not sure.
00:10:07You're not sure.
00:10:08You're not sure.
00:10:09You're not sure.
00:10:10You're not sure.
00:10:11You're not sure.
00:10:12You're not sure.
00:10:13You're not sure.
00:10:14You're not sure.
00:10:15You're not sure.
00:10:16You're not sure.
00:10:17That is a fair.
00:10:18Over population.
00:10:19Not a problem now, but it will be in time.
00:10:27If we were half as big as we are now, we could live twice as long in our natural resources.
00:10:34Father, may I speak with you a moment?
00:10:37Will you please excuse us, captain?
00:10:38Well, providing you drop the captain, I prefer a thorn.
00:10:44Tell me something doctor has a hurricane ever hit this island before that you know of I
00:11:00wouldn't know you've only been here nine months and this place has been
00:11:05unoccupied for years well have you ever been through one only the fringes well
00:11:11this one's building up very fast pressure drops very quickly in the center I'd
00:11:15advise you to get some doors and windows open in this place
00:11:20ventilators on the roof and if you're fresh and hands drink I'll go and check
00:11:25them I'd be happy to thank heavens you're right today why are rations getting
00:11:32short now it's more than that much more we'll surely be able to sail tomorrow
00:11:37won't we possibly but not probable not delayed anyway takes a long time for a
00:11:44sea like that to quiet down well if you're worrying about me you needn't I'm a
00:11:48good sailor well I'm not worried about you we'll say all the time's right got them
00:11:55opened all right oh captain let me freshen you a drink one for the road I'm trying to
00:12:04rush you but it will be dark soon I've invited them for dinner father oh I see
00:12:12if you're not worried about your ship you're welcome I'll take a rainjack on
00:12:19that dinner if you wish father I've asked on to stay progress doctor this is the
00:12:29sole survivor of group 30 28 months old today well that's equivalent 240 years to
00:12:37us that's right yet it still maintains low metabolism without any sluggishness
00:12:44it's not the breakthrough but it certainly sets our course
00:12:49Rathford suspend series 52 through a 96 and you'll concentrate on the rest what is
00:12:57that it's a sorex soricity looks like a small rat smells like a skunk they have
00:13:06musk glands in their knees and these little fellas are our subjects they have a birth
00:13:12cycle of 10 to 14 days and using them we can establish traits we can trace the
00:13:17progressions to a number of generations over a short period of time well how big do
00:13:22they get that's an adult see the muscle is longer and thicker than the rats it extends
00:13:33over the lower mandible see does he bite only when he's hungry well maybe you
00:13:39better take him he doesn't know me all he knows is his next meal
00:13:45he's just been fed he'll be all right for another eight hours
00:13:49the shutter blew open Bradford I got it senor
00:13:56don't let that scare you it's gonna get worse storms always frightened her ever since she was a child
00:14:04Excellent
00:14:18They're not climbers they are digging animals so like the moar
00:14:20they feed only at night unless they're starving and when they are hungry enough
00:14:26But they'll tackle anything, regardless of size.
00:14:29No kidding.
00:14:30Mm-hmm.
00:14:31If you leave two of them in a cage for 12 hours without food,
00:14:34the stronger will eat the weaker.
00:14:36Like cannibals.
00:14:38Precisely.
00:14:39You see, their intense activity requires a tremendous amount of energy.
00:14:44To supply, they... they must eat three times their own weight in food
00:14:49every 24 hours or starve.
00:14:52Radford! Radford!
00:14:55Would you please take this?
00:14:57Take it with me.
00:14:58Heh-heh.
00:14:59Yeah!
00:15:04Some call them bone-eaters.
00:15:06When the flesh is gone, they'll eat the bones for marrow.
00:15:09All they'll leave are teeth, horns, hooves...
00:15:12I could use another martini. Do you mind?
00:15:15Of course, my dear. I'll get you one.
00:15:25There you are.
00:15:29Mario!
00:15:31Mario!
00:15:33Aquí, for favor.
00:15:35Mario will show it to the bathroom. He'll freshen up a bit.
00:15:38Eh...
00:15:39Yeebi el señor al baño.
00:15:41Si, señor.
00:15:42Sígame, por favor.
00:15:43Sí, señor.
00:15:44Mm-hm.
00:15:45Mm-hm.
00:15:47Aquí, señor.
00:16:00You got a problem, too?
00:16:01¿Qué pasó?
00:16:02Nada.
00:16:03Nothing, señor.
00:16:04But you will leave on the ship tomorrow.
00:16:07No.
00:16:08No.
00:16:09No.
00:16:10No.
00:16:11No.
00:16:12No.
00:16:13No.
00:16:14No.
00:16:15No.
00:16:16No.
00:16:17No.
00:16:18No.
00:16:19No.
00:16:20No.
00:16:21No.
00:16:22No.
00:16:23No.
00:16:24No.
00:16:25No.
00:16:26No.
00:16:27No.
00:16:28Yes.
00:16:29No.
00:16:30No.
00:16:31Yes, señor.
00:16:32But you will leave on the ship tomorrow.
00:16:34Well, I think that all depends on the wind and the se羽, don't you?
00:16:46Yes.
00:16:47Yes, señor.
00:16:48No, no.
00:16:49You may be joking.
00:16:52I feel the point.
00:16:53I see him.
00:16:54Well, I'm glad to hear that.
00:16:55If anybody else is concerned about my sailing tomorrow, why?
00:16:56You see, they feel the point too.
00:16:57Oh, my God.
00:17:27I know, but I'm not saying that you created them, Jerry.
00:17:33I am saying that because of your drunken stupidity and leaving the cage door open,
00:17:38you created the horrible situation that now exists.
00:17:42Look, Ann, this is a mistake any one of us might have made.
00:17:45And I'm getting a little sick of being called an irresponsible drunk.
00:17:49Now, believe me, I am.
00:17:56Excuse me.
00:17:57Oh, my God.
00:18:09Care for a cigarette?
00:18:10Thanks.
00:18:11And thank heavens you arrived today.
00:18:13You said that before.
00:18:14What's the strain?
00:18:15If I don't make sense, please excuse me.
00:18:18But it seems like everything is coming to a head at once.
00:18:21Oh.
00:18:21I want to leave, but I want my father to go with me.
00:18:24Well, then, why doesn't he?
00:18:28We've discussed it many times, but he's adamant.
00:18:32I'm sure Jerry has a lot to do with his decision.
00:18:35They tried to convince me that the crisis will only last for a few...
00:18:41Well, this is certainly a cozy little scene.
00:18:50It might even be called intimate.
00:18:54Boy meets girl and all...
00:18:55Stop it, Jerry.
00:18:56That remark is uncalled for.
00:18:58What I do or have to say does not concern you.
00:19:01I can't disagree with you more, my dear.
00:19:03I'm concerned with everything you do,
00:19:05and I intend to keep it that way.
00:19:07Now, in my book, an engagement isn't a casual thing.
00:19:09In my book, it isn't either.
00:19:11And last night ended ours.
00:19:13In my book, it's not a casual thing.
00:19:43It's not a casual thing.
00:20:13Help! Help!
00:20:15Stop the car!
00:20:17Somebody help!
00:20:19Help! Stop the car!
00:20:27Be reasonable.
00:20:29Everybody in the world is scared to death of something.
00:20:31That's evident.
00:20:33When they came at us last night,
00:20:35you knocked me down getting inside the fence.
00:20:37It's just that I can't stand them.
00:20:39And I've discovered something I can't stand.
00:20:41All right.
00:20:43But I advise you not to mention that to anyone.
00:20:45I'm gonna complete these experiments with your father regardless of anything.
00:20:49Do you understand that?
00:20:51Nobody is gonna take this chance away from me.
00:20:57That's Captain Sherman.
00:20:59Checking the weather. I'll get him.
00:21:05Captain, time for dinner.
00:21:11Here we go, Captain,
00:21:13A little bit.
00:21:14Help!
00:21:15Somebody!
00:21:17Help!
00:21:19Help!
00:21:20Help!
00:21:22Somebody help!
00:21:24Help!
00:21:31Find it!
00:21:33Find it!
00:21:34Find it!
00:21:35Take it!
00:21:36Take it!
00:21:37Take it!
00:21:38No!
00:21:40Let go!
00:21:47Oh, my God.
00:21:47Uh oh!
00:22:05Well, I'm there, so I've got a mile.
00:22:07You know, if one of those trees crashes through, it might just not go...
00:22:10Look, honey, any tree on this side of the house will fall away from it, so just relax.
00:22:14But I think I'd better go back aboard.
00:22:17I don't think I'm not grateful for your hospitality. I am.
00:22:20But I'll see you tomorrow.
00:22:21Thorne, your ship is safe.
00:22:23Please, stay here with me.
00:22:26Why? You scared or lonesome?
00:22:29Both.
00:22:31I'll take a rain check on it.
00:22:33Thorne, you can't leave.
00:22:35No one opens that gate after dark.
00:22:39Well, who's going to stop me? You?
00:22:42Well, Bess, no one opens that gate at night.
00:22:50Now, look, I don't ask questions because it's against my principles.
00:22:54But wouldn't you like to explain that?
00:22:57All right. Sit down and I will.
00:22:59Give me the gun.
00:23:01It's not very becoming, anyway.
00:23:03Do you believe in fairy tales?
00:23:05Well, I'm a little old for that sort of thing, but, uh, what'd you have in mind?
00:23:10Well, I'll tell you about one.
00:23:11A true fairy tale.
00:23:13And you're right in the middle of it.
00:23:15Oh?
00:23:16Have you ever heard of a shrew?
00:23:18As in taming of the...
00:23:19No, the animal.
00:23:21Radford called them Sauric sericidae when he showed you one.
00:23:24Oh, then shrew must be the common name for those cute little animals.
00:23:27Cute?
00:23:27That's the last word you can use to describe those little monsters.
00:23:32They're the most horrible animals on the face of the earth.
00:23:35As father told you, they breed within three weeks after birth.
00:23:37The last time he's around one year.
00:23:39Yeah, yeah, I know what your father told me, but what's that got to do with me opening that gate?
00:23:42There are two or three hundred giant shrews out there.
00:23:50Monsters weighing between 50 and 100 pounds.
00:23:5550 to 100?
00:23:57Wait a minute, you must be kidding.
00:23:59I'm definitely not kidding.
00:24:03That's as big as a full-grown wolf.
00:24:05And what's more, they are beginning to starve.
00:24:08No wonder you didn't want me to go out there.
00:24:15Thanks for saving my skin.
00:24:17Well, I'm sorry I had to threaten you with a gun.
00:24:20But I didn't know how else to stop you.
00:24:22Oh, it was very effective.
00:24:24But all you had to do was tell me about them.
00:24:26Well, I hoped I wouldn't have to.
00:24:28But you changed everything when you started to leave.
00:24:31And I had to stop you some way.
00:24:35You say there's two or three hundred out there?
00:24:38Ann.
00:24:44That's right, Captain Thorne.
00:24:46And if you'd stuck with your rowboat and played captain instead of trying to play detective,
00:24:51you wouldn't have to worry about how many are out there, would you?
00:24:53That's enough, Jerry.
00:25:00What's wrong, Ann?
00:25:02Well, Thorne decided to leave.
00:25:04To dissuade him, I started to tell him about their shoes.
00:25:07You might as well know the whole story.
00:25:10It's half of it.
00:25:17I guess we're all a little jumpy, Captain.
00:25:18Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:25:19Six months ago, we managed to isolate the factor-controlling size.
00:25:28Two leaders were born.
00:25:29Six individuals we kept to study.
00:25:32They were about the size of buckshot at birth.
00:25:35But the rate of growth was abnormal.
00:25:40They continued to grow and grow.
00:25:43They were mutants.
00:25:46But they inherited all the negative characteristics of their breed.
00:25:50Somehow they managed to escape.
00:25:52But a month later, we saw one of their offsprings.
00:26:01They were multiplying.
00:26:03We did everything in the world to exterminate them, but no apparent luck.
00:26:10Then we haven't seen any.
00:26:12Since daylight needle blinds them and they forage only at night,
00:26:15unless starving.
00:26:16But the fact that two of them charged Ann and Jerry at the gate last evening
00:26:23indicates that the available food on the island is nearing depletion.
00:26:32Then what, Doctor?
00:26:34They will exterminate each other.
00:26:37It'll take a couple days.
00:26:39What do we do during that time?
00:26:41Stay indoors and wait until it's over.
00:26:43I'll get some wires blew down on the transformer.
00:26:50I'm sorry.
00:26:51I'll get some lamps.
00:26:54Mario!
00:26:55Mario!
00:26:57Si, senor!
00:26:58There's a lantern in the pantry.
00:26:59Light it and bring it in here.
00:27:04Bradford, light all the candles you can find.
00:27:06All right, I will.
00:27:07Where's the generator?
00:27:08Outside.
00:27:09Can't get at it at night.
00:27:13Here, let me help you.
00:27:15The lantern will give you all the light you need.
00:27:18I will join you shortly, Jerry.
00:27:31Well, Jerry, I felt she was sincere and made sense from her standpoint.
00:27:37Wanting her father to leave the island with her makes sense?
00:27:42Would be much better for the project if I went with her for a few days.
00:27:48As a matter of fact, I think I'll talk to Doctor about that.
00:27:50That might be the answer.
00:27:52And another thing, I don't take much to this Thorn Sherman.
00:27:56He looks to me like the type that'd try anything.
00:28:01That left-handed dinner invitation,
00:28:03that was just to keep me here till after dark, wasn't it?
00:28:05I wanted you here tonight.
00:28:13I thought something terrible was going to happen.
00:28:16Why, you still feel the same way about it?
00:28:18Not as much.
00:28:19Not since you're here.
00:28:21I know everything.
00:28:21I love an open fire, don't you?
00:28:39Mm-hmm.
00:28:43The wind has a lonesome sound, doesn't it?
00:28:47It sure does.
00:28:51Back in Sweden, we don't have a wind this strong.
00:28:58You're a strange man, Thorn.
00:29:00I never met anyone like you.
00:29:03Oh?
00:29:04You seem so disinterested in everything.
00:29:08Aren't you the least bit curious?
00:29:09Don't you wonder about the unusual things around here?
00:29:15The guns, the fins, the shattered windows, my accent, anything?
00:29:21I'll tell you something.
00:29:23I'm only interested in anything that concerns me,
00:29:26then I do something about it.
00:29:27You're going to sail with me tomorrow,
00:29:33whether your father and friends be in it.
00:29:43Thorn, now!
00:29:44Father!
00:29:45Brad!
00:29:47Out there!
00:29:48I don't think he was going out, Jerry.
00:29:57I couldn't take a chance.
00:29:58He's fool enough to.
00:29:59Don't be stupid.
00:30:00I had no intentions of going out there,
00:30:02opening that gate.
00:30:03Now somebody needed it.
00:30:05Did you hear it, doctor?
00:30:07It sounded like a human voice.
00:30:09I was thinking of a rook.
00:30:10It was the livestock.
00:30:12The shrews got into the barn.
00:30:18Did Mario forget to borrow those doors?
00:30:32No.
00:30:34I put them in the barn myself.
00:30:37They couldn't get through the wood doors.
00:30:40They dug through the dirt floor.
00:30:42Let me ask you something, doctor.
00:30:44How could you expose all our lives,
00:30:46yourself included, with those things out there?
00:30:49All you had to do was get the Coast Guard or the Navy
00:30:51to come in here and burn them out.
00:30:53Those things got loose.
00:30:55Any unusual experiment can produce unusual results.
00:31:00That's why I chose this island.
00:31:02It's isolated.
00:31:04Miles of open water in any direction.
00:31:08Our project is privately financed.
00:31:11It's not a problem for the government or military.
00:31:15And the world is no danger.
00:31:16His species does not swim.
00:31:21And as far as the shrews are concerned,
00:31:24this island is their world.
00:31:28Very soon, right here on this island,
00:31:31there's going to be a miniature reproduction
00:31:33of an overpopulated world.
00:31:35And you'll see the importance of what we're working to avoid.
00:31:39I'm not concerned about all this theory.
00:31:42What I'm concerned about is our lives.
00:31:44There'll be ample time to panic when they run out of food
00:31:46and go on a 24-hour forage.
00:31:48How do you know they haven't already?
00:31:51That's possible.
00:31:52Their main diet has been the small animals on the island.
00:31:55That source could have been depleted 18 or 20 hours ago.
00:32:00And that's why they went after the livestock.
00:32:03There's still some food on this island before they reach the crisis.
00:32:06Where?
00:32:12No worry about them digging in here.
00:32:15The floors are tile.
00:32:16But the walls aren't, Doctor.
00:32:18They're adobe.
00:32:19Our safest bet would be on that boat.
00:32:22You may be right.
00:32:24You can reach your boat in daylight.
00:32:27The shrews will gorge themselves on livestock.
00:32:31Don't you keep them lethargy for several hours?
00:32:33There's no sense looking at the dark side.
00:32:36And there's no sense minimizing a serious situation.
00:32:39It leaves you completely unprepared to cope with it.
00:32:43Now, we certainly can't make it tonight.
00:32:46That's out of the question.
00:32:46Maybe tomorrow.
00:32:50Hi, Evan.
00:32:51We'll get some sleep tonight.
00:32:53But we'll have a watch.
00:32:54An hour and a half apiece.
00:32:55Doctor, you go first and then Radford.
00:32:58Mario, Jerry, and then me.
00:33:00Shutter all the windows.
00:33:01Make sure they're locked good and tight.
00:33:03Check all these walls.
00:33:07Come on.
00:33:09No, I think I'll stay here by the fire.
00:33:10I feel safer.
00:33:12I couldn't stand it in that room alone.
00:33:15All right.
00:33:16As you wish.
00:33:17But try to get some sleep.
00:33:19I will.
00:33:31Mr. Farrell, here is Mario.
00:33:51Mr. Farrell.
00:33:51You are next to make the patrol, no?
00:33:53Sure, Mario.
00:33:55Come on in.
00:33:57I've been waiting for you to finish.
00:33:59I must have dozed off.
00:34:01You kind of startled me.
00:34:03Sit down.
00:34:05Here.
00:34:07Have a drink.
00:34:09It will help you to relax.
00:34:11Gracias, señor.
00:34:19Sit down.
00:34:21Vest a while.
00:34:23You just checked every room in the house, didn't you?
00:34:25Si.
00:34:27Fine.
00:34:29You're a good man, Mario.
00:34:31A man that can be trusted.
00:34:37You're a good man, Mario.
00:34:39A man that can be trusted.
00:34:41You know what I've been thinking about, Mario?
00:34:53Ann...
00:34:55and that captain...
00:34:57you and me.
00:34:59Imagine an intelligent girl like her going for a...
00:35:05common sea trap like him.
00:35:09I know why.
00:35:13You do too.
00:35:15In case anything goes wrong, she's looking out for her own hide.
00:35:19That's why I keep thinking about you and me.
00:35:23Anything goes wrong...
00:35:27we're gonna outlast them all.
00:35:31I'm going to trust you...
00:35:49to take my turn of patrolling the house.
00:35:53But...
00:35:55when you finish...
00:35:57don't wake the captain.
00:35:59Come back here and get me.
00:36:03See, I'll probably feel good enough by then to take his turn.
00:36:09Okay, Mario?
00:36:11Si.
00:36:12Okay.
00:36:23Bye.
00:36:53I have to be able to tell you about peace.
00:37:12It is Mario.
00:37:13Oh, Mario.
00:37:15Come on in.
00:37:16What is it?
00:37:17There is a big rat on the library.
00:37:20A shrew in the cellar?
00:37:22Si. I hear him singing down there.
00:37:24Well, how did he get in?
00:37:26The store broke out the kitchen window,
00:37:28but I closed it off. He went down there.
00:37:30Why should he go down there?
00:37:32The food for the little ratones.
00:37:34I pull out to Enfrost. They love it.
00:37:36What did you tell Jerry?
00:37:38No, senor. Here is your turn next.
00:37:40Here is Una Luz. We kill him, no?
00:37:42Yeah.
00:37:50Ann. Ann, wake up.
00:37:52A shrew got in.
00:37:54It's all right. He's down in the cellar.
00:37:56Now, we're going down after him.
00:37:58But I don't want you to let anybody open that door
00:38:00until I tell you to. You understand?
00:38:02Good girl.
00:38:20Okay. Open it just a crack.
00:38:36Open.
00:38:38Hold on to it.
00:38:42Okay.
00:38:50You take that side.
00:39:20Mario?
00:39:22Here.
00:39:23You see anything?
00:39:24I see where he was.
00:39:26I do not see where he is.
00:39:28Watch out, senor.
00:39:30I will be careful.
00:39:32See you, senor.
00:39:34I'm safe.
00:39:36Take care.
00:39:38Your enemies.
00:39:40What do not listen?
00:39:42Let me know where he is.
00:39:44I will be careful.
00:39:46Do not listen, senor.
00:39:48I will be careful.
00:40:03And he also got busy.
00:40:18You alright down there? Doctor, get down here, quick!
00:40:39Mario, Mario! Mario!
00:40:54He's dead I got this on him right away. He couldn't have bled to death
00:41:24What could have killed him? I'm not certain till the autopsy. Hemotoxic syndrome. I'm afraid so. We'll know after pathology. Doctor, that's not the same animal you showed me. That's a monster.
00:41:54As I said, there are mutants. In controlling the size factor, we seem to have crossed some of the other characteristics.
00:42:04Well, you certainly did a good job of it. I've known that for some time, Captain.
00:42:15Would you please give me a hand with Mario? Bradford, bring up the animal.
00:42:24I'd like to say it.
00:42:33Extremely high poison content in the shrew's saliva.
00:42:36Now compare it with this.
00:42:39Careful count isn't necessary.
00:42:42Any indication of the same poison in Mario's blood will give you the answer.
00:42:46count isn't necessary. Any indication of the same poison, Mary's blood will give you the answer.
00:42:53Yes, you're right.
00:42:57Look, Ann.
00:43:01Brooding about it's not going to do any good. Now, why don't you try to think of something else?
00:43:07Tell me, what do you do around here? Are you a scientist?
00:43:12I'm a zoologist.
00:43:13Oh, that's the study of animal life, isn't it? Well, do you specialize? What do you specialize in?
00:43:21They're dying.
00:43:23Well, I had a hand in these two, and I'm partly to blame.
00:43:36But this ends it. We ever get off this island, I'll never have anything to do with it again.
00:43:42What will you do?
00:43:45Live normally, like normal women do.
00:43:48May see it seem a little dull after the life I've been living.
00:43:54But rather dull and alive than excited and...
00:43:56I'll take a dull, alive woman every time.
00:43:58I'll never have anything to do with it again.
00:43:59Now, I'll be fine.
00:44:01Let's go.
00:44:09Say, Thorn.
00:44:15The autopsy has proved what we suspected.
00:44:20Several weeks ago, I concocted the most virulent poison I could with the materials I had at hand.
00:44:26I never put it out as bait.
00:44:30Many of us killed by poison.
00:44:34Doctor, I wonder if you thought the system of the Sorx
00:44:37enabled them to assimilate that poison.
00:44:39It remained in the salivary glands of their jaws.
00:44:42Isn't that wonderful?
00:44:46Well, I am sorry.
00:44:47Of course, I always speak from the clinical point of view.
00:44:51Well, don't you have something to counteract that poison?
00:44:56Once Mary was bitten, I'm afraid there's nothing anyone could have done.
00:45:02This indicates that they cannot afford to get even so much as a scratch from these animals.
00:45:08They are more poisonous than snakes.
00:45:10What, do you think they're all affected?
00:45:13The best way to find out is let them all bite you and see which bite you die after.
00:45:18We might just all get that chance, Jerry.
00:45:21You included.
00:45:23Doctor, I've closed all the doors in the house.
00:45:26I suggest we do the same thing with this hall and this lab.
00:45:29It'll cut down the chances of getting in the front of the house.
00:45:32I think if we keep a close watch in those walls and windows in there,
00:45:36we might make it till daybreak.
00:45:38The walls are two feet thick, do you think they have a chance to dig in?
00:45:43Of course there's a chance.
00:45:45Anywhere that plaster's off, that adobe's as soft as mush where that rain hit it.
00:45:49You said it will give them to theeps.
00:45:53Come on.
00:46:10Come on.
00:46:10It's not a bad idea, Doctor.
00:46:25But here's another possibility, Doctor.
00:46:28It's very light out.
00:46:29It's going to be daylight soon.
00:46:32We'll take the shrew that killed Mario and throw it over the fence and use it for bait.
00:46:36If they show up for it, of course, they'll run for the boats out.
00:46:41But if they don't, then I'll go down and have Rook lay-to with a lighter.
00:46:44Then I'll return to the bend and the trail and give you the all-clear signal.
00:46:49Sounds fine, Captain.
00:46:50Good. Then you explain it to the rest.
00:46:52Yes, I will.
00:47:06Well, the bait's been out for 20 minutes.
00:47:09Nothing's touched it.
00:47:36Even the wind has gone down. Isn't that wonderful?
00:47:52I'm afraid it's not over, my dear.
00:47:54It's just a low.
00:47:55There'll be a lot more.
00:47:57He's right.
00:47:58I'll be back at the bend shortly.
00:48:00Now, you watch for my signal.
00:48:01You can't go alone.
00:48:03I'll go with him.
00:48:03Not you, Father. You haven't even fired a gun.
00:48:06Take Rad or Jerry.
00:48:09Sure, I'll go.
00:48:11Then you'll be sure of getting the signal.
00:48:33Don't shoot that gun unless you have to.
00:48:56We've only got 20 rounds all together.
00:48:59I know that as well as you do.
00:49:05Sherman.
00:49:07You stay away from her.
00:49:10Do you have that gun pointed at me?
00:49:12Right at the middle of your back.
00:49:15Look, we've got enough problems about worrying about Ann.
00:49:18I'm telling you, stay away from her.
00:49:20When the shrews get through with you, they won't even find a buckshot.
00:49:23When the shrews gets there...
00:49:28Why?
00:49:33That's not going to die.
00:49:37That's how many kiosk wins.
00:49:38Time to pound the bread where he's losing.
00:49:40That's going to be fine.
00:49:41He's holding me back when I grab him to her.
00:49:44I'll tell you what?
00:49:45I'm not going to cry.
00:49:46Do you dare you?
00:49:46No, listen.
00:49:48What other's going on?
00:49:48God, I'm not going to die.
00:49:49I'm not going to die.
00:49:51I'm not going to die here.
00:49:52Hey, look!
00:49:59Hey, look!
00:50:01Look!
00:50:07Where's this gift?
00:50:12I'll follow that check line.
00:50:13I gotta find him.
00:50:15Since last night, you won't find much of him.
00:50:18Would you shut up?
00:50:19I'm not going back.
00:50:21You'll what?
00:50:22I'm staying here.
00:50:24All right.
00:50:25You suit yourself, but if I were you, I'd swim out to that boat.
00:50:30Can't swim.
00:50:31Then stay here.
00:50:33Wait a minute.
00:50:34You gotta give me a gun.
00:50:37Give you a gun?
00:50:43Chairman, wait!
00:50:50Why not do you want the other way?
00:50:58This is the book.
00:51:00Yes.
00:51:00You can't, let's go.
00:51:02This is a gun we had on the boat.
00:51:10This is the gun we had on the boat.
00:51:26They don't leave much, do they?
00:51:32Sherman, we've got to make a deal for it.
00:51:38What is it?
00:51:39Shh.
00:51:40They've been trailing us on both sides.
00:51:45Where?
00:51:45I didn't see anything.
00:51:48Look, Sherman, you've got to give me a gun.
00:51:55All right.
00:51:56Whatever you do, don't you run.
00:51:58You stay in front of me because I don't trust you.
00:52:00They're coming.
00:52:04They're coming.
00:52:17Open the gate.
00:52:17Open.
00:52:18Oh
00:52:48The shoes were out there. I couldn't take a chance.
00:53:04Give it up! Give it up!
00:53:34For heaven's sakes, doctor, stop them!
00:54:04All right, didn't he have it coming, or didn't he?
00:54:25What happened out there?
00:54:27Oh, nothing much. Jerry just tried to kill me twice in the last five minutes.
00:54:33Brook came ashore last night. He's dead.
00:54:43This saw was left. It won't do us any good. It's got no ammo.
00:54:50He's dead.
00:55:02I'm deeply sorry, captain. I wish you had followed your orders.
00:55:07Look, doctor, you casually mention animals. You didn't explain to us what we were facing out there.
00:55:12You have every right to feel the way you do. My mistake was only mine. It was one of judgment.
00:55:22I didn't know about the hurricane. I didn't anticipate the effect it would have on the shrews.
00:55:28I thought the house would be safe through the crisis.
00:55:32How could you expose your own daughter? How could you expose Anne to that?
00:55:36She was going to leave last week, but the boat didn't come.
00:55:40I need a drink. Anybody else care for one?
00:55:48I could use some coffee.
00:55:50I'll make some.
00:55:52Creamy sugar.
00:55:54Oh, my leg.
00:56:07Slam the door.
00:56:10You all right, doctor?
00:56:12He just ripped my trousers, that's all.
00:56:14Are you sure that's all it is?
00:56:16I'm completely aware of it, doctor.
00:56:24Oh, my God!
00:56:38That was a stupid waste of ammunition. Every one of them a clean mess.
00:56:42There's still four of them in there.
00:56:48How did they get in?
00:56:50Through that kitchen window. That rope must be rotten.
00:56:53It's got him!
00:56:55Bradford!
00:57:05He... he's dead.
00:57:07Oh, no!
00:57:08Oh, no!
00:57:09Oh, no!
00:57:10Oh, no!
00:57:23He recorded every symptom and reaction.
00:57:27Right up to the moment of his death.
00:57:33Jerry, tear down one of those drapes and cover him up.
00:57:38Sure. Sure.
00:57:40Gregus will cover Anne and I'll cover him.
00:57:45You'll cover me, but who'll cover you?
00:57:47Shut up!
00:57:48We can get on the man who'll sway from the ship.
00:57:49I told you to shut up!
00:57:50Now, you stop sniffling and think.
00:57:51It'll take a tank to get us out of here.
00:57:54Come on!
00:57:55Look!
00:57:56Sam!
00:57:58Sam!
00:58:00You won't cover me!
00:58:01There!
00:58:02He's dead in the snow!
00:58:04No!
00:58:05You're up!
00:58:06Now, you stop sniffling and think.
00:58:07It'll take a tank to get us out of here.
00:58:08It won't take them off to dig around this you're right coming where else they're digging to
00:58:38come on
00:58:54Come on, Paddy, I'll move it.
00:59:07There's not enough stuff here to barricade those walls.
00:59:10I'll tell you, we'll pile some of those crates up over there.
00:59:12The root's our last chance. Here, help me, Doctor.
00:59:15You can find something light.
00:59:17All right.
00:59:24Here, help me with that, Doctor.
00:59:26Guards, give me back a moment.
00:59:48Doctor, yes.
00:59:49Use these chemical drums as tanks, individual tanks.
00:59:53Here, I'll show you.
00:59:54All right.
00:59:55Stand down here.
00:59:56Yep.
00:59:57Look down now.
00:59:58All right.
00:59:59Slow.
01:00:00All right.
01:00:01You all right?
01:00:02Yeah.
01:00:03All right.
01:00:12It'll work.
01:00:13It'll work.
01:00:14But these drums are too tall for the bass.
01:00:17If the shoes don't push us over, the wind will.
01:00:19Not if we lash them together.
01:00:21All right.
01:00:22All right.
01:00:23Hey, are there any more around here?
01:00:25Only that one over there.
01:00:27If you have any cold chisels or hammers or anything, I can knock a hole in here and make some high pieces.
01:00:31Yeah.
01:00:32Get out some tools from my band.
01:00:33It's all right.
01:00:34All right.
01:00:35All right.
01:00:36All right.
01:00:45Hey, here's another one.
01:00:46Good.
01:00:47Hey, get that out there.
01:00:48We'll let's work on it.
01:00:49Good.
01:00:50Hey, that's even better.
01:00:51Give me a little more slack.
01:00:52Get some rope and put it on that latch so we can read from the ground.
01:01:10Good.
01:01:21Stop.
01:01:22Come on.
01:01:23Come on.
01:01:24Come on!
01:01:25Come on.
01:01:26Come on.
01:01:27Hey!
01:01:28Hey!
01:01:29Hey!
01:01:30Get over there!
01:01:31Come on!
01:01:32Hey!
01:01:33Hey!
01:01:34Hey!
01:01:35Hey!
01:01:36Hey!
01:01:37Hey!
01:01:38Hey!
01:01:39Hey!
01:01:40Hey!
01:01:41Get over there!
01:01:43Somebody over here!
01:01:44You ought to help it.
01:01:45Come on, Henry!
01:01:46Come on, Henry!
01:01:47Come on, Henry!
01:01:48Oh, no!
01:01:52All right, we're all set.
01:02:22Something's gonna be rough, but we should be able to duck walk to the beach.
01:02:26Where's Jerry?
01:02:27There's a lot of them out there. I can see them. I'm not going.
01:02:30Look, come down here. That wind will blow you right off that roof.
01:02:33I told you, I'm not going. I'm staying here.
01:02:37We've got to get them down here somehow, and see if you can close them down here.
01:02:41Jerry, Jerry, please come down with us.
01:02:44No, Ann, they'll get you if you go out here.
01:02:46Come down here, you fool.
01:02:48Poor devil, I hope he makes it.
01:02:50If he can't leave him, he's not responsible for himself.
01:02:55He's got to go now.
01:03:04All right, Doctor.
01:03:05All right.
01:03:07All right.
01:03:08All right.
01:03:09All right.
01:03:10Now hold up.
01:03:11All right.
01:03:12All right.
01:03:13All right.
01:03:22Everybody ready? I'm going to open that gate.
01:03:25I'm going to open that gate.
01:03:28They're ready.
01:03:30Ready.
01:03:31Okay, here they come.
01:03:37Hold on, hold on.
01:03:55Let's go.
01:04:13Ann, what's the matter?
01:04:15Your side's dragged.
01:04:18You want to rest?
01:04:19You tired?
01:04:25She says she's all right. She's keeping her eyes closed.
01:04:29All right, keep your eyes closed.
01:04:32They can't get at you through the sled.
01:04:47This empty drum is too heavy for her.
01:04:50I can barely hold up my sign.
01:04:53I'll be all right in a minute.
01:04:56All right, you walk.
01:04:59I'll drag for a while.
01:05:05Listen, don't let their head get under.
01:05:08They'll flip us over.
01:05:23Let's go.
01:05:24Let's go.
01:05:25Let's go.
01:05:26Let's go.
01:05:27Let's go.
01:05:28Let's go.
01:05:30Let's go.
01:05:31Let's go.
01:05:32You should.
01:05:33Come on.
01:05:34You should.
01:05:35Come on.
01:05:36Let's go.
01:05:37Let's go.
01:05:38Let's go.
01:05:39Let's go.
01:06:09He got my foot.
01:06:20Check your foot.
01:06:23No, my foot is free, but he got my foot.
01:06:26Is there a scratch?
01:06:28No, not a mark.
01:06:39Keep moving.
01:06:46Let's go.
01:06:46Let's go.
01:06:54Scott, I don't think I...
01:06:57What?
01:07:01Son!
01:07:02Wait, son!
01:07:04Son, we're close!
01:07:08We'll hit the water soon.
01:07:21It doesn't sound like they're following us anymore.
01:07:23We better work deeper.
01:07:36I'm about to round out.
01:07:38Okay, let's swim for it.
01:07:40Okay.
01:07:40We are safe, aren't we?
01:07:58I mean, the storm.
01:08:11Sure.
01:08:13She rode out the first half, all right.
01:08:14That's always the roughest.
01:08:17Anyway, riding an anchor, I'll get a chance to learn a little more about that Swedish accent.
01:08:20In 24 hours, there'll be one shrew left on the island, and he'll be dead of starvation.
01:08:28An excellent example of overpopulation.
01:08:32Well, you know something, doctor?
01:08:34What's that?
01:08:36I'm not going to worry about overpopulation just yet.
01:08:39What!
01:08:43Really?
01:08:50Yeah.
01:08:53What?
01:08:54I got back here.
01:08:55I'm not going to worry about電.
01:08:55Crazy!
01:08:56I don't know.
01:08:56Hey, Dad!
01:08:57I'm just going to walk away.
01:08:57I want to go.
01:08:58I don't know.
01:08:59I don't care about it.
01:09:00I don't know.
01:09:01I don't know of that.
01:09:02No, I don't know.
01:09:02I don't know of that.
01:09:04I don't know of that.
01:09:05What?
01:09:06You're welcome to thekomers.
01:09:07I'm not going to be a pause.