- 6/13/2025
Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 American three-dimensional science-fiction film, produced by Jack Rabin and Al Zimbalist, directed by Arthur Hilton, that stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, and Marie Windsor.
The musical score was composed by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein, whose name is misspelled as "Bernstien" in the opening credits.
Cat-Women of the Moon was remade in 1958 as Missile to the Moon.
Travelling in a spaceship equipped with wooden tables and chairs, a scientific expedition to the Moon encounters a race of cat-women, the last survivors of a two-million-year-old lunar civilization. Residing deep within a Moon cavern, the cat-women have managed to maintain not only the remnants of a breathable atmosphere and Earth-like gravity, but also a pair of gigantic Moon-spiders. Realizing that their remaining atmosphere will soon be exhausted, the cat-women plan to steal the expedition's spaceship and return to Earth, where, in the words of the cat-women's leader, Alpha, "We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world!"
The musical score was composed by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein, whose name is misspelled as "Bernstien" in the opening credits.
Cat-Women of the Moon was remade in 1958 as Missile to the Moon.
Travelling in a spaceship equipped with wooden tables and chairs, a scientific expedition to the Moon encounters a race of cat-women, the last survivors of a two-million-year-old lunar civilization. Residing deep within a Moon cavern, the cat-women have managed to maintain not only the remnants of a breathable atmosphere and Earth-like gravity, but also a pair of gigantic Moon-spiders. Realizing that their remaining atmosphere will soon be exhausted, the cat-women plan to steal the expedition's spaceship and return to Earth, where, in the words of the cat-women's leader, Alpha, "We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world!"
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00:01:30It is barely able to penetrate their unknown secrets.
00:01:35Sometime, someday, the barrier will be pierced.
00:01:39Why must we wait?
00:01:44Why not now?
00:01:46Why not now?
00:01:48Why not now?
00:01:49Why not now?
00:01:50Why not now?
00:01:51Why not now?
00:02:21White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you hear us?
00:02:28White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you hear us?
00:02:34White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you show any sign of recognition?
00:02:51White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you hear us?
00:03:06White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you show any sign of recognition?
00:03:17White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you show any sign of recognition?
00:03:24Well, what do you know?
00:03:47Telephone, Commander. Shall I say you're out?
00:03:50Help the others.
00:03:51All right, your sleeping beauties, hit the deck. Every man a tiger. Let's go.
00:03:57You all right, Helen?
00:03:58Sure, Kit. Thanks.
00:04:00In space. We've made it.
00:04:15We've made it.
00:04:28Oh, brother. Am I gonna collect some bets?
00:04:37White Sands to Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Come in.
00:04:40There's no one here but us space people.
00:04:43Not yet. First, I want your initial reports.
00:04:46Remember, this is a scientific expedition and not a stunt.
00:04:51How are you on course, Helen?
00:04:53On course.
00:04:54Are you sure?
00:04:55Quite.
00:04:57You know, lad, I have the strangest feeling as though all this has happened before.
00:05:02White Sands to Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Come in.
00:05:07Rocket 4 to White Sands.
00:05:09Granger speaking. Can you hear me?
00:05:12Can we hear you? Come in.
00:05:15We have passed the 2,000 mile level.
00:05:17Are traveling in space. Speed.
00:05:19Seven miles a second.
00:05:22Motor's smooth. Fuel consumption .865.
00:05:26Temperature density of atom chamber unchanged.
00:05:28Nitrate-pictate acid secure.
00:05:31We will report again at 1,400. Over and out.
00:05:35Wait a minute, Commander.
00:05:36There's a world full of people listening in.
00:05:38Are you all right?
00:05:39But we have a few words from the crew.
00:05:40No.
00:05:41Oh, come on, lad. Don't be stuffy.
00:05:43All right. Speak from your stations. But be brief.
00:05:47Rocket 4 to White Sands. Stand by.
00:05:49The next voice you hear will be Kip Reisner, co-pilot.
00:05:53All I gotta say is watch out for that first step.
00:05:55It's up hip.
00:05:57Helen Salinger, navigator.
00:06:01Hello, Alpha. We're on our way.
00:06:05This is Doug Smith, radio operator.
00:06:07I'm gonna bring you a piece of that green cheese for sure.
00:06:11Walt Waller's engineer.
00:06:13We're humming along, folks.
00:06:14That new lubrication by the Delphite oil company sure turned the trick.
00:06:19Over to you, White Sands.
00:06:22That plug oughta make a couple of grand, huh?
00:06:25Over, Randall.
00:06:26Hold on, Rocket 4, code 63.
00:06:28We wanna switch you over to Washington and General Rayburn.
00:06:30Members of Atomic Rocket Group 4,
00:06:32our congratulations on your magnificent achievement.
00:06:35You are embarked on a space journey of over 200,000 miles.
00:06:40At 25,000 miles per hour,
00:06:45we have 10 hours flight ahead of you.
00:06:50To the scientific ingenuity that made this flight possible,
00:06:53there must now be added
00:06:55your skill,
00:06:57your courage,
00:06:59and our prayers.
00:07:05Weight balance to right.
00:07:07Something's embedded in our rear section.
00:07:09The atomic chamber.
00:07:10Heat radiation going up fast.
00:07:12Must be a meteor.
00:07:13Can we shake it?
00:07:14Maybe centrifugal force will dislodge it.
00:07:16Now then, we're circling.
00:07:17and then we're circling.
00:07:18We're circling.
00:07:19THE END
00:07:49We've dumped it. Nice work, Larry.
00:07:51If we'd been paying more attention to our work, this might not have happened.
00:07:54Doug, didn't the meteor appear on the view screen?
00:07:57I don't know, sir. I was listening to the...
00:07:58Exactly.
00:08:00Well, for the rest of this journey, we operate strictly by the book.
00:08:05The planners of this expedition have foreseen all contingencies.
00:08:08We hope.
00:08:09We do more than hope.
00:08:10We work with confidence.
00:08:13Now then, Helen, will you set us on course?
00:08:15Yes, sir.
00:08:16Doug, tune in White Sands.
00:08:17I'm trying, sir, but there's no pip.
00:08:19I'm afraid I'm out of business.
00:08:21Commander, the atom chamber.
00:08:23The nitric acid.
00:08:25One of the containers must have broken.
00:08:27If the acid reaches the fuel chamber, we'll explode, won't we?
00:08:29Turn on the waterline. That'll utilize it.
00:08:32Nothing happened, sir.
00:08:34Pour it on.
00:08:37It won't work, sir.
00:08:38It's got to work.
00:08:40What are you doing?
00:08:41I want to check that obstruction on the waterline.
00:08:43The acid will burn through that soup in one minute flat.
00:08:44I'll just need 59 seconds.
00:08:46I hope.
00:08:47Come back here.
00:08:48Captain!
00:08:49I try.
00:08:50I might have.
00:08:56Bye-bye.
00:09:10Bye-bye.
00:09:10I don't know.
00:09:40I don't know.
00:10:10I don't know.
00:10:40I don't know.
00:11:10He's done it.
00:11:21It's under control.
00:11:22I don't know.
00:11:52I don't know.
00:12:22You must have skin like a rhinoceros.
00:12:24It didn't even blister.
00:12:25We can't all be beautiful.
00:12:28Is Laird sore after all I did go over his head?
00:12:31Well, he gave us another lecture on discipline.
00:12:34He's right, you know, Kip.
00:12:35We came only this far because we did it by the book.
00:12:38Some things aren't in the book.
00:12:39I'm okay.
00:12:40I'm okay.
00:12:41Go and talk to Laird.
00:12:42Go on, after all, you're his girl.
00:12:45For the duration of this trip, the only relation I have with Laird is a scientific one.
00:12:50This is no time to pamper with the emotion.
00:12:53I bet you got that from him.
00:12:55It's true.
00:12:56It's hooey.
00:12:57You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.
00:13:01See, me, baby, if I ever fell in love with you, I'd chase you across the world around the moon and all the way stations in between.
00:13:08Come on, beat it.
00:13:15All right, hero.
00:13:16I'll go talk to Laird.
00:13:18But if you don't mind, it'll only be about our landing.
00:13:26You two make a great team.
00:13:28Strong mind and strong back.
00:13:30I suppose so.
00:13:36View screen should be okay now, sir.
00:13:39Thanks, Doug.
00:13:46Helen, who is Alpha?
00:13:48Alpha?
00:13:50On the radio, you said, Alpha, we're on our way.
00:13:53I don't remember saying that.
00:13:56Probably just a touch of space madness.
00:13:58You know, there's one school who thought that we'd all go insane.
00:14:03Alpha.
00:14:08You better pick your landing spot and start figuring.
00:14:21I already have.
00:14:22We're on course.
00:14:24That's what I call a navigator.
00:14:26It's a valley on the dark side of the moon.
00:14:28The dark side?
00:14:32How could you possibly know anything about the dark side?
00:14:34All men who's ever seen is the bright side.
00:14:37Well, the bright side cuts across part of this valley.
00:14:40You can just barely see it on the photographs.
00:14:42Well, why there?
00:14:44We'd plan to study the bright side and then circle to the dark side.
00:14:47Please, Laird.
00:14:48This is a perfect landing place.
00:14:49Believe me.
00:14:50I don't know why I know it, but...
00:14:52I know it for sure.
00:14:55You're the navigator.
00:14:58We'll take a look at it anyway.
00:15:00Please take your stations, please.
00:15:01We're coming in.
00:15:25Start the retarders, Walt.
00:15:32Yes, sir.
00:15:46Retarders off.
00:15:47Stabilizers on.
00:15:49Now, buckle now.
00:15:52Nighty picking, Helen.
00:15:53I knew it was the right place.
00:15:57Someday I'm going to ask you how.
00:15:58What do we do first, Laird?
00:16:00Want to check the ship, do a repair job if necessary?
00:16:02Well, let's make some findings.
00:16:04We're on the moon, not in a machine shop.
00:16:06I'll go along with Helen on that.
00:16:08We'll make a short exploratory tour.
00:16:10Come back, grab some sleep, and then we'll look the ship over.
00:16:12Okay, but I'd feel a lot better if I was sure we were ready to take off at a moment's notice.
00:16:15Why?
00:16:16It's my Navy background.
00:16:18In any engagement, be prepared to disengage.
00:16:21Well, this isn't the Navy.
00:16:22Come on, Doug.
00:16:23Help me into my suit.
00:16:28These shoes are heavy.
00:16:30You won't notice it when you get outside.
00:16:33I want everybody to check everybody else's equipment.
00:16:36It must be set number two because of the absolute cold in the dark side.
00:16:40And when you get out there, remember, stay on the dark side.
00:16:43Without any oxygen, what can you possibly want with cigarettes?
00:16:45I feel more at home carrying them.
00:16:48About as silly as that gun, Kip.
00:16:50You know there's no life in the moon.
00:16:52I guess I'm like Helen.
00:16:53I feel more at home that way.
00:16:55I wish you'd tell him not to, Laird.
00:16:57Either we're on a scientific expedition or we're a bunch of boy scouts on an alley.
00:17:02I agree with you, Helen, but I guess it won't do any hurt.
00:17:06There's too much infantile romanticism in this crew.
00:17:11Well, I guess I'd better leave this behind then.
00:17:14I was going to do this outside, but I guess I can wait.
00:17:17What are those?
00:17:18First letters from the moon.
00:17:19I even got my own cancellation stamp.
00:17:21Ought to be worth a couple of hundred bucks a piece.
00:17:23Why don't you make up about 50 of them?
00:17:25Brings the price down, boy.
00:17:26Stamps has got to be rare.
00:17:27Mr. Walters, when you're ready.
00:17:31All set, sir.
00:17:32I'll go first.
00:17:34You wait here.
00:17:57It works.
00:18:25Come ahead.
00:18:27Come on.
00:18:57Come on.
00:19:27Think of it, Helen, 200,000 miles away we were, yet we knew it would be like this.
00:19:54We'll head that way.
00:19:58Any particular reason?
00:20:00There's a cave in the side of the crater over there.
00:20:03I noticed as we were settling in.
00:20:05Buried treasure, perhaps.
00:20:07Kip, would you mind very much if we did operate by the book for a while?
00:20:11Whatever the commander says.
00:20:13Single file.
00:20:24Look out!
00:20:43Meteorite!
00:20:54Let's go.
00:20:57Come here.
00:21:03Let's go.
00:21:04Come here.
00:21:10Come here.
00:21:14Get ready.
00:21:17Here we are at the dividing line.
00:21:25It may not seem like much to us,
00:21:27but if Helen will fish me out one of those silly cigarettes,
00:21:30I'll show you something.
00:21:47I'll show you something.
00:22:18There it is.
00:22:20Just like Helen said.
00:22:32I wonder if the commander would permit an observation.
00:22:35Oh, come on, Kip.
00:22:36We don't have to get that formal.
00:22:37Well, I only wanted to point out
00:22:39that from the angle the ship entered the crater,
00:22:42it would have been impossible for Miss Salinger
00:22:43to spot that cave.
00:22:46You mean she just guessed it was there?
00:22:49If she could guess a landing spot
00:22:50on the dark side of the moon,
00:22:52I suppose she could guess a cave.
00:22:55What are you driving at?
00:22:56I don't know,
00:22:57but I'll guarantee it isn't in the book.
00:22:59Come on, let's go.
00:23:20Magnificent.
00:23:20Let's go in.
00:23:23Might as well.
00:23:25Wait a minute.
00:23:26Wouldn't it be wise for someone to stay behind
00:23:28and guard the ship?
00:23:29I don't think anybody will take it.
00:23:33Helen.
00:23:34Helen!
00:23:34Come on, please, Mark.
00:23:37Stay right where you are.
00:23:39I don't want to lose anybody.
00:23:48Exactly as I dreamed it.
00:23:51Or did I?
00:23:53Maybe this is the dream.
00:23:55It's pretty weird.
00:24:00Have you had enough?
00:24:02If you're tired, we can go back.
00:24:05No.
00:24:06We go on this way.
00:24:08Come on.
00:24:29We'll be right behind.
00:24:31So I'm going to lose anybody.
00:24:34I don't know.
00:24:37Somebody miscalculated on these boots, Laird. They're far too heavy.
00:24:42They were all right outside. I can't understand it.
00:24:47Laird.
00:24:50Look!
00:24:52Moisture!
00:24:53How can there be water without atmosphere?
00:24:56Impossible!
00:24:58This may be something that only looks like water.
00:25:00A scientist doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain.
00:25:03Laird, has it ever occurred to you that maybe this is atmosphere?
00:25:06On the moon?
00:25:07Could be why it's hard for us to walk.
00:25:09Well, this atmosphere has got to be gravitational pull to hold it.
00:25:12Even I know that.
00:25:14We'll go back and get our instruments.
00:25:16That won't be necessary.
00:25:20This will prove it.
00:25:23It's burning! That means oxygen!
00:25:27One at a time.
00:25:37It's air, all right.
00:25:47Wait till I tell them I was the first man to breathe on the moon.
00:25:50Maybe we can bottle this stuff for sale.
00:25:52Moon mist for chronic coughs and asthma.
00:25:55Come on.
00:26:04Well, Laird.
00:26:05You'll have to admit that one wasn't in the book.
00:26:07How do you figure it?
00:26:08That makes you very happy, I suppose.
00:26:11Huh?
00:26:12I'm just curious.
00:26:13A magnetic field on the dark side could exert a gravitational pull.
00:26:19A special one.
00:26:21Of course, we'd have to verify it.
00:26:23And this is a natural decompression chamber, isn't it, sir?
00:26:27We're almost at the end.
00:26:30How do you know we're almost at the end?
00:26:33Well, it stands to reason the air isn't stuffy,
00:26:36so there must be an opening nearby.
00:26:39All right. We'll leave the suits here.
00:26:44Well, I know one thing that goes with me.
00:26:46This.
00:26:47Where there's oxygen, there can be life.
00:26:49And where there's life, there's death.
00:26:52There you go again, Kip.
00:26:54Why is it that the unknown always frightens people?
00:26:56Why can't we expect love and friendship instead of death?
00:26:59Yes.
00:27:00I'm all for love and friendship, but I worry.
00:27:04If you don't mind, Laird, I'll take the lead.
00:27:06But I do mind, Kip.
00:27:07In fact, I was about to suggest that you bring up the rear.
00:27:29Don't look out!
00:27:30Don't look out!
00:27:31Don't look out!
00:27:44Don't look out!
00:27:45Don't mote!
00:27:46Don't look out!
00:27:50Don't look out!
00:27:51Don't look out!
00:28:05We got back to the ball.
00:28:14Helen.
00:28:16Easy. Easy.
00:28:18Easy does it.
00:28:20We killed him.
00:28:24Isn't it funny?
00:28:25I knew about everything but this.
00:28:29Forgive me, Kip.
00:28:31I'm so sorry I was cross with you.
00:28:34You all right, Helen?
00:28:35Yes.
00:28:37Just let me rest a little.
00:28:42Lord, you come with me.
00:28:43We're going back to guard those spacesuits.
00:28:45The rest of you will follow as soon as Helen can walk.
00:28:47Doug, take this.
00:28:49Any objections?
00:28:51Laird?
00:28:52No, Kip.
00:28:53Go ahead.
00:29:03Come on.
00:29:04Let's go.
00:29:04Let's go.
00:29:05We'll go.
00:29:05Get around.
00:29:36What happened?
00:29:54Nothing. I... I just opened my eyes and missed you.
00:29:58I'm all right now. Should we go on?
00:30:00Keep them all up. Come back to suits.
00:30:02We can join them if you're able.
00:30:05Back?
00:30:05Why back?
00:30:06I think we've had enough for one day.
00:30:08No. You've been listening to Kip. He's just afraid.
00:30:11I don't think Kip was afraid of anything, Helen.
00:30:13But we don't know what's ahead.
00:30:15Well, I'll tell you then.
00:30:17Adventure, discovery, knowledge.
00:30:19Isn't that why we came?
00:30:20Of course, but another day.
00:30:22Now. If you don't want to come with me, I'll go on alone.
00:30:25You listen to me.
00:30:27I'm still commander of this expedition.
00:30:28You're not my commander.
00:30:30I know where I want to go and I'm going there.
00:30:32Helen, what's cutting into you?
00:30:33Take your hands off me.
00:30:34Granger, they're gone.
00:30:35The space suits?
00:30:36You must have missed them.
00:30:37They're gone all right, commander.
00:30:38We went back to the place we left them.
00:30:39There were marks in the sand that they'd been dragged away.
00:30:40Just to make sure we checked back as far as we could.
00:30:42Down there ran out of air.
00:30:44But without suits?
00:30:44We're trapped.
00:30:45Unless we find the joker that took them.
00:30:46I'll have that gun now.
00:30:48That settles the argument Laird and I were having.
00:30:51If we can't go back, the obvious thing to do is go forward.
00:30:53You seem very proud of yourself, Helen.
00:30:56I am.
00:31:11There it is.
00:31:12You said that as if you knew it all the time.
00:31:20It ain't true.
00:31:22There can't be another world in the bowels of the moon.
00:31:26That's exactly what it is.
00:31:27There can't be another world in the bowels of the moon.
00:31:57Cold.
00:32:07I'd say there hasn't been a fire lit in this place in many years.
00:32:11Perhaps centuries.
00:32:14Probably an extinct civilization.
00:32:17It took some form of intelligence to steal those space suits.
00:32:20Of course it did.
00:32:21In a very high form to build a place like this.
00:32:24You seem to know all about it.
00:32:27What do they look like?
00:32:29Hey!
00:32:30Come here!
00:32:35Look.
00:32:36It's all ready for lighting.
00:32:39You bring your cigarettes and matches?
00:32:41I told you I didn't feel at home without them.
00:32:43Oh, that's better.
00:32:50I was getting a mighty lonely feeling.
00:32:52Helen.
00:32:53Helen, I asked you a question.
00:32:55What?
00:32:55You seem to know this place was here.
00:32:59What else do you know?
00:33:01Nothing.
00:33:03Certainly I've never been here before.
00:33:04I must have dreamed.
00:33:05Did you dream who stole our space suits?
00:33:07Of course not.
00:33:09I grant you, Kip, this is something we didn't foresee.
00:33:11But let's not lose our senses completely.
00:33:14Somebody stole our suits.
00:33:15And that somebody must still be around here.
00:33:19Hey!
00:33:21You out there!
00:33:23Hey!
00:33:24You out there!
00:33:26That guy sounds lost.
00:33:28Come on, Doug.
00:33:29Let's look around.
00:33:30Let's go.
00:33:30Let's go.
00:34:00Let's go.
00:34:06Helen!
00:34:10Helen!
00:34:15What happened?
00:34:16Something jumped.
00:34:17What sort of thing?
00:34:17I couldn't tell.
00:34:18It jumped on my back and tried to get to my throat.
00:34:20Where's Helen?
00:34:21I don't know.
00:34:21But I caught a glimpse of her during the fight.
00:34:23She was just standing there watching.
00:34:25Helen!
00:34:27Helen!
00:34:28Helen!
00:34:28Helen!
00:34:30Helen!
00:34:33The fire!
00:34:39Helen!
00:34:41Spread out quickly.
00:34:42I got one over here!
00:34:56Let's have a look at it.
00:35:02Let's have a look at it.
00:35:04Anything in the book about that, Professor?
00:35:18I don't know what to believe anymore, Kip.
00:35:20Well, you can believe this.
00:35:20They were definitely after this gun.
00:35:22From here on, we stick together so they can't pick us off one by one.
00:35:24Helen.
00:35:25I've got a hunch Helen will be back.
00:35:27We'll wait.
00:35:27We'll give her one hour.
00:35:31I'm still in command here, Kip.
00:35:34That's right, Laird.
00:35:35If you order us to separate and go hunting for Helen, we will.
00:35:44No.
00:35:45We'll wait.
00:35:46We'll wait.
00:35:46I am here, Alpha.
00:35:53It has been a long journey, Helen.
00:35:56Welcome to the moon.
00:35:58This is my second-in-command, Beta.
00:36:00And this is Lander.
00:36:03The others you will meet in time.
00:36:07But there's still so much, I...
00:36:10I don't understand.
00:36:23You are now one of us.
00:36:25Ask anything.
00:36:28Well, I...
00:36:29I still can't be sure whether you're speaking my language or I yours.
00:36:34We need no language, Helen.
00:36:36We can project our thoughts long distances, as you well know.
00:36:41Someday we will teach you.
00:36:43In the meantime, we will speak your tongue,
00:36:46just as we speak all of us tongues.
00:36:48Remember that our generation predates yours by centuries.
00:36:52Yes.
00:36:53What you taught me about celestial navigation made me look like quite a genius.
00:36:59But why me, Alpha, and not the others?
00:37:02We have no use for men.
00:37:04What Beta means is that we have no contact or control over them,
00:37:09as we do among ourselves.
00:37:11It seemed rather difficult to get a crew entirely composed of women.
00:37:15Helen, we decided to concentrate on you.
00:37:19With your wisdom,
00:37:20how is it you never came to us on Earth?
00:37:24Our ancestors made one fatal error, Helen.
00:37:27And then, when they discovered that the atmosphere around us was beginning to disappear,
00:37:32they decided to conserve oxygen.
00:37:36Do you know what that meant?
00:37:39Maximum energy reduction.
00:37:42Planned genocide to reduce population.
00:37:45Then, when we discovered we were only postponing the inevitable.
00:37:50It was too late.
00:37:52Our only hope was that a spaceship would come to us.
00:37:55And now that we're here,
00:37:58you will take back only three of us.
00:38:01We three.
00:38:02Only women?
00:38:05We have no men.
00:38:08But my knowledge is limited to navigation.
00:38:11Can you run the ship without them?
00:38:14They will teach us how.
00:38:15But you said you had no control over them.
00:38:19Show us their weak points.
00:38:21We'll take care of the rest.
00:38:24It's strange.
00:38:27I should care what happens to them.
00:38:32And yet I don't.
00:38:34No.
00:38:35You see,
00:38:36we don't care.
00:38:38And you are one of us.
00:38:45All right, Kip.
00:38:46It's one hour.
00:38:48You were wrong.
00:38:49Wait a minute.
00:38:52I hear something.
00:39:12Where have you been?
00:39:13I've been trying to convince them
00:39:15we're for their friends.
00:39:17You know, Kip,
00:39:18it was your gun that frightened them.
00:39:19I promised them you'd put it away.
00:39:21Then I'm promise.
00:39:23This gun stays out
00:39:23until they produce the space suits.
00:39:25Try to convince them of that.
00:39:28Have no fears, Lieutenant Reisner.
00:39:30Your suits are safe
00:39:31and will be returned to you
00:39:32at the end of your visit.
00:39:34Helen,
00:39:34they speak English.
00:39:36Theirs is an ancient culture, Laird.
00:39:38Their communication system
00:39:40is far in advance to ours.
00:39:42You want to be friends?
00:39:44Then bring the space suits
00:39:44here and now.
00:39:45Oh, don't be a bore.
00:39:47It's all right, my dear.
00:39:48I understand.
00:39:50Your suits will be returned
00:39:51to you in the morning, Lieutenant.
00:39:53Good.
00:39:54That's when I'll start being friendly.
00:39:56Pay no attention to him.
00:39:57He's only the co-pilot.
00:39:59Commander Granger here
00:40:00is our chief pilot
00:40:01and head of our expedition.
00:40:03This is Doug Smith,
00:40:04radio operator,
00:40:05and Walt Walters
00:40:06is our engineer.
00:40:07I don't know all of their names yet,
00:40:10but this is Alpha,
00:40:12Lambda,
00:40:12and Beta.
00:40:13And most important of all,
00:40:14here is food.
00:40:17Alpha?
00:40:18Yes.
00:40:20They seem to have mastered
00:40:21the art of mental telepathy.
00:40:22I don't understand it yet myself,
00:40:25but she was sending me messages
00:40:27all the way.
00:40:29Should we take a chance?
00:40:32Why not?
00:40:33Delicious.
00:40:40Tastes a little like
00:40:41honey-dew melon.
00:40:50May we serve you, Earth Men?
00:40:53Thanks, Lambda.
00:40:55Come, sit down.
00:40:57Delighted.
00:41:03Come on, Kip.
00:41:16It's great.
00:41:18I brought my dinner with me.
00:41:21Rations?
00:41:21They must be nuts.
00:41:24Yes, sir.
00:41:25This is a nice layout.
00:41:33I wonder what the folks
00:41:38back home would think
00:41:39if they knew I was having
00:41:41dinner with a beautiful moon.
00:41:43Do you have a special
00:41:44Earth girl?
00:41:45No, nobody special.
00:41:48How about you?
00:41:50Incidentally,
00:41:52where are your menfolk?
00:41:55You're the first man
00:41:56I've ever seen.
00:41:58Ours died off
00:41:59when I was still a child.
00:42:01Gee,
00:42:02and it's a lucky thing
00:42:02we came along.
00:42:04Oh, I mean,
00:42:05so you'd know
00:42:06what a man looks like.
00:42:08I mean,
00:42:08I'm sorry about
00:42:10your menfolk, Lambda.
00:42:12I didn't mean
00:42:13any other way.
00:42:14I understand, Doug.
00:42:32but after the navigator
00:42:46has set the course,
00:42:47how do you adjust
00:42:49this automatic pilot?
00:42:51Well,
00:42:52that's pretty complicated,
00:42:53and besides,
00:42:54it's restricted information.
00:42:56Let's talk about
00:42:57your people.
00:42:58I want to know
00:42:59how that girl,
00:43:00Lambert,
00:43:00disappeared from
00:43:01right under our noses,
00:43:02and how you were able
00:43:03to contact Helen
00:43:04before we even
00:43:04hit the moon.
00:43:06That commander
00:43:07is a good deal
00:43:07more complicated
00:43:08than your automatic pilot,
00:43:10but if you will
00:43:10explain the wand,
00:43:11I would at least
00:43:12try to indicate
00:43:12how we have achieved
00:43:13complete control
00:43:15over our bodies
00:43:15and minds.
00:43:17Perhaps some other day.
00:43:19I'm sure you understand,
00:43:20but I'm under orders.
00:43:21As you wish.
00:43:24Some of our wine?
00:43:25You wouldn't have
00:43:36any small works
00:43:37of art
00:43:37that I could take
00:43:38home with me
00:43:38as a souvenir,
00:43:39would you?
00:43:42You may have this.
00:43:44Thanks.
00:43:44I was admiring it.
00:43:46What's it made of?
00:43:48You have no metal
00:43:49on earth to compare.
00:43:51We call these things
00:43:51slave bracelets.
00:43:53They're made out
00:43:54of gold sometimes.
00:43:55Gold?
00:43:56Why?
00:43:58The carriage trade.
00:44:00Plenty expensive.
00:44:01Gold.
00:44:02But it's so common.
00:44:05Gold common?
00:44:06We don't even bother
00:44:07to dig it.
00:44:09You mean it just
00:44:10hangs around loose?
00:44:13There's a place
00:44:14near here
00:44:14where there's more gold
00:44:16than you could carry
00:44:17away in your rocket
00:44:18ship in a hundred years.
00:44:20I don't believe it.
00:44:22At least not
00:44:22until you show me.
00:44:25I'll make a bargain
00:44:26with you.
00:44:28You take me
00:44:28aboard your rocket ship,
00:44:30I'll show you
00:44:32the cave of gold.
00:44:35Uh-uh.
00:44:35The skipper wouldn't buy it.
00:44:37Just wouldn't go for it.
00:44:39Besides,
00:44:39we'd need those space suits
00:44:40to get out of that tunnel.
00:44:42I know where
00:44:43the space suits are.
00:44:46A whole cave
00:44:48full of real gold.
00:44:49And you'd keep it a secret
00:44:52just between us.
00:44:53You wouldn't tell anybody.
00:44:56Or on Saturday night
00:44:58you can go out on the town.
00:45:00Dance,
00:45:00drink,
00:45:01just laugh a little too hard.
00:45:03I'd like the driving
00:45:06down to the beach
00:45:07best.
00:45:09Stretching out
00:45:10on the sand.
00:45:13Just a boy
00:45:14and a girl
00:45:14together.
00:45:16And,
00:45:17and maybe
00:45:18what you call
00:45:19a,
00:45:19a coke.
00:45:22You would?
00:45:23That's what I like
00:45:24best too.
00:45:26With the right girl,
00:45:27of course.
00:45:30To the everlasting
00:45:31friendship
00:45:32of our peoples.
00:45:34Amen.
00:45:39And now I know
00:45:40you must be tired.
00:45:41We will return tomorrow.
00:45:43And with your space suits,
00:45:45my foolish friend.
00:45:46I can be head.
00:45:54Well,
00:45:55I hope you had
00:45:56yourselves a time.
00:45:57If we didn't blunder ahead
00:45:59and start a war
00:45:59between the worlds,
00:46:00it's no thanks to you.
00:46:02No thanks asked.
00:46:03Question is,
00:46:03who's going to stand
00:46:04the first two hour
00:46:04watch tonight?
00:46:05Helen?
00:46:06What for?
00:46:06Walt.
00:46:08Where is Walt?
00:46:09Last I saw,
00:46:10he was wandering
00:46:10off with Bader.
00:46:12Fast worker
00:46:13that guy.
00:46:14That's not funny.
00:46:15Walt.
00:46:17Walt.
00:46:19Walt.
00:46:24Walt Walters.
00:46:27Didn't we agree
00:46:32to stick together?
00:46:32I don't think
00:46:33he's in danger, Kip.
00:46:34What do you think,
00:46:36Miss Salinger?
00:46:36I think you're
00:46:37spoiling for a fight.
00:46:38You're so right.
00:46:39Would you like to
00:46:40step into my private office?
00:46:41Anytime.
00:46:42Kip!
00:46:42Don't worry.
00:46:43I won't slug her.
00:46:45Doug, stand guard.
00:46:46Okay, Kip.
00:46:47This way, Miss Salinger.
00:46:48Now then,
00:46:54which side are you on?
00:46:55I didn't know
00:46:56we had sides.
00:46:57I'm convinced you
00:46:57deliberately let us
00:46:58into this.
00:46:59I'd be very happy
00:46:59if you'd unconvinced me.
00:47:00I don't know
00:47:01what you mean.
00:47:01Look, Helen,
00:47:02I have a very high
00:47:02regard for you.
00:47:03You're smart,
00:47:04you have courage,
00:47:05and you're all woman,
00:47:06and if it hadn't been
00:47:06for Laird,
00:47:07I'd have tried to make
00:47:07it you and me
00:47:08a long time ago.
00:47:09Flattery will get you
00:47:10no place.
00:47:11Helen!
00:47:11Take your big hands
00:47:12off me!
00:47:13Not until you
00:47:13level with me.
00:47:16Oh, come on now,
00:47:18I'm not hurting
00:47:18you that much.
00:47:22Don't let go, Kip.
00:47:24Helen, what's the matter?
00:47:25Danger, Kip.
00:47:26They want to kill you.
00:47:27They'll take the spaceship,
00:47:28and they'll make me
00:47:29go with them.
00:47:30Well, how?
00:47:31They can, Kip.
00:47:32They control me.
00:47:34Control you?
00:47:34Even with Laird,
00:47:36I liked you best,
00:47:37but Laird knew more,
00:47:39and they wanted me
00:47:40with him.
00:47:40They don't control
00:47:41you now, do they?
00:47:42No.
00:47:44But hang on.
00:47:46Hold on tight.
00:47:47You're doggone right,
00:47:47I will.
00:47:49You're doggone right.
00:48:04You won't tell Laird
00:48:05about this, will you?
00:48:07One of us will have to.
00:48:09I don't want to hurt him,
00:48:11and I'll handle it.
00:48:13Let's get back to Earth
00:48:15first.
00:48:15Sure, look, tell me.
00:48:17How do these cat women
00:48:18intend to play their hand?
00:48:20Well, not for a few days.
00:48:22But don't worry,
00:48:23they can't do a thing
00:48:24without me.
00:48:25I understand.
00:48:27What about Walt?
00:48:29Boys will be boys,
00:48:30I guess.
00:48:32Can we go in?
00:48:33I'm exhausted.
00:48:34Sure.
00:48:34Well, you were right, Laird.
00:48:50My apologies.
00:48:51She's a fine girl.
00:48:52Of course she is.
00:48:54You know,
00:48:54there's a lot of things
00:48:55I don't understand yet,
00:48:57but you can be sure
00:48:57that there's a perfectly valid
00:48:59and scientific reason
00:49:00for all of them.
00:49:01That's right, Laird.
00:49:02These people may be
00:49:03far ahead of us
00:49:04in many things.
00:49:05Not as far as they think.
00:49:07What do you mean?
00:49:09Nothing.
00:49:10We'll talk about it
00:49:10in the morning.
00:49:10Let's get some sleep.
00:49:12And I don't think
00:49:12we need to stand guard.
00:49:14By the way,
00:49:15if Walt comes back,
00:49:15eat him out
00:49:16on General Principles,
00:49:16will you?
00:49:17You're the expert at that.
00:49:18You've got my full permission.
00:49:19In other words,
00:49:27this controls this
00:49:28in a ratio of six to one.
00:49:33The speed control retarder,
00:49:35the stabilizer,
00:49:36and the cutoff.
00:49:38You're too smart for me, baby.
00:49:40I like him stupid.
00:49:42Why don't you stay on the moon
00:49:44and let me do your job?
00:49:46Well, if that goal
00:49:47is piled as high as you say it is,
00:49:49one more trip
00:49:50and you can have my job.
00:49:52It's there for the looking.
00:49:54Come on, let's go.
00:50:17Come on, let's go.
00:50:22Come on, let's go.
00:50:24Come on, let's go.
00:50:27Let's go.
00:50:29Come on, let's go.
00:53:03Okay.
00:53:04Their mood, I don't imagine they went very far.
00:54:03Yes, Doug.
00:54:11Gold.
00:54:16Gold.
00:54:33Gold.
00:54:53What's the matter?
00:54:55Go away, quick, quick.
00:54:58But why?
00:54:59If it's anything I said or did.
00:55:01No. No, please save yourself.
00:55:05From what?
00:55:07From me.
00:55:09Because I love you, Doug.
00:55:10Yet I must kill you.
00:55:13I love you too, Lambda.
00:55:15And I'm not afraid.
00:55:17Oh, listen to me.
00:55:19The survival of my people is at stake.
00:55:22In another few years, this underground world will be as dead as the bright side of the moon.
00:55:27I will come back, Lambda. I promise.
00:55:31This ship is only the first of many.
00:55:33Oh, but don't you see? We must be sure.
00:55:36Two million years of civilization.
00:55:39Does one gamble that on a promise?
00:55:43Lambda.
00:55:44Come, Dad.
00:55:46I will come back.
00:56:00Kip, old man.
00:56:01I'm afraid I'm going to have to intercede for Walden Duck.
00:56:04You know, there must be something to this moon and romance stuff.
00:56:09All right.
00:56:11Now, Helen, you say something.
00:56:13It's obvious, isn't it?
00:56:15All that poppycock I told you out on the terrace was just to get you to go away.
00:56:18Now go away, will you?
00:56:20That's what I'd like to do.
00:56:24But I'm sure not getting any help.
00:56:35She's in tune with Helen.
00:56:37Granger's explaining the automatic pilot.
00:56:38I must talk to Alpha. Helen can tell her later.
00:56:45Is it important?
00:56:46Yes.
00:56:47I think we should take one of the men back with us.
00:56:50Why?
00:56:51Because if we show good faith, they might send more ships.
00:56:54Four of us will be enough.
00:56:56We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world.
00:57:01But I don't want to rule the world.
00:57:04I want to live on it just like the Earth people do.
00:57:07Lambda, we are coming into a new situation.
00:57:10We must bring our culture to Earth.
00:57:13No.
00:57:14She's fallen in love with the radio operator.
00:57:17Is that true?
00:57:19And what if it is?
00:57:21There is no room in your life for love.
00:57:23We will choose your man eugenically.
00:57:26You and Beta will have girl children fit to carry on.
00:57:28The best of the Earth mongrels will be none too good.
00:57:32I won't do it.
00:57:33I love Doug, and you must take him.
00:57:36Threats, my dear?
00:57:37Yes.
00:57:39It just so happens you can't leave without us.
00:57:41And I won't tell you why.
00:57:43Lambda, you will tell me why.
00:57:46You think you can force me?
00:57:48My will is just as strong as yours.
00:57:59And now we have no time to waste.
00:58:06Kip.
00:58:07Well, I didn't expect to see you again.
00:58:08I think we'd better plan on getting out of here.
00:58:10No.
00:58:11When do you arrive at that momentous decision?
00:58:13Some of these moon people are planning to steal our ship.
00:58:15No.
00:58:18But one of them is on our side.
00:58:19I suppose you mean Helen.
00:58:20Well, Helen's liable to be a bit of a problem too.
00:58:22She's been marked.
00:58:23She's under the influence of these people.
00:58:25Kid, you introduce me strangely.
00:58:27What gossip column you've been reading?
00:58:29Lambda told me.
00:58:31I guess we sort of fell in love.
00:58:33Blessings on you.
00:58:34She say when the cat women intended to try the little game?
00:58:37As soon as they get all the information they need about the ship.
00:58:39Someone was supposed to work on Walt and someone else on Laird.
00:58:42Huh?
00:58:43On Laird?
00:58:46Laird.
00:58:55Where have you been?
00:59:11Never mind that.
00:59:12We're just curious to know what you two lovebirds have been talking about.
00:59:15Don't tell him.
00:59:16Why not?
00:59:17I'm afraid you'd be very much disappointed.
00:59:19We were just talking shop.
00:59:20Anything wrong with that?
00:59:21No, not a thing.
00:59:22Except the cat women are out to seal our ship
00:59:24and Helen's tied body and soul to them.
00:59:26That's a lie.
00:59:28I resent that, Kip.
00:59:29What's your evidence?
00:59:30Well, for one thing, Doug got the dope from Little Lambda.
00:59:32No.
00:59:33For another, Helen told me herself.
00:59:34We were out in the terrace.
00:59:35No.
00:59:36She told me to hold her tight.
00:59:37Not to kiss her, but just to hold her hand.
00:59:42Let go of my hand!
00:59:43Not this time, baby.
00:59:45Oh, thank you, Kip.
00:59:51Now, let's set the record straight.
00:59:55Are you in love with Laird?
00:59:57No.
00:59:58Have you been bleeding him for information to pass on to Alpha?
01:00:01Yes.
01:00:02And who do you really love?
01:00:06You.
01:00:10You take it.
01:00:13Don't let down Laird!
01:00:15Laird!
01:00:16Stop it!
01:00:17Stop!
01:00:18Stop!
01:00:19Laird!
01:00:20Laird!
01:00:28Stop it!
01:00:29Stop!
01:00:32You want to put her back on the Alpha spell?
01:00:34Helen?
01:00:35Where is she?
01:00:37Helen!
01:00:38Helen!
01:00:44Doug!
01:00:45They're on their way.
01:00:46I couldn't stop them.
01:00:47Who?
01:00:48Helen, Alpha and Beta.
01:00:49Just the three of them.
01:00:50They're going to steal the rocket ship.
01:00:51Why did they take two more of your people?
01:00:52They didn't want to for one thing.
01:00:54They couldn't for another.
01:00:55I hid out two of the space suits.
01:00:56In that case, we're still in business, provided we can stop them before they reach the ship.
01:00:59Who goes with me?
01:01:00Doug!
01:01:01Let's go.
01:01:04There comes a time when you can't find it in the book.
01:01:06I know that now.
01:01:15How much head start do you think they have?
01:01:16Too much!
01:01:17Unless something holds them up!
01:01:18Lander!
01:01:19Would you leave me?
01:01:21But you turned against us.
01:01:22How could I?
01:01:23It was a moment of weakness.
01:01:25Wait for me here and I'll get another suit and join you.
01:01:27It's a trap!
01:01:28Come on!
01:01:29I won't let you go!
01:01:30Helen, look at me!
01:01:31My will is as strong as theirs.
01:01:32They'll kill you as they've killed Walt.
01:01:33Stay here!
01:01:34You will come with us.
01:01:35Don't listen!
01:01:36Stand firm!
01:01:37Stand firm!
01:01:38Don't listen!
01:01:39Don't listen!
01:01:40Stand firm!
01:01:41Don't listen!
01:01:42Stand firm!
01:01:43Don't listen!
01:01:44Don't listen!
01:01:45I won't let you go!
01:01:46I won't let you go!
01:01:47I won't let you go!
01:01:48Helen, look at me!
01:01:49My will is as strong as theirs!
01:01:50They'll kill you as they've killed Walt!
01:01:51Stay here!
01:01:52You will come with us!
01:01:53Don't listen!
01:01:54Stand firm!
01:01:55You will come with us!
01:01:56Don't listen!
01:01:57Stand firm!
01:02:14Doug!
01:02:15The cat ribbon are dead!
01:02:17Helen's all right!
01:02:22And as for you, young man, what's done is done.
01:02:42Is your radio okay?
01:02:44It's okay, sir.
01:02:45We'll contact White Sands.
01:02:47Tell them we're coming in.
01:02:53Moon Rocket 4 calling White Sands.
01:02:56Moon Rocket 4 calling White Sands.
01:02:58Come in.
01:03:03You hear me, White Sands?
01:03:05What?
01:03:06Who?
01:03:07White Sands to Moon Rocket.
01:03:08Was that you?
01:03:09Don't blow a gasket, White Sands.
01:03:10We're coming in.
01:03:11Leaving Moon at 0117 your time.
01:03:14But what happened?
01:03:17That is a long story.
01:03:19Over to you and out.
01:03:22Yeah.
01:03:23Alright, are you ready.
01:03:24Let's see.
01:03:37Oh!
01:03:39Oh!
01:03:40Oh!
01:03:41Oh!
01:03:42Oh!
01:03:43Oh!
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