- 7/3/2025
Red Planet Mars is a 1952 American science fiction film released by United Artists starring Peter Graves and Andrea King. It is based on a 1932 play Red Planet written by John L. Balderston and John Hoare and was directed by art director Harry Horner in his directorial debut.
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00:01:05This is a story not yet told.
00:01:08It begins on a warm evening some years hence,
00:01:12when high on a mountaintop in Southern California,
00:01:15a giant telescope searches the heavens for the secrets there contained.
00:01:20You can't see it with the naked eye, but the spectrometer shows it clearly.
00:01:34There's no question of the change in altitude.
00:01:36Dr. Russell.
00:01:36Hello, Chris. Linda.
00:01:40Sorry to have kept you waiting.
00:01:42They certainly took you in up here.
00:01:43Wouldn't even let us into the viewing room.
00:01:45They've classified the sky top secret now.
00:01:48Lewis.
00:01:50I asked Felder to develop these as quickly as possible.
00:01:53Yes, sir.
00:01:53Oh, Bolting. This is Chris Cronin, Mrs. Cronin.
00:01:57My assistant, Dr. Bolting.
00:01:58Hello. How do you do?
00:01:59How do you do?
00:02:00It's nice meeting you.
00:02:04Will.
00:02:05I hope you don't mind my tagging along.
00:02:08Oh, not in the least.
00:02:09We're very happy to have you.
00:02:11May I take your coat?
00:02:14You know, I expected you to be older.
00:02:16You are the radio man.
00:02:18If you think of yourself as the guy with the spyglass.
00:02:22I really walked right into that.
00:02:24I didn't mean it quite as it sounded.
00:02:26But do you seriously believe that you've established contact with Mars?
00:02:29Well, you take pictures of it. Why shouldn't I talk to it?
00:02:32Bolting.
00:02:33Yes.
00:02:35There's no question they have diminished in size.
00:02:40There's no knowing what tonight's pictures may show.
00:02:43We may learn more about Mars in the next few minutes.
00:02:45Well, that's the baby in person.
00:02:46It's so clear. It's unbelievable.
00:02:49This is the first picture. We took it a week ago tonight.
00:02:52See, here are the indentations I told you about.
00:02:55They couldn't be plainer.
00:02:56And all going from north to south.
00:02:58What are they?
00:02:59Canals. What else?
00:03:01Traversing the entire planet.
00:03:03And these big shadows.
00:03:04Here and here.
00:03:06Now you know how New York or Chicago would look.
00:03:09If photographed for Mars.
00:03:11Look at those mountains at the pole.
00:03:12They must be as high as the Rockies.
00:03:14How do you tell they're mountains?
00:03:15There have to be.
00:03:16What else would throw such deep shadows?
00:03:18Dr. Mitchell, what puzzles me is that you've had the giant telescope for years.
00:03:23Why are you just getting these pictures now?
00:03:25Mars' journey around the sun is an elliptical curve.
00:03:28Let me show you.
00:03:30It's now at perihelion.
00:03:42About 35 million miles from Earth instead of the usual 63.
00:03:46Now, what's this one?
00:03:48Same angle, same exposure, five nights ago.
00:03:52See any difference?
00:03:54Should I?
00:03:58Well, what have you got?
00:04:00I don't know.
00:04:01I can't believe it.
00:04:06Well.
00:04:07The mountains are gone.
00:04:09And the poles are level.
00:04:11You can't wipe out mountains taller than the Rockies in the space of a week.
00:04:15Bolting.
00:04:16Look at the canals.
00:04:20They're different.
00:04:21Now they reflect light like mirrors.
00:04:23Water reflects light.
00:04:27Well, so does any other.
00:04:31Are you saying you think those pole formations are ice?
00:04:35And that in a week, these Martians have melted ice caps thousands of feet high
00:04:39and used the water to irrigate the planet?
00:04:41Isn't that what the picture says?
00:04:45But that's impossible.
00:04:47There's no way to.
00:04:49Oh, there has to be.
00:04:51Why, they've done it.
00:04:51If we could just once ask them how.
00:04:55I thought you'd already established contact.
00:04:57Oh, it's Mars I'm getting my signal from right enough.
00:05:00But how do I give that signal meaning?
00:05:02How do I find a means of communication?
00:05:05Come on, Lynn.
00:05:06Let's get going.
00:05:07There's still time to send a signal.
00:05:08You're going to broadcast tonight?
00:05:10After seeing these?
00:05:12What do you think?
00:05:13One man who takes pictures.
00:05:15Another who believes he can talk over 35 million miles.
00:05:18It's like having a grandstand seat for the creation of the world.
00:05:23Or it's death.
00:05:24Where are you going, Lynn?
00:05:26I just want to have a look at the kids' goods.
00:05:53That's what they're doing.
00:05:54I just want to have a look at the kids' goods.
00:05:59Everything looks peaceful.
00:06:12Hi, son.
00:06:13We'll be over at the lab.
00:06:15Don't stay up too late.
00:06:16Chris, don't send a message tonight.
00:06:24What's got into you, Linda?
00:06:26Ever since you saw those pictures, you've been...
00:06:28Fear, Chris.
00:06:29Always eating fear.
00:06:33The whole world's scared.
00:06:35Why shouldn't I be?
00:06:38Every woman in the world, we all live in fear.
00:06:40It's become our natural state.
00:06:43Fear our sons will have to fight another war,
00:06:45or fear they'll face worse.
00:06:48We've lived on the edge of a volcano all our lives.
00:06:53One day it has to boil over.
00:07:01Me talking to Mars won't affect Vesuvius Lynn.
00:07:15Chris, how can you be so sure?
00:07:35Don't you understand?
00:07:40Science has made the volcano we're sitting on.
00:07:43Nobel invented dynamite to ease man's life.
00:07:47It's eased a good many into annihilation.
00:07:49Einstein split the atom to create energy.
00:07:52Is Terra energy...
00:07:53Well, that's rubbish, Lynn.
00:07:56Scientifically, we've advanced further in the past 60 years than we have in the previous 2,000.
00:08:02Radio, television, automobile, aeroplane, atomic fission, jet propulsion.
00:08:07And now...
00:08:08Well, you...
00:08:09You saw those pictures tonight?
00:08:11Heard what Mitchell said?
00:08:13If we can once talk to Mars,
00:08:15we may be talking to brains as far ahead of ours as ours are ahead of monkeys.
00:08:19In one moment, we may be able to leap ahead another 2,000 years.
00:08:29And you'll have done it.
00:08:31You'll be the next to advance science.
00:08:37And maybe us.
00:08:39Right into oblivion!
00:08:44Linda.
00:08:45I'm sorry, Chris.
00:08:47But when I saw those pictures tonight, it...
00:08:50It all seemed too imminent.
00:08:52Well, sure it's imminent.
00:08:53It's what we worked for, isn't it?
00:08:55Why we built this lab,
00:08:57assembled a transmitter.
00:08:59It's why we've worked together all these years.
00:09:00They've been good years, Chris.
00:09:02Well, they've been great years.
00:09:04What do you want me to do now?
00:09:05Get a crummy research job in some plant?
00:09:08Maybe in 20 years,
00:09:09get a paper published in some scientific magazine?
00:09:12Now, when we're on the verge of accomplishing everything we've worked for?
00:09:16All right, Chris.
00:09:19I'm ready.
00:09:27What do I say?
00:09:28That if I thought anything we're doing could boomerang against you or the kids,
00:09:33I'd blow up the whole works?
00:09:34You know that.
00:09:35But it can't hurt anyone.
00:09:39Whatever's been done, we've done together, Linda.
00:09:43Well,
00:09:44I don't believe harm can come from anything those hands have had a part in.
00:09:48That's all.
00:09:49All right, Chris.
00:09:53Let's go.
00:09:55Who am I to stand in the way of science?
00:09:57Let's go.
00:11:49How did you track me down?
00:11:53Get out!
00:11:58Stop acting like a fool.
00:12:01Get out of here!
00:12:02I told you not to follow me!
00:12:08You were supposed to keep in touch with me by shortwave.
00:12:19The seal isn't even broken.
00:12:23I have nothing to report.
00:12:25What are you doing here?
00:12:27Answer me!
00:12:28You said you would establish contact with Mars.
00:12:32That was your commitment.
00:12:38I'm trying.
00:12:40We are not paying you to try, Mr. Calder.
00:12:43We expect results.
00:12:45And you might have had results if you had done as I asked.
00:12:48Conduct your experiments at our laboratories at Beresauvo, where we could have supplied you with skilled assistants.
00:12:56Instead of which, you buried yourself here in the Andes, alone.
00:12:59No one to assist you.
00:13:02You mean, no one to watch over me.
00:13:06I've had one taste of jail.
00:13:08I don't know why you complained.
00:13:10We extricated you.
00:13:11We helped you.
00:13:12We want scientists of your caliber, Mr. Calder.
00:13:17We treat them well when they serve us.
00:13:21Serve?
00:13:23Are you talking to me?
00:13:25I don't owe you anything.
00:13:27You owe us your freedom.
00:13:29It was the Americans who threw you into jail and our men who helped you to escape.
00:13:34Not to mention all this equipment which you have piled up.
00:13:39This was an investment.
00:13:40Now we demand an accounting.
00:13:43I'm not a bookkeeper.
00:13:46We don't make investments with no returns.
00:13:50You know our policy.
00:13:52Are you trying to frighten me?
00:13:54We had an agreement.
00:13:56It is my responsibility to see that it is carried out.
00:14:00You're threatening me with extermination, huh?
00:14:03Is that the policy you refer to?
00:14:05You find the idea amusing.
00:14:07Highly.
00:14:09You won't harm me.
00:14:10You need me.
00:14:13Think they have humbled me, huh?
00:14:15Bringing me Franz Calder.
00:14:18To this.
00:14:20Cringing.
00:14:21Hiding.
00:14:21Just another rat in his hole.
00:14:26But all this won't last.
00:14:29The rat will come out.
00:14:31And then the world will listen.
00:14:38You want a report?
00:14:40I'll give you one.
00:14:41You can tell your masters that I have failed in my experiments.
00:14:54I have not been able to establish contact with Mars.
00:14:58Their money's been wasted.
00:14:59It is not a report they will appreciate.
00:15:03Still, they won't exterminate me.
00:15:06Of that I wouldn't be too sure.
00:15:09Because you can also tell them that the Americans who stole my valve have succeeded.
00:15:15They have established contact with the red planet.
00:15:22Wait outside.
00:15:28Are you serious?
00:15:29Newspapers will tell you as much in a few days.
00:15:35It's not in the American character to keep silent about success.
00:15:39But that's incredible that they should actually...
00:15:42Why?
00:15:42You expected it from me.
00:15:44But you said that your equipment was the best in the world.
00:15:47That no one could duplicate your developments.
00:15:49I forgot the seven-year start the American had on me.
00:15:51Seven years while I was in jail.
00:15:53Seven years.
00:15:53Don't let's start that again.
00:15:58What shall I report?
00:16:01What can you report?
00:16:02That the Americans also want the secrets of a wiser civilization?
00:16:06So that they can turn them into new methods of destruction?
00:16:10How do you know all this?
00:16:13Because I'm the one other person with a hydrogen valve.
00:16:17I alone can pick up their signals and the replies.
00:16:21Then you can give us the questions.
00:16:23They put to Mars.
00:16:24And the answers they receive.
00:16:25Yes, exactly.
00:16:27And that's why I can laugh at your threats.
00:16:30Do you still want to kill me?
00:16:32Oh, don't talk like that.
00:16:33Nobody is threatening you.
00:16:35You're invaluable to us.
00:16:39It's not who gets the information first.
00:16:42But who first puts it to use.
00:16:45Oh, my dear friend.
00:16:49You must let me send you a less monotonous diet.
00:16:53My diet's already taken care of.
00:17:00I did not spend all your money on equipment.
00:17:03Is there anything else you mean?
00:17:08Yes.
00:17:09One thing.
00:17:12Let's drink to it.
00:17:13Well, by all means, my dear fellow.
00:17:21What is it?
00:17:25Your absence.
00:17:26Thank you very much, comrade.
00:17:42Considerate of you, leading us to his lair.
00:17:47Clever of you, dragging him down all on the strength of a single phrase.
00:17:50He thought himself so clever with us, you can find me only through finding Christ.
00:17:56You dropped your bunny rabbit.
00:18:07What was that outburst?
00:18:28He woke up and couldn't find his rabbit.
00:18:30Oh, I know.
00:18:48Thanks.
00:18:49I guess I'd better get the...
00:18:50Here's your carbona.
00:18:51Oh.
00:18:53How do you know we need this?
00:18:54Did you two ever start a project and not need it?
00:18:56she's pretty smart huh hey mom i got a tl for you yeah i could use one remember when the parents
00:19:03came to visit our class one of my grimmest memories all the fellas he said that you were
00:19:08the youngest looking mother there isn't that nice boy you should have seen those other crows
00:19:13uh that did it now clean away this mess and get started on your homework right gosh i only got
00:19:19my math to do you know i don't want to fuss over that well before you pin any medals on yourself
00:19:23an extra hour on history wouldn't hurt at that you're no genius well you can't have everything
00:19:29oh heavens who's coming probably mitchell to find out if mars had anything intelligible to say
00:19:36i'll get it
00:19:40is mr cronin in i'm cronin i'm bill carey this is no time to barge in on you like this but your reports
00:19:52didn't reach my desk until this morning and i flew right out my reports brought you out
00:19:55oh we grasp at any straw to get out of washington for 24 hours please come in admiral i'm linda
00:20:01cronin how do you do miss cronin forgive the mess but all major mechanical projects seem to get
00:20:06started in the living room this is our son stewart hiya fella sit down admiral get some more rice will
00:20:14in the living room you can't claim the sun's not over the yardarm are you the admiral carey who broke
00:20:27the japanese code my one claim to fame but confidentially wasn't a very good code come on
00:20:33mr well you don't know how glad i am to see you we didn't know if you'd even bother with our show
00:20:43here rose to it like a marlin what beats me if you are getting messages from mars how have you kept
00:20:49it out of the paper we're not getting any messages not yet darn close to it if your reports stand up
00:20:54oh if we ever do get messages understandable ones that is they'll be given out four years the navy gave
00:20:59me my belly full of hush hush i can understand that so far all we're getting are repetitions of
00:21:06our own signals coming back at us now these answers you get please sit down these answers
00:21:12you get couldn't they be your own signals bouncing off some object in outer space some other planet
00:21:17booming back at you i'm no authority on electronics but i am no this is no bounce back as i told you
00:21:24we transform sound into light and the speed of light is 186 000 miles a second so you divide the
00:21:31distance to mars by the speed of light and you get the length of time it takes our light waves to reach
00:21:35mars double that and you get the time it takes our messages to come back now that could all be
00:21:41mechanical but they don't come back in that exact number of minutes it never takes less time always
00:21:46more 20 seconds 40 seconds sometimes as much as a minute and a half sometimes like tonight for instance
00:21:53we get no answer an echo will always sound but sometimes the human brain sleeps but why always
00:21:59the same signal back why never anything you can hang on to well because i'm too stupid to give them a
00:22:04lead that's why i yelled for help well this is no picnic you've asked me on you don't even know what
00:22:11language they speak if any it's like working out a system of communication with golly walks
00:22:16how the devil to find a point of contact how about pie that's hardly the way to offer it stew and by
00:22:27the size of that slice i doubt if there's anything left i mean pie now what are you talking about
00:22:33well if we're getting answers they have to have a transmitter as powerful as ours go on what are you
00:22:38driving at well they can't build anything like that unless they know how to make a wheel
00:22:42that means a circle and you can't make a circle without knowing the ratio of the diameter to the
00:22:47circumference hi i still don't understand what that has to do with your son's ahead of your cronin
00:22:52what is pi 3.1416 as i remember roughly that's it roughly actually it's 3.1415926 and so on an
00:23:02infinite number of decimals well so what we broadcast 3.1416 to mars and what can they answer
00:23:08nothing but they must be trying as hard to talk to you as you're straining to talk to them all
00:23:12they're looking for is an opening so you don't broadcast 3.1416 you broadcast 3.1415
00:23:21and if they understand they continue the equation right where'd you get that idea son fighting into
00:23:27this come on let's get over to the lab and try it on right now
00:23:30aren't you coming oh don't mind me i'm just a babysitter around here if this comes
00:23:40off i'll wake you when we come in what makes you think i'll be asleep
00:23:43three one four one five three one four one five three one four one five shut it off
00:24:06what do we do now well the blasted waiting's always the worst part
00:24:20how long for three minutes eight seconds each way six minutes 16 seconds all told plus the time it
00:24:26takes them to answer if they answer you know this is going to be the longest six and a quarter minutes
00:24:31i ever spent you like that pipe admiral and if chris's hydrogen doesn't blow you up he will
00:24:39always the danger of a leak and no way of telling it hydrogen's odorless i told you i was an authority
00:24:43on electronics what's the hydrogen for well the hydrogen sufficiently pressurized can be brought
00:24:49down to a temperature of about 451 degrees below zero nobody knows why but sound waves can be picked
00:24:56up at that temperature that would be otherwise completely inaudible and now certain minerals
00:25:01also have incredible acoustic properties quartz for instance that's what this valve is made of and we
00:25:07we warp it with a pressurized hydrogen it gives us the energy for a power transmission a thousand
00:25:12times greater than any sound transmitter ever conceived there it is the red planet mars
00:25:18for over two thousand years the symbol for war
00:25:27and we dare to fly in the face of providence and try to bring it closer to us
00:25:33sometimes my wife is less than enthusiastic about this project i'm sorry
00:25:41darling if nothing happens tonight don't be too disappointed
00:25:49it's got to happen it's just got to happen we've waited so blasted long i know but if it doesn't
00:25:58poor linda with all her silly fears you hope it doesn't happen really you know what beats me
00:26:04i just can't believe that you people really assembled all this yourself no we got a we got a slight
00:26:09assist from the carnegie foundation you realize if this comes off by this time tomorrow you'll be the
00:26:14most famous man in the world funny none of the credits mine actually it all belongs to a german
00:26:20scientist a criminal a brilliant criminal with nothing but hate in his heart what do you mean
00:26:26did you ever hear of franz calder calder calder calder do you remember the famous quotation the human
00:26:33being is the best guinea pig high voltage experiments on the human nervous system the nazi criminal he invented
00:26:39the valve i found the blueprints at nuremberg it's taken us all the years since then to to build a
00:26:45transmitter capable of spanning the enormous distance and we've been broadcasting for eight months first
00:26:49without success and now last three weeks we've been getting answers well you're not going to give
00:26:54calder any of the credit why not it's his valve the devil's entitled to his due two minutes to go
00:27:09i wonder what kind of a world we're opening the door on you'd wonder even more if you saw the
00:27:14pictures of mars that we saw last night ice caps thousands of feet high melted away in a few days
00:27:20oh those people must use atomic power as we use water if we had that power by the largest liner
00:27:27would cross the ocean on the energy contained in one lump of coal mm-hmm then what would happen to
00:27:33the people who own and work coal mines well what happened to the people who owned or worked on canals
00:27:38when the railroad started still mr calder will have had his effect on the world wonder where he is now
00:27:45well we're all good scientists we don't hear of in russia i suppose ten seconds to go
00:27:55switch out the lights will you darling
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00:29:00now our own signal back the same blasted story
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00:29:18linda we've done it dear lord
00:29:21don't make us sorry
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00:29:59Now, so far, Cronin is sticking to the establishment of mathematical and chemical formulas.
00:30:18Very ingenious.
00:30:20They were able to frame a few questions.
00:30:22I read all that in the papers.
00:30:24What about you?
00:30:25Have you contacted Mars yourself?
00:30:27You're a fool, Agenius.
00:30:30If I can read their messages, they can read mine.
00:30:33Why should I let them know that they have competition?
00:30:36And so, what only two weeks ago was a secluded laboratory in the San Diego Mountains has become the new center of the world.
00:30:43Scientists, code experts, newsmen, all concentrated on only one thing.
00:30:48The first concrete word from Mars.
00:30:50Ladies and gentlemen, step right up closer.
00:30:52I want to introduce you to the keyhole of Mars.
00:30:55Now, I have the only authentic, genuine picture of the planet Mars.
00:30:59What a thrill.
00:31:00All right.
00:31:00What a thrill.
00:31:01To send home to those people.
00:31:03Keep going.
00:31:04Here you are, folks.
00:31:05All right, folks.
00:31:06Come on, folks.
00:31:07Keep moving.
00:31:08Keep moving.
00:31:08Take them home, folks, to planet Mars.
00:31:11They're educational and constructive.
00:31:14Hey, Doc.
00:31:15Hiya, Doc.
00:31:17Give them a run.
00:31:18Hiya, Doc.
00:31:19Hiya, Doc.
00:31:20Hiya, Doc.
00:31:20Hiya, Doc.
00:31:21Hiya, Mr. Cronin.
00:31:23Yeah, just down to see how the press camp's coming along.
00:31:27Yeah, they've got to put up two more buildings.
00:31:30Stewart wanted to see Admiral Carey and his staff at work.
00:31:34Hey, Doc.
00:31:34Can I have any names of their Mars?
00:31:36Mr. Cronin.
00:31:39Mars, if I have you to say.
00:31:40Hello, my God.
00:31:41Hiya, my God.
00:31:43So, until a week ago, another young American scientist from the name of Christopher Cronin,
00:31:49the working laboratory at San Diego in California,
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00:32:48And so the weeks of preparatory work are over.
00:32:51Communication with Mars is now a reality.
00:32:54Tonight has brought us the first real information about life on that distant planet.
00:32:59They were asked the average lifespan on Mars.
00:33:02Their answer, 300 Earth years.
00:33:05300 years?
00:33:08I hope not your mother.
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00:36:50Hi, Dad.
00:36:52You're just in time for the news.
00:36:53I've had enough news for one day.
00:36:58Meanwhile, this morning, every American bank had long lines of depositors waiting to withdraw their funds.
00:37:05Owing to the difference in time, the latest bulletin from Mars had created its effect on Europe before we Americans had finished our breakfasts.
00:37:13In London, the Prime Minister called a special meeting of the Cabinet at Number 10 Downing Street.
00:37:21But this did not prevent pandemonium on the London Stock Exchange.
00:37:26The value of British industrials has decreased nearly 10 billion pounds in the last two weeks.
00:37:34In Paris, the third government in two weeks failed of a vote of confidence.
00:37:38And President Romain, hopeless of forming a fourth government, suspended the Constitution and called upon the army to establish martial law.
00:37:48This, however, did not prevent wide disorders in Lyon, Marseille and other French cities.
00:37:54Meanwhile, in Rome, the Holy Father urged a policy of patience and of faith.
00:38:00Turn that blasted thing off.
00:38:02Just on another minute, Dad.
00:38:04But in Milan and Genoa, there was widespread rioting.
00:38:07Turn it off!
00:38:08What's that?
00:38:11They gotta hand it to you, Pop.
00:38:13When you blow the lid off, you really blow it off.
00:38:15Well, that crowd out there is mad enough.
00:38:16I thought I told you to stay out of the street.
00:38:18I just wanted to take a look.
00:38:20Haven't you anything better to do than lollygag around where you're having any business?
00:38:23It's enough work for you to do around here.
00:38:25Gosh, I did the whole lawn this afternoon.
00:38:27Yeah, and left the moor where everybody could stumble over it as usual.
00:38:30Trick or treat!
00:38:33Trick or treat!
00:38:34What's he made up for?
00:38:36It's Halloween, remember?
00:38:38And children like to go out and play trick or treat.
00:38:39That is, children who can get out of the house, too.
00:38:40And little boys who can't.
00:38:41They still like the fun of getting dressed up.
00:38:42You look scrumptious, son.
00:38:43See?
00:38:44Bottle tops.
00:38:45Trick or treat?
00:38:46Next year, we'll go trick or treat.
00:38:47How will that be?
00:38:48Yes.
00:38:49On your way, boys.
00:38:50And hands washed.
00:38:51Stu, will you see these polished up?
00:38:52Oh, Mom, again?
00:38:53Please.
00:38:54Be a good boy.
00:38:55I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:38:56I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:39:03I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:39:04I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:39:10I'm sorry, Lynn.
00:39:11You don't have to take it out on the kids, Chris.
00:39:13Is that what I'm doing?
00:39:14Oh, my God.
00:39:15I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:39:16I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:39:35I'm sorry, Lynn.
00:39:36You don't have to take it out on the kids, Chris.
00:39:38Is that what I'm doing?
00:39:41I'm sorry.
00:39:50Where are you going?
00:39:52The lab.
00:39:54Carrie's ordered some new gadget installed.
00:39:59Come on, come here, quick.
00:40:01Roger's splashing water all over.
00:40:03Hurry.
00:40:11How's it going?
00:40:25Oh, evening, sir.
00:40:28Quite an insulation you're getting here.
00:40:30What is it?
00:40:31What's the latest thing?
00:40:33We've only installed one other like it.
00:40:34That was in the Pentagon.
00:40:36It's an improvement on the cathode ray oscillograph.
00:40:38As soon as we get it wired up,
00:40:39then we're putting it outside in the cement vault.
00:40:42It'll take down your messages right off the transmitter.
00:40:45It records them on film.
00:40:47Go ahead, light it.
00:40:49Huh?
00:40:50Be interesting to see if the place really would blow up.
00:40:58You'll recall, Mr. Secretary,
00:41:00that the Joint Chiefs advised immediate control
00:41:02when the first message was received.
00:41:04Yes, I recall quite well, General.
00:41:06I also recall that the President overruled us.
00:41:09Yes?
00:41:11General Carey, sir.
00:41:12Have him come in.
00:41:18Mr. Secretary, General Burdette.
00:41:20Hello, Bill.
00:41:20Sit down, Carey.
00:41:21Sit down.
00:41:25Have you decoded any other messages?
00:41:27No, sir.
00:41:29We've been sweating over a bash for nearly a week now,
00:41:31but no success.
00:41:33Thank heaven for that.
00:41:35We're closing down that decoding room out in California.
00:41:38But messages are still coming in, sir.
00:41:40Well, they'll be microwaved here as fast as they come in.
00:41:42And they're not getting outside this building.
00:41:44Your whole staff's coming back today.
00:41:47Nothing is to be released to the public.
00:41:49Nothing.
00:41:50You understand, gentlemen?
00:41:51Nothing.
00:41:57Is there anything else, sir?
00:42:00Our economic system of shambles.
00:42:03Industrial production shot to blazes.
00:42:06Our entire civilization collapsing about our heads like a house of cards.
00:42:11And the whole Western world going down with us.
00:42:13Mrs. Cronin has done more to smash the democratic world in the last four weeks
00:42:19than the Russians have been able to do in 11 years.
00:42:23I can hear the laughter in Moscow now.
00:42:27No, Admiral, no.
00:42:30There is nothing more.
00:42:36Calling 2BLM.
00:42:38Calling 2BLM.
00:42:402BLM here.
00:42:41Go ahead.
00:42:41Where's the genion?
00:42:44Where's the genion?
00:42:45You will call him on another wavelength.
00:42:489-4-3-4 kilocycles.
00:42:50Broadcast band E.
00:42:52Use scrambler number 5.
00:42:54The call number is 9-K-BLM.
00:42:57Your call will be relayed.
00:42:59He's waiting for you.
00:43:03Calling 9-K-BLM.
00:43:05Calling 9-K-BLM.
00:43:079-K-BLM.
00:43:11Go ahead, Calder, this is Argenian.
00:43:21Are you all right?
00:43:24Don't worry about me.
00:43:38How about you?
00:43:40How are you, Argenian?
00:43:41Ah, that's foolish of you to go where those monsters can lay hands on you.
00:43:47Shut up, you fool.
00:43:49Premier's pressure, right?
00:43:50Yes, to the regular novici.
00:43:52Are there any more messages?
00:43:54Mars seems to have run out of messages for the moment.
00:43:57What are the Americans asking, Calder, if you can tell us that?
00:44:06As nearly as I can understand, they want to know how the Martians,
00:44:09if they use cosmic power for everything,
00:44:12are kept from blowing each other to bits.
00:44:16Send us the messages as soon as you get them.
00:44:18There must be no slip-ups.
00:44:20Is that understood?
00:44:21Haven't you got your money's worth yet?
00:44:23Is this dog Calder reliable?
00:44:36In English.
00:44:41If I want him to understand me, I speak Russian.
00:44:44Why didn't you insist on him coming here to work?
00:44:46I couldn't insist.
00:44:47He would have destroyed his valve.
00:44:49He's a madman, a lunatic.
00:44:50The world is full of lunatics.
00:44:53They want to start a war now.
00:44:55Now when there is no need.
00:44:57Stalin did not dare precipitate one
00:44:59because he could not defeat the free economy of the West.
00:45:02Now the economy is shattered.
00:45:04The strength of the Western world fades like a dream in the night.
00:45:07Their civilization perishes.
00:45:12Lenin dreamt of the world in his hands.
00:45:20Stalin tried to get it in his.
00:45:23450 Bry texet 1.5
00:45:26We have to understand literally how political power is looking forward.
00:45:28Hisjektif
00:45:28means the rules will continue to become part of the West.
00:45:43Hitler's camp in CARJAN
00:45:45Hitler's camp on the ground has stopped since the,...
00:45:47stench of Ukraine's camp has stopped until theoring tornar world has suppressed inside the ground.
00:45:49Hitler's camp please come to this open natural camp.
00:45:50It says he can build a small town and peculiarity,
00:45:51Dr. Stokes.
00:45:58Yes.
00:45:59Yours is identical with Robert's translation.
00:46:03It can't mean anything else.
00:46:07How do you explain it?
00:46:08I don't even try.
00:46:11All the other messages deal with such abstruse scientific data that we can't make any headway.
00:46:15Then out of the blue, this.
00:46:18Why, it's...
00:46:20It's inspiring, Admiral, if nothing else.
00:46:26Get me the Secretary of Defense.
00:46:28He's at the White House, sir.
00:46:29Prepare a memorandum to him.
00:46:31Aye, aye, sir.
00:46:31Eyes only.
00:46:32Eyes only.
00:46:36We can't risk the Russians decoding those messages.
00:46:41I certainly don't want war.
00:46:43But Moscow, Leningrad, every nerve center in the Soviet Union must be wiped out.
00:46:53I cannot fly in the face of 180 years of American history.
00:46:58I cannot start a war.
00:47:01A month from now, we may not have the strength to fight one.
00:47:04The Russians may have in their hands the power to...
00:47:07No.
00:47:07This country will not launch a war.
00:47:12Mr. President.
00:47:13You still know my first name, George.
00:47:15We've served a great many years together.
00:47:18And there's never been a day when I couldn't happily go along with any decision of yours.
00:47:23But I have a responsibility to this country, too.
00:47:26And I can't stand by and see it destroyed.
00:47:29Our difference is that I don't believe it can be destroyed...
00:47:32...by 13 slips of paper covered with obscure symbols.
00:47:35The Japanese Empire was destroyed...
00:47:38...by a slip of paper...
00:47:39...covered with obscure symbols.
00:47:42Once those symbols were translated into power...
00:47:46Excuse me, sir.
00:47:48Yes.
00:47:48You said to interrupt the men that they arrived, sir.
00:47:54Oh, yes.
00:47:55Have them come in, please.
00:48:01Won't you come in, please?
00:48:05How do you do, Mrs. Cronin?
00:48:06How do you do, Mr. President?
00:48:07Mr. Cronin?
00:48:08Mr. President.
00:48:09It was very good of you to come.
00:48:11I'm only sorry you didn't bring your boy with you.
00:48:13I wanted to meet the culprit who started this whole business.
00:48:16Oh, uh, Mr. and Mrs. Cronin, Secretary of Defense, Mr. Sparks.
00:48:21Mr. Cronin?
00:48:22Mr. Sparks?
00:48:23Mr. Cronin.
00:48:24And General Burdett.
00:48:25General Burdett.
00:48:26Hello.
00:48:27Uh, won't you sit down, please?
00:48:34I'm not going to drag this out, Cronin.
00:48:38I'm afraid I've got to break your heart.
00:48:41You made a pretty fair start on that, Mr. President...
00:48:43when you pulled Gary back to Washington, clamped this censorship on us.
00:48:46Have any further messages been decoded?
00:48:48Or aren't we allowed to know?
00:48:50There have been no further decodings.
00:48:52And now there will be no further messages to decode.
00:48:55You must shut down your transmitter.
00:48:57Shut it down?
00:48:58You're not serious.
00:48:59I've got to clamp the lid on this business.
00:49:00Stop these communications.
00:49:03Well, I suppose that lies within your power, Mr. President.
00:49:06You can declare a national emergency.
00:49:07I don't have to declare it.
00:49:08It's here, and not merely national.
00:49:11You've shattered the economy of the civilized world.
00:49:13I'm not interested in economics, Mr. Secretary.
00:49:16Who makes or who loses money doesn't seem as important to me...
00:49:19as the chance to advance civilization a thousand years in one jump.
00:49:22Our job isn't the advancement of civilization.
00:49:25It's to preserve the country, hand it down to us.
00:49:27If we believed that, every scientist from Franklin to Edison would have been suppressed.
00:49:30Gentlemen, gentlemen.
00:49:31I'm sorry, Mr. President.
00:49:34If you order it, sir, of course I'll have to shut my transmitter down.
00:49:37But I'll never do it of my own volition.
00:49:39Even though it threatens national security?
00:49:42Does it threaten national security to know that man can look forward to a longer lifespan?
00:49:47That he has at his disposal the power to eliminate 90% of the world's work?
00:49:51We've learned that from the four messages we've decoded.
00:49:54There are 13 others that we haven't translated.
00:49:57Plus the one we received today.
00:49:59So long as they're not decoded, they can't threaten anything.
00:50:02I said that we haven't translated.
00:50:05Kerry released the bulletin on cosmic power at 11.22 p.m. Pacific Coast Time, the 9th of the 27th.
00:50:11The same bulletin was released in Moscow at 9.30 a.m. the morning of the 28th.
00:50:17What of it? We broadcast everything on the Voice of America anyway.
00:50:20But there's an 11-hour differential between Moscow and San Diego, Cronin.
00:50:249.30 a.m. in Moscow is 52 minutes earlier than 11.22 the night before in San Diego.
00:50:33You mean the Russians are intercepting and decoding?
00:50:35What is any other explanation possible?
00:50:38Calder!
00:50:39Who?
00:50:40The man who invented the hydrogen valve.
00:50:42It's the very heart of the transmitter.
00:50:43Now you see how important it is to stop your communication with this other planet.
00:50:46I see now why they can't be stopped.
00:50:49What do you mean?
00:50:50If Calder can pick up our messages, he can also pick up messages of his own.
00:50:54We may stop, but he won't.
00:50:56And then our national security really is threatened.
00:50:59Yes.
00:51:00For the Secretary, Mr. President.
00:51:01Eyes only.
00:51:10What's a note from Admiral Kerry?
00:51:13They've decoded another message.
00:51:14Today's.
00:51:16Kerry's outside now, Mr. President.
00:51:18Have him come in, please.
00:51:20Admiral Kerry.
00:51:23Come in, Admiral.
00:51:24Come in.
00:51:26You'll forgive me, Mr. President, but the Secretary left orders that no matter where he was...
00:51:29Have you got another message?
00:51:31Yes, we've got one.
00:51:35Oh, may I, sir?
00:51:37I think he's entitled to that.
00:51:43Well, this is nonsense.
00:51:44It's impossible.
00:51:46What is it, Cronin?
00:51:46Well, you remember, sir, we asked them how, with their free use of cosmic energy, they were prevented from blowing each other off the face of the map.
00:51:52Well, according to this, they submitted the question to their supreme leader.
00:51:59Who say spiritual, Bill?
00:52:02I'm not sure it shouldn't be something even stronger.
00:52:05God-like was Dr. Stokes' translation.
00:52:09What is the message, Chris?
00:52:10You have been given knowledge and have used it for destruction.
00:52:15Seven lifetimes ago, you were told to love goodness and hate evil.
00:52:21Why have you denied the truth?
00:52:22The Sermon on the Mount.
00:52:24The Sermon on the Mount.
00:52:25The Sermon on the Mount.
00:52:26On Mars.
00:52:27But don't talk nonsense, Linda.
00:52:29Love goodness and hate evil.
00:52:31What else would you call it?
00:52:32Well, I...
00:52:33I don't understand it.
00:52:35I don't either, Chris.
00:52:37But I'm glad we installed the oscillograph, because once the messages are recorded on film, no one can accuse us of garbling them.
00:52:45Well, Mr. President, I said I'd never voluntarily suppress a message.
00:52:49But I was wrong.
00:52:51This one can't go out.
00:52:52Why not?
00:52:52Well, it doesn't make sense.
00:52:53It's not scientific.
00:52:55Well, maybe it's the one scientific truth we've forgotten.
00:52:57You mean you take this message seriously?
00:52:58We took the others seriously, didn't we?
00:53:00If we were right to release one message, we must release this too.
00:53:06Mr. President, you know the panic those other messages have caused.
00:53:09Loose a wave of religious hysteria on top of it, and every crackpot on his brother will be lecturing on street corners.
00:53:15Mr. President, you're worried about national security.
00:53:19Is there one word in that message that threatens our security or anyone else's?
00:53:27And a solution there was none, save in the rule of Christ alone.
00:53:39My father was very fond of Emerson.
00:53:42May I see that message, please?
00:53:48You're not going to release it.
00:53:51Your arguments in defense of scientific freedom have convinced me.
00:53:54Well, this time Cronin is right, Mr. President.
00:53:57We can't hitch our wagon to that star.
00:54:01We've switched stars, Mr. Secretary.
00:54:06Now we're following the star of Bethlehem.
00:54:11That message is to be broadcast all over the world.
00:54:14In all languages.
00:54:16Exactly as decoded.
00:54:17The last Mars-Sendung has no further explanation.
00:54:45We know that we have to do with a person with the highest importance.
00:54:50The radio broadcast from Mars now can't be fully copyrighted.
00:54:55The only thing that is clear at the moment is the following.
00:54:59This message comes from the strange face, which the Martians call the highest creature.
00:55:06Listen to what this face was written.
00:55:09Yes, yes, Calder, I heard you.
00:55:13But what does it mean?
00:55:15Why ask me?
00:55:17I'm an expert on electronics, not religious movements.
00:55:22Are there any other messages?
00:55:25Questions by the thousands.
00:55:28There are no answers.
00:55:31Bother the questions.
00:55:32Let us know when they answer.
00:55:33I know I am not alone in being struck by the phrase with which the message begins.
00:55:44Seven lifetimes ago are the words.
00:55:47But we know that the Martian's life is 300 years.
00:55:50So seven lifetimes is about 2,100 years.
00:55:53Or as near as one could ask to the era in which the carpenter of Nazareth went forth to preach his message.
00:56:02Is it only coincidence that the message he broadcast 2,000 years ago should again be broadcast from the supreme being on Mars?
00:56:10If so, then how explain that this authority should know what we on Earth were told 20 centuries ago?
00:56:20Or is it possible that the man of Nazareth and the man of Mars are the same?
00:56:26Get them curlers out of your hair.
00:56:28What for?
00:56:28We're going to church.
00:56:29That's what for.
00:56:33Do you feel all right?
00:56:34Now, look, don't argue with me.
00:56:35Get the curlers out of your hair.
00:56:36Let's get dressed and get out of here.
00:56:37I...
00:56:38This ain't no time to take chances.
00:57:08It has brought hope when we have lost all hope.
00:57:20It has brought light into a world of darkness.
00:57:23All over the world, regardless of their religious beliefs, men have found a new faith by which to live.
00:57:38No, not a new faith, but an old one many of us had allowed ourselves to lose.
00:57:44A faith that is universal in men of all faiths.
00:57:47For while to us the words from Mars seem the very essence of the Christian doctrine, let us not forget that they are also the essence of all other religions, Christian, Mohammedan, Jewish, Buddhist.
00:58:03All are heeding the call to prayer, kneeling humbly in the search for divine guidance.
00:58:08I pray particularly that behind the iron curtain, where our eyes are not permitted to see, men will open their hearts to the message of peace and the promise that their rulers have so long denied.
00:58:24Today's message reads,
00:58:29Ye have denied God's word and worshipped false gods.
00:58:38Thy torment is the price of thine own sin.
00:58:44Today's message says,
00:58:48Listen,
00:58:49Listen,
00:58:50You are a bit of a word of God,
00:58:53You are a bit of a idol.
00:58:55And your mucous are a reward for your dreams.
00:58:59And your mucous are a reward for your dreams.
00:59:04Your mucous are a reward for your dreams.
00:59:06You are a reward for your dreams.
00:59:11Let's go.
01:00:41These messages are spreading all over the country, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and no one knows how.
01:00:58Villagers that have never even seen the radio suddenly erupt.
01:01:00Have you heard the latest message?
01:01:03Is there another?
01:01:04The Americans released it an hour ago.
01:01:06Prostitu, товарищ general.
01:01:08He who follows the tyrant's banner shall wear the tyrant's chains.
01:01:14He who carries God's banner shall know everlasting life.
01:01:18Paton, do you expect me to tell them that?
01:01:24What you tell them is no concern of mine.
01:01:34Everlasting life!
01:01:36Hello, Calder.
01:01:54Are you there?
01:01:56Calder, are you there?
01:01:57Come in, Calder.
01:02:06He doesn't answer.
01:02:12Comrade general, I would not suggest...
01:02:15Suggest what?
01:02:16These uprisings.
01:02:18Is it possible that...
01:02:19It is possible that another mass transplantation of population may be necessary.
01:02:24We have fostered a famine 30 years ago.
01:02:26We shall foster another.
01:02:28Let 20 or 30 millions of this ship die.
01:02:31And see how long the religious faith lives.
01:02:36But if the messages continue...
01:02:39We have found a religious revival necessary to get them to fight the Germans.
01:02:43We will have another and they will fight the West.
01:02:55Are you sure the valve's working?
01:02:57I've checked it a dozen times.
01:02:59There must be some reason for their silence up there.
01:03:01Well, they can be a thousand.
01:03:03We've got two atmospheres to get through.
01:03:05Ours may be clear and theirs may be impenetrable.
01:03:07Or maybe the transmitter's out of whack.
01:03:10Maybe the operator's got the measles.
01:03:11Or maybe he's finished his allotted 300 years.
01:03:13Or maybe they've said everything they have to say.
01:03:16Maybe the rest is up to us.
01:03:20Call in 2B7XK.
01:03:22He won't answer.
01:03:22Come on.
01:03:25There's no need for me in there.
01:03:28You can have the honor of telling the premier...
01:03:30that your communication have bogged down.
01:03:33I don't want to answer his questions.
01:03:35Talk English, you fool!
01:03:39Anything is preferable to that atrocious accent.
01:03:42I'm sorry, comrade premier.
01:03:43Perhaps if I try it again.
01:03:44Has the patriarch arrived yet?
01:03:45No, no.
01:03:46Call the airport!
01:03:47Call the airport!
01:03:48Call the airport!
01:03:49I'm sorry, comrade premier.
01:03:50I'm sorry, comrade premier.
01:03:51Perhaps if I try it again.
01:03:52Has the patriarch arrived yet?
01:03:56No, no, no.
01:03:57Go to the airport!
01:03:58Well?
01:03:59There is no answer.
01:04:03I don't know.
01:04:04I don't know.
01:04:05I don't know.
01:04:06What happened?
01:04:07What happened?
01:04:08I don't know.
01:04:09What happened?
01:04:10I don't know.
01:04:11I don't know.
01:04:12I don't know.
01:04:13Go to the airport!
01:04:19Well?
01:04:20There is no answer.
01:04:23I don't know.
01:04:24What happened?
01:04:26What happened?
01:04:27What happened?
01:04:32Comrade premier, if I may suggest, the transmitter, we could contact the airport with it.
01:04:39Hurry!
01:04:44Prodlžajte.
01:04:46So svidanje.
01:04:48What happened?
01:04:50We could not answer.
01:04:57What happened?
01:04:58What happened?
01:04:59What happened?
01:05:01What happened?
01:05:02The lights are still on up there.
01:05:06Tovary premier.
01:05:13Singing.
01:05:15It, it was one of the favorite anthems of the cathedrals.
01:05:28Let me silence their hymns.
01:05:32What do these superstitious peasants think if they cannot come brief against our guns?
01:05:45What do these superstitious peasants think if they cannot come brief against our guns?
01:05:55Hello?
01:06:01Yes, Dr. Mitchell.
01:06:03No, she and Stuart went to town, haven't got back yet.
01:06:06The baby had the sniffles and I...
01:06:08What?
01:06:10Are you serious?
01:06:12Well, yes, yes, right away.
01:06:14What's that?
01:06:17Come on, son.
01:06:23The first program ever to be televised to the Western world from Russia.
01:06:28Ladies and gentlemen, the British ambassador to Moscow.
01:06:32And I have been appointed to speak for my fellow members of the diplomatic corps.
01:06:36In days to come, thousands of volumes will be written about the miracle of these last 12 days.
01:06:41The miracle of a nation finding its soul.
01:06:45As the messages from Mars spread throughout the country, the heart of the Russian people began to swell with an old faith.
01:06:54And spontaneous demonstrations of that faith took place.
01:06:59From the churches, they moved on the jails, the fortresses.
01:07:04And here in Moscow, the arrival yesterday of the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church provided the tinder that burned down the Soviet edifice.
01:07:12Thousands of the residents of this city are now dead.
01:07:19They died in the creation of a new government.
01:07:23The patriarch has its provisional head.
01:07:26As the new leader, the new Russia, he will speak to you himself.
01:07:30This morning our armies in occupation of other lands have been recalled to our own soil.
01:07:50We have thrown off our chain of 40 years of bondage.
01:07:55We now free our neighbors of death.
01:07:59This is the first act of our new government.
01:08:04The second is the reopening of our churches so that our people may worship God in freedom and in accord with their own conscience.
01:08:16The bells of those churches now speak for us.
01:08:22They speak only what is in our hearts.
01:08:27The prayer that all men can henceforth live in peace.
01:08:37I wish you were a little older, son.
01:08:39I wish you could remember this.
01:08:40Mama, I have to go give.
01:08:49Mama, I have to go give.
01:08:50Yes.
01:09:04Oh, we're famous people, Sonia, Mother and I.
01:09:07Names in the papers, decorations, scientific awards.
01:09:10You know what's really important?
01:09:12You.
01:09:13You're our immortality.
01:09:14You and your brother.
01:09:15The kids you'll have and the lives you'll lead.
01:09:17You're the blessed generation.
01:09:21Chris.
01:09:23Have you heard the news?
01:09:28Mitchell called me.
01:09:29I couldn't believe it.
01:09:30I heard it on the car radio.
01:09:32Chris, you should see that crowd.
01:09:33You should see their faces.
01:09:35And I didn't want the religious messages released.
01:09:40Dad, the Russians on the radio.
01:09:43Suffering cow.
01:09:47Maybe you've reformed the Russians, Papa.
01:09:52Not young hopeful.
01:09:54Lynn.
01:09:56Yes?
01:09:58Suppose it's over.
01:10:00Communications, I mean.
01:10:02Suppose...
01:10:03Suppose we never make it.
01:10:04I don't know.
01:10:06I don't know.
01:10:07I don't know.
01:10:08I don't know.
01:10:09I don't know.
01:10:10I don't know.
01:10:11I don't know.
01:10:12I don't know.
01:10:13I don't know.
01:10:14I don't know.
01:10:15Suppose...
01:10:16Suppose we never make it again.
01:10:17There's nothing wrong with the transmitter.
01:10:19Atmospheric conditions won't explain it either.
01:10:21No matter how bad they are, we'd pick up something.
01:10:24Would it really matter?
01:10:28We talk of their oldest civilization.
01:10:30And what have they given us?
01:10:31Nothing we couldn't have had all along.
01:10:34Prayers were given us long before wireless.
01:10:37Good evening, Mr. Cronin.
01:10:43Who are you?
01:10:45How'd you get in here?
01:10:49My credentials.
01:10:59The hydrogen valve.
01:11:00Uh-huh.
01:11:01The original specifications.
01:11:02Where did you get these?
01:11:05I drew them.
01:11:06Calder.
01:11:08Franz Calder.
01:11:09Where have you come from?
01:11:12This afternoon, you parked your station wagon in front of the post office.
01:11:16You didn't look in the back when you drove home.
01:11:19Neither did the guards that surround your place.
01:11:22This is the most stupendous joke I've ever heard.
01:11:25We thought you were in Russia, and here you were in this country all the time.
01:11:28Only since yesterday, Mr. Cronin.
01:11:38It wasn't exactly a triumphant entry.
01:11:45Mr. Cronin, did you ever have to crawl through the mud beneath a barbed wire fence?
01:11:50Hide like a hunted animal to avoid the border inspectors?
01:11:55In heaven's name, why?
01:11:56Why?
01:12:01I developed a dislike of jails.
01:12:04Jail? Are you out of your mind, man?
01:12:05Have you heard nothing of what's happened in the world?
01:12:08In spite of your record that have been an open door for the inventor of the hydrogen valve.
01:12:13Which you stole.
01:12:15Well, don't talk nonsense.
01:12:17Your specifications became government property.
01:12:19Anyone had a right to use them.
01:12:20That's a matter of opinion.
01:12:21Don't worry, Mr. Cronin.
01:12:26Chris has given you credit for everything that belongs to you.
01:12:29Every scientific journal has given you full credit.
01:12:31If you'll forgive me, where I've been, the latest scientific journals were not at hand.
01:12:36I lived in a hut at 11,000 feet in the Andes. An avalanche finished it.
01:12:45But I dug myself out.
01:12:49Nine days ago.
01:12:50Well, I'm glad you got out anyway.
01:12:56We're just about to broadcast.
01:12:57You might be interested in seeing...
01:12:58You're right.
01:12:59It will amuse me.
01:13:01All set, Lynn?
01:13:02Yes.
01:13:22It's a shame you didn't get a chance to carry on your work yourself.
01:13:25In a small way, I did.
01:13:26You built a transmitter?
01:13:27Naturally.
01:13:28Then you might have picked up Mars.
01:13:30I tried.
01:13:31I never succeeded.
01:13:35All right, Lynn.
01:13:36Shut it off.
01:13:38Well, with your knowledge and the valve, you should have succeeded.
01:13:42Unless, of course, atmospherics play tricks at that altitude.
01:13:45On some people, Mr. Cronin.
01:13:47You won't mind if I take my coat off, huh?
01:13:50Yes.
01:13:53On some people.
01:13:55What do you mean by that?
01:13:56Of course, I only got out with what I had in my pockets.
01:13:58But I think, uh, this will interest you.
01:14:09There are messages.
01:14:10And the replies.
01:14:11All of them.
01:14:13The ones that weren't decoded, too.
01:14:15Then you did pick up Mars.
01:14:17No.
01:14:18How else could you get these?
01:14:19When did you hear from Mars last?
01:14:21Nine days ago, wasn't it?
01:14:23A little after eight o'clock.
01:14:25Now, you figure the difference in time.
01:14:28And you'll find it was about half an hour before my set was smashed.
01:14:34I don't believe it.
01:14:37How slow you were in thinking up that pie formula.
01:14:42And the creation of a vocabulary.
01:14:45Aren't you grateful that I made it so easy for you?
01:14:48Here you were, the whole mobilized science of the world behind you.
01:15:00And there was I, alone, giving you answers.
01:15:04You sent the messages.
01:15:06The whole thing was a fraud.
01:15:08That credit I will share with you.
01:15:10Why? What were you after?
01:15:13Shall we say, uh, amusement?
01:15:17You thought you'd created a new earth, and I destroy it.
01:15:23A new heaven.
01:15:25And that I shall destroy.
01:15:28Once my story is told.
01:15:30You can't do it!
01:15:34You can see the possibilities for entertainment, huh?
01:15:38Listen to me, Mr. Calder.
01:15:40I've two children over there in that house.
01:15:43And I'm just one of millions.
01:15:45Millions of women that for the first time know their children are secure.
01:15:49You can't destroy that!
01:15:51Paradise lost, Mrs. Cronin. Paradise lost.
01:15:54That's my present to the world.
01:15:57He's lying, Linda.
01:15:58Those messages were from Mars.
01:15:59They came from outside the atmosphere.
01:16:01You'd take me for an amateur, huh?
01:16:03I shot my signals up to hit the heavy side layer.
01:16:06They deflected down at any angle.
01:16:07Naturally, they seemed to come from outside the atmosphere.
01:16:11No.
01:16:13Once I detected your signals, the rest was easy.
01:16:19I could accomplish much more making you believe I was Mars...
01:16:24...than ever getting Mars myself.
01:16:26Chris.
01:16:27What is it?
01:16:29He did not send the religious messages.
01:16:31Of course I didn't. You know that.
01:16:33What do you mean?
01:16:35Here are his messages. The very first few as we received them.
01:16:38But when we asked how they kept themselves from blowing each other to bits, his answer was...
01:16:42...one tribe must hold the power.
01:16:44It had nothing to do with the Sermon on the Mount.
01:16:47It was the prophet talking to us.
01:16:49The prophet?
01:16:51Clever of you to create him.
01:16:53You played right into my hands.
01:16:59I smashed your economic system with a power panic.
01:17:02But that still left my friends in Moscow.
01:17:05I had to smash them too.
01:17:07From my hut I could see the statue of Christ.
01:17:12I never thought of using him against them.
01:17:15Thank you for that idea.
01:17:18They must have been desperate.
01:17:20Who?
01:17:22Carey, Sparks, all of them?
01:17:24They must have done this in Washington.
01:17:26Darling, you were there.
01:17:28You spoke with Sparks and the President.
01:17:31Did you think they were play-acting?
01:17:32I don't know. I don't know.
01:17:34Who did it is immaterial.
01:17:35When I saw the effect on Moscow, I knew you'd created my weapon for me.
01:17:39That's why I let you raise the world up.
01:17:42With all that muck.
01:17:43Right up to the sky.
01:17:45So I can dash it down to hell when I tell my story.
01:17:53You can't do it, Calder.
01:17:55Who's to stop me?
01:17:57God?
01:17:59He had his chance nine days ago.
01:18:00If I hadn't dug myself out, you'd have gotten away with your fraud.
01:18:06It was no fraud.
01:18:08You'd have won.
01:18:10It was no fraud.
01:18:12You don't expect me to believe those messages were not faked.
01:18:16We expect you to believe the truth just the way the rest of the world believes.
01:18:21Just the way we believe.
01:18:23But here is my proof.
01:18:25There have been no messages since my transmitter was shattered.
01:18:29How will you explain that to the world, Mr. Cronin?
01:18:36The Sermon on the Mount.
01:18:40Peace on earth.
01:18:42No, Mrs. Cronin.
01:18:43You are not dealing with a superstitious peasant.
01:18:51If those first messages were fake, the last were two.
01:18:56The world will believe me.
01:18:59Just as your husband believed me.
01:19:02And then you'll all be at each other's throats again.
01:19:05All of you!
01:19:07And I'll have done it.
01:19:08Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
01:19:14My favorite poem, Mrs. Cronin.
01:19:17The unconquerable will.
01:19:20And study of revenge.
01:19:23Immortal hate.
01:19:25And courage never to submit or yield.
01:19:29That's my God, Mrs. Cronin.
01:19:32Satan.
01:19:34Lucifer's my hero.
01:19:36No.
01:19:38God beat him.
01:19:40But I'll have beaten God.
01:19:43Nothing will convince you.
01:19:47Nothing!
01:20:02It's 8.26, according to your clock.
01:20:04I sent a telegram in your name.
01:20:07Inviting the press to be here at 8.30.
01:20:17They were only to wait a few minutes before they hear my story.
01:20:34Why didn't you tell it right away?
01:20:39Why did you come here to torture us?
01:20:41Suppose someone had stolen the fruits of your genius.
01:20:44Wouldn't you want to see them humbled in the dust?
01:20:47Perhaps.
01:20:49And it doesn't matter.
01:20:51Linda.
01:20:53You go back to the house.
01:20:54Do you remember what you said to me the night of the first message?
01:20:59Nothing I was connected with could produce evil.
01:21:03It won't, Chris.
01:21:05We'll finish it together.
01:21:06I want you with the boys.
01:21:13It'll only take a minute.
01:21:18Is that what you really want?
01:21:23I love you, darling.
01:21:24You do think me a fool!
01:21:25You think I let you walk out of here to call those private guards over your house?
01:21:29What's the matter, man? Cheer up.
01:21:30The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:21:31You like publicity, don't you?
01:21:32What's the matter, man? Cheer up.
01:21:33The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:21:34You like publicity, don't you?
01:21:35Two minutes before they get here.
01:21:36What's the matter, man? Cheer up.
01:21:37The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:21:38You like publicity, don't you?
01:21:39Two minutes before they get here.
01:21:40What are you?
01:21:41Yes, I will.
01:21:42I won't.
01:21:43Give it a call.
01:21:44Why don't you work?
01:21:45I won't.
01:21:46You do think me a fool.
01:21:47You think I let you walk out of here to call those private guards over your house?
01:21:53What's the matter, man? Cheer up.
01:21:56The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:21:57You like publicity, don't you?
01:21:59Two minutes before they get here.
01:22:01Two minutes before they get here.
01:22:14Give me a cigarette, Chris.
01:22:17I can't go through with it, Lynn. Not now.
01:22:19The boys are safe. This is their chance.
01:22:22Give me the cigarette.
01:22:29Funny.
01:22:31In all the years, I've never seen you smoke.
01:22:34You're not going to smoke in here.
01:22:40God gave us free will, Mr. Calder.
01:22:43It's what distinguishes us from the animals.
01:22:46We can choose between good and evil.
01:22:49But if we choose evil now,
01:22:52that's the end of the human story.
01:22:54I can't let you do it. Stay where you are!
01:22:57It's a simple problem, isn't it, Mr. Calder?
01:22:59To let you tell your story
01:23:01and risk setting mankind
01:23:03at each other's throats again.
01:23:05Or to see that you keep silent
01:23:07and save mankind.
01:23:10Now, that!
01:23:12Give me a light.
01:23:14Don't!
01:23:15Don't!
01:23:16Don't!
01:23:17The room's alive with hydrogen.
01:23:18A spark now would...
01:23:20Stop!
01:23:21Stop!
01:23:22You wouldn't kill your wife!
01:23:23You wouldn't kill your wife!
01:23:24Don't kill your wife.
01:23:25Chris, look.
01:23:26Don't kill your wife.
01:23:27Don't kill her.
01:23:28Chris, look!
01:23:30Don't kill your wife.
01:23:31Don't, don't kill her.
01:23:32Don't kill her.
01:23:33How will you believe?
01:23:35Your set's destroyed.
01:23:37But there's a message coming in.
01:23:42There's your proof!
01:23:52No, not now.
01:23:54He won't beat me now!
01:24:03We do not know, and never shall, what caused the destruction of that laboratory in California.
01:24:11We only know that Chris and Linda Cronin are gone.
01:24:16And that in our time there will be no more messages from Mars.
01:24:21For God, in his infinite wisdom, has decreed that the revelations which came through them, his servants, were sufficient to fulfill his purpose.
01:24:32At the very moment when they were snatched up in that chariot of fire, into the bosom of truth everlasting, a final message was being received.
01:24:41Only the first few words of that message were recorded before the explosion cut it short.
01:24:47Those words were,
01:24:50Ye have done well, my good.
01:24:53The rest is silence.
01:24:56Silence.
01:24:58No.
01:24:59No, for as I speak, the bells of a million churches in every far corner of the earth, ring out in salutation to the earth's new day of hope.
01:25:10The voices of the joyful rise in a thousand hymns, hymns not of grief, but of thanksgiving.
01:25:25And mankind, kneeling in gratitude for its redemption, prays for the spirit of this man and this woman.
01:25:35Of them, as of no mortals before them, it may be said, the whole earth is their sepulchre.
01:25:44And so the message does not remain unfinished.
01:25:49The miracle we have beheld has cleansed our souls and wiped the scales from our eyes.
01:25:55With the new vision given us, we who are left can complete that message.
01:26:06Ye have done well, good and faithful servants.
01:26:13Enter ye into the joy of your Lord.
01:26:20Thy monument is a world of peace.
01:26:25You're lucky boys.
01:26:27You're their sons.
01:26:30Yes, Lord, y'all in the realest hand,
01:26:35We praise him, glorify in his holy name.
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