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00:01:18This is operation experiment a secret base far north of the Arctic Circle
00:01:25Experiment was the codename for this top priority scientific expedition
00:01:30These men arrived here on X day minus 60. It has taken them the full two months to get ready
00:01:36Today is X day
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00:01:48The plane must arrive at its rendezvous 200 miles away in exactly 58 minutes
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00:01:58This is the rendezvous the forward observation post where scientists and their aides double-check their equipment and
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00:02:30Professor Tom Nesbitt and Colonel John Evans military liaison tensely wait. The timing is perfect thus far
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00:04:33Colonel Evans, there's something strange on the radar screen
00:04:42Right here sir a foreign object
00:04:44It's gone what's gone? I don't know sir. It's silhouetted like 500 times at least. Where is it then? I don't know, sir
00:05:01Are you sure we saw we saw something maybe the shock to us something in front of the antenna
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00:05:09Eight weeks of preparation that's all over in a second, huh? Jack, but energy of that magnitude is released. It's never over
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00:06:07You sound like a man that's scared, Tom
00:06:09What makes you think I'm not?
00:06:12Here are the figures, Tom
00:06:16We'll be ready to go up to the forward observation post in about an hour
00:06:19Good. Loomis?
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00:06:28Colonel, we'll run back. There isn't a hero in the crowd
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00:07:17Shall we try to go around, sir?
00:07:20No. Wait here for us. We'll go up on foot
00:08:08What's your reading?
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00:08:14I'll check post 17
00:08:16You take 18 and I'll meet you back here
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00:08:41What?
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00:08:47What's the matter?
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00:09:07There's a blizzard
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00:14:57Doc!
00:14:58Hey!
00:14:59Doc!
00:15:08Put him right over here.
00:15:18Give me my bag, please.
00:15:19Yes, sir.
00:15:30Now get some blankets off those other beds.
00:15:35How is he?
00:15:38Where's Professor Ritchie?
00:15:39Still missing, sir.
00:15:40What happened?
00:15:41We don't know, sir.
00:15:42We saw the flares and double-timed it over to post 18.
00:15:44The whole shore was breaking loose.
00:15:46We grabbed Professor Nesbitt just in time.
00:15:48We never found Ritchie.
00:15:49Colonel, we've got to get Nesbitt to a hospital in the States.
00:15:52He's in a bad way.
00:15:53Right.
00:15:56Get word to the main base.
00:15:57We want a plane right away.
00:15:58Ritchie, I'll get you out.
00:16:02I'll get you out.
00:16:03I'll get you out.
00:16:07The monster.
00:16:09It's coming.
00:16:11Watch out!
00:16:12The monster!
00:16:14The monster!
00:16:15The monster!
00:16:45The monster!
00:17:10Well, Professor Nesbitt, how do you feel today?
00:17:12Fine.
00:17:13Where's Colonel Evans?
00:17:14Did you reach Colonel Evans?
00:17:15He'll be here any minute now.
00:17:17I'd like you to meet Dr. Ingersoll.
00:17:19He wants to ask you a few questions,
00:17:21if you don't think it'll be too hard on you.
00:17:23Questions?
00:17:24I'm a psychiatrist, Professor Nesbitt.
00:17:26I thought that together we might possibly get to the bottom of this.
00:17:29You'll think I'm crazy, too.
00:17:31I know my story sounds fantastic, but...
00:17:34Professor Nesbitt, throughout history,
00:17:35people have claimed that they've seen monsters.
00:17:37Oh, there was the famous Loch Lomond monster,
00:17:40you'll probably recall.
00:17:41Then the green serpents off the shores of Ireland.
00:17:44But as far as I can remember,
00:17:45not one of them was ever caught or even photographed.
00:17:48Doctor, I'm not inclined to let my imagination run away with me.
00:17:51I'm a scientist.
00:17:52All right.
00:17:53Then as a scientist, it shouldn't be inconceivable to you
00:17:56that the mind can withstand just so much pressure.
00:17:59Now, the shock of seeing your friend dead,
00:18:01your own terrifying predicament,
00:18:03was too much to bear,
00:18:05so that you momentarily lost contact with reality.
00:18:08It's a phenomenon which was not uncommon during the war.
00:18:11But George Ritchie wasn't dead when I got away.
00:18:13He tried to warn me.
00:18:15Two people don't share the same hallucination.
00:18:21Hello, Tom. How are you?
00:18:23Thought out?
00:18:24Jack, I'm glad you're here.
00:18:26I'm having a hard time trying to convince these people
00:18:28that I'm not an idiot.
00:18:29I was in Washington making my report.
00:18:31I was trying to...
00:18:32What did they say about the animal?
00:18:33I want to be in on any expedition going after him.
00:18:35Tom, I didn't tell them about the animal.
00:18:38Why not?
00:18:39It should have been in the report.
00:18:41I went back to post 18.
00:18:43I tried to reconstruct what happened out there.
00:18:46I couldn't find a thing.
00:18:48No tracks, nothing.
00:18:51Nothing?
00:18:53I'm sorry.
00:18:54I wish I could say I saw something.
00:18:56The blizzard.
00:18:58There was a blizzard, remember?
00:19:00The snow must have blown over and covered everything.
00:19:03Jack, check me out over here.
00:19:05You're in no condition to leave.
00:19:06It's imperative that you have rest.
00:19:08How can I rest?
00:19:10Professor Nesbitt, I've encountered this sort of thing before.
00:19:12You've undergone a tremendous shock.
00:19:14You've got to stay in bed.
00:19:16I see.
00:19:17That makes it official.
00:19:19I'm afraid it does.
00:19:21So long, Tom.
00:19:22You do what the doctor says.
00:19:24We'll get together as soon as you're on your feet again.
00:19:26That won't be too long.
00:19:28What about that sound I heard?
00:19:31In your condition, it could have been anything.
00:19:33The wind.
00:19:35Anything.
00:19:48No wind ever made a sound like that.
00:19:58No wind.
00:20:28Kevin.
00:20:30Kevin!
00:20:32Are you deaf, man?
00:20:58Kevin!
00:21:25Good morning.
00:21:28What's going on in our turbulent world today?
00:21:31Oh, death and politics.
00:21:33The comic page is the only thing that makes sense anymore.
00:21:36I take it then that for peace of mind,
00:21:38you advise a dose of it after each meal.
00:21:40You quote me exactly.
00:21:42I'm going to take your advice exactly.
00:21:45Ah, here it is.
00:21:48Ah, here it is.
00:21:56Say.
00:21:58Look at this.
00:22:00That item is right where it belongs, on the comic page.
00:22:30And that's why I came here, Dr. Elson.
00:22:32I felt if you heard my story, you'd do something.
00:22:35And what is it you think I can do?
00:22:37Fit out an expedition and institute a search.
00:22:40My dear boy, the fitting-up.
00:22:42I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:44I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:46I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:48I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:50I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:52I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:54I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:56I'm sure you can do it.
00:22:58My dear boy, the fitting-up of an expedition
00:23:00requires a great deal of attention to detail,
00:23:03such as time, personnel, money.
00:23:05Well, how can you talk about details
00:23:07in the face of such a discovery?
00:23:09I'm not in the field of paleontology,
00:23:11and I have a tremendous desire to know more about this animal.
00:23:14I felt you'd have such a compelling curiosity
00:23:16that nothing would stand in your way.
00:23:19Professor Nesbitt,
00:23:21after waiting for 30 years,
00:23:23I'm about to undertake my first extended holiday.
00:23:26Then I can assure you that I would throw aside my plans
00:23:28if I thought there was the slightest chance
00:23:30of what you're saying being possible.
00:23:32It isn't.
00:23:33What about that newspaper item?
00:23:35Oh, if all the items of seamen reporting monsters
00:23:38were placed end on end,
00:23:40they'd reach to the moon, my boy.
00:23:42You mean I'm just wasting your time?
00:23:44Do you realize that you're asking me to believe
00:23:46you saw a creature that would be over 100 million years old?
00:23:52You said that 100 million years ago,
00:23:54the water of the Mesozoic Age turned to ice.
00:23:57Yes.
00:23:58Isn't it possible that an animal could have been trapped in that ice,
00:24:01caught in those suddenly freezing temperatures and locked in?
00:24:04Then, when we released the bomb,
00:24:06the heat generated melted the ice
00:24:08in which this beast was imprisoned and freed it.
00:24:11Bringing it back to life after 100 million years.
00:24:15Couldn't it have been in a state of hibernation?
00:24:18After all, bears live through a winter
00:24:20under somewhat similar conditions.
00:24:22That's quite true.
00:24:23A bear does live off itself for one winter
00:24:26from food accumulated within itself,
00:24:28but it's hard to believe that an animal
00:24:30could live for 100 million years off its own tissue.
00:24:33Well, to put it mildly,
00:24:35it'd require quite an appetite, don't you think?
00:24:39I don't know if this will be of any help,
00:24:41but you remember, Doctor,
00:24:43a few years ago, an expedition on Earth
00:24:45to herd of mastodons in the Siberian tundra.
00:24:48Dead thousands of years, yet their fur was still intact.
00:24:51The meat still edible.
00:24:53Yes, that's quite right, my dear Leigh,
00:24:55but, uh, they weren't alive.
00:24:58And that's the important difference.
00:25:00They weren't alive.
00:25:01You know, I'm sorry, Professor,
00:25:03but in all honesty, I can't support your story.
00:25:08Well, I guess I'll go back to the hospital.
00:25:15Maybe I should ask for a transfer to the psychopathic ward.
00:25:18Oh, nonsense. It's not as bad as all that, my boy.
00:25:21Thanks for listening, Doctor.
00:25:28When he first came to this country,
00:25:30I attended his lectures on the curative properties
00:25:32of the radioactive isotope.
00:25:34He's a brilliant man.
00:25:35Mm-hmm.
00:25:36Isn't his story in any way feasible?
00:25:39No, and I'm sorry.
00:25:41I'd rather like to help him.
00:25:48Quite frankly, I thought that little jaunt of yours last week
00:25:50would knock you for a loop,
00:25:52but for the life of me, I can't find anything wrong with you.
00:25:54I feel fine.
00:25:56If anything, I can leave.
00:25:57Well, anytime's all right with us.
00:25:59Don't go rushing off to the North Pole again.
00:26:01Keep fit and warm.
00:26:03Take those vitamins that I gave you.
00:26:05This is your hour of mirth and melody.
00:26:07They say music hath charms to soothe a savage beast,
00:26:10and they ought to try it on these sea monsters
00:26:12we keep hearing about.
00:26:13From Marquette, Canada today, comes word of a second ship
00:26:15destroyed by an enormous beast,
00:26:17Captain George Lemay.
00:26:18He really ought to stop smoking that stuff
00:26:20and try Virginia Golds, because...
00:26:30Well, it shouldn't take me too long to catch up.
00:26:32Oh, it's good to have you back, Professor.
00:26:34Thank you.
00:26:39Anything else, Miss Ryan?
00:26:41Oh, yes.
00:26:42There's Miss Lee Hunter waiting to see you.
00:26:44Miss Lee Hunter?
00:26:45Mm-hmm.
00:26:46She's very pretty.
00:26:47Send her in.
00:26:53Professor Nesbitt, how are you?
00:26:56Fine, fine.
00:26:58We met at the university.
00:26:59I'm Dr. Elton's assistant.
00:27:01Oh, yes, of course.
00:27:03The verdict?
00:27:04A prehistoric animal would be presumptuous
00:27:06to be alive today and upset your neatly cataloged theories.
00:27:10I see you don't remember.
00:27:11I was a sympathetic bystander.
00:27:13Oh, really?
00:27:14How come?
00:27:15I have a deep abiding faith in the work of scientists.
00:27:18Otherwise, I wouldn't be one myself.
00:27:21Well, sit down.
00:27:22Thank you.
00:27:23Sorry I can't offer you anything,
00:27:24but everything we have around here is radioactive.
00:27:27No, thank you anyway.
00:27:29When I was in the lab yesterday,
00:27:31I heard a radio report about a man who claimed
00:27:33that his ship was sunk by a sea monster.
00:27:36But I thought if all the stories
00:27:37about sea monsters were laid to end,
00:27:39they'd reach the moon.
00:27:41But two reports coming so close together.
00:27:44What makes you think two reports
00:27:45are going to convince anybody any more than one did?
00:27:48Well, it convinced me.
00:27:50At least it got me to thinking
00:27:51it would be worthwhile investigating.
00:27:53I've gathered together all the sketches
00:27:55of the known prehistoric animals.
00:27:57Now, if you could identify them.
00:27:59You know, being considered crazy
00:28:01has been quite an experience.
00:28:03However, I wouldn't care to go through it again.
00:28:06Is this the man with the compelling curiosity?
00:28:09Afraid of ridicule?
00:28:11I'm not afraid of ridicule.
00:28:13No, but I'm afraid that's what it sounds like.
00:28:17You said sketches of all the known animals?
00:28:21What if it's an unknown one?
00:28:23That's possible.
00:28:25But we'll never really know unless you look at them.
00:28:28Oh, Professor, think what it would mean if you were right.
00:28:44Five-minute break.
00:28:46It's coffee time.
00:28:48Good. I need it.
00:28:53Cream and sugar?
00:28:55You'd better take both.
00:28:57I make coffee strong enough to enter the Olympics.
00:29:00One or two?
00:29:01Two, please.
00:29:02I never knew there were so many prehistoric animals.
00:29:05We haven't even reached the Cretaceous period yet.
00:29:08I don't know if I could identify that beast
00:29:10now if it looked through the window.
00:29:12Maybe it's part imagination after all.
00:29:15Something I used to dream about when I was a kid.
00:29:18Or read in fairy tales.
00:29:20You're tired.
00:29:21Why don't you just relax for a moment?
00:29:23Have a sandwich.
00:29:26Thanks.
00:29:33Funny.
00:29:34What's funny?
00:29:36Well, a girl like you.
00:29:38A paleontologist.
00:29:40A paleontologist.
00:29:42What's wrong with paleontology?
00:29:44Classifying old bones.
00:29:46Old bones?
00:29:48If we didn't study the past,
00:29:50you wouldn't know anything about the atom.
00:29:52Dr. Elson says that the future is the reflection of the past.
00:29:56You're fond of Dr. Elson, aren't you?
00:29:58How did you become his assistant?
00:30:00I suppose by continually antagonizing him.
00:30:03I was one of his students.
00:30:05And to hear him tell it,
00:30:06all I ever did was challenge him or argue with him.
00:30:09I was afraid he was going to expel me.
00:30:11But instead, he asked me to be his assistant after I graduated.
00:30:14So I graduated, and here I am.
00:30:17And here I am.
00:30:19Between us, we spend the ages.
00:30:21You deal with the past, I with the future.
00:30:23And how uncomplicated the past was.
00:30:27And how bright the future can be.
00:30:31Well...
00:30:33Let's get back to the present.
00:31:01This might be it.
00:31:04I'm not sure.
00:31:06Not sure?
00:31:08The head looks similar.
00:31:10But the front legs are too short.
00:31:12Wait a minute.
00:31:16Is this any better?
00:31:19No, that's much more like it.
00:31:25And what about this one?
00:31:27That's the closest.
00:31:30I think that is it.
00:31:33Lee, I think that's the one I saw.
00:31:36If two independent observers saw the same thing,
00:31:39if that captain in Canada
00:31:41could identify the same sketch...
00:31:43And tell his story to Dr. Elson.
00:31:51Captain George LeMay Marquet.
00:31:55Captain George LeMay Marquet, Canada.
00:31:58May I?
00:32:01Operator.
00:32:02I want to make a long-distance call, please.
00:32:04Person to person.
00:32:06To Captain George LeMay Marquet, Canada.
00:32:10One moment, please.
00:32:12Chancellor's call to Circle 44771.
00:32:15Thank you.
00:32:16It's my monster.
00:32:25Hello?
00:32:27Captain, we're calling from New York.
00:32:29New York?
00:32:30Are you ready?
00:32:31I'm always ready.
00:32:33They're speaking French.
00:32:35Captain LeMay is ready.
00:32:37Thank you.
00:32:39Hello?
00:32:40Hello, Captain LeMay?
00:32:42Oui, oui.
00:32:44My name is Tom Nesbitt.
00:32:46I'm a scientist in New York.
00:32:48I have some very important questions to ask you.
00:32:51I don't speak English.
00:32:53Parlez français, s'il vous plaît.
00:32:55Oui, volontiers.
00:32:57Je m'appelle Tom Nesbitt.
00:32:59Je suis un professeur à New York.
00:33:02Je voudrais m'informer sur le serpent de mer que vous avez vu
00:33:06et qui a détruit votre bateau.
00:33:08Moi, j'ai vu le même serpent et...
00:33:10Serpent?
00:33:12Serpent?
00:33:14Tout à l'heure.
00:33:16Captain.
00:33:18Hello?
00:33:20Hello, Captain LeMay?
00:33:22I am sorry, but the captain is hung up.
00:33:24He is very unhappy when anybody mentions his accident
00:33:27because everyone laughs at him.
00:33:28Operator, please get the captain back.
00:33:30I can't tell you how important this is.
00:33:32I am sorry, monsieur.
00:33:33He will not speak to you again, I'm sure.
00:33:35He's a stubborn old man, perhaps a little crazy,
00:33:37especially on the subject of serpents.
00:33:44They think he is crazy, too.
00:33:47Well, it was a good try anyway.
00:33:49But good tries don't pay off.
00:33:51Do you suppose that if you went up there,
00:33:54you could make him understand how important this is?
00:33:57I could get a plane.
00:33:59Phone me if anything exciting happens.
00:34:02I'll phone you even if nothing happens.
00:34:18You missed him by not more than two hours, I'm sure.
00:34:21I thought you might be able to tell me where he went.
00:34:23His housekeeper wouldn't give me any information.
00:34:26Captain LeMay has been very touchy
00:34:28since his sea serpent incident.
00:34:30People felt that he was a bit balmy.
00:34:32You know, they laughed at him.
00:34:34Too bad, too.
00:34:36The man has served well and faithfully for years.
00:34:39I believe a man has a right to a few nips now and then,
00:34:42I always say.
00:34:44And you don't believe his story.
00:34:46I said he was balmy, not me.
00:34:48He let it get out that he was headed for the interior of Canada
00:34:51and was not going to stop until he hit a spot
00:34:54that was absolutely uninhabited by white men.
00:34:57A bloomin' hermit he wants to be.
00:34:59Mark my word, he'll be back in less than a month.
00:35:02I can't wait that long.
00:35:04Were there any other survivors?
00:35:06No.
00:35:08How far is it to St. Pierre?
00:35:10Oh, about 100 miles.
00:35:12Are you going down to see this other chap
00:35:14who claims that he saw it?
00:35:16Yes.
00:35:17I say, you don't believe in this sea serpent fable, do you?
00:35:20What do you think I am, balmy?
00:35:34Good evening, Jacob.
00:35:36You look much better today.
00:35:39A man is here.
00:35:41A very great scientist from New York.
00:35:44No, sister.
00:35:46Take him away.
00:35:47I want no one near me.
00:35:49He wants so much trouble to find you.
00:35:53Why?
00:35:54He says it is very important.
00:35:57It is about the beast you saw.
00:36:02Tell him to leave me alone.
00:36:04Tell him I saw nothing.
00:36:06Tell him I know nothing.
00:36:08Tell him it's all in my head.
00:36:10It's what everybody says.
00:36:13Except me, Jacob.
00:36:15Who are you?
00:36:17I saw the beast, too.
00:36:19You saw him?
00:36:21You're not playing jokes on me?
00:36:23No, I'm not playing any jokes.
00:36:25People called me crazy, too.
00:36:27It stays in my mind always, and I'll never forget it.
00:36:31Jacob, in New York, there are scientists,
00:36:33friends of mine, who will listen and believe.
00:36:37Jacob, will you come to New York with me?
00:36:45Is he well enough to travel?
00:36:47I'd be glad to, doctor.
00:36:53You know, Lee, there's something very compensating
00:36:56in having to wait 30 years for a holiday.
00:37:00Because when it finally comes,
00:37:02the joy of anticipation is multiplied by it
00:37:05just that many years.
00:37:07I feel rather like a schoolboy on the verge of departing
00:37:10for my first summer camp.
00:37:13Oh, by the way, that reminds me,
00:37:15our young nuclear physicist appears to be delayed.
00:37:19He'll be here any minute.
00:37:21It shouldn't take him long from the airport.
00:37:23Mrs. Zoe Hannibal arrives today.
00:37:27Oh, I could lose my job on my way here.
00:37:31I could lose my job and my reputation
00:37:33listening to such nonsense.
00:37:35However, I'm not going to allow my personal opinion
00:37:38to interfere with the possible romance.
00:37:40Don't try to change the subject.
00:37:42You're just being stubborn.
00:37:43Am I?
00:37:45Just you listen to this,
00:37:47something that I read this morning.
00:37:50On the 21st of October of the year 1797,
00:37:54one Professor Gordon Lawton was forcibly removed
00:37:57by order of the crown from his chair of science
00:38:00at the University of Edinburgh.
00:38:02Dr. Lawton was firmly convinced that leprechauns
00:38:04were responsible for the uprooting
00:38:06of the ancient campus oak,
00:38:08even swearing upon oath that he had seen them removed.
00:38:13So you see, today it's monsters instead of leprechauns.
00:38:17How certain are you there were no leprechauns?
00:38:19Tom.
00:38:20Hello, Lee.
00:38:21I don't recall this Dr. Lawton,
00:38:23but what about Galileo?
00:38:24He said the earth was round.
00:38:26They made him recant.
00:38:27However, the earth is round
00:38:29and there is a monster,
00:38:30and I think I can convince you.
00:38:32Is this your sailor witness?
00:38:34Yes, sir.
00:38:35Jacob Bowman.
00:38:36He was the helmsman on the fishing boat Fortune.
00:38:38Dr. Elson, Miss Hunter.
00:38:41So you saw the monster too?
00:38:44Yes, sir.
00:38:46Go ahead, my dear.
00:38:47This is your experiment.
00:38:49Jacob, I want you to look through those sketches
00:38:51and pick out the one that you saw.
00:38:56You don't think this is going to be a waste of time?
00:38:58Dr. Elson, several days ago at Miss Hunter's apartment,
00:39:01I picked out the sketch of the beast I saw.
00:39:04It's right in that batch.
00:39:06But unfortunately in paleontology,
00:39:08the empirical system of logic isn't enough.
00:39:11It isn't a question of empirics.
00:39:14If a particle of the sun broke off and flew into space,
00:39:18I wouldn't consider the man who brought that news to be insane.
00:39:21As a scientist, I would examine every facet of it.
00:39:24Yes, my boy, but if a particle of the sun
00:39:26were to break off, 100 million people would have seen it.
00:39:29If it broke off, it would make no difference
00:39:31if one saw it or no one at all.
00:39:33It would still be the same as the monster.
00:39:36It still is.
00:39:40Perhaps I'm getting old.
00:39:44Now, Jacob, you must be quite sure about this creature
00:39:46you claim to have seen.
00:39:48There must be no doubt in your mind.
00:39:51If it's here, I'll know it.
00:40:11That. That's the one I picked.
00:40:15It's the redosaurus.
00:40:17Extinct for 100 million years.
00:40:20100 million years?
00:40:22Yes, and the direct ancestor of that little lady there.
00:40:27Only twice the size, according to theory.
00:40:31The only known fossils of its species ever discovered
00:40:34were found in a drag of the Hudson submarine canyons,
00:40:37150 miles from New York.
00:40:39Didn't Professor Edmonds write a paper on that just last year?
00:40:43Yes.
00:40:46Yes.
00:40:48If we could only be sure, without a shadow of a doubt.
00:40:52Dr. Elson, what further proof do you need?
00:40:54Things have happened again and again,
00:40:56and they'll continue to happen.
00:40:58I tried to get the authorities to keep the sea lanes
00:41:00and the coastline under close watch.
00:41:02They wouldn't listen to me.
00:41:03They'll listen to you this time, my boy.
00:41:05Get them on the phone. I'll talk to them.
00:41:08Thanks.
00:41:14Colonel Evans, please.
00:41:18Jack?
00:41:20Tom Nesbitt.
00:41:22I feel great.
00:41:24That hallucination of mine,
00:41:26the one that everybody was having such a good laugh about,
00:41:29well, I've got proof the monster exists.
00:41:33Now, Tom, let's not start that again.
00:41:36What?
00:41:38Well, I can just see myself going to the chief of staff
00:41:40and requesting permission to seek out a prehistoric monster.
00:41:43Eagles on a straitjacket are not regulation uniform.
00:41:46I'm here at the university.
00:41:48I'm with Dr. Elson, the foremost paleontologist in the world.
00:41:52Just a moment. He wants to talk to you.
00:41:56Colonel Evans, this is Dr. Elson.
00:41:59Colonel, I'm convinced that Professor Nesbitt is on to something.
00:42:03Now, Dr. Elson, there have been all kinds of stories.
00:42:06Stories of sea serpents, stories of the world coming to an end,
00:42:09stories of flying saucers.
00:42:11And what makes you so sure there are no flying saucers?
00:42:14Nevertheless, I am absolutely convinced
00:42:16that by some strange trick of chance, this creature does exist.
00:42:20And I'm prepared to stake my reputation on it.
00:42:23Well, I'm sure you know what you're talking about, Doctor,
00:42:25but I think we'll just look foolish if we stick our neck out.
00:42:28Well, will you promise me if any further reports come in, you'll let us know?
00:42:32I'll tell you what I'll do, Doctor. I've got a friend in the Coast Guard.
00:42:34I'll drop in to see him.
00:42:36If he's heard of anything, I'll get in touch with you. Okay?
00:42:39Thank you, Colonel. We'll appreciate it.
00:42:43He's going to check and let us know.
00:42:46We can't just sit around.
00:42:48I'm afraid there's nothing else we can do.
00:42:51Wait.
00:43:04I heard a new song at the tavern the other day.
00:43:08Something about gin and wild women.
00:43:11Oh, how'd it go?
00:43:13Oh, I don't remember.
00:43:15Stuck five nickels in the box to hear it again,
00:43:18and the thing busted down.
00:43:21Well, you know me.
00:43:23I couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket.
00:43:27I like the balance.
00:43:29The old ones would warm you even when the fog is a foot thick.
00:43:41Did you hear that?
00:44:11Come in.
00:44:41That's all.
00:44:43Jack, how are you?
00:44:45Phil, at this moment, I don't know.
00:44:47Well, sit down, sit down.
00:44:49I haven't seen you since the last Army-Navy game.
00:44:52What a game that was.
00:44:54What's the problem? AEC getting you down?
00:44:57No, not at all, Phil.
00:44:59Good. Stick around. I'll be through here in a minute, and we'll go over to the club.
00:45:02Phil, here it is straight.
00:45:04One of the scientists in the last polar test claims he saw a monster.
00:45:08Now, don't look at me like that.
00:45:10The dean of the College of Natural History believes him.
00:45:12Then who am I to doubt it?
00:45:14Say, you're not trying to get a Section 8 discharge, are you?
00:45:16And you're rotting, Colonel.
00:45:18Phil, these scientists claim that this monster, beast, whatever it is,
00:45:21it's a prehistoric thing, and if you laugh, I'll brain you,
00:45:24is romping somewheres around the North Atlantic.
00:45:27I guess you'll have to brain me.
00:45:29You're nuts, Jack.
00:45:31Anyway, that's what they say.
00:45:33Look, Phil, would you do me a favor?
00:45:35Would you check around and see if there have been any reports of any, oh,
00:45:38freak happenings or anything unusual?
00:45:40Are you on the level?
00:45:42Well, if standing on my head is on the level, I am.
00:45:44You certainly sound serious.
00:45:47All right, I'll check.
00:45:49But so help me if this is a practical joke.
00:45:51Yeah, I'll die laughing.
00:46:36Well, that's it.
00:46:38No storm, no earthquake, nothing.
00:46:41But that lighthouse was destroyed completely.
00:46:44Were there any other unexplained happenings?
00:46:47Yes.
00:46:49Coast Guard Station 37 reported minor shore wreckage along the Massachusetts coast.
00:46:52Several isolated buildings were destroyed.
00:46:55And a farmer was found crushed to death.
00:46:58You know, there's a certain inexorable chronology in these disasters.
00:47:02I don't follow you, Doctor.
00:47:04Well, Tom first saw the Redosaurus near Baffin Bay,
00:47:08while his latest presumed presence is off the coast of Massachusetts.
00:47:12May I have a look at your chart, Captain?
00:47:15Of course.
00:47:21Oh, uh...
00:47:23Now, first,
00:47:26north of Baffin Bay,
00:47:29north of Baffin Bay.
00:47:32And second,
00:47:34the fishing catch fortune was wrecked here,
00:47:37off the Grand Banks,
00:47:40with another one attacked shortly thereafter,
00:47:43uh, here, uh, Nova Scotia.
00:47:47And third,
00:47:49the lighthouse off the coast of Maine.
00:47:52Uh, and fourth,
00:47:54the unexplained wreckage off the coast of Massachusetts.
00:47:58You'll notice that we've been following the Arctic current
00:48:01all the way down.
00:48:04So it's just possible that he might be making for...
00:48:08here.
00:48:10It was in these submerged canyons
00:48:12that the only known fossils of his species were found.
00:48:15If what you say is true, he couldn't mine those canyons.
00:48:18And kill the Redosaurus?
00:48:20Oh, no. But think of what a loss to science that would be.
00:48:23Oh, no. But to capture it alive, that would be an achievement.
00:48:27And just how do you propose to capture it, if it exists?
00:48:31Uh, I-I don't know.
00:48:33But, uh, if we acetate its down there in the canyons,
00:48:37I shall have to go down and see it
00:48:39before I decide upon a method of capture.
00:48:41Oh, but that's much too dangerous.
00:48:43Yes, but then the risk would be worth it
00:48:45when one thinks of the benefit to science.
00:48:49Captain, is it possible to obtain the use of a diving bed?
00:48:53You mean you really want to go down there?
00:48:55Yes.
00:48:56I can get a diving bell.
00:48:58What do you think, Jack?
00:49:00Everything else I say checks out.
00:49:03If we can get it, let's move.
00:49:05Thank you.
00:49:17I still don't see how he's going to find it.
00:49:19This canyon is 100 miles long.
00:49:21As I understand it, he plans to drop down
00:49:23at a different spot every hour until he does find it.
00:49:26Hear this. Hear this.
00:49:28We are now ready to make the dive at position number one.
00:49:31I don't like the idea of you going down there with just one man.
00:49:34But that's capacity.
00:49:35Besides, if there's any danger,
00:49:36my crewman, Mr. Wilson, will know what to do.
00:49:38I brought your Dramamine.
00:49:40Oh, no, thank you, my dear.
00:49:41I'm-I'd be much too excited to get seasick.
00:49:44Are you ready, Dr. Elson?
00:49:46Remember, at the first sign of danger, signal us.
00:49:49Why will you persist in talking about danger, my boy?
00:49:52The reading disorders and I are old friends.
00:49:54Good luck, Doctor.
00:49:55Thank you, my boy.
00:50:02Here you are, sir.
00:50:03Thank you.
00:50:07Now, don't look so worriedly.
00:50:09We're scientists.
00:50:10This is our job.
00:50:12This is a great moment for me.
00:50:22Thank you.
00:50:41Everything safe in there?
00:50:43Splendid, thank you.
00:50:44All the cupboards are home.
00:50:46Lower away.
00:50:49Hoist away.
00:50:52Hoist away.
00:50:53Is there anything I have to do with it?
00:50:55No, sir.
00:50:56No, sir.
00:50:57No, sir.
00:50:58No, sir.
00:50:59No, sir.
00:51:00No, sir.
00:51:01No, sir.
00:51:02No, sir.
00:51:03No, sir.
00:51:04No, sir.
00:51:05No, sir.
00:51:06No, sir.
00:51:07No, sir.
00:51:08No, sir.
00:51:09No, sir.
00:51:10No, sir.
00:51:11No, sir.
00:51:12No, sir.
00:51:13No, sir.
00:51:14No, sir.
00:51:15No, sir.
00:51:16No, sir.
00:51:17No, sir.
00:51:18No, sir.
00:51:19No, sir.
00:51:20No, sir.
00:51:21No, sir.
00:51:22Is there anything I have to do?
00:51:23Oh, no, sir.
00:51:24You just relax and enjoy the scenery.
00:51:25Oh, well.
00:51:48This is such a strange feeling.
00:51:51I feel I'm leaving a world of untold tomorrows
00:51:54for a world of countless yesterdays.
00:52:06You know, Lee was right.
00:52:08I should have brought the Dramelman pills.
00:52:21This is all very frustrating.
00:52:23I do hope all our endeavors are not going to be in vain.
00:52:46Thank you.
00:52:47You're welcome, Doctor.
00:52:51We're having coffee now.
00:52:54And some visitors.
00:53:12There appears to be a slight difference of opinion
00:53:14between two of the local inhabitants.
00:53:16There appears to be a slight difference of opinion
00:53:18between two of the local inhabitants.
00:53:46There appears to be a slight difference of opinion
00:53:48between two of the local inhabitants.
00:54:17There he is.
00:54:24It's unbelievable.
00:54:27He's tremendous.
00:54:30I can only see part of him.
00:54:32The leg and the shoulder.
00:54:35But he's enormous.
00:54:37He found it.
00:54:38Shall we pull you up?
00:54:39No, no, no.
00:54:40Put Lee on.
00:54:41Put Lee on.
00:54:42Put Lee on.
00:54:43No, no, no.
00:54:44Put Lee on.
00:54:45Put Lee on.
00:54:47He wants to talk to you.
00:54:50Yes, Doctor?
00:54:51Lee?
00:54:52There's no mistake about it.
00:54:53It's a paleolithic survival.
00:54:56Exactly as we pictured it.
00:54:57Except that the dorsal is singular.
00:54:59Not bilateral.
00:55:04The clavicle suspension appears to be...
00:55:07cantilevered.
00:55:13The most astonishing thing about it is that...
00:55:19Doctor.
00:55:20Doctor Elson.
00:55:22He doesn't answer.
00:55:24Hello, Doctor Elson.
00:55:25Doctor Elson.
00:55:26Hello.
00:55:27Get him up.
00:55:28Raise the bell.
00:55:31They're pulling you up.
00:55:33Doctor Elson.
00:55:35Hello.
00:55:36Doctor Elson.
00:55:38Can you hear me?
00:55:39Answer me.
00:55:41Hello.
00:55:44The line is dead.
00:56:07Well, the reporter's been turned in.
00:56:08The National Guard has been alerted.
00:56:10The Coast Guard, too.
00:56:11Evans has been put in charge.
00:56:14This was being packed for a very different reason.
00:56:18Lee, what can I say?
00:56:20I should have gone down instead of him.
00:56:21I'm to blame.
00:56:23Nobody's to blame.
00:56:25And everybody's to blame.
00:56:26We all did what we thought was right.
00:56:30But that doesn't bring him through the door again.
00:56:32With his funny little walk.
00:56:34And that wonderful smile.
00:56:37This place seems so empty.
00:56:39He used to putter around with the specimens.
00:56:42Call them pet names.
00:56:47His death was a funeral.
00:56:50Lee.
00:56:52He went down in that bell because it was part of his job.
00:56:56He used the same words just before.
00:56:59Oh, Tom.
00:57:09Tom.
00:57:39Tom.
00:58:09I'm so fine.
00:58:39No!
00:59:09Tom!
00:59:22Tom!
00:59:39Tom!
00:59:58Coming up Nassau Street toward Pine.
01:00:00Get some help, fast!
01:00:09Tom!
01:00:40Tom!
01:00:45Tom!
01:01:10Tom!
01:01:12Tom!
01:01:13Tom!
01:01:14Tom!
01:01:15Tom!
01:01:16Tom!
01:01:17Tom!
01:01:18Tom!
01:01:19Tom!
01:01:20Tom!
01:01:21Tom!
01:01:22Tom!
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01:01:24Tom!
01:01:25Tom!
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01:02:21Tom!
01:02:30New York is like a city besieged.
01:02:32A state of emergency has been declared and the entire police force
01:02:35The police force put on 24-hour duty.
01:02:38Civilian defense is fully mobilized
01:02:39and shelters have been opened
01:02:41in an effort to stop the mounting hysteria.
01:02:44All traffic has been halted
01:02:45and Times Square, the heart of New York, has stopped beating.
01:02:49♪♪
01:02:56The National Guard has been called out,
01:02:58fully armed, to repel the invader.
01:03:00This is full-scale war against a terrible enemy
01:03:03such as modern man has never before faced.
01:03:06Ordinary bullets have no effect,
01:03:08and a method of destroying the awesome creature
01:03:11has not yet been formulated.
01:03:13But the battlefield has been cleared.
01:03:15Herald Square, 34th Street, Broadway.
01:03:20Every section of the city is guarded.
01:03:22No one knows where the monster will strike next.
01:03:26It was last seen on Wall Street,
01:03:27close to where it came ashore.
01:03:29But Lower Manhattan has become no man's land
01:03:32and the beast at present lies hidden.
01:03:34The National Guard is barricading the entire area
01:03:37in an effort to confine the death and destruction
01:03:40of what is already the worst disaster in New York's history.
01:03:43♪♪
01:03:49A screen here.
01:03:54105 temperature.
01:04:02Here's the blood specimen.
01:04:03Get it to the laboratory quickly.
01:04:05I'm afraid, Sam.
01:04:06I am afraid of what that creature has brought to us.
01:04:09Deadly afraid.
01:04:32♪♪
01:04:42♪♪
01:04:52Can you place it between his eyes?
01:04:53We can try, sir.
01:04:55Fire when ready, Corporal.
01:04:56Yes, sir.
01:04:57His skull.
01:04:59It's at least eight inches thick.
01:05:02♪♪
01:05:12Another one, Colonel?
01:05:13No.
01:05:14It'd take a three-inch shell to penetrate that skull.
01:05:17♪♪
01:05:21Bazooka squad, prepare to fire.
01:05:23♪♪
01:05:37The high-voltage wires.
01:05:39It's gonna touch him!
01:05:40♪♪
01:05:44Bazooka man, fire!
01:05:46♪♪
01:05:51Another neck.
01:05:52When he raises his head again.
01:05:54♪♪
01:06:04♪♪
01:06:14♪♪
01:06:26Get those emergency searchlights on.
01:06:29We're working on it.
01:06:31Sergeant!
01:06:32Sergeant!
01:06:35What is it?
01:06:36Blood.
01:07:00♪♪
01:07:20Give me the walkie-talkie.
01:07:26Colonel Evans.
01:07:27Colonel Evans.
01:07:28Sergeant Wintoni.
01:07:29Now look, proceed with extreme caution.
01:07:31Wounded, the animal might be twice as dangerous as before.
01:07:42There's a possibility the animal might have headed for the river.
01:07:45We'll have all shore batteries alerted and naval patrol vessels.
01:07:48Get me a command car.
01:07:49♪♪
01:08:04Colonel Evans speaking.
01:08:05Go ahead.
01:08:06Look, Colonel.
01:08:07Something's funny.
01:08:09Most of the detail, they're...
01:08:11Well, they're out.
01:08:13Out on their...
01:08:14On their feet, sir.
01:08:15Have your sergeant contact the medics.
01:08:17And report to Captain Mitchell.
01:08:19Your car is ready, sir.
01:08:20Have the medical officer report to me at area command.
01:08:22Yes, sir.
01:08:27He is reported somewhere in the lower bay area.
01:08:30Battery A in position zero.
01:08:32Battery A into position zero.
01:08:36Report radar findings.
01:08:38Report radar finding.
01:08:40Sounding harbor bottom.
01:08:42Sounding harbor bottom.
01:08:44Activate mines numbers 8 to 24.
01:08:46Activate mines numbers 8 to 24.
01:08:50What's the situation, Major?
01:08:52Sounding the harbor bottom.
01:08:53No indications as yet, sir.
01:08:57Charting room.
01:08:58Colonel Evans?
01:08:59Major, there's a call here for Colonel...
01:09:02This is Evans speaking.
01:09:04Who?
01:09:05Oh, yes.
01:09:06Hello, Doctor.
01:09:07Colonel, they've already brought in over 50 of your men
01:09:09and the people this afternoon.
01:09:11The monster's a giant germ carrier
01:09:13of a horrible virulent disease.
01:09:16Contact with the animal's blood can be fatal.
01:09:20If you use shell fire,
01:09:21who knows how far the air will spread the particles of it.
01:09:23The entire city can be endangered.
01:09:25Right, Doctor.
01:09:29Have the anti-submarine nets been raised across the Narrows?
01:09:31No, sir.
01:09:32What have them raised?
01:09:33Raised the anti-submarine nets.
01:09:35Raised the anti-submarine nets.
01:09:37We should have used flamethrowers.
01:09:38That would have cremated the beast and the plague with it.
01:09:40Flamethrowers?
01:09:41The smoke would have carried the blood particles
01:09:43just as far as the air.
01:09:44No, it will have to be reduced
01:09:46so that not even a cinder would remain.
01:09:49Any reports yet, Major?
01:09:51No signs yet, Colonel.
01:09:52He may be dying at the bottom.
01:09:54We'll set the drags in the morning.
01:09:56Right.
01:09:57Attention, monster ashore at Manhattan Beach
01:09:59heading towards amusement area.
01:10:01On land?
01:10:02I thought we had him in a corner pocket.
01:10:04Jack, there's only one way to beat him.
01:10:07How?
01:10:08Radioactive isotope.
01:10:10Shoot it into him and destroy all that diseased tissue.
01:10:14Yes, sir.
01:10:44Keep your men alerted, Sergeant,
01:10:46but nobody's to fire unless specifically ordered to.
01:10:48Yes, sir.
01:10:49How soon, Tom?
01:10:51This will be any minute now.
01:10:53Keep your men alerted, Sergeant,
01:10:55but nobody's to fire unless specifically ordered to.
01:10:58Yes, sir.
01:10:59How soon, Tom?
01:11:01This will be any minute now.
01:11:23Wait for us here.
01:11:53Hi, Professor Nesbitt.
01:11:55We got your baby, Professor.
01:11:57Good.
01:11:58We need your best marksman, Jack.
01:12:00Right.
01:12:01Have him get into these.
01:12:17Here's your man, Tom.
01:12:20Colonel says you need a dead shot, mister.
01:12:22Yes.
01:12:23Can I use a grenade rifle?
01:12:25Pick my teeth with it.
01:12:26Good.
01:12:27You know what the radioactive isotope is?
01:12:29No, but if it can be loaded, I can fire it.
01:12:31I'll load it.
01:12:32Just remember one thing.
01:12:34It has to be shot into the wound,
01:12:36and you have to make it the first time.
01:12:38This is the only isotope of its kind this side of Oak Ridge,
01:12:41so you can't miss.
01:12:43Let's get to the target.
01:12:52Come on.
01:13:22Come on.
01:13:41I can't hit him from here, mister.
01:13:48Ever ride one off those things?
01:13:50Yes, sir.
01:13:52Jack, get somebody over here
01:13:54who can operate that roller coaster.
01:13:56We're going to get to the top in one of those cars.
01:13:59Right.
01:14:00Put your hood on.
01:14:02Yes, sir.
01:14:22Oh, my God!
01:14:52Oh, my God!
01:15:22Oh, my God!
01:15:52Oh, my God!
01:16:22Oh, my God!
01:16:49Oh, my God!
01:16:52Oh, my God!
01:17:22Oh, my God!
01:17:52Oh, my God!
01:18:22Oh, my God!
01:18:52Oh, my God!
01:19:22Oh, my God!
01:19:23Oh, my God!