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"Man from Planet X" (1951) is a groundbreaking sci-fi classic directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, which quickly became a cult favorite. Set on a remote Scottish island, the story revolves around a strange alien visitor whose spacecraft lands mysteriously. The film features Dr. Elliot (Raymond Bond), his daughter Enid (Margaret Field), and reporter John Lawrence (Robert Clarke) as the key characters. They discover that the visitor from Planet X, initially appearing peaceful, communicates through strange signals and uses advanced technology to try and bridge the gap between planets.
The alien's purpose is soon overshadowed by the greed of Dr. Mears (William Schallert), a scientist who seeks to exploit the extraterrestrial technology for his personal gain. As tension mounts, it becomes clear that the intentions of the alien may be more complex and possibly dangerous. Themes of fear, mistrust, and humanity’s response to the unknown are expertly woven into the film.
"Man from Planet X" stands out for its minimalist production and haunting atmosphere, achieved on a modest budget. The fog-shrouded sets and eerie lighting contribute to the suspenseful, otherworldly tone of the film, which was shot within six days. Despite its low budget, the movie effectively captures the 1950s fascination with space exploration and the unknown.
The alien's purpose is soon overshadowed by the greed of Dr. Mears (William Schallert), a scientist who seeks to exploit the extraterrestrial technology for his personal gain. As tension mounts, it becomes clear that the intentions of the alien may be more complex and possibly dangerous. Themes of fear, mistrust, and humanity’s response to the unknown are expertly woven into the film.
"Man from Planet X" stands out for its minimalist production and haunting atmosphere, achieved on a modest budget. The fog-shrouded sets and eerie lighting contribute to the suspenseful, otherworldly tone of the film, which was shot within six days. Despite its low budget, the movie effectively captures the 1950s fascination with space exploration and the unknown.
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00:01:40I don't know if she's still alive or not.
00:01:43They've had her now for the past 24 hours.
00:01:46I'm equally uncertain as to the fate of her father, Professor Elliott.
00:01:50Both are probably dead.
00:01:52The odds are 100 to 1, I too will be finished before another sun rises.
00:01:57But tonight I'm going to try to fight for my life
00:02:00and those larger issues so perilously at stake
00:02:03affecting all mankind.
00:02:06If I fail, it seems most likely
00:02:10the consequences to humanity defy the imagination.
00:02:15As the only trained reporter who has been in a position
00:02:17to observe the terror from its inception,
00:02:21and as one of the few living humans
00:02:23who has actually met face to face
00:02:25the man from Planet X,
00:02:30I will try to set down the strangest story
00:02:33a newspaper man ever covered.
00:02:37It began prosaically enough in a college observatory
00:02:40not far from Los Angeles.
00:02:44What is it?
00:02:46A new planet, for want of another name,
00:02:49presently identified as Planet X.
00:02:51Was first spotted some weeks ago rushing out of space.
00:02:56Is this the reason Professor Elliot
00:02:58wired me to contact you?
00:02:59Have you known the professor long?
00:03:01Yeah, I was with the Eighth Air Force in England.
00:03:03The professor was our chief meteorologist
00:03:05doping out weather for bomber raids.
00:03:07The British lent him to us.
00:03:09He's a good man, Elliot.
00:03:10Oh, the best.
00:03:11He and I became fast friends.
00:03:13He always said if he ever ran across
00:03:15anything of real importance, he'd give me a crack at it.
00:03:18Used to think he was kidding, but I guess not.
00:03:21No, I guess not.
00:03:24What's it all about, Doctor?
00:03:25The world, Mr. Lawrence, is now experiencing
00:03:27strange astronomical phenomena.
00:03:30Reports have come in from all over the globe
00:03:32of inexplicable objects being sighted in the sky.
00:03:35Surely you're not telling me a scientist like yourself
00:03:37believes such nonsense.
00:03:39No, I'm not telling you that.
00:03:41Then on what evidence do you base your statement?
00:03:44Unquestionable reports of trained observers.
00:03:48At first, this phenomenon seemed to have
00:03:49no particular focal point.
00:03:52It appeared at random here and there about the world.
00:03:57But about six weeks ago, tremendous concentration
00:04:00was detected over a certain section of the Earth,
00:04:04in particularly a barren and isolated area.
00:04:09Burry?
00:04:10Yes, what do you know about it?
00:04:12Well, nothing much except this cablegram
00:04:15I got from Professor Elliot came from there.
00:04:18Says, if you remember my promise for exclusive story,
00:04:22see Dr. Robert Blaine at University Observatory.
00:04:24Signed, Elliot.
00:04:25Strange waves.
00:04:28Resembling, but still not radar waves,
00:04:30have been bouncing off the Earth.
00:04:32Coming from someplace outside,
00:04:34like the Moon or Mars, for instance?
00:04:36Originating on some sphere outside,
00:04:38but not the Moon or Mars or any known planet.
00:04:43Where does this planet X fit in?
00:04:44What's it rushing towards?
00:04:45The Earth.
00:04:47You mean, it's likely to collide with us?
00:04:51No, at least not a headlong collision.
00:04:54Oh, we've had these things before,
00:04:55like Halley's Comet, for instance, to name one.
00:04:59None which have come as close to our world
00:05:00as this one is expected to in the next three weeks,
00:05:03if our calculations are correct.
00:05:06You think something will happen?
00:05:09I wish I knew exactly.
00:05:11At the best, atmospheric disturbances, hurricanes,
00:05:14probably tidal waves.
00:05:16And at the worst?
00:05:21Where does Professor Elliot fit in?
00:05:23He discovered the planet.
00:05:24Oh, is that why he's in Bury?
00:05:26He is correct in his deductions.
00:05:28This isolated island is that part of the world
00:05:30the new planet will come closest to.
00:05:33It sort of makes cold fingers run down my spine.
00:05:36How about you?
00:05:40Uh, this is not visible to the naked eye.
00:05:43Not yet.
00:05:46How do I get to Bury?
00:05:51Here you are, sir.
00:05:52This is Bury.
00:05:54Uh, you know Professor Elliot?
00:05:57I have seen him once or twice.
00:06:00Where is he staying, do you know?
00:06:01Up at the brock.
00:06:02Good evening, dear sir.
00:06:04Hey, wait a minute.
00:06:13Mr. Lawrence.
00:06:14Hello.
00:06:15Sorry, I was late.
00:06:16I'm sorry.
00:06:17Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:06:19Hello.
00:06:20Sorry, I was late.
00:06:21I had a little motor trouble.
00:06:22Well, better late than never.
00:06:23Put your things in the back.
00:06:25All right, thanks.
00:06:32All set?
00:06:33Yeah, drive on, McDuff.
00:06:35Oh, it's getting thicker.
00:06:37It's always worse on the moors than it is in the village.
00:06:42You don't remember me, do you?
00:06:43Well, I, uh...
00:06:44Now, isn't that a fine example of how unfaithful men are?
00:06:48The last time I saw you, I got your solemn promise
00:06:50that when I grew up, I could be you.
00:06:52I never thought I'd see you again.
00:06:54Well, I'm glad you're here.
00:06:56I've been waiting for you.
00:06:57I've been waiting for you.
00:06:58I've been waiting for you.
00:06:59I've been waiting for you.
00:07:00I've been waiting for you.
00:07:01I've been waiting for you.
00:07:02I've been waiting for you.
00:07:03I've been waiting for you.
00:07:04I never thought that when I grew up, I could be your girl.
00:07:05Good heavens, Hina Delli, well, I...
00:07:07It took you long enough to recognize me.
00:07:09You know, the last time I saw you,
00:07:11you were crying because you had to go back to school.
00:07:13With all those gawky legs and buck teeth.
00:07:16I see you do remember me.
00:07:17Braces took care of the teeth.
00:07:19And nature took care of the legs.
00:07:21I hadn't thought you'd notice.
00:07:23There's a newspaper man in me.
00:07:25What a difference six years make.
00:07:27I don't think you've changed.
00:07:29Well, thank you kindly.
00:07:30Or should I thank you kindly?
00:07:34Oh, thanks.
00:07:41Yeah.
00:07:44Hey, what did all this?
00:07:56Bombs?
00:07:57By the time.
00:07:58It's been this way for centuries.
00:08:00Who ever built this tower up here at the end of nowhere?
00:08:03They call these towers rocks.
00:08:05Originally built, local legend has it as a defense against the Viking raiders.
00:08:11Well, come on.
00:08:14As of midnight, the 13th of September, 1950, is as follows.
00:08:18Hello.
00:08:19John.
00:08:20Professor.
00:08:21It's good to see you.
00:08:22And you, my lad, and you.
00:08:24It's a cozy little place you have here.
00:08:25Serves its purpose.
00:08:27Oh, you remember Dr. Mears by any chance?
00:08:30Mr. Lawrence has forgotten.
00:08:32I forgive him.
00:08:34I doubt if he ever expected to see my face again.
00:08:38Frankly, I hadn't given it much thought.
00:08:41John and I are starved.
00:08:42I suppose you and Dr. Mears have already eaten.
00:08:44Yes, we had a bite.
00:08:45Take him down into the kitchen, my dear, and fix yourself something.
00:08:48It's just a tiny place right underneath here, but home is where the pantry is.
00:08:52Isn't that so?
00:08:53That's right.
00:08:54Come along.
00:08:58Here, let us continue.
00:09:021950 is as follows.
00:09:07What I like in talent for cookery I make up in speed.
00:09:11But I really do brew a fine cup of tea.
00:09:13Well, I hope so.
00:09:15How many of these rooms are there?
00:09:17This one's mine, and there's another one under this.
00:09:20Dr. Mears occupies it.
00:09:21No, thanks.
00:09:22You have some.
00:09:24Hey, how on earth does he happen to be here?
00:09:27Oh, you know, Father, soft-hearted as a sponge.
00:09:30Mears dropped in on us two weeks ago.
00:09:32Pleaded he was ill and broke, and jolly well looked it, too.
00:09:35And because he was one of Father's old students, so he's here.
00:09:40Just dropped in?
00:09:42Mm-hmm.
00:09:45People don't just drop in here, a place on the edge of the world.
00:09:48I heard he was somewhere in Scotland.
00:09:50He's been in seclusion since that trouble he got into.
00:09:52I feel sort of sorry for him.
00:09:54No, you needn't.
00:09:55He should have gotten 20 years.
00:09:57He did go to prison for a while, didn't he?
00:09:59I was just a kid then.
00:10:02I trust I'm not disturbing you, Mr. Lawrence.
00:10:05Professor Elliot would like to see you upstairs.
00:10:07You go ahead, John.
00:10:08I'll be up in a minute as soon as I put away these dishes.
00:10:11All right.
00:10:26Didn't interrupt you before you finished, did I?
00:10:28No, I was just having some tea.
00:10:30Where's Mears?
00:10:31What?
00:10:32I thought he was behind me.
00:10:33Must have gone to his room.
00:10:35I called you to take a look at our mysterious visitor
00:10:38before we lose her for the night.
00:10:40Good.
00:10:41Fog's rolling in off the moors.
00:10:45Go ahead, John.
00:10:56It's tripled in size.
00:10:58Grows larger nightly.
00:11:03Well, what do you think, Professor?
00:11:08I think I'll just have to wait and see on the 17th.
00:11:25Stray dogs.
00:11:27Eerie place, these moors.
00:11:29And wet, too.
00:11:30Yet they have a grim beauty of their own.
00:11:33That hot tea you drank should have warmed you nicely.
00:11:35Is that why the British drink so much of it?
00:11:37The climate?
00:11:38And because we like it.
00:11:40Hello, lightning.
00:11:42Storm brewing.
00:11:43I've heard that one may tell how distant a storm is
00:11:46by the number of seconds between the lightning and the thunder.
00:11:49True?
00:11:50Well, let's see.
00:11:51One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:11:59Must be in Chicago.
00:12:01No thunder.
00:12:02No static electricity, maybe.
00:12:04At this time of year?
00:12:05Say, how's the view from the top of the rise?
00:12:08Pretty, if there's anything to be seen.
00:12:10Well, I'm sure of that.
00:12:12The village is over there, but the fog's too thick.
00:12:15You'll have to take my word for the view.
00:12:17I'll do that.
00:12:19And add three of my own.
00:12:21I like it.
00:12:24We'd better be getting back.
00:12:26Dad'll worry.
00:12:27I'll bet right now he doesn't know where our little girl is.
00:12:29I'll tell him.
00:12:30I'll warn him.
00:12:31I'll warn him.
00:12:32I'll warn him.
00:12:33He'll be all right.
00:12:34He'll be all right.
00:12:35He'll be all right.
00:12:36He'll be all right.
00:12:37I'll warn him.
00:12:38I'll warn him.
00:12:39I'll warn him.
00:12:40right now he doesn't know we're alive and it's getting cold I noticed well which
00:12:47way this I think it's close to this way
00:12:59what on earth is that I don't know fellow mechanically minded I could
00:13:06probably tell you what could it be that as we say back in the States is the
00:13:13$64 question well careful it might explode it's not a bomb yes I don't
00:13:20think it is besides what would a bomb be doing up here fell out of a plane do
00:13:27any ever fly across here the only one that's been anywhere near here in the
00:13:31past six months must have been the one that set you off the breakwater this
00:13:34afternoon well your father will probably be able to tell us what it is never
00:13:38carry that back to the bracket nothing to it
00:13:45the measurements are singularly precise what is it how does it operate if it
00:13:52does or has and then you ask more than I'm prepared to answer the theory might
00:13:56suggest that the inside is hollow and it might have contained a propulsive
00:14:00element of some kind of gas perhaps look here the metal is discolored
00:14:05possibly from the generation of some terrific heat it's fantastic professor
00:14:10look interesting that should work out at about one-fifth the specific gravity of
00:14:17steel I could mean millions millions if that formula could be reproduced wait a
00:14:23minute I don't know if I follow you what do you mean if that formula could be
00:14:26reproduced where do you assume this came from well my assumption may sound
00:14:29fantastic may be fantastic for all I can say but this object comes out of
00:14:35space I could not deny the possibility do you realize what this metal could
00:14:41mean it's harder than steel it has tremendous tensile strength and it weighs
00:14:45only a fifth as much as steel the man who controls this formula controls the
00:14:52industry of the world before you start spending those millions doctor consider
00:14:57a slight problem what's that if the professor's theory bears any fact you're
00:15:04going to have a little difficulty mining that metal don't you think I was speaking
00:15:08metaphorically of course you reassure me let us concentrate on this remarkable
00:15:13object father it's quite late the scale is delicate it responds to a breath upon
00:15:18it
00:15:27oh how long has it been since you slept about 36 hours and 6,000 miles ago I
00:15:52guess would you object to sharing a bed with dr. me oh no need to inflict myself
00:15:56on him I noticed name at the village well just for tonight tomorrow make dad
00:16:00get rid of me is not on my account please on my own he well he upsets me
00:16:05yeah we can't have you getting upset Henry where you going I'll drive you
00:16:26see you tomorrow good night thanks a lot for everything drive carefully oh I know
00:16:32every stone on the road John yeah it's nice having you here thanks good night
00:16:40night
00:16:57you
00:17:16can't found the luck
00:17:26you
00:17:56you
00:18:26you
00:18:56you
00:19:26the light flickered on and off it wasn't very bright a ghastly greenish
00:19:31color when I got close to it it looked like a giant glass ball girdled with
00:19:36something like a steel belt three of them I think when I got close enough to
00:19:40look in there it was it what that face right on the other side of the glass
00:19:46looking right into mine I was terrified face a human face a ghastly caricature
00:19:51like something distorted by pressure I can't think how else to describe it a
00:19:55horrible grotesque imitation of the face looking right into my eyes now I know
00:20:05you're not given to hysteria my dear but your statements have the tinge of
00:20:10fantasy you you say you saw this this hideous face yes and I ran really
00:20:23frightened I guess for the first time in my life you're not going out there I'd
00:20:31better take a look you have a hot drink and get some I'll guide you no my don't
00:20:35argue I'm quite all right it was just the first shock now you've got me
00:20:39wondering just what I did see I'm going with you.
00:20:48This way.
00:20:48. Where
00:21:08over the next drive.
00:21:19I don't see anything I think it's straight ahead.
00:21:34Why I've been.
00:21:48.
00:22:18.
00:22:49.
00:23:10Can't see much.
00:23:12He's at least certain of that but he's obviously creation of science that's
00:23:19beyond question manufactured by whom for what purpose.
00:23:26Not the type without.
00:23:41.
00:24:07Get away from here we should have waited until daylight it was coming out and
00:24:11the dark I'm uncanny come on father get up father is anything the matter.
00:24:22Father do you hear me. Hurry come on hurry.
00:24:41.
00:24:52Please wait. Father stop.
00:25:01Don't stare at me.
00:25:02.
00:25:08Come with me.
00:25:27All I was capable of was obedience when I heard a command it was
00:25:30a complete paralysis of the faculties other than blind slavish movement.
00:25:38Seem to be confronted by
00:25:39a concrete menace willful hostile Do you think could it possibly have something to
00:25:46do with that planet.
00:26:00.
00:26:01.
00:26:02.
00:26:03.
00:26:04.
00:26:30Or am I glad to see you what's doing I saw your car on the road anything the
00:26:33matter we've got a bad case of the jitters but I shouldn't keep you out here in
00:26:36the doorstep come on in.
00:26:41Your theory professors that these singular occurrences are in some way connected
00:26:45with planet X have you a better theory to offer. No. You'll have to pardon me if
00:26:52it takes me a moment to get my bearings. What do you think this is building up to
00:26:57well I must confess I'm beyond my depth we have but one theory to work on in
00:27:02approximately sixty hours the planet's orbit will bring it into its closest
00:27:06position to this world and very will be the nearest spot on the Earth to the
00:27:10planet and whatever and whomever is upon it. Sixty hours. Don't you think we'd
00:27:17better notify the police or what should we notify them all of that ball out there
00:27:21this this gadget even I found and defeat everything that we've spent all these
00:27:26weeks in this forsaken spot to achieve being overrun by the curious somebody
00:27:30liable to run on to that thing out there oh it isn't likely this area of the
00:27:34moors is checkered with marshes many a strange farm animal has been swallowed up
00:27:39places a bad name the natives keep their distance where's this ball now I'll take
00:27:45you. Get it from the edge of this rock. Look.
00:27:57No sign of life.
00:28:01You know what that looks like to me a big diving bell the only difference between
00:28:06water and space matter density. Yeah. It's pretty quiet now let's let's go down
00:28:14take a look.
00:28:30Everlasting fog the mistake put the planet around here.
00:29:00I wonder. If my wife. Diamonds cut glass. Scratch glass practically any other
00:29:25substance on Earth this must be tremendously resistant I can't think of
00:29:30anything known to man equally so. This you believe. Out of space. What else.
00:29:53What's the next step professor keep it carefully under observation until the
00:29:57seventeenth and find out whether it has any connection with what may or may not
00:30:01happen then. We better be getting back we don't want to worry too much right right.
00:30:17The thing is holding watch it don't move. He doesn't take the idea and make a move
00:30:22for me. Run run as hard and as fast as you can and come back with help lots of
00:30:27it ever tried out running the speed of light well here goes this is
00:30:32a universal gesture maybe it'll work.
00:30:52In. What's the matter with him.
00:31:02You're the missing noise sounds like it's coming from that tank on his back filled
00:31:07with gas something like oxygen whatever it is he's trying to regulate it seems if
00:31:13he's trying to turn that knob to the right but it doesn't have the strength of
00:31:15coordination.
00:31:22It's.
00:31:46Decided we're friendly natives you've got to find some means of communication he's
00:31:50capable of sound. It may be an attempt to communicate it seems hopeless though
00:31:56looks as if we're up against
00:31:57a blank wall well let's beat it back to the Brock what and leave him question is
00:32:02will he let us. Maddening here we have this astounding creature with his vast
00:32:08potential for fabulous knowledge to be given us and when they only stand and stare
00:32:12at each other. Lawrence. Elliott.
00:32:17Home. And getting primitive Mike segment which I mean about sign language so I
00:32:24try it and just don't alarm.
00:32:34It's no use. Start backing up he makes a move for that thing in his holster stop.
00:32:42All right back up.
00:32:46All right now I'm
00:32:59a double.
00:33:00I'm
00:33:12I'm all right John where have you been I've been to.
00:33:20Have you.
00:33:30I've been.
00:33:51A lot. Nothing works he just keeps making that sound everything we try to do I was
00:34:00in it did the sedative work yeah she's asleep good. We've got to reach him.
00:34:09You have found a means of communication doctor yes. What common denominator
00:34:16professor the basic and universal language geometry by George Dr you've hit if
00:34:22anything should warrant success this should excuse me if I say you've lost me I'm
00:34:28the shadowy figure in the left background with
00:34:30a stupid expression on his face I don't get this mathematics well there may be no
00:34:33scientific achievement without mathematics in itself is the purest language of
00:34:37science now this creature represents an obviously superior race of beings where
00:34:42science is concerned to be able to land on the earth from
00:34:45a planet whose existence was previously unsuspecting I'm up to you now if there's
00:34:50anything our friend here should be able to understand we might use a bridge to
00:34:54reach him it's this same basic language geometry precisely professor this is not
00:34:59an easy formula to devise which I understand you need undisturbed concentration
00:35:05let us know when you're ready come along John if you're leaving him alone I presume
00:35:09your concern arises from fears for my safety Mr Lawrence. Spare yourself any anxiety
00:35:16this creature is as intelligent as we he knows that we are trying to find
00:35:21a mutual basis for understanding I'm quite safe mirrors is right come to.
00:35:51Me.
00:36:05I'll have the world in my pocket. With your help.
00:36:21I'm.
00:36:33Now don't start fussing about things like that my dear I have a little touch of the
00:36:37flu is nothing to get so overwrought about when you're going to stay in bed look
00:36:41now here's
00:36:42a compromise suppose I peddle into the village to the drugstore and get some medicine
00:36:45that will at least to leave it in England chemist or drugstore anyway I'll get
00:36:50something to knock this out you stay in bed till I get back. That creature down
00:36:56stairs don't worry about him I'll take a look at him I don't like leaving you here
00:37:00with. Well I'll get back as fast as I can wait here the keys to the car if you fix
00:37:05that tire to save you
00:37:06a lot of time. And
00:37:16what are we here. Morning possible. Miss Elliott's car.
00:37:25So you're the man from America. Folks be saying none sort of way left.
00:37:32They're absolutely right so they just do it all the time and I. That's really.
00:37:39Not true do you say. That's really it has to touch the flu. Matter of fact.
00:37:47On the way and now to the chemist to get him some medicine I don't feel excuse me.
00:37:59This should be my secret.
00:38:00To
00:38:24think. Fantastic no like you had
00:38:28a hurdle out of space to put this power into my hands. Well.
00:38:38Now that we've made contact. I'm going to tear out every secret you've got.
00:38:58And.
00:39:12We're going to ration this. You're going to start earning.
00:39:16A man.
00:39:32What is it father would like to see you.
00:39:47You.
00:39:59He's resting were you able to communicate with him. No.
00:40:09It was
00:40:09a futile attempt I couldn't make him understand me at all. Most disappointed
00:40:16high hopes. Sure you were on the right track. Well we'll have to try another
00:40:24method. Are you feeling. Everybody so concerned about me
00:40:32may I trouble you for
00:40:33a glass of water please.
00:41:03I. Got the stuff
00:41:17should have you up around no time where is he in the kitchen.
00:41:20But. But. And it.
00:41:43Ain't it. It was God that I sacrificed her just for
00:41:48a newspaper story. That was the thought which tormented.
00:42:01Nowhere around the dungeon empty empty what happened after I left he did he must
00:42:06have taken her with him come on where to the sphere out on the moor where else
00:42:10would he take her you've got
00:42:12a gun professor I have one or bring it be careful for heaven's sake I'll go along
00:42:15with wait a minute but to be sensible please you better stay in bed we'll go out
00:42:19and reconnoiter and be back as soon as we can let's go for the guns in my room I'll
00:42:24meet you out front. What did he do to him he was trying to
00:42:30establish communication Oh yes I know geometrically but how else well what do you
00:42:35mean that he abused him provoke him in any way certainly wouldn't have been in
00:42:39a sense in doing so well I don't consider me as
00:42:41a sensible man he's
00:42:42an ambitious man a brilliant man and unscrupulous man but certainly not
00:42:46a sensible but why should he be so foolish as to try to get me may have to answer
00:42:50for that one of these days. Directions are on the bottom you better take it and
00:42:55stay in bed.
00:43:05Anything. Not a sign nothing we can't risk a move in it might be
00:43:10in there what you do to him back there in the dungeon do to him didn't do
00:43:15anything nothing at all he showed
00:43:17a definite disposition toward friendliness when I left well how can you talk of
00:43:20Miss if he were
00:43:21a human being how do we know what thought processes run through his head how can
00:43:26we even assume that he thinks like we do how can you anticipate what
00:43:29a fantastic organism like that might do or might not do all right all right stay
00:43:34here and I'll be back as soon as I can.
00:43:40And if anything should happen to you know don't never forgive myself I should
00:43:48never have exposed it this danger should never.
00:43:53Have. It's.
00:44:10The night was haunted by terror and the sickening conviction that the man from
00:44:14Planet X had in it powerless in his grasp if she was to be saved I had to think
00:44:19calmly. I checked off my resources help from the village I did not risk it within
00:44:26a captive the professor ill helpless Dr Mayers unstable unpredictable.
00:44:35If I only were not so helpless before the voiceless threat of the unknown.
00:45:20Where was in it. Where was the man from Planet X.
00:45:37Good evening to you so I could have it's been don't you knock I thought you hear
00:45:40this coming up the stairs I didn't I didn't mean to frighten you so what brings
00:45:44you here. If we'd like to speak with the professor at least sick he's under
00:45:48a sedative what do you want with him it's
00:45:50a matter of considerable importance I stand the burns and Mike Lang have gone
00:45:55gone where why plan vanished and none can tell where I don't get you. Gordian me
00:46:01we've been open the more a search and for him we dropped by here to look in on
00:46:05you but you don't think I have your two villagers up here do you eat meat they
00:46:09drave the sheep in from the moors last night they did not come home back to love
00:46:14a man and what we want to know is it any of your doing here at the Brock up here
00:46:20you'll never deny there's something very strange going on here. No.
00:46:26I won't deny it something strange has been going on I was right he don't. I know
00:46:35what exactly is the nature of this Elliott has disappeared I'm. No she has no idea
00:46:44as to where she could yes I have. But I can't tell you. And why no you wouldn't
00:46:51believe me I'll have to show you. Show me. I'll try to explain on the way if your
00:46:58friend will stay with the professor while we're gone. But that best be no monkey
00:47:05business of a foreign nature. I'll go with you. And got to be I tell me if I'm
00:47:12not back in a reasonable time call off the village I.
00:47:28Don't.
00:47:44Want to.
00:47:46I.
00:47:53I.
00:47:55That's why I'm going to show you it's that sphere which brought him out of space
00:47:58quietly now it's just over the next rise. That you are completely flummoxed or it is
00:48:04some American joke I don't enjoy walking out on these cold wars Professor Elliott
00:48:08hasn't been living in that bouldy Brock because he likes it and his daughter has
00:48:11disappeared as
00:48:12a joke. I make it sound or sober. Sorry part of the moors
00:48:19for us to intervene on easy. Straight ahead now I.
00:48:31Didn't see
00:48:32a thing but this is the spot where I left me it's just a few hours ago you tell me
00:48:37he's got a wife to. Mears. Mears.
00:48:50Give me a light I.
00:48:55I didn't see a thing. There there you see where the brush flattened. What's this.
00:49:02Here's binoculars. It must be up and sample and too much of our good Scott whiskey
00:49:08find it a pair of glasses and I mean or much what about you to villages of
00:49:11disappeared Miss Elliott and now Mears believe me man we're in trouble we'll go
00:49:16back to the station house I'll get out of search party and I mean why I'll keep me
00:49:20eyes on I don't care where you keep your eyes provided you do something now we'll
00:49:24go along. Tammy.
00:49:27Tammy. Was out on the moor gave you any clue constable may not.
00:49:36We're going to find
00:49:37a thing. But two more persons are missing. One is the old professor's daughter.
00:49:46The other is one of the men staying up to the block don't you worry find them for
00:49:51you. Not all right you go up one side of the village knock on the doors Andre I
00:49:57could go up to the side we'll have to search the more thorough it'll take every
00:50:01man and body tell the men to bring what arms they have Andre Donald you hear that
00:50:05I get on with you then. Party but they are German act like you've seen
00:50:11a ghost or something the ghost. Something of flesh and blood. Horrible
00:50:18monstrous creature with a head as big as two men put together a skin with the shine
00:50:22of a new shell and eyes that are no better than a dead codfish. Where do you see
00:50:27why do you leave the professor I didn't leave him he often left me what are you
00:50:30saying I went to fill the water jug at the well by the time I was coming back the
00:50:34professor was walking into the fog with that friend of his has been stopping with
00:50:37Dr Mears I that's him I heard him called by name what happened the professor's
00:50:41ill the other one was helping them they look no better than a dead man himself
00:50:44with his glassy eyes I was afraid and I followed them then and twice I saw it
00:50:52yet it was one of the bogey bogey with a big head and the peculiar hump on his
00:50:59back he stepped out of the fog a wee bit before the professor and his friend and
00:51:03I didn't wait to see what else happened I ran until I thought my heart would
00:51:07burst from my chest all right get back now get back well Mr. Norris
00:51:16what do you make of that it's that creature from out of space he's got Mears
00:51:20in his clutches and used him to get the professor into his hands chances are
00:51:23that's where you'll find the men from the village to man from space but
00:51:28Clapper Claus
00:51:35it is a fearsome visitor from another world is it complete that you are
00:51:39constable
00:51:49it is why the professor has been living up to the block to see what would happen
00:51:55when an unknown planet came close to the earth on the night of the 17th that's
00:52:00a few days from now why here on battery because the professor's calculations
00:52:04told him this would be the area of closest contact with the planet but the
00:52:08bogey does I know them we have every reason to believe it is
00:52:13you'll be all over town in no time we've got to get out on the moors man you're
00:52:18gonna get a loan out there and we'll have to get help from the outside if you got
00:52:20a radio I mean a wireless not for outside contact
00:52:24call London tell them what's happened here and ask for help at once hello are
00:52:30you there hello
00:52:35hello
00:52:36hello
00:52:37hello
00:52:38hello
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00:52:41hello
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00:52:46hello
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00:52:49hello
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00:52:51hello
00:52:52hello
00:52:53hello
00:52:54hello
00:52:55there
00:52:56it's dead
00:52:57let me try
00:52:58hello operator
00:52:59operator
00:53:00hello
00:53:01hello
00:53:02hello
00:53:03you had this trouble before only doing climate disturbances and the like there's
00:53:06no local exchange here huh it's over in the mainland the wire goes across the bottom
00:53:09of the sea well except for the fog the weather isn't too bad I can't understand it look
00:53:15lend me your bicycle I'll go back to the Brock maybe there I'll find something that
00:53:20well who knows fine risk it's better than hanging around here just waiting the bicycles
00:53:26outside thanks I'll be back in a few hours you hang on that phone
00:53:33hello
00:53:50hello
00:54:15these two must have undergone the same treatment
00:54:18you mean they were locked and independent of their own inclinations and will they were
00:54:21acting just like slaves and seeking other villagers to be enslaved with them but for
00:54:25what purpose can't you see man he's building an army an army and if he hasn't stopped he'll
00:54:29have every man in this village to carry out his orders
00:54:33man you take the taste of the tea right out of my mouth you have any luck with the phone
00:54:37nothing but jangling and clanging and buzzing isn't there any way at all we can get word
00:54:41off this island except what what we'll talk man I was I was thinking perhaps heliograph
00:54:50well hit we'll try it at once there's not enough sunlight to get to the nearest place
00:54:56well there's enough to reach that boat out there hey right y'all fast fast before it
00:55:01right though
00:55:07hurry up you'll be nosing into that fog bank in a few minutes
00:55:15emergency village terror stricken
00:55:25contact Scotland Yard
00:55:29there she's gone hi fog bank swallowed her up think they saw us I cannot tell
00:55:39I'm warning you lad do not do that oh look here lad let me go this is no time for pranks
00:56:00Alive!
00:56:02What has got into you?
00:56:04Let me loose!
00:56:29and I found it at the new location where he had moved it it was being fortified and I
00:56:52have no doubt that the men doing the job were the same ones who disappeared from the village
00:56:56but I was too far away to recognize them and I have some news for you too two more of the
00:57:02men of the village have been taken how'd that happen young Wilkie and Bobby Harris young
00:57:07Wilkie went down to look at his cows they hadn't been milked for two days his sister said he
00:57:11left a little before sunrise he didn't return Bobby went down to look at his boat to see
00:57:16if it were up above the midnight tide line he didn't return that if the men left don't
00:57:21buckle down to the job this is going to be a village of zombies oh come on you cannot
00:57:24get them off it is the fear of the unknown that has frightened them even if they were
00:57:28willing to take the risk their losses would not let them what are we going to do stand
00:57:31around here and let him send for us too come come in
00:57:41gentlemen who are you are you in charge of this station constable aye I am inspector
00:57:47Porter inspector this is sergeant Ferris Sutherland yard yes gentlemen pardon me come
00:57:54in inspector come in sit sit down so we were in Edinburgh we received word from London
00:58:01our message did get through the ship sauce I understand a freight ship relayed to London
00:58:06by a wireless the message he picked up while passing that was flashed by heliograph I'm
00:58:10John Lawrence Oh American newspaper man affiliated press how'd you get here small plane
00:58:16landed south of the village only field without boulders and took us an hour to trudge here
00:58:22you're a long way from home mr. Lawrence what are you doing here in Bury sit down inspector
00:58:28I'll try to tell you just how do you expect to cope with this situation inspector well
00:58:39from what I've been told I see only one way a detachment of the military that creature
00:58:45won't be taken he'll fight and all those people he's captured will die with him besides
00:58:51how you get the soldiers here the telephones out our plane has a wireless there just might
00:58:56be another way Oh what's that it's now 930 I'll give you one till 11 o'clock to try what
00:59:04you can if you're not back by that time we'll open fire but you've got to at least give
00:59:10us time by that time your job must be finished it isn't 11 o'clock mr. Lawrence but everyone
00:59:18out there might be annihilated Enid the professor the people from the village dr. Mears everyone
00:59:23professor Elliot told you that planet would be within the Earth's gravitational orbit
00:59:27by midnight the consequences of such an unparalleled proximity could be anything none of us know
00:59:36none of us know what that that enigma out on the moors might be planning you're right
00:59:41professor's theory was invasion we can't risk determining whether it has any fact a planet
00:59:48of such size coming so close to ours might cause a disastrous atmospheric upheaval as
00:59:54well therefore mr. Lawrence 11 o'clock we dare not delay beyond that time do you understand
01:00:01yeah even then we may be risking too much all right 11 o'clock
01:00:09the hour is near
01:00:22and
01:00:25man
01:00:27X
01:00:56be sure who's coming out of this fog before you start blasting Inspector I'll make certain
01:01:00I have written a story of what's happened here up to this minute going to depend on
01:01:04you to get into the right hands when security seems fit I'll see that it reaches the proper
01:01:08hands thanks well good luck look out for yourself laddie yeah thanks
01:01:38this is John John Lawrence do you hear me I hear you where's Enid where's Enid inside
01:02:02what did Mears tell you when he came back to the Brock told me Enid had escaped and
01:02:07was waiting for me listen to me professor climb over this embankment very quietly and
01:02:14walk straight ahead climb over this embankment walk straight ahead Mears talk to Mears come
01:02:34here
01:02:41you're able to communicate with the creature isn't that right yes you found out how to
01:02:55do it in the dungeon back at the Brock that's all yes what's he doing now what's his appearance
01:03:02what do you mean he's establishing a wireless directional beam to his planet at midnight
01:03:08when the planet is at its closest approach to earth an invasion will be launched why
01:03:14why comes from a planet that's dying it's turning to ice if his people do not escape
01:03:20from the planet before it swings back along its route through space they will be doomed
01:03:25how'd they get so close to earth they managed to make the planet deviate from its natural
01:03:30orbit by scientific degravitation what was that object he didn't I found on the borders
01:03:36it's a magnetically powered rangefinder used to determine the composition of the earth's
01:03:41atmosphere was sent out in advance of the spaceship for experimental purposes and how
01:03:48does he keep you a slave to his will by exposing us to a ray he exposes us to it every few
01:03:55hours wait here
01:04:04then stop work walk straight ahead
01:05:26you
01:05:29you
01:05:32you
01:05:35you
01:05:53eat it eat it come out of there bears stand up up run over this wall
01:06:04come down darling it's me john come on we must hurry
01:06:15there's something out there it's the professor
01:06:21oh it's glad I have to see you sir glad I am indeed where are you going stop now
01:06:28that is help me sit down come along professor come along
01:06:39that's it sit down here
01:06:43that's right professor
01:06:58you
01:07:29in 59
01:07:42no they can't destroy him they mustn't
01:07:50come back
01:07:59right
01:08:13right
01:08:24force
01:08:29right
01:08:44the planet
01:08:58you
01:09:21you're going back with inspector porter in his plane
01:09:24well this time tomorrow afternoon we'll be far out over the ocean going home
01:09:32I'll miss you your father tells me you're coming to California so he can confer with
01:09:37dr. Blaine
01:09:42is it true that no one will ever know what happened here
01:09:47knowledge would only bring more fear in a world already filled with it can such a thing
01:09:51be kept a secret no no but it can be reduced to gossip you know I think that creature was
01:10:00friendly I wonder what would have happened if if dr. Mears hadn't frightened him who
01:10:07knows perhaps the greatest curse to ever befall the world or perhaps the greatest blessing
01:10:21you