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00:01Molly.
00:06What time is it now?
00:12Just ten minutes later than when you asked before.
00:20Do you think he'll get here in time?
00:24He'll be here any minute now. Take it easy, John.
00:27Do you really have to tell him tonight?
00:31Yes, tonight. I feel that it may be my last.
00:35Now, now, now. You know you're going to get better.
00:39Holly.
00:41What's become of your passion for cold scientific facts?
00:45There he is now. Hurry.
00:47Hurry.
00:55I believe my uncle's expecting me. I'm Leo Vinci.
00:58Yes, I can see that. How are you, Vinci? Come along in.
01:01My name's Holly.
01:03Horace Holly.
01:04Glad to know you.
01:05Confound your English fog. Our ship was a whole day late.
01:07Well, thank heavens you're here in time.
01:10Time? What's all the rush?
01:13Your cable said, catch first boat. Greatest adventure in the world.
01:16What's all the mystery?
01:17You'll hear all about that from your uncle.
01:19There's one thing my cable didn't say.
01:21John Vinci's dying.
01:23Good Lord.
01:24What of?
01:25Radium poisoning.
01:27I haven't seen the old man since I was a kid.
01:30He never quite got over outside of the family going American.
01:32Why'd he send for me?
01:33There's no time to explain that now. Every minute counts.
01:37Come along in.
01:47I'm sorry, sir. I couldn't get here any sooner.
01:49Never mind that, my boy.
01:50There's no time for explanations now.
01:53Come closer.
01:55Holly.
01:57Did you ever see such a striking resemblance?
01:59Extraordinary. I'd already noticed it.
02:01Look at that portrait.
02:05Holly, turn on that light.
02:13Does resemble me at that?
02:15Or should I say that I resemble him?
02:17That is your ancestor of a dozen generations ago.
02:21Really?
02:22John Vinci in the 15th century.
02:24Well, I must say we Vinci's have a way of looking like each other.
02:31I have no time for explanations now, my boy.
02:35I'm a man of science.
02:37I'm not superstitious.
02:39If I were, I might imagine that your resemblance to a man dead nearly 500 years
02:44is fate's way of showing me that you will find again what he discovered.
02:47What is that, sir?
02:48The means of overcoming man's enemy.
02:49Man's enemy?
02:50My enemy.
02:51Your enemy.
02:52The enemy of all living things.
02:53Careful, John.
02:54That is what I mean, Leo.
02:55That is the swinging march of man's enemy.
02:59Time bringing death.
03:01Invisible, relentless death.
03:04I guess nobody can stop that.
03:06Who knows?
03:07A lot of men have believed that they could.
03:09Ponce de Leon, who searched for the fountain of youth.
03:13Or those 15th century alchemists, who tried to discover the elixir of life.
03:17But what connection is all this with me?
03:19Or John Vinci over there on the wall?
03:21That's what your uncle's going to tell you.
03:24Holly.
03:25Get me the box.
03:27Listen to me carefully, Leo.
03:29I haven't time left to tell you more than once.
03:32Uncle John, I don't think you should exert yourself.
03:33Please, please.
03:34What I am going to tell you is a secret handed down in our family from father to son.
03:39The first John Vinci there did not go on his last great adventure alone.
03:43His wife left their son in England to go with him.
03:46For five years they vanished from the world.
03:48Then one night in a town in northern Poland, a woman, ill, starving, dying, collapsed at the door of an English merchant.
03:57He took her in and heard her ravings of hardship and fantastic terror.
04:00That woman was John Vinci's widow.
04:05Before she died, she became more coherent.
04:09Begged for someone to write a letter to her family in England.
04:12Here is the letter dictated by that dying woman almost five centuries ago.
04:18Yes, it is something of a puzzle.
04:27Doesn't she tell what happened to John Vinci?
04:29Yeah.
04:32So he was killed because he refused to abandon me.
04:35Does it give any idea where they went to?
04:37Not much.
04:38It mentions the land of Muscovy.
04:40Russia, eh?
04:41Siberia or Kamchatka, all known as Muscovy in the 15th century.
04:46The place where he was killed was far, far north.
04:49She escaped with their English servant.
04:51They fell in with some natives who guided them back across a glacier, over what she calls the Shugal barrier.
04:57And there death struck again.
04:59Holly, read it.
05:00Then a great beast sprang on our guides and killed them all.
05:09My servant Giles killed the beast, but died of his grievous wounds.
05:14So I was left alone.
05:16But what about the discovery you spoke of?
05:17What'd they find?
05:19Read on.
05:20In this strange land we saw the flame.
05:24And he who stands therein comes forth unharmed to triumph over death.
05:31But John Vinci died there.
05:33Why if he found this, uh, this flame?
05:36Because he was murdered.
05:38But you are scientists.
05:40Do you really take all this seriously?
05:42Seriously?
05:44Come, my boy.
05:46I'll show you how seriously.
05:47Come into the laboratory where Holly and I have done our life work.
05:52In the beginning I was as skeptical as you.
05:55Then Holly and I...
05:57Years ago...
05:59In this very room...
06:01Began our efforts to...
06:03Reproduce John Vinci's life-prolonging flame.
06:08We failed.
06:11But our researches in radioactivity...
06:14Carried us far enough to make us believe that such an element really exists.
06:18An element to preserve life?
06:20Yes.
06:21Seventeen years in this room.
06:23There's one other thing we ought to show him, John.
06:26Yeah.
06:28Can you make out the inscription?
06:30It means, here burns the flame of life.
06:33That is the sole possession Vinci's wife had left.
06:36She sent it to the sun she never saw again.
06:38It's all so mysterious it doesn't make sense.
06:41This thing's gold.
06:42Not an unknown element.
06:44To be sure it's gold.
06:46It's only the symbol of the flame of life, John Vinci.
06:48Don't you understand?
06:50I'm afraid I don't.
06:51Flame destroys life.
06:53A thousand volts of electricity will destroy life.
06:55But increase the frequency and you may safely take a million volts through your body.
06:58The radiation from this unknown element, this flame of life, may be a million degrees hotter than any fire we know.
07:06Or it may be as cold as ice.
07:08That's too much.
07:10A cold flame?
07:12Did you ever hear of a man being burned by x-rays or radium?
07:15Did he feel himself being burned?
07:17No. No more than I did myself.
07:19This flame of life Vinci is pure radiation.
07:22The most intense and flame-like radiation in the whole universe.
07:25Radiation from what?
07:26From the unknown element.
07:27Do you really believe such a thing exists?
07:30We no longer believe. We know it exists.
07:32Our experiments prove that.
07:33That's right.
07:34They also prove something else.
07:36This element cannot be artificially produced.
07:38Only nature, only God can produce it.
07:40But where?
07:42In a glacial region of volcanic character.
07:44That's largely a guesswork, isn't it?
07:46No.
07:47Not if the family legend is true.
07:49And I believe that it is.
07:52I believe that John Vinci found that flame.
07:55And that it still burns somewhere.
07:58Remote and mysterious.
08:01Offering eternal life.
08:04That's why I sent for you.
08:07You're a Vinci.
08:09The last of us.
08:11Holly can't do it alone.
08:13But he'll go with you.
08:15John Vinci was an explorer.
08:18It's in your blood.
08:20The lover of adventure.
08:23Don't look upon this as a deathbed wish.
08:26If you should try.
08:28If you succeed.
08:30I shan't be.
08:33But I hope that somehow I shall know.
08:36And somehow share in your triumph.
08:39When you say.
08:41Here burns.
08:43The flame of life.
08:49Uncle John.
08:51John.
08:53John!
08:59He is scared.
09:00He is terrified.
09:01The fire is an accident.
09:03And he is так, too.
09:04He is right.
09:05That is enough for you.
09:07I know.
09:08Well, I don't I get that.
09:09Move!
09:11MITRA tiempo.
09:12I am failure.
09:18DADTY modernist production...
09:19Marie.
09:20Tick in dead.
09:21Hey Charlie!
09:22I know.
09:23I know.
09:25You know.
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