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The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater was an anthology radio drama series with Tom Bosley as host, which aired on the CBS Radio Network in 1977. Himan Brown, already producing the CBS Radio Mystery Theater for the network, added this twice-weekly (Saturdays and Sundays) anthology radio drama series to his workload in 1977. It usually aired on weekends, beginning in February 1977 and continuing through the end of January 1978, on CBS radio affiliates which carried it.
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00:00I'm Tom Bosley, welcome once again to the world of wonder and imagination, the world
00:19not only of today and tomorrow, but of yesterday, the magic world of radio.
00:25You know that today, our nuclear submarines prowl the whole floor of the five oceans and
00:32all seven seas.
00:34They skirt the equator and slide silently under the great polar ice cap.
00:40But a century ago, only the genius of someone like Jules Verne could have prophesied its coming
00:46or imagined a ship like the Nautilus, that strange, unexplained monster of the deep that
00:53you are about to meet and live with now.
00:57Our tale today is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, adapted from Jules Verne's novel for the General
01:03Mills Radio Adventure Theater by Ian Martin.
01:07It stars Paul Hecht.
01:09I'll be back shortly with Act One.
01:17In the year 1866, a sea monster was sighted by merchant ships at various times in every
01:24ocean of the world.
01:26It was larger than a whale.
01:28Long, cigar-shaped, gray-mottled in color.
01:32And when approached, disappeared beneath the surface so rapidly and mysteriously that no
01:38one could get near enough to classify it.
01:41What was it?
01:43The measurements, even among scientists, range from prehistoric monster to half-submerged
01:48rat to some incredible man-made subterranean vessel.
01:53For myself, Professor Aranax, I am convinced it is a machine.
01:57That can roam the world at will, Mr. Secretary.
02:00Submerge for incredible lengths of time, and is at least the size of the largest whale.
02:05Incredible, I know, but as Secretary of the Marine, I would value your opinion.
02:10Well, then, consider the sightings of Australia and in the Pacific by the steamship Phoenix
02:14and the Columbus.
02:15They both thought of it as a sandbank, until suddenly two columns of water shot upwards
02:20from it to the height of 150 feet into the air, correct?
02:24Those are the reports.
02:25Yes, but does this not suggest some species of whale?
02:29With a natural force to spout that high?
02:32Besides, remember the steamship Moravian?
02:35And far worse still, the Scotia?
02:37Yes, those two ships which were struck.
02:39Exactly.
02:40Rammed by something powerful enough to pierce iron plates two inches thick, and rip holes
02:45in them two yards in diameter below the water line.
02:48Now, what animal, what whale could accomplish that?
02:51The narwhal, perhaps?
02:53But the narwhal is relatively small, some 30 feet.
02:56Ah, but suppose that bug travels at a speed of 20 to 30 miles, armed with a battering ram like
03:01a long lance tooth.
03:04Let us speculate on an enormous narwhal, a sea unicorn.
03:08I hope you're right.
03:10But as an American concerned with the defense of my country, I must lean to the other side
03:15of the argument, that this is some gigantic war machine.
03:20The United States has made its decision.
03:22The heavily armed frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, under the command of Captain Farragut, has
03:27been outfitted to hunt this creature, machine, whatever it is, and destroy it.
03:32Well, I cannot imagine it is anything man-made.
03:35Would you care to join the Abraham Lincoln in its search?
03:38Well, I am just about to return to France, Mr. Secretary, but why me?
03:45Because in your capacity as professor to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, we consider
03:50you the foremost marine biologist in the world.
03:54If we cannot destroy this terror of the seas, perhaps we can at least identify it.
04:00I shall give you my answer before I return to France.
04:02I hope it will be yes.
04:05Now, I must hurry back to the ministry.
04:07Very good, sir.
04:08I will have my servant, Conseil, bring you to your carriage.
04:15That is the bell, Conseil.
04:17I have it, Monsieur le Parasseur.
04:20Professor Aranax?
04:22I am his servant, Conseil.
04:24I am Lieutenant Heath, United States Frigate Abraham Lincoln.
04:28I bear this message from my captain, Captain Farragut.
04:31Will, Monsieur Hunter?
04:32I think I'd better stand by my horse.
04:34Will you be so good as to deliver this letter to your master?
04:38I'll wait for the answer.
04:39There you is, Lieutenant.
04:41Excuse me.
04:43Who is it, Conseil?
04:45A message from Captain Farragut.
04:47Aha.
04:48Let me see.
04:52Doctor, something is wrong.
04:54No, the monster has been sighted in the Pacific, off the coast of Peru.
04:59We, I, am invited to sail on the American ship to track it down.
05:04Well, what do you think, Conseil?
05:06Whatever pleases, Monsieur le Parasseur.
05:10There is a lieutenant outside the door who waits to reply to his captain.
05:15Well, will you go with me?
05:17Oh, where else, Monsieur?
05:19Should I tell the...
05:20No, no, no, no, no.
05:21I will tell him myself.
05:22Finish our packing.
05:23We should sail from Brooklyn with the tide.
05:25Ah, oui, Monsieur.
05:27Ah, viet de nom.
05:29I am Professor Aranax.
05:30I shall serve a sir.
05:32What message do I bring my captain?
05:34That I and my servant accept a gracious invitation from him and the United States
05:39and will be aboard before the tide turns.
05:44Ah, Monsieur Pierre Aranax?
05:48Yes, the same, and this is my servant, Conseil.
05:52Ah, Conseil.
05:53I'm Captain Paragot, and the large gentleman beside me is Canada's Gift of Whalers,
05:58the finest harpoon in the world.
06:00Ned Lance.
06:01Pleased to make your acquaintance, Professor.
06:03Conseil.
06:04I am particularly pleased to make yours, Mr. Lance.
06:07We will need all your skill if we are to capture this creature who has managed to terrorize the world.
06:12Lieutenant Heath, have we slipped mooring?
06:13We have, sir.
06:14Very well.
06:15Pull engines ahead.
06:16Set the men to the shrouds.
06:18We'll clap on all sail before we clear the headland.
06:25And so began the great adventure,
06:28with all of us straining forward in anticipation,
06:31almost as though the monster would come boiling out of the water
06:34the moment we had cleared the harbor.
06:36But it was to be many weary days and weeks before that happened.
06:44Until further proof, Professor, I'd have to deny that any whale or sea unicorn such as you've described could pierce the hull of the ship.
06:52My legend is full of stories of ships the narwhal has pierced through and through.
06:56Wooden ships, perhaps.
06:57Not the iron plates of a steamer.
07:00There might just be such a creature as your narwhal.
07:03And if there is, I can't wait to sink my harpoon in him.
07:08Where is the moon?
07:11The moon!
07:14Where is the moon?
07:15Well, Mr. Land,
07:17you may just have your chance.
07:19But what the lieutenant had cited proved to be a real whale,
07:28a whole school of them, in fact,
07:30and not the monster we were seeking.
07:33Still, the encounter was to establish one thing,
07:37that Ned Land was a formidable friend,
07:40and his skill with a harpoon was beyond belief.
07:44There she blows, Mr. Land.
07:46Which side shall we come up on her?
07:47Steady as you go, lieutenant.
07:49Pull up a fire to starboard as we fetch her.
07:51Get your back!
07:52Lads, we're headed for a kill!
07:54Just as she runs.
07:56Pretty lads, pretty!
07:59Driver! Driver! Now!
08:01Come on out!
08:02Shipboard and hold that!
08:05Beautiful!
08:07Now!
08:08Thanks!
08:16The harpoon throw was unerring.
08:19The barb beat sure and through,
08:20and suddenly, as the great mammoth reacted to the strike
08:23and sounded deep,
08:25our frail boat was streaking through a white, curling pole.
08:29Flag off on the line!
08:32Better run!
08:34Better sound!
08:36She's ours, lads!
08:38She's ours!
08:39She's ours!
08:39It was on the return from this adventure
08:48that I started my love.
08:51Its first entry, 6th of July, 1867.
08:56We have finally rounded Cape Horn
08:58at the tip of South America.
09:01We are now beating up to the northwest
09:03into the great body of the Pacific,
09:06and Captain Farragut has gathered all of us on deck.
09:11Now, we've just rounded the horn,
09:14and all of you on board know what we seek.
09:16I'm empowered by the United States government
09:20to offer a prize for the first man
09:22to sight this scourge of the seas,
09:25whatever it is.
09:27The prize
09:27is a purse of $2,000.
09:31It was an excitement
09:37that was gradually ground to boredom,
09:40as during the next wearying four months
09:42we crisscrossed the waters
09:44of the Mid and North Pacific.
09:47Finally, on the 5th of November,
09:48with the coast of Japan
09:49only about 200 miles to Lourdes,
09:52the great moment arrived.
09:54Night was approaching,
09:55and eight bells were striking.
09:57Every eye, telescope, set of glasses
10:00was still fixed on our horizons.
10:04Look sharp, conseil.
10:06This may be the last chance
10:07of pocketing that $2,000.
10:09If I may be permitted to say, monsieur,
10:12I never counted on it.
10:13You are right.
10:15It is a foolish affair, after all.
10:17So much time and emotion lost.
10:20When we could have been back in France
10:22six months ago.
10:23Oui, in your small apartment.
10:25And the museum,
10:27with all the specimens
10:28we had brought from America.
10:29There she blows!
10:31But this is no whale!
10:33This is the monster we think!
10:37I claim the $2,000!
10:39Everybody on deck to check me out!
10:43Way ho!
10:44Way ho!
10:46Whatever it is!
10:48There she blows!
10:49At two cables' length from the ship
10:56on the starboard corner,
10:57the sea was boiling.
10:59In the center of it was the mass,
11:00the reality,
11:01the strange center
11:02of a violent activity.
11:04What was it?
11:05What could it be?
11:08That would have to wait
11:09for closer inspection.
11:11An inspection
11:12I might have been well counseled
11:14to leave alone.
11:15Because what had turned out
11:17to be a roundabout trip
11:18back to France
11:19was suddenly about to be
11:20a wild trip
11:21beyond imagining.
11:23A voyage
11:24that before it was finished
11:26would add up
11:27to 20,000 leaves
11:30under the sea.
11:31What is it
11:41that Ned Land
11:42and Konsei
11:43and Professor Aronax
11:44are looking at?
11:46What strange monster
11:47of the deep
11:48has risen
11:48to challenge them?
11:50Is it a living,
11:51breathing monster?
11:52Or some strange
11:54undersea boat
11:55beyond anyone's understanding
11:56in that day and age
11:58a hundred years ago?
12:00And if it is,
12:01who commands it?
12:02Is he a man?
12:04Or what?
12:06I'll be back shortly
12:07with Act Two.
12:14The chase is on.
12:16Zigzagging across
12:17the wide wastes
12:18of the Pacific,
12:19the USS Abraham Lincoln
12:21pursues
12:21the gigantic narwhal.
12:23It maneuvers
12:24with breathtaking speed,
12:26spinning around
12:27and away
12:27and back
12:28towards the ship.
12:29And as the shades
12:30of the night
12:30start to come down,
12:32more and more
12:32it glows
12:33like something red hot.
12:35It's darting
12:36and cutting
12:36and swooping
12:37bewilders its pursuers
12:39and its evasiveness
12:40makes a markery
12:41of the conical bullets
12:42designed to pierce armor
12:44which are loaded
12:45in the ship's guns.
12:46Is that a hit, Captain?
12:49No, sir, not yet.
12:50Another board
12:51to the right!
12:53Keep your eyes
12:53on it,
12:54Mr. Aranax.
12:55Hey!
12:56Right on target!
12:57Well, they slid off
12:58without damage.
12:59Hold steam ahead!
13:00I'll pursue that
13:01beast
13:02till my ship burns!
13:03How fast
13:03are we going, Captain?
13:05Nineteen and three-tenth miles.
13:07It can't out-distance.
13:08Would you break out
13:09the small boats
13:10to attack the demand?
13:11We'll never take
13:11the beast that way.
13:12How would you advise?
13:13I'll post myself
13:14by the bowsprit.
13:15Just get me
13:16with an harpoon
13:17and testers
13:18and I'll spike it.
13:19I'll join you, Ned.
13:20I wouldn't miss this
13:21for anything.
13:21I will not leave
13:22my master at all.
13:23Very well.
13:24Come along, conseil.
13:25Good hunting, all three!
13:26I'll try to bring you
13:27within range!
13:33Night was coming down
13:35as the three of us
13:36clung to the twisting,
13:37heaving bow of the ship,
13:38water streaming back
13:39as she cut through the waves.
13:42Ahead of us,
13:42suddenly still,
13:44floating on the surface
13:45as we cut towards it,
13:46lay the great narwhal.
13:48Ned Land,
13:49one hand grappling
13:50the marty gale,
13:51the other brandishing
13:51his harpoon,
13:52leaned out with us
13:53over the water.
13:55Then all of a sudden,
13:56the monster came to life,
13:58the huge, dark mass
13:59suddenly glowing
14:00as it twisted towards us.
14:02Look out ahead, Ned!
14:04I'm watching for better!
14:05Oh, the earth is enormous!
14:07It must be nearly
14:07three hundred feet long!
14:08Well, let's see
14:09how it likes
14:10the taste of the harp!
14:11Oh!
14:12Ah, I eat!
14:13Yes, Concei,
14:14but the harpoon bounced away
14:15as though it had hit armor!
14:16I didn't stop it!
14:18Ah, but you may have hurt it!
14:19Yes, but not stop it!
14:21Well, it's final attack!
14:23The vehicle shock
14:29that rocked the frigate
14:30catapulted the three of us
14:31into the water.
14:33It was dark by now,
14:34and thrashing about,
14:36I was conscious
14:36that our ship
14:37was disappearing
14:38into the night.
14:39I was struggling
14:40and yelling,
14:41Help!
14:43Help!
14:43Help!
14:44If Master
14:45would lean
14:46on my shoulder,
14:48he could swim
14:48with Maureen.
14:49Concei,
14:50it is you,
14:51and our ship.
14:53When I threw myself
14:54into the sea,
14:56I heard men cry
14:57that both
14:58screw and rudder
14:59were broke
15:01and we are lost.
15:02Oh!
15:04Professor!
15:05Are you there?
15:06Yes!
15:07The same!
15:10Still seeking
15:11his prize.
15:12You were thrown
15:13into the sea as well?
15:15Yes, Professor.
15:17But more fortunate
15:18than you,
15:20I found a footing
15:21on a floating island.
15:23What are you talking about?
15:24And discovered
15:26why my harpoon
15:27was useless.
15:28I don't understand.
15:29Because, Professor,
15:31your gigantic narwhal
15:33is made of sheet iron.
15:36It's lying
15:36just under the water,
15:38and we can stand
15:39on it.
15:41Before I could reach
15:42for it with my feet,
15:43the strange machine
15:45came to meet us
15:46and carry us
15:47above the surface
15:48of the ocean.
15:49Desperately,
15:49we clawed
15:50and found
15:51a sort of
15:51tap rail
15:52to cling to.
15:53As long as it
15:54sails horizontally,
15:56I don't mind.
15:57But if it takes
15:58an ocean to dive,
16:00we're all goners.
16:07In the light
16:08of the moon,
16:09I could see
16:10the silhouette
16:10of our ship
16:11some five miles
16:12off fading
16:13over the horizon.
16:14There was no more
16:15time for talk.
16:16Only time enough
16:17to lash ourselves
16:18to the railing
16:19and ride out
16:20the night.
16:21A long night,
16:23during which,
16:24from sheer exhaustion,
16:25I blacked out.
16:27I blacked out.
16:33Master.
16:35Master.
16:36What is it?
16:38What?
16:39Can I say?
16:39Yes,
16:40Master.
16:41Where are we?
16:43It's dark.
16:44I can see nothing.
16:45We are inside,
16:46Monsieur.
16:47They came for us.
16:48What?
16:48What?
16:48Who came for us?
16:50Eight of them.
16:51Mask.
16:51Ned.
16:52Is that you?
16:53No one else,
16:53Professor.
16:54Who were these masked men?
16:56They came from inside
16:57the ship,
16:58armed,
16:58and forced us
16:59into captivity.
17:01A ship?
17:02Your giant narwhal
17:03is no freak of nature.
17:05It's man-made.
17:06Yes, Master.
17:07A huge vessel
17:09that does sail
17:10upon the sea,
17:11but beneath it also.
17:14This is a submarine ship.
17:17Who knows
17:17how deep in the ocean
17:19we're buried.
17:19Well,
17:20who commands it?
17:20We don't know.
17:23For all I know,
17:24they're pirates.
17:25But I still have
17:26my boy knife,
17:27and if there's any trouble,
17:28I...
17:29Ned, Ned,
17:29no,
17:29there's no point
17:30in useless violence.
17:31Let us first study
17:32where we are,
17:33and if possible,
17:35why.
17:36I have been unconscious,
17:38but it seems
17:38you were not now.
17:40Tell me what happened.
17:45But he had little
17:46to tell me
17:47beyond the simple facts
17:48that eight masked men
17:50had driven us
17:51into the dark,
17:52confined cell
17:53in which we found ourselves,
17:54and that the language
17:55they spoke,
17:56however little it was used,
17:59was unfamiliar.
18:01Apparently,
18:02we were prisoners.
18:03But of whom,
18:04for what reason,
18:05and what our fate might be,
18:06was as mysterious
18:08as the room
18:09we were shut fast in.
18:10A room
18:11which had no break
18:13in its smooth walls,
18:15save for a door
18:16which we discovered...
18:17what the...
18:18lights?
18:20But they don't show us much
18:22we don't already know.
18:23What time is it?
18:24No idea,
18:26except for my stomach.
18:27That says
18:28it's dinner time.
18:29If so,
18:30we must have slept
18:3124 hours.
18:33And what we were given
18:33a drink after they
18:34hauled us aboard
18:35must have been drugged.
18:37That is very possible.
18:38I wonder what they mean
18:39to do with us.
18:40Starve us to death,
18:41maybe.
18:42I'll make them
18:43pay us some attention.
18:44I'll break the door down
18:45or cause enough excitement
18:47to get someone here
18:48to stop me.
18:48Calm yourself.
18:49Calm yourself,
18:50Mr. Starve.
18:50I can't, Professor.
18:51I'm a man
18:52who wants results.
18:53Which you can get
18:54without forcing the issue
18:55if you'll only take time
18:57to see
18:57that the door
18:59is already opening.
19:03Five men entered,
19:04four of them armed.
19:05The fifth man,
19:06tall, live, muscular,
19:07with a high forehead
19:09which suggested
19:10deep intelligence.
19:11His most remarkable feature,
19:13aside from a great man
19:14of deep chestnut hair,
19:16for his eyes
19:17spread so far apart
19:20that they could take in
19:21a quarter of the horizon
19:22at one glance.
19:24You arrogant pirate,
19:25I demand you set us free.
19:26Quiet, Mr. Land.
19:28How do you know my name?
19:30Whether you remember it or not,
19:31I've already interrogated
19:33all of you.
19:33While we were drugged?
19:35Oh, say rather,
19:36Professor Aranax,
19:37while you were under
19:38the influence of medication
19:40to help you recover
19:41from exposure.
19:42But we did not ask for it
19:44or need it.
19:44Possibly,
19:45Monsieur Concey.
19:46But then it is I
19:48who give the command
19:49aboard this vessel.
19:50My heaven,
19:50how much time for this?
19:52You will,
19:52Mr. Land.
19:54And listen.
19:55Yes, please, Ned.
19:56We owe him that courtesy.
19:58Ah,
19:59very well.
20:01You are all
20:02a threat to me,
20:03Professor.
20:04Unintentionally.
20:05Unintentionally?
20:07Well,
20:08was it unintentional
20:09that your ship,
20:10the Abraham Lincoln,
20:11pursued me?
20:12That you took passage
20:13on that ship?
20:14That the cannonballs
20:15from your ship
20:16rebounded off the armor
20:17of my ship?
20:18That Mr. Land
20:19struck us with his harpoon?
20:21I don't think you understand
20:22what a mystery
20:23and a threat
20:24you pose to the world
20:25outside your own.
20:27I have done with the world.
20:29I am my own world.
20:32And in my own world,
20:33my word
20:35is law.
20:36Well, I...
20:37Harsh, Ned.
20:39Very well, then.
20:39Since you control our fate,
20:41will you please tell us
20:42what it is to be?
20:44I will assign you cabins.
20:47You will have
20:48the freedom of the ship.
20:49And in exchange
20:50for this liberty,
20:51I only ask one thing.
20:54Your word of honor
20:55to accept its limitations.
20:57You are not offering us
20:57anything but a life sentence,
20:59cruel and unjust.
21:00No, sir.
21:02It is clemency.
21:04You are my prisoners of war.
21:05You attacked me,
21:06tried to surprise me
21:07and unlock the secret
21:08of my whole existence.
21:10You think I can send you
21:11back into a world
21:12which must never
21:13know me again?
21:14Oh, never.
21:16In keeping you,
21:18it isn't you I'm guarding,
21:20but myself.
21:21So in effect,
21:22you are offering us
21:23life or death.
21:24Exactly.
21:25There isn't much choice
21:27as to what our answer
21:28will be.
21:29But no word of honor
21:30will bind us
21:31not to escape
21:32if we can.
21:33I will accept
21:34that qualification
21:35and offer in return
21:37one of my own.
21:39From time to time,
21:40certain unforeseen events
21:42may require me
21:43to consign you
21:44to your cabins
21:44for some hours or days
21:46as the case may be.
21:48Other than that,
21:49you are three members
21:50of our society
21:51and the world
21:53of the Nautilus.
21:54The Nautilus?
21:56The name of my ship.
21:57And how are we
21:58to address you, sir?
22:00My name from your world
22:01I have abandoned.
22:03Here I am the captain.
22:05If you must have a name
22:06to go with that,
22:08you may call me
22:09Captain Nemo.
22:11In the next days,
22:17I was to become amazed
22:19by the wonders
22:20of this strange world
22:21in which I found myself.
22:24The spacious cabins,
22:25the drawing room,
22:26the dining room,
22:28the library,
22:29and the control cabin
22:30all left me breathless.
22:32But most of all
22:34was the construction
22:35of the ship itself,
22:37its engines,
22:38and its capabilities.
22:41Dining with Captain Nemo,
22:43he seemed to have
22:44no hesitation
22:45in answering
22:46whatever question
22:47I raised.
22:48Did you enjoy
22:49your dinner, Professor?
22:50It was excellent,
22:51excellent, Captain.
22:52But what amazed me
22:54beyond belief
22:55was not the fish,
22:56which of course
22:56your nets can capture,
22:57but how you can
22:59supply meat.
23:00What you thought
23:01to be meat
23:02was fillet of turtles.
23:03What you thought,
23:04pork, dolphin livers.
23:06You see,
23:07we find our game
23:08in our submarine forest.
23:09Yes, but the ship itself...
23:10Well, here in my room,
23:13you can see
23:13all I need to navigate it.
23:15You know,
23:15these instruments...
23:16Yes, most.
23:17Barometer,
23:18compass, sextant,
23:18chronometer.
23:20This, the dial
23:21with removable needle,
23:22is a manometer,
23:23is it not?
23:23Correct.
23:24It measures external pressure
23:26and reads out depth.
23:27And these are
23:28other instruments.
23:30Do you really want to know?
23:31Well, I don't want to.
23:32pry into any secrets.
23:34Oh, my dear
23:34Professor Aranax,
23:36I need have no secrets
23:37from you.
23:38I am grateful
23:38for your trusting me.
23:39Oh, it is not
23:40a matter of trust.
23:42Where could you break it?
23:43Since I can assure you
23:45your life belongs
23:46here on the Nautilus,
23:48I will not permit you
23:49or anyone,
23:51including myself,
23:53to leave this ship alive.
23:59The incredible
24:00Captain Nemo.
24:01Captain of a ship
24:03built a century
24:04before its time.
24:05A sleek submarine
24:07run on power
24:07drawn from the sodium
24:09in the seawater,
24:10capable of speeds
24:11up to 50 knots an hour.
24:13Constructed to travel
24:15on the surface
24:15or submerged
24:17to the deepest trough
24:18in all the oceans.
24:19The Nautilus,
24:21queen of the sea,
24:22a world to itself,
24:24and at the same time,
24:26a prison
24:27from which no man
24:28could escape.
24:30I'll return shortly
24:31when act three.
24:38It is estimated
24:39that the amount of earth
24:40covered by water
24:41is about 140 million
24:43square miles,
24:45about equal to all the water
24:47from all the rivers
24:48that they would pour
24:49into the sea
24:50in 40,000 years.
24:52Now, all this water
24:54is divided
24:55into five grave oceans.
24:57And of all these,
24:58the Pacific Ocean
24:59is the quietest.
25:01Its currents are broad
25:03and slow.
25:04It has medium tides
25:05and plenty of rain.
25:07And it was on this ocean
25:09that the last voyage
25:11of the Nautilus
25:12began.
25:13Now, Professor,
25:14I brought the Nautilus
25:15to the surface.
25:17You see where we are now?
25:18Now, we have climbed
25:19by the central staircase
25:20to the steersman's cage,
25:22all glass-enclosed,
25:23as you see.
25:24But it is not this way
25:25when we are submerged.
25:26Oh, no, no.
25:27This and the other
25:28glass cage like it forward,
25:30which contains
25:30our great searchlights,
25:31are retracted
25:32into the body
25:33of the ship
25:33when we go down,
25:34as is the longboat.
25:36The longboat?
25:36Oh, you see the swell
25:38of the hull
25:38between the cages?
25:40Beneath those plates
25:41lies a small boat
25:42which can be released
25:43either on the surface
25:44or by a watertight
25:46arrangement when submerged.
25:48There.
25:49We've taken our bearings
25:50and this voyage
25:52is about to begin.
25:59We've got to make
26:00a plan to seize
26:01this ship, Professor.
26:02Yes, but how, Ned?
26:03Well, you've talked
26:05to the madmen
26:06and many men are aboard.
26:08Fifteen,
26:09forty,
26:10a hundred?
26:10I have no idea,
26:11but I would think
26:12nearer the larger figure.
26:14Oh, it is that big?
26:15Oh, it is enormous,
26:16my good conseil.
26:17Then this man
26:18must be the richest man
26:19in the world.
26:20I have no doubt
26:22that the lights
26:23have gone out.
26:24I knew this ship
26:25wasn't safe.
26:26It isn't natural
26:27to sail under the sea.
26:29Look.
26:32He's going to drown it.
26:33Easy, Ned, easy.
26:34He's opening
26:35the hull to the sea.
26:36Yes, with glass
26:36to hold it back.
26:37Windows to the sea.
26:39But, Master,
26:40how could glass
26:41stand against
26:42the pressure of the water?
26:43I expect
26:44it's only one
26:45of the many miracles
26:46we will see
26:46before this strange
26:47voyage is over.
26:53No words
26:54can describe
26:55the enchanted forest
26:56we were looking upon.
26:58Seventy-five
26:59fathoms down,
27:00lit by powerful
27:02electric floodlights.
27:03The sea
27:04was visible
27:05from the Nautilus
27:06for a mile around.
27:08For two hours,
27:09an aquatic army
27:11awed and delighted us.
27:12The green labray,
27:14the banded mullet,
27:16the round-tailed goby,
27:17white with violet spots.
27:20Japanese salamanders,
27:21spider lampreys,
27:22serpents six feet long,
27:24a breathless parade,
27:25too many to mention.
27:27Until suddenly,
27:29the cabin lights
27:30went on
27:30and the panels shut
27:32as Captain Nemo,
27:34followed by six
27:34of his sturdy crew,
27:36entered
27:36his brow
27:38black as thunder.
27:39The rush
27:39for loving you.
27:40I'll let go!
27:41What is it, Captain?
27:42Why have you ordered
27:42your men to seize us?
27:43Because they're required
27:44to keep one of the conditions
27:45that bind you to me.
27:46You must be confined
27:47till I see fit
27:48to release you.
27:49You are the master,
27:50but may I ask you
27:51one question?
27:52None, sir.
27:53Where is it,
27:53of course,
27:53the gap?
27:58We were hurried
27:58to the same cell
27:59in which we had spent
28:00the first night.
28:02A meal was waiting
28:03for us.
28:04A meal that must
28:05have been drugged,
28:06for shortly after
28:07eating it,
28:07all three of us
28:08were dead to the world
28:09with no knowledge
28:11of what had happened
28:11during the night.
28:13When we woke
28:14the following morning,
28:15only I was given
28:17some glimmering.
28:18Monsieur Aranax,
28:19I know that
28:20several of your colleagues
28:21at the museum in Paris
28:22have studied medicine.
28:24Are you a doctor?
28:25Yes, I am.
28:26I am still a resident
28:27surgeon to the hospital.
28:28Will you prescribe
28:29for one of my men?
28:30Is he ill?
28:32You will see.
28:32I will prescribe
28:33for him
28:34if I can.
28:39The man was not ill.
28:41He was wounded.
28:42Badly.
28:43A dreadful wound.
28:44Some blow
28:44which has shattered
28:45the skull
28:46and hopelessly
28:47damaged the brain.
28:48Well,
28:49Monsieur Aranax...
28:50What has caused
28:51this wound,
28:52Kevin?
28:52It does not matter.
28:54Will he live?
28:56The man does not
28:57speak English.
28:57He will not understand.
28:59Very well.
29:01He will be dead
29:02before tomorrow.
29:04Can nothing save him?
29:06Nothing.
29:08You may go now, sir.
29:13I left Captain Nemo
29:14with tears in his eyes,
29:16bent in what seemed
29:17like prayer
29:18over the dying man.
29:20And that night,
29:21and for many to come,
29:22we saw nothing of him.
29:24But his presence
29:26was felt nightly
29:27as he played
29:28a great pipe organ
29:29whose oscillating tones
29:31filled the Nautilus
29:33as she sped
29:34through the ocean depths,
29:36headed
29:36we knew not where.
29:38Then one morning,
29:46the ship's engines
29:47were stilled,
29:48and the captain
29:49came to me.
29:50Monsieur Aranax,
29:51would you like to walk
29:52with me in the forest?
29:53Oh, I would be glad
29:54to set foot on dry land
29:55and breathe fresh air again.
29:57The walk I project
29:58will be on the sea bottom.
30:00It's
30:00object,
30:01such a sad one,
30:02and not without danger.
30:04But how will we walk
30:05at this depth
30:06in the diving gear
30:07I have designed
30:07in which you will be
30:09as comfortable
30:09as a man on the surface?
30:15Ned and Corset
30:16were of the same mind.
30:18Helped by members
30:19of the crew,
30:20we were fitted
30:20with rubber suits,
30:22heavy copper helmets,
30:23and a kind of iron mail
30:26like a flexible suit of armor,
30:28heavy leaden shoes,
30:30and the tanks
30:30on our backs
30:31completed it all,
30:33and we were ready.
30:34Once in the water,
30:36the heaviness vanished,
30:38and we walked
30:38easily and comfortably.
30:41We passed suddenly
30:42into an incredible
30:44coral kingdom
30:45in the center
30:46of which
30:46was a huge cavern
30:48like a sunken cathedral.
30:51It was only then
30:52I saw that the crew
30:54were carrying
30:55an oblong shape.
30:57Facing us
30:58was a huge cross
31:00of coral.
31:01And now they took
31:02this coffin,
31:04for that is what it was,
31:06and laid it gently
31:07beneath the cross.
31:09In a circle
31:10around their captain,
31:11they knelt
31:12and extended
31:13their hands
31:14in a last adieu.
31:16But it was on the way
31:21back
31:21that a new tragedy
31:22almost struck.
31:24A school of sharks
31:25were suddenly
31:25swarming about us.
31:27One of them,
31:27jaws opened wide
31:28like a factory shears,
31:30plunged at Captain Nemo.
31:31Cooly,
31:32he slipped to the side
31:33and buried his knife
31:33in its side,
31:34clinging with his other hand
31:35to the fin.
31:37The creature thrashed
31:37and whipped in a frenzy,
31:39the water boiling
31:40with such fury
31:40that it swept me
31:41from my feet.
31:42But as I fell,
31:44I saw Ned Land
31:45go to the rescue
31:45and with one
31:46mighty lunge,
31:48bury his harpoon
31:48through the hilt
31:49in the shark's heart.
31:50Are you all right,
31:57Captain Nemo?
31:58Quite.
31:59Thanks to you,
32:00Mr. Land.
32:00I owed you that one.
32:02Makes us even.
32:04Now will you let us go?
32:06Never.
32:07You expect us to live
32:08and die aboard this boat?
32:10It is the world
32:11I have chosen.
32:12Not the one I did.
32:13You chose to invade my world.
32:15I leave yours alone.
32:17What about that dead man
32:18you buried today?
32:19How did he get killed?
32:19Be silent.
32:20That wound was no accident.
32:23He got that in a battle.
32:24Who told you?
32:25What is it you're trying
32:26to revenge yourself on?
32:27Who are you?
32:28That secret will go with me
32:30to my grave.
32:32If my men and I
32:33are outcasts,
32:34it is because we want to be.
32:41On the 4th of January,
32:43having traveled
32:4411,340 miles,
32:46came our first real opportunity
32:49to escape.
32:50I was up with Captain
32:52in the helmsman's cage
32:53as we sailed on the surface
32:55near the coast of Papua
32:56when suddenly...
32:59An accident, Captain?
33:01No.
33:01An incident.
33:03Yes, but we are
33:03faster ground in open sea.
33:04The tides are not strong
33:05in this ocean.
33:06You have little hope
33:07of setting the Nautilus free.
33:08It is true that the tides
33:10are weak, but have no fear.
33:12In five days,
33:13the moon will be full
33:14and we will float again.
33:16Now he will excuse me.
33:18I have duties below.
33:20Professor.
33:21Yes, Ned?
33:22Now's our chance to escape.
33:24We'll all have to leave this ship.
33:26For you, mark my words,
33:27this piece of iron
33:28will navigate
33:29neither under
33:30or over the seas again.
33:32Yes, I don't despair
33:33as you do, Ned.
33:34I will give the captain
33:35his five days
33:36to see what the moon
33:37will do to float us off.
33:38The captain is right,
33:40friend, Ned.
33:40Well, can't say.
33:42Just to set foot
33:43on land again
33:44to find some game,
33:46some fresh meat.
33:47Ah, now it is Ned
33:49who is right, master.
33:51Will you not ask
33:52the captain
33:53for permission
33:53to go ashore?
33:54I will ask him,
33:55but I am afraid
33:56he will refuse.
34:02But to my amazement,
34:03he not only gave
34:04his permission,
34:05agreeably enough,
34:06but even furnished us
34:08with guns and hatchets.
34:09I should have known
34:10he had little to fear.
34:12We had spent
34:13four days ashore
34:14and we had just dined
34:15on delicious game fowl,
34:17succulent yams
34:17with thick slices
34:18of breadfruit pie.
34:20What was that?
34:21Oh, I have some food
34:23from the cabbage bomb.
34:24That was his spear.
34:26Savages, look, look.
34:28There must be 50 of them.
34:29Can we make it
34:29to the boat?
34:30Way better.
34:31They'll be the one
34:31filling their stomachs
34:32and the dinner
34:33will be us.
34:37She paused, Ned.
34:38She paused.
34:38We have reached
34:39the Nautilus.
34:39Hurry, Professor, hurry.
34:40They're right on our tail.
34:41No, come on.
34:42No, hurry.
34:43All will be well.
34:44Not if those
34:44headhunters get to us.
34:45Nothing to care from them.
34:47We have the men
34:48seat to the boat.
34:49Sit up.
34:50Listen up.
34:51Come, gentlemen.
34:52Step below, Dex.
34:54And down all the hatches
34:55before they board.
34:56No need.
34:57We will leave the hatches
34:58as they are.
34:59But the purple ones,
34:59they are cannibals.
35:00Perhaps.
35:01But we will not harm them
35:02and they will not harm us.
35:04What?
35:05What is that?
35:07The whole hull
35:08is charged with electricity.
35:10But don't be alarmed.
35:11It's just enough
35:12to stun,
35:12not to kill.
35:14It's enough
35:14to scare off the natives.
35:15I have no quarrel
35:18with these people.
35:24What can I say
35:25of the miracles
35:26performed by Captain Nemo
35:27even to the fact
35:29that just as he had predicted
35:30at the exact hour
35:32on the fifth day,
35:33the last waves
35:34of the tide
35:35lifted the Nautilus
35:36again to continue
35:37her endless journey
35:39under the waves.
35:41And now after a year
35:43and nearly 20,000 leagues
35:46under the sea,
35:48this brilliant madman
35:49was heading us
35:50for the North Pole
35:51up along the coast
35:52of Norway.
35:53We were standing
35:54on deck.
35:56What is that ship, Ned?
35:57It's rigging
35:58the ship of war.
36:00Oh, may it reach us
36:01and sink
36:02this cursed Nautilus.
36:03But where is Captain Nemo?
36:05At below, I think.
36:06Now is our chance
36:07into the water.
36:09Escape.
36:09I say you're right.
36:10Stay where you are, gentlemen.
36:12You are not leaving
36:13the Nautilus.
36:14Besides, it would benefit
36:15you little to flee
36:16to that ship.
36:17I intend to sink it.
36:22Attack has begun.
36:23Go below.
36:25I will have my revenge.
36:27I am the law
36:28and I am the judge.
36:31Through men like you,
36:32I have lost
36:33all I loved and revered.
36:35Country, wife, children,
36:37all that I hated before me.
36:39Then I was right
36:41and down
36:41with the smell
36:42of the Nautilus.
36:43Die!
36:44Die!
36:45Die!
36:46Die!
36:55The bowsprit
36:56of the other ship
36:56as we crashed
36:57peeled back
36:58to Helmsman's cage
36:59and spilled
36:59Concey, Ned,
37:00and myself
37:00into the sea.
37:02Trantically,
37:03we swam away
37:03as the two vessels
37:04still locked together
37:05went down
37:06into the sea,
37:07almost sucking us
37:08down after her.
37:10Had it not been
37:10for Ned's strength,
37:11we would not have escaped.
37:13And only we three did,
37:16picked up
37:16by a Norwegian fishing boat.
37:18The strange ship
37:19that attacked us
37:20was lost
37:21with all hands.
37:23Captain Nemo
37:24and his men
37:25chose to go down
37:26with the Nautilus
37:27to a watery grave.
37:29Or did they?
37:30Perhaps they still roam
37:33as free
37:34as any undersea creature
37:36beneath the waves.
37:42Of course,
37:44whatever happened
37:44to Captain Nemo,
37:46he and his boat
37:47must have long ago
37:48disappeared
37:48since our adventure
37:49happened over
37:50a century ago.
37:52Captain Nemo
37:53was before his time.
37:55Today,
37:56with all the submarines
37:57in the world,
37:58Captain Nemo
37:59would find his
38:00private world
38:01a little crowded.
38:03And don't you think
38:04all of us are lucky
38:05that thanks to
38:06the vision of Jules Byrne,
38:08we were the first
38:09to sail with Captain Nemo
38:11for 20,000 leagues
38:13under the sea?
38:15I'll be back shortly.
38:20Our cast included
38:22Paul Hecht,
38:23William Griffiths,
38:24Ian Martin,
38:25and Jackson Beck.
38:26The entire production
38:28was under the direction
38:29of Hyman Brown.
38:31This is Tom Bosley
38:33inviting you to return
38:34to the General Mills
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38:37for another exciting tale
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