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The Atomic Submarine is a 1959 independent, American black-and-white science-fiction film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and starring Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Joi Lansing and Jean Moorhead, with John Hilliard as the voice of the alien.
Storyline:
The Atomic Submarine concerns an alien invasion that begins when an underwater UFO (or USO – Unidentified Submerged Object) attacks the world's shipping for unknown reasons. The film showcases the then-new technology of nuclear submarines, and follows the crew and scientists aboard the atomic-powered USS Tigershark, which has been ordered to hunt down the mysterious underwater saucer and stop its disruption of sea commerce.
Credits
Arthur Franz as Lieutenant Commander Richard 'Reef' Holloway
Dick Foran as Commander Dan Wendover
Brett Halsey as Dr. Carl Neilson
Paul Dubov as Lieutenant David Milburn
Bob Steele as CPO 'Grif' Griffin
Victor Varconi as Dr. Clifford Kent
Joi Lansing as Julie
Selmer Jackson as Admiral Terhune
Jack Mulhall as Secretary of Defense Justin Murdock
Jean Moorhead as Helen Milburn
Richard Tyler as Seaman Don Carney
Sid Melton as Yeoman Chester Tuttle
Kenneth Becker as Seaman Al Powell
Frank Watkins as Watkins
Tom Conway as Sir Ian Hunt
John Hilliard as Voice of Spaceman
Pat Michaels as Narrator
Storyline:
The Atomic Submarine concerns an alien invasion that begins when an underwater UFO (or USO – Unidentified Submerged Object) attacks the world's shipping for unknown reasons. The film showcases the then-new technology of nuclear submarines, and follows the crew and scientists aboard the atomic-powered USS Tigershark, which has been ordered to hunt down the mysterious underwater saucer and stop its disruption of sea commerce.
Credits
Arthur Franz as Lieutenant Commander Richard 'Reef' Holloway
Dick Foran as Commander Dan Wendover
Brett Halsey as Dr. Carl Neilson
Paul Dubov as Lieutenant David Milburn
Bob Steele as CPO 'Grif' Griffin
Victor Varconi as Dr. Clifford Kent
Joi Lansing as Julie
Selmer Jackson as Admiral Terhune
Jack Mulhall as Secretary of Defense Justin Murdock
Jean Moorhead as Helen Milburn
Richard Tyler as Seaman Don Carney
Sid Melton as Yeoman Chester Tuttle
Kenneth Becker as Seaman Al Powell
Frank Watkins as Watkins
Tom Conway as Sir Ian Hunt
John Hilliard as Voice of Spaceman
Pat Michaels as Narrator
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00:00:05The End
00:02:00It would have astounded Perry to learn that by the late 1950s and early 60s, the vast, frozen top of
00:02:07the world he pioneered had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce.
00:02:42May 3rd at 1315 hours, when the undersea atomic liner Sturgeon, largest of them all,
00:02:49reached 87 degrees 10 minutes north latitude, only a few miles from the North Pole itself.
00:03:19The End
00:03:51The End
00:04:13According to the official reports, the next phase of the life-and-death drama occurred May 10th in Washington
00:04:20at a hush-hush super-secret meeting of the Arctic Theater War Room.
00:04:27Gentlemen, this is the man we've been waiting for, the skipper of the atom-killer sub Tiger Shark,
00:04:34Commander Dan Windover. This is Justin Murdoch, Secretary of Defense.
00:04:38Mr. Murdoch. Commander.
00:04:41And I know you've heard a lot of Dr. Clifford Kent, Dan.
00:04:44Doctor?
00:04:45Commander.
00:04:46Dr. Kent had a lot to do with the development and design of your boat.
00:04:50Sirian Hunt just flew in from London.
00:04:53The Dr. Hunt, winner of the Nobel Prize for Oceanography?
00:04:56Oh, let's just say I took the bow for a team of very brilliant associates.
00:05:01Yes, sit down.
00:05:06Gentlemen, to begin, let me read you just one line from a detailed staff study prepared for the Joint Chiefs.
00:05:14In our judgment, these Arctic disasters may prove the gravest emergency in all history.
00:05:21Any comments on that statement?
00:05:24A bit fanciful, isn't it, sir?
00:05:28Possibly.
00:05:30Let me read you a partial list of observed phenomena.
00:05:35Destruction of four surface vessels, largest 10,000 tons.
00:05:39Radioactivity in Arctic waters, flow ice, and bergs.
00:05:44Peculiar television images preceding each distress call.
00:05:49Seven polar atom subs vanished without a trace.
00:05:54Fanciful, did you say, sirian?
00:06:00And now, Dan, we come to you.
00:06:02You skipper the Tiger Shark, the most advanced, the deadliest killer sub in the fleet.
00:06:08Right now, she's undergoing emergency, around-the-clock modification in the Bremerton Navy Yard.
00:06:13The orders call for special observation and testing instruments here.
00:06:19Removal of all but two atomic torpedoes.
00:06:23Special launching equipment for water-to-air ballistic missiles.
00:06:28And a special escape hatch in the keel for the lungfish.
00:06:33The lungfish?
00:06:34Yes, a deep exploration device, sort of an animated diving bell.
00:06:38The mission of the Tiger Shark is to hunt down and identify the cause of these Arctic disasters.
00:06:46If humanly possible, you will remove it.
00:06:58Not that I don't think Lieutenant Commander Holloway is the finest exec in the entire sub-fleet, Julie.
00:07:04And not that he isn't the best friend that I have.
00:07:09Come on, Dave, you talk too much.
00:07:11Now, be quiet, little mother.
00:07:12I feel behoved to warn you, our friend Reef is no less than the number one howl in the entire
00:07:19sub-wolf pack.
00:07:21Nuclear-powered.
00:07:22And when it comes to women, well, he has got a built-in sonar detector that...
00:07:29Dave, you know you're exaggerating, old buddy-buddy.
00:07:31You know it?
00:07:31Yes, you are.
00:07:32You know, on most boats, a certain loyalty exists between the exec and his navigation and firing officer.
00:07:38But in the case of Lieutenant David Milburn of the Tiger Shark and myself...
00:07:42But she's a nice girl.
00:07:44I've seen you work.
00:07:46I think she deserves a fighting chance.
00:07:48Helen, I appeal to you.
00:07:50Dave, look at me.
00:07:51I'm the mother of your three children.
00:07:53Will you please take me home to them at once?
00:07:55There you are.
00:07:56Just drop in any time.
00:07:57Don't bother to call.
00:07:58Just drop in.
00:07:59That's my way of life.
00:08:16Dave is exaggerating, you know.
00:08:18I mean, a man spends three months in a deep freeze, he's taking his whole leave just to thaw him
00:08:23out.
00:08:23By that time, he's ready to report back.
00:08:25Well, it won't take me long to defrost.
00:08:28Not around you.
00:08:44What was I saying about thawing out icebergs?
00:08:49Yeah, you, uh, you never can tell about icebergs.
00:08:53Only show one ninth above water.
00:08:57After that kiss, I'd say that's about right.
00:09:01Do you feel anything?
00:09:03Are you kidding?
00:09:05No, I mean that this is just the beginning of something.
00:09:08That we didn't just meet accidentally.
00:09:10Oh, that's original.
00:09:13Doesn't the next chorus go something like,
00:09:15Let's not waste one precious golden moment.
00:09:18Any second there could be a knock on the door and...
00:09:21Well, I've seen stranger things happen.
00:09:23Happens all the time to heroes on television, plays, motion pictures.
00:09:27The hero gets his leave canceled and he's...
00:09:30She spends the rest of her life wishing that she'd...
00:09:32Oh, honey.
00:09:34Let's not waste one precious moment, then.
00:09:44What's that pounding?
00:09:48Need I say more?
00:09:50Oh, uh, mm.
00:09:56Reeve, look.
00:10:17Oh, no.
00:10:19What's wrong?
00:10:23What is it?
00:10:27Oh, no.
00:10:29Oh, no.
00:10:50Reef!
00:10:54They caught you too, huh?
00:10:56At the worst possible moment.
00:10:57Tomorrow's Janie's birthday.
00:10:59Poor little kid's been looking for you.
00:11:00Looking forward two whole months having her daddy home.
00:11:02Now, that's the worst possible moment.
00:11:05What could be worse than disappointing a little girl?
00:11:09Disappointing a big girl.
00:11:12Julie?
00:11:17Really tough, old buddy.
00:11:20Oh, really tough.
00:11:36Let's go.
00:11:52I thought you were going to Washington.
00:11:53I did. Just got back.
00:11:55Reef, I want you to meet a couple of our passengers.
00:11:57Sir Ian Hunt and Dr. Clifford Kent.
00:11:59My exec, Commander Richard Holloway.
00:12:01Right already, sir.
00:12:02Dr. Kent, we met you before.
00:12:04Yes indeed, Commander.
00:12:05You gentlemen are going with us.
00:12:07What for?
00:12:09We'll discuss that later.
00:12:11Roberts!
00:12:14Have Chief Griffin report to me as soon as the crews aboard.
00:12:17Yes, sir.
00:12:17Watkins?
00:12:18Yes, sir.
00:12:19Will you show these gentlemen of their quarters?
00:12:21Aye, aye, sir. This way.
00:12:24Well, sorry I had to cut your leaves short.
00:12:27Yeah.
00:12:28Come at the wrong time?
00:12:31Yeah.
00:12:34Will do.
00:12:40Oh, it's you.
00:12:41Yeah.
00:12:42Hey, Griff, what's the scoop about, huh?
00:12:43I mean, hauled out in the middle of the night, all leaves canceled.
00:12:45We going to war or what?
00:12:47Now, don't you worry, Chester.
00:12:48When the Skipper wants you to know what's going on, he'll tell you.
00:12:51Okay?
00:12:52I don't like it.
00:12:53I mean, this is all mighty funny.
00:12:54Yeah, isn't it, though?
00:12:56Suppose you get aboard anyway.
00:12:58I don't like it.
00:13:00What did you say?
00:13:01I like it.
00:13:02I like it.
00:13:03I like it.
00:13:04Hey.
00:13:06Well, Skipper, I think I'll stole my gear.
00:13:08Well, Reef, I got some bad news for you.
00:13:10Oh, yeah?
00:13:11You're going to have to share quarters this trip.
00:13:12Who with?
00:13:13Dr. Nielsen.
00:13:15Dr. Nielsen?
00:13:16Well, when did that happen?
00:13:18Huh?
00:13:18Oh, it's all right.
00:13:19We're all friends.
00:13:28Dave, stand by to shove off as soon as Griff reports to the crew aboard.
00:13:31Right, Skipper.
00:13:34Well, looks like we're going to share quarters, Skipper.
00:13:37It's been a long...
00:13:40Carl.
00:13:42You?
00:13:45Oh, of course.
00:13:46I should have suspected when I heard that doctor.
00:13:49I thought it was your father.
00:13:51He was supposed to be.
00:13:53Dad had a heart attack two days ago.
00:13:55He what?
00:13:56It was mild.
00:13:57He'll be all right, but it was out of the question he's coming along.
00:13:59And they thought you could replace the Skipper, huh?
00:14:03Well, there was no choice.
00:14:05Dad and I developed the lungfish together.
00:14:07Except for him, I'm the only one qualified to dive in it.
00:14:09You could have trained somebody else.
00:14:11Not in two days.
00:14:14Look, do you think I wanted to come?
00:14:16If it didn't mean so much to Dad proving his depth explorer,
00:14:19I certainly wouldn't be here.
00:14:22That I can believe.
00:14:29The Tiger Shark left her dock at Bremerton at 0335 hours, the morning of May 11th,
00:14:36on what was to prove the strangest, most fearful voyage ever made by a submarine, atomic or otherwise.
00:14:51Simultaneously with the shark's departure and with his crew still in the dark concerning their secret fateful mission,
00:14:58Skipper Wendover made the first notation in the log.
00:15:02The men would remain unbriefed for two hours until the Tiger Shark cleared Puget Sound and was headed for open
00:15:10sea.
00:15:21Who the devil belongs to this gear?
00:15:24Uh, we do, Chief.
00:15:29Oh, you two guys, huh?
00:15:33And just what do you do around here?
00:15:35Underwater demolition.
00:15:37Seeming first-class Powell and I'm corny.
00:15:39Yeah, I know.
00:15:41So you're frogmen.
00:15:43Yeah, we're off tin cans.
00:15:44We've, uh, looked the pig boat over from, uh, fore to aft, but can't seem to find an empty locker,
00:15:50uh, to store our stuff in.
00:15:51An empty locker? In a sub?
00:15:54Are you kidding?
00:15:56This whole deal is making less and less sense to me.
00:15:59What are frogmen doing aboard the Tiger Shark?
00:16:03Following orders, like everyone else in the Navy.
00:16:11Beats me.
00:16:12But orders are orders.
00:16:15Yeah, well, uh, in the meantime, where do you want us to stage these gizmos?
00:16:20Come on.
00:16:38Come on.
00:16:42Shortly before dawn, the Tiger Shark, running submerged at better than 30 knots, had left the sound behind and was
00:16:50headed for open sea.
00:16:57Here are orders, Reef.
00:16:59Look them over while I fill in the crew.
00:17:04Now, hear this.
00:17:06This is the captain speaking.
00:17:08I know you're wondering about all the mystery.
00:17:11Well, our job had to be kept absolutely secret.
00:17:14Our mission is to find out what caused the disasters under the Arctic ice.
00:17:19Once we cross the Arctic Circle, any command you hear will be the real thing.
00:17:24Please remember.
00:17:26That's about it.
00:17:28Now, you know as much as I or anybody else does, for that matter.
00:17:32Well, incidentally, I assured Washington that this was the best sub crew in the fleet.
00:17:37I know you won't make a liar out of me.
00:17:39Carry on.
00:17:46That's it.
00:17:55What do you think?
00:17:58I think I should have joined the Air Force.
00:18:06A week later, the Tiger Shark was still running due north at cruising speed.
00:18:11So far, the voyage was routine, uneventful.
00:18:15But the nearer they came to the Arctic Circle, the more the tension increased.
00:18:20The more tiny irritations were magnified into bitter views.
00:18:24The more the crewmen pondered their possible fate.
00:18:29On the morning of May 20th, the Tiger Shark crossed the Arctic Circle into the critical area.
00:18:57The more...
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00:19:19Yeah. I might have a son like that.
00:19:22I don't get it. What goes with you two?
00:19:25I guess his father, Skipper Nielsen, retired before you enrolled at the academy, didn't he?
00:19:29I guess.
00:19:31One of the finest men and officers alive.
00:19:34A real hero in the best sense of the word.
00:19:37World War II.
00:19:39Taught engineering and design at the academy.
00:19:42Fought like a demon for atomic subs.
00:19:44So?
00:19:47So when his only son dropped out of school, began making statements.
00:19:51All sounding like borrowed propaganda.
00:19:54Banned the atomic tests, junked the nuclear subs.
00:19:57Spend the military budget for peace.
00:20:00Well, it just about broke the old man's heart.
00:20:02Then when the newspapers picked it up,
00:20:05called Carl the honest, sincere son of a warmongering father.
00:20:11Well, Captain Nielsen resigned from the Navy.
00:20:15Oh, he still keeps his hand in with projects like the lung fish.
00:20:20But it broke him all the same.
00:20:23Have, uh...
00:20:24Have you talked to Carl?
00:20:26Tried to get his side?
00:20:29His side.
00:20:31He's all front with no back.
00:20:33How can he have a side?
00:20:42Either of you men seen Dr. Nielsen?
00:20:45He's in here, sir.
00:20:51Oh, uh, Carl Powell.
00:20:53Would you men mind leaving us alone for a few minutes?
00:20:55Sure, Mr. Holloway.
00:20:58Dr. Nielsen.
00:21:06What is it?
00:21:08You are out.
00:21:10This came for you.
00:21:13My father?
00:21:14Dead?
00:21:16No, as a matter of fact, he's a lot better.
00:21:18Just get out of the hospital.
00:21:26What did you mean, I'm out?
00:21:28Your father can be in Nome, Alaska tomorrow.
00:21:30We have two choices.
00:21:31We can ask them to bring him out by helicopter and take you off.
00:21:35Or we can put the shark back into Nome.
00:21:39You trade school boys are all alike, aren't you?
00:21:43Anybody who doesn't think like a little gold-braided puppet is ipso facto a coward.
00:21:47You said it, I didn't.
00:21:49Well, wearing a uniform doesn't bestow an automatic monopoly on courage, Commander.
00:21:53It just so happens I'm not a coward, physical or mental.
00:21:56And before I'd risk my father's life...
00:21:58We're all risking our lives.
00:22:00That may be.
00:22:01But Dad stays where he is, and I'm staying here.
00:22:04Oh, you are a mixed-up oddball, aren't you?
00:22:07Well, perhaps.
00:22:09But the idea of willingly going to school to spend my life at a Paleozoic pastime
00:22:14that should have disappeared with the thunder lizards, I'm referring to war.
00:22:18That strikes me as the worst cowardice of all.
00:22:21Being spiritually yellow.
00:22:23You mean nothing's worth fighting for?
00:22:24Peace.
00:22:25The dignity of man, destiny of human spirit.
00:22:28Now, you show me a man who says you win these fighting wars,
00:22:31and I'll show you an idiot.
00:22:33Oh, Carl, you talk like so many young men I've... I've known.
00:22:37You talk well.
00:22:39Literately, intelligently, even brilliantly sometimes.
00:22:42But you're all talk.
00:22:45What do you do about your ideas?
00:22:47Your ideals?
00:22:49You mentioned my uniform.
00:22:51These are my work clothes.
00:22:53They represent what I'm willing to do.
00:22:55How hard I'm willing to work for what I believe in.
00:22:58I doubt your willingness for anything,
00:23:00except talk about what you're against.
00:23:03That talk darn near killed your father.
00:23:13Mr. Holloway to the con, please.
00:23:37The instruments have all gone crazy.
00:23:39You can take a look at the screen.
00:23:41Incredible.
00:23:42Absolutely incredible.
00:23:50What hit is?
00:23:51Doesn't seem possible, but could it be an electric storm center?
00:23:56Underwater?
00:23:57High-intensity arcs will burn, submerged,
00:24:01and millions of holes discharged in random directions.
00:24:05Is there any way out of this?
00:24:07Seems all around.
00:24:08Down.
00:24:09What about down?
00:24:11I don't know.
00:24:13Take her down.
00:24:14Maximum angle, maximum depth.
00:24:15All right, sir.
00:24:17Take her down.
00:24:18Maximum angle, maximum depth.
00:24:31Sir Ian has evolved a theory.
00:24:34At first, I wasn't about to buy it,
00:24:36but we have eliminated, one by one,
00:24:38every other logical explanation.
00:24:41It is rather fantastic.
00:24:45But, um, here is a chart of the Arctic region.
00:24:55On it, I've plotted every incident of these peculiar phenomena.
00:25:00The sinkings, electrical storms, our own experiences.
00:25:06Now, uh, here is where we encountered the electrical storm.
00:25:15The sturgeon was lost about here.
00:25:19The others here, here, and here.
00:25:26Do you see it?
00:25:28See what?
00:25:29The pattern.
00:25:31The pattern.
00:25:33Each incident occurred almost precisely 1,000 statute miles from the pole.
00:25:39A line drawn through the points of occurrence
00:25:42makes almost a complete circle around the pole.
00:25:46Which adds up to what, sir, Ian?
00:25:50I cannot accept the idea that these phenomena were either random or natural.
00:25:57I believe they were motivated by some sort of intelligence.
00:26:03Do you mean that somebody is...
00:26:05I didn't mean to imply human intelligence.
00:26:09Well, what on earth kind of intelligence is it, sir Ian?
00:26:13Oh, perhaps it's not an intelligence on earth.
00:26:17Perhaps it's an intelligence from beyond the earth.
00:26:21What can we do about it, sir?
00:26:23I've been thinking about that.
00:26:25As you see, these occurrences were on this line...
00:26:30almost a perfect circle around the pole.
00:26:37However, there may be a significant break in that ring...
00:26:41here in the area of the Queen Victoria Sea near France-Joseph Land...
00:26:46north of Mermitsk in Finland.
00:26:48Supposing your theorizing is correct, then...
00:26:51this could be the next danger point.
00:26:53Yes.
00:26:54Yes.
00:26:58But supposing we anticipated a little, supposing...
00:27:03the tiger shark was lurking there, waiting.
00:27:09He could be right.
00:27:12We'll chart our course right straight across the pole...
00:27:16to bring us here, the Queen Victoria Sea.
00:27:23So swiftly, implacably, the tiger shark moved across the top of the world...
00:27:29toward a rendezvous with what?
00:27:43We've been running due south along the 30th degree of longitude.
00:27:46By my reckoning, we should be about here, just short of our planned position.
00:27:51And that should be...
00:27:52Just about the critical point if we're on the right track.
00:27:54Prepare to service flank speed.
00:28:11Mr. Milbord. Quick, look at this.
00:28:14Mr. Milbord. Quick, look at this.
00:28:24Skipper, Reese!
00:28:39Those chunks of ice are coming right at us.
00:28:40Dive, dive!
00:28:44Dive, dive!
00:29:00Determine extent of damage.
00:29:02After torpedo room, report.
00:29:09This is Griff, Captain.
00:29:11Mordered leak in overhead plates.
00:29:13Damage to main drive shaft housing.
00:29:15Forced to full stop.
00:29:17We're dead in the water.
00:29:19Captain?
00:29:29Whatever it is, it certainly can't travel.
00:29:34Course and speed.
00:29:36Speed about 22 knots.
00:29:39Course due north.
00:29:42Directly toward the pole.
00:29:46Are you two flounders about set?
00:29:49We're ready.
00:29:51Now try and remember you're not going out to rehearse a water ballet.
00:29:54We need a damage report.
00:29:56I never should have volunteered.
00:29:58If I had enough sense, I would have...
00:30:00Hey, uh, look out for the sharks, huh?
00:30:20A pure oval shape with this cyclops-like eye or turret on top.
00:30:26I'd estimate its diameter at, oh, 300 feet.
00:30:32No discernible orifices.
00:30:37The eye of cyclops.
00:30:41What did you say, Sir Ian?
00:30:44Just musing about our one-eyed adversary and the Homer legend.
00:30:49The cyclops were the sons of Heaven who forged the thunderbolts thrown by Zeus.
00:30:55Our own cyclops throws quite a thunderbolt itself.
00:31:05I knew there was something familiar.
00:31:08Take a look.
00:31:10This picture was taken by an amateur astronomer over New Mexico.
00:31:14I have had it since I served on the Air Force Evaluation Board for UFO reports.
00:31:21Unidentified flying objects.
00:31:24Then this is a flying saucer.
00:31:27That was the popular designation, yes.
00:31:32Weren't all the sightings in the sky, not under water?
00:31:36This would explain why there were never any reports of landings.
00:31:40It's quite possible that whoever or whatever inhabits this graft is not a land creature at all, but some form
00:31:48of marine life.
00:31:50That would make our little green men actually little green fish.
00:31:55Under sea, flying saucers.
00:32:00Excuse me, Skipper.
00:32:02Yeah, Griff?
00:32:02All internal repairs completed.
00:32:04And frogmen report exterior damage minor.
00:32:07Then we can get underway, huh?
00:32:08Right, sir.
00:32:09Dave, you plotted the course of cyclops?
00:32:13Then that's our course.
00:32:15Where he goes, we go until we get him.
00:32:17Or perhaps until he gets us.
00:32:23So the tiger shark began relentlessly stalking her space enemy.
00:32:28Up to the pole, back to the Arctic Circle, again and again.
00:32:32A week, a fortnight, a month.
00:32:52Never a glimpse of their enemy, but there were reports.
00:32:57New disasters, new ships and lives lost.
00:33:14Invariably, the tiger shark made for the scene, only to arrive after Cyclops had left.
00:33:20For all its desperation, the pursuit seemed fruitless.
00:33:26And then on July 3rd, Dr. Kent and Sir Ian held an urgent discussion with Reef and the Skipper.
00:33:35Why does Cyclops invariably return to the pole between attacks?
00:33:40Never too in succession.
00:33:42Always away and back, away and back.
00:33:45We've asked ourselves that over and over a thousand times.
00:33:48But answers are what we need, not more questions.
00:33:52We think now we have them.
00:33:54We took for granted his source of energy was nuclear.
00:33:58But suppose it isn't at all.
00:34:01What if it is magnetic?
00:34:04Yes.
00:34:06Yes.
00:34:08We harness energy on a small scale by cutting magnetic lines of force.
00:34:14Supposing Cyclops does it on a super scale.
00:34:16The North Pole is the positive end of the biggest magnet of all, the Earth itself.
00:34:22What you're getting at is that you think our saucer friend must return to the pole regularly to recharge his
00:34:28batteries.
00:34:29That may be oversimplifying it.
00:34:31But now our present tactics are useless.
00:34:37But suppose we place ourselves between Cyclops and the pole.
00:34:42In such a way as to prevent him returning to the pole to, as you put it, recharge his batteries.
00:34:48If we are lucky enough to catch him with his power depleted.
00:34:51Then we polish him off with an atomic fish.
00:34:54We wait till the next report of trouble and then we lie in wait for him.
00:34:57Right in his path and bush-wag him.
00:35:01Bush-wag?
00:35:02Yes, it's an American tactical expression.
00:35:05Oh.
00:35:08So, a change of tactics.
00:35:11Now the tiger shark cruised almost over the North Pole, waiting for the radio report that would put the plan
00:35:17into effect.
00:35:19On July 13th, at 1600 hours, it came.
00:35:24I got it, Reef. Cyclops?
00:35:27Sounds like a distress signal from a small freighter between Ellsbury Island and Greenland.
00:35:30One mayday, then nothing.
00:35:32Where's the skipper?
00:35:32Already in the con.
00:35:45We're here.
00:35:46Right.
00:35:48This is where Cyclops knocked off the freighter.
00:35:50This is the way he has to head for home, the pole.
00:35:54Here we are.
00:35:55Right in his path.
00:35:57Sonar and TV scan the bottom.
00:35:58Find a good place to hide and lie in wait for him.
00:36:01Maybe a cave or a valley.
00:36:03Rape for silent running!
00:36:05The two of us were on the bottom. Secure everything that hums or buzzes.
00:36:08I want absolute silence.
00:36:09Very well.
00:36:12Rick, for silent running.
00:36:13I've determined her.
00:36:13You ready?
00:36:14Fuck you.
00:36:15I'm waiting for a walk.
00:36:16It came for a walk.
00:36:19I'm waiting for a walk.
00:36:21And from my parents...
00:36:22Just before my parents...
00:36:23Nothing.
00:36:42I'm waiting for somebody.
00:36:49hour upon hour the tiger shark lay in its deep six ambush the arctic depths were as still and
00:36:56silent as an uninhabited world and then at 0600 hours
00:37:35skipper dr. Kent
00:37:40what is it that's him has to be
00:37:48range 22 miles speed i give it 14 knots his radiation level is very low that would confirm our theory
00:37:57about having to return to the pole better be correct give me a setup on the tdc range about
00:38:11seven miles
00:38:11brief arm atomic warheads load tubes one and two report to the con sounds like we mean business
00:38:17yeah griff you arm number two i'll handle number one
00:38:30load one and two open outer doors stand by for action
00:38:35and
00:38:48and
00:39:09range now 15 miles you're sure it's cyclops take a look
00:39:26range 14.5 miles
00:39:28griff to skipper tubes one and two loaded outer doors open ready to fire
00:39:39stand by
00:39:45range eight miles
00:39:52range seven and three quarter miles
00:39:54range seven and three quarter miles
00:40:06six and three quarter miles
00:40:08zero minus 10
00:40:11nine eight
00:40:14seven six five four three
00:40:24Three, two, one, target, zero.
00:40:33Fire one.
00:40:40Number one fired.
00:40:42Fire two.
00:40:48Number two fired.
00:41:04How are they running? Hot, straight and normal.
00:41:10Number one missed.
00:41:11How could it? We're dead on the target with a homing fish.
00:41:22What's that?
00:41:23The mass of jelly-like stuff came out of the thing and caught our torpedo.
00:41:27It must function like a degaussing field.
00:41:30We never get a torpedo through that.
00:41:32Maybe not a torpedo.
00:41:36Blow all main ballast tanks. Reactor room, stand by.
00:41:40As soon as we're off the bottom, I went all ahead, flank.
00:41:44What course, Skipper?
00:41:47Right at our one-eyed friend.
00:41:58Right at him?
00:41:59That's what I said.
00:42:00But what can we accomplish?
00:42:01We can ram him.
00:42:02You've weighed the consequences, Captain.
00:42:04The lives involved.
00:42:05Doctor, I've weighed the destruction that the Cyclops has done already
00:42:09and what it'll do in the future unless we stop him right now.
00:42:12There must be some other means.
00:42:13What other means?
00:42:15If the tiger shark can't stop him, no power on earth can.
00:42:26Now, brace yourselves.
00:42:30Sound the collision alarm.
00:42:31One, two.
00:42:42One, two.
00:42:48One, two, one!
00:43:00Anyway,接下來 we're covering the folk not to the place again,
00:43:06We got him, skipper. Drove right into him.
00:43:13Look at that. Speared him like a fish.
00:43:20We did it, boys. Drove right through the saucer's side.
00:43:25Reactor room. Give me all reverse. Full.
00:43:50We're stuck tight.
00:43:55Skipper, take a look at this depth gauge.
00:43:59180 fathoms. We can't be singing that fast.
00:44:01It's our screw, skipper. At our declination angle, running in reverse.
00:44:05They're pulling the shark and cyclops right to the bottom.
00:44:10And we're at safe maximum depth already. Full stop.
00:44:17Full stop.
00:44:18Full stop.
00:44:21Full stop.
00:44:47Full stop.
00:44:47On the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, nearly 1,200 feet below the surface.
00:44:52Full stop.
00:44:53Full stop.
00:45:20Full stop.
00:45:22Then how would one go about getting inside Cyclops?
00:45:26Through the eye, using the depth explorer.
00:45:29Yes. The explorer was built to operate at even greater depths.
00:45:34Yeah, but suppose there isn't any atmosphere inside the saucer.
00:45:38Well, then the idea's no good, but we're no worse off than we are now.
00:45:42You've got to let us try, Skipper. Us?
00:45:45Reef and I could take the explorer down, clamp it under the eye...
00:45:48No, you can't, but I can.
00:45:51I can deliver you to the eye. Then you and...
00:45:53A little out of your line, isn't it?
00:45:55Why don't you stay aboard and make a speech?
00:45:57Maybe you could get them to ban flying saucers.
00:45:59Listen, Holloway. However our ideas disagree, I've said before, I'm not a coward.
00:46:04And it happens you have no choice.
00:46:06Either I take you down there in the lungfish or you don't get them.
00:46:08I'd sooner swim.
00:46:09That's enough, both of you.
00:46:11Very well, sir.
00:46:12No use making the odds any longer than they are.
00:46:15So happens if Dr. Nielsen's right.
00:46:17Get the explorer in the airlock and prepare for launching.
00:46:23You'd better take Carney and Powell with you.
00:46:25The frogmen?
00:46:26That's right.
00:46:27Their underwater experience might make them invaluable.
00:46:30You'll need sidearms.
00:46:31Sidearms?
00:46:32But the saucer's dead.
00:46:34You hope.
00:46:35You'd better get ready.
00:46:50Girls, you go everywhere I go.
00:46:55All right, Carl, there's still time.
00:46:57You want to show me how?
00:46:58Get in.
00:47:06Vince.
00:47:07I just gave up my hand the front.
00:47:25I've been thinking something for you.
00:47:27I didn't to ask.
00:47:27You critical your time.
00:47:30There's just so much in武器, who has taken up?
00:47:32There's no idea.
00:47:32There's no idea.
00:47:36Better
00:47:37Ready to open airlock door, Captain.
00:47:43Go ahead, Griff.
00:48:32Go ahead, Griff.
00:48:42Go ahead, Griff.
00:49:14Go ahead, Griff.
00:49:41What now?
00:49:42What do you say, Doctor?
00:49:43Shall we take a chance?
00:49:44That's what we came for.
00:49:46Well, you all stay here.
00:49:47I'm gonna take a look inside.
00:49:48Not alone, you're not.
00:50:00Better breathe your oxygen just in case.
00:50:22Here. Pure air. Under pressure.
00:50:25That's relieving.
00:50:26Well, we won't need these tanks.
00:50:30Good luck, man.
00:50:32All right. Let's go.
00:50:36Okay.
00:50:52Come see, Jamie.
00:50:54Who would ever honor Chinese Separation Team?
00:50:55I guess I'd maybe go,老数, and they say,
00:50:55Well, well, what are you doing?
00:50:56You've got to figure it out.
00:50:57All right there.
00:50:58You'd have fun, man.
00:50:58You would have to look at other women who came here.
00:51:00We should wear out by Shankara Bear Road too.
00:51:02Good luck.
00:51:02No, you.
00:51:16The bow drove through her, but she sealed herself right up.
00:51:19Yeah, there's our problem.
00:51:22The saw teeth of the ram are caught in the break.
00:51:25Now, if we can cut it away, the shark can pull herself loose.
00:51:29I think you're right.
00:51:30Powell, go back to Dr. Nielsen.
00:51:33Tell him to report to the skipper.
00:51:36All right, let's get to work.
00:52:07We read you, Doctor. Go ahead.
00:52:12They're inside the Cyclops. It's full of breathable air.
00:52:15Wonderful.
00:52:16That's great, Doctor.
00:52:20Reef thinks that he can clear the shark's bow so we can pull ourselves loose.
00:52:24What's it like inside the Cyclops?
00:52:26This is a priceless opportunity to do.
00:52:30Doctor, tell Reef to make sure that you're in the clear before we make another move.
00:52:36Right. Over.
00:52:40We may get out of this yet.
00:52:41Skipper, could you take a look here?
00:52:44What's wrong, Griff?
00:52:45The inertial navigation system must have been knocked out in the crash.
00:52:49We're dead in the water, but it indicates we're moving.
00:52:52That's impossible.
00:52:53The radiation level from the saucer, it's rising.
00:52:56What direction does the system indicate?
00:52:59Due north at five knots.
00:53:01How?
00:53:02Six.
00:53:04Toward the pole.
00:53:06But that Cyclops is dead.
00:53:08We killed it, didn't we?
00:53:10It beats me.
00:53:24Dave.
00:53:26Yeah?
00:53:29Do you hear anything?
00:53:32I don't hear anything.
00:53:35You've been down here too long.
00:53:36You better go topside and rest.
00:53:40Strange you don't hear it.
00:54:05Reef?
00:54:07Huh?
00:54:08You know something?
00:54:09I think it's getting lighter in here.
00:54:12Yeah.
00:54:13Yeah, it is.
00:54:14I didn't know better.
00:54:17I'd swear we were moving.
00:54:20Let's get back to work and maybe we will be soon.
00:54:35I'm getting an impression of movement, Captain.
00:54:38Is that possible?
00:54:39We got the same reaction up here.
00:54:43Now they're feeling it down below.
00:54:46The radiation level constantly rising.
00:54:50As we near the pole.
00:54:52It's got to be an exploration.
00:54:54I think there is.
00:54:55I believe our friend Cyclops is returning to life.
00:55:07Commander Holloway, listen.
00:55:13Dave.
00:55:14Commander Holloway, make no resistance.
00:55:20Did you hear it?
00:55:22That sound again?
00:55:27This time there was a voice.
00:55:29It called my name.
00:55:30Look, why don't you go topside?
00:55:36You will see that avails nothing.
00:55:44Where do you think the sound was coming from?
00:55:49Down there somewhere.
00:56:33You will see that.
00:56:35Carney!
00:56:36Carney, help me!
00:56:41Carney!
00:56:42Help me, Carney!
00:56:44Help me!
00:56:51Oh, Kearney! Kearney, help!
00:57:27Oh, Kearney, help!
00:57:46Remove your weapons, Commander.
00:57:49And come here alone.
00:57:57Come where?
00:57:59To me.
00:58:00Hear.
00:58:01That voice again?
00:58:04It wants me to go alone.
00:58:06Oh, it does, does it?
00:58:08You'd better stay here.
00:58:37So, Commander Holloway, as you Earth inhabitants would express it, we meet face to face.
00:58:47That's a face.
00:58:51Point of view is everything.
00:58:53To us, your form of life is ugly as we appear to you.
00:59:01Tell me something.
00:59:04Tell me something.
00:59:27The principle is ancient and very simple.
00:59:33It is not necessary for you to speak.
00:59:36Your thought response will suffice.
00:59:41My mission is to study various solar systems and planets.
00:59:46Select the most suitable for colonization.
00:59:53Baharas like yourself?
00:59:57Of course.
00:59:58It may interest you to know I have visited hundreds of other worlds.
01:00:02And of all of them, your Earth seems most suitable.
01:00:12Twelve.
01:00:15Twelve.
01:00:24Your friend was to remain where he was.
01:00:29He did.
01:00:31I am afraid not.
01:00:34Dave.
01:00:35What's going on in here, lad?
01:00:37What?
01:00:39Stand away from him, Commander.
01:00:44You want your back?
01:00:46Well, this is your headquarters.
01:00:48Well, you have sunk your last ship.
01:00:49You...
01:01:02Well, why not me?
01:01:10What am I?
01:01:10The closing act?
01:01:11Well, why not me?
01:01:12Well, why not me?
01:01:12On the contrary.
01:01:14I want you unharmed.
01:01:16Perfect.
01:01:17Why?
01:01:19I have selected you to return with me along with several other specimens for study.
01:01:25We will examine you and the others.
01:01:27Discover desirable features to incorporate in our Earth colonizers.
01:01:33And you just fill them in, huh?
01:01:38Of course.
01:01:39Evolution is much too slow a process.
01:01:47On Earth, you build with inanimate material.
01:01:50We employ living tissue.
01:01:53This space vehicle, for example.
01:01:58It is a living thing.
01:02:00When damaged, you would say wounded.
01:02:03It immediately heals itself.
01:02:08Oh, that's why no water leaked inside, when we ran to it.
01:02:13Of course.
01:02:14But it is time to begin the return voyage.
01:02:18To navigate, won't you have to see your way?
01:02:23Obviously.
01:02:27Kill me, Russ!
01:02:55When the
01:03:11Back to the shark.
01:03:12Right now.
01:03:13What about Dave and the others?
01:03:14Fortunes of war.
01:03:23Skipper, this is Reeve from the Duft Explorer.
01:03:25Pull loose.
01:03:27Right, Reeve.
01:03:30Reactor room.
01:03:31Get me all back.
01:03:32Emergency.
01:03:59All night.
01:04:00All night.
01:04:03All night.
01:04:16Go away.
01:04:16Go away.
01:04:17Go away.
01:04:18Go away.
01:04:47Well, what about the...
01:04:48Skipper, we didn't kill it.
01:04:50And if that thing ever gets back to where it came from,
01:04:53the earth is doomed and everybody on it.
01:05:06We've pulled loose, Captain. We're free.
01:05:27There it goes.
01:05:31Headed straight for the pole. 50 knots.
01:05:34Nothing we can do.
01:05:37Excuse me, Captain. There may be one last desperate chance.
01:05:41What's that?
01:05:43It's possible I could adapt one of the torpedo guidance systems to the ICBM
01:05:49so it would home on the saucer when he rises from the pole.
01:05:53What about the time?
01:05:56Cyclops will have to linger at the pole to recharge its power banks.
01:06:01Well, it's worth a chance.
01:06:03Reef, take over as navigator and see if you can find us an air hole in the ice.
01:06:06Let's go.
01:06:07Very well.
01:06:12Adapt a complicated guidance system to a huge ballistic rocket.
01:06:17Convert it to a water-to-air interceptor missile.
01:06:22It was foolish.
01:06:23It was insane.
01:06:25It was fantastic.
01:06:26But it was their only hope.
01:06:29And the earth's only hope.
01:06:32Ready?
01:06:34Ready as we can be.
01:06:37I'll report to the skipper.
01:06:58All right.
01:07:27Skipper, we found our hole in the ice.
01:07:30What's the corrected bearing of the magnetic pole?
01:07:32357 degrees.
01:07:39Prepare the ICBM for firing.
01:07:52Well, that's about all we can do until our space friend decides to blast off.
01:07:59.
01:08:01.
01:08:01.
01:08:01.
01:08:39Skipper, I think it's...
01:09:14Fire!
01:09:15Fire!
01:09:15Fire!
01:09:16Fire!
01:09:24Fire!
01:09:27Fire!
01:09:38THE END
01:10:03THE END
01:10:29THE END
01:10:29ATTENTION, ALL HANDS.
01:10:32WE GOT HIM.
01:10:42CIGARETTE?
01:10:52CIGARETTE?
01:10:55CIGARETTE?
01:11:16CIGARETTE?
01:11:18CIGARETTE?
01:11:19CIGARETTE?
01:11:20DEVE?
01:11:21CIGARETTE?
01:11:22CIGARETTE?
01:11:22CIGARETTE?
01:11:24And his egghead son will give him a rough reception, will we?
01:11:30You know, I think I lost my little black book on that lousy thing.
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