The Killer Shrews (1959) is an American independent science‑fiction horror film directed by Ray Kellogg, produced by Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon. The story centers on a group of researchers trapped on a remote island during a hurricane, where they are attacked by oversized, venomous mutant shrews created through a misguided scientific experiment.
Captain Thorne Sherman arrives to deliver supplies just as the storm approaches, only to discover that the island’s scientific team has accidentally bred giant shrews with a lethal bite. As the creatures overrun the compound, the survivors barricade themselves inside and attempt a desperate escape before the shrews break through. The film later became a cult classic and was famously lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Film Details
Title: The Killer Shrews
Year: 1959
Genre: Science Fiction / Horror / Creature Feature
Director: Ray Kellogg
Producers: Ken Curtis, Gordon McLendon
Writer: Jay Simms
Starring:
James Best as Thorne Sherman
Ingrid Goude as Ann Craigis
Ken Curtis as Jerry Farrell
Gordon McLendon as Dr. Radford Baines
Baruch Lumet as Dr. Marlowe Craigis
“Judge” Henry Dupree as Rook Griswold
Runtime: 69 minutes
Studio: McLendon‑Radio Pictures Distributing Company
Country: United States
Format: Black‑and‑white, English
Budget: $123,000
Box Office: $1 million
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Captain Thorne Sherman arrives to deliver supplies just as the storm approaches, only to discover that the island’s scientific team has accidentally bred giant shrews with a lethal bite. As the creatures overrun the compound, the survivors barricade themselves inside and attempt a desperate escape before the shrews break through. The film later became a cult classic and was famously lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Film Details
Title: The Killer Shrews
Year: 1959
Genre: Science Fiction / Horror / Creature Feature
Director: Ray Kellogg
Producers: Ken Curtis, Gordon McLendon
Writer: Jay Simms
Starring:
James Best as Thorne Sherman
Ingrid Goude as Ann Craigis
Ken Curtis as Jerry Farrell
Gordon McLendon as Dr. Radford Baines
Baruch Lumet as Dr. Marlowe Craigis
“Judge” Henry Dupree as Rook Griswold
Runtime: 69 minutes
Studio: McLendon‑Radio Pictures Distributing Company
Country: United States
Format: Black‑and‑white, English
Budget: $123,000
Box Office: $1 million
#TheKillerShrews1959 #JamesBest #RayKellogg #CreatureFeature #1950sHorror #SciFiHorror #CultClassic #DriveInCinema #MutantShrews
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00:00:01First in Alaska, and then invading steadily southward, there were reports of a new species, the giant killer shrew.
00:00:38The End
00:01:17It shows a lot of quiet out there. Almost smell it, can't you?
00:01:23No, but I can feel it. That pressure's dropped so fast, it's almost made my ears pop.
00:01:30The hurricane's got different ways of telling you it's there. Where is it?
00:01:36Dead ahead.
00:01:39What's that mean to us?
00:01:41Now, boy, that puts our port right in the middle of it.
00:01:48There's a cove on the lee side, though. We'll snuggle up close to the bluff and ride it out.
00:01:52What about the bottom?
00:01:53Well, the chart shows it's good holding ground. It's clay.
00:01:59You know something? If this thing had an automatic pilot, I wouldn't have to put up with you.
00:02:04Then you wouldn't have no battery to chew out.
00:02:08We should be there in a couple of hours. These mills of yours keep running.
00:02:12Look, automatic pilots can't play Dixieland jazz on them engines like I can.
00:02:28Hey, Rook. Rook, come here.
00:02:32Take a look.
00:02:35There she is, dead ahead.
00:02:42Man, that sure do look good.
00:02:45A man named Craggers owns this island, doesn't he?
00:02:48That's the name on the crate, Dr. Milo Craggers.
00:02:50We'll unload tomorrow.
00:02:52I don't want this craft sitting high in that water when that blow hits.
00:02:55You gonna ride stern, too, with a lot of water under?
00:02:57That's right.
00:02:58That sea won't make up in that cold.
00:03:00That wind will have her whipping around like a kite.
00:03:03Just look forward and break out the heavy weather hook.
00:03:05Check it and make sure it's free to run.
00:03:07I'll mount the shot.
00:03:08Good.
00:03:49Oh, she'll ride like a duck.
00:03:50If she swings too far to starboard, we might have to take a check line to shore.
00:03:55Hey, Rook, take a slant up that trail.
00:04:00Now, that's a rather strange setup, wouldn't you say?
00:04:04Looks like somebody's getting rid of somebody, huh, Captain?
00:04:08Maybe.
00:04:09Hard to tell.
00:04:28I'm Dr. Craggers.
00:04:29Thorne Sherman.
00:04:31I have your supplies aboard.
00:04:32That's good.
00:04:33Nothing wrong with Captain Ferguson, I hope.
00:04:35Well, I wouldn't know.
00:04:38I just bought his run.
00:04:39Oh, I see.
00:04:41Were you able to fill our order?
00:04:43Everything on the list.
00:04:44Here's the manifest.
00:04:46Missing last week's supply has drawn us a little short, you know.
00:04:50Captain, after you have unloaded, I have a passenger for you.
00:04:54Anne.
00:04:56Captain Sherman, this is my daughter, Anne Craggers.
00:05:00Hello.
00:05:01So you're the passenger?
00:05:02That's right, Captain.
00:05:04Oh, it's going to be nice having you aboard.
00:05:06I'm getting a little tired looking at Griswold.
00:05:09But we're, uh, we're not leaving today.
00:05:16In fact, we're not even unloading.
00:05:20That load will cut the roll in half.
00:05:24You expecting an invasion?
00:05:27Yes, animals.
00:05:29Game or otherwise?
00:05:31When there's certain conditions, it could be dangerous.
00:05:38Hey, Ruff.
00:05:39You want to shake the kinks out?
00:05:40Limber up a little?
00:05:42Not me, Captain Blight.
00:05:43You go right ahead and stretch your legs.
00:05:45That ship's going to be bugging like a bug in Bronx for long.
00:05:47Besides, I got some work left to do.
00:05:50If you do come ashore, wear a gun.
00:05:53Got you, Captain.
00:06:10I got some work left to do.
00:06:11I got some work left to do.
00:06:11I got some work left to do.
00:06:11I got some work left to do.
00:06:12I got some work left to do.
00:06:13I got some work left to do.
00:06:13I got some work left to do.
00:06:13I got some work left to do.
00:06:14I got some work left to do.
00:06:14I got some work left to do.
00:06:15I got some work left to do.
00:06:17I got some work left to do.
00:06:23I got some work left to do.
00:06:24When I told you about the hurricane, you act like you didn't know anything about it.
00:06:28What's the matter? You're set broken down?
00:06:30You've been out of communication for more than a week, Captain.
00:06:34Can't it be fixed?
00:06:36Totally out of commission.
00:06:38My assistant.
00:06:40Mr. Ferrell. Jerry Ferrell.
00:06:50Father, perhaps the Captain would enjoy a drink.
00:06:53Well, of course.
00:06:56Will you join us in a cocktail?
00:06:57Well, I've never been known to turn down a drink yet.
00:07:00I'll be glad to accept.
00:07:02Fine.
00:07:03In that case, we'll have martinis.
00:07:05Mario.
00:07:06Si, senor.
00:07:08Mix them, please.
00:07:13Right this way, Captain.
00:07:15Come in.
00:07:36You have everything here you need?
00:07:38Oh, we are self-sufficient here.
00:07:40We have cows for fresh milk and chickens for fresh eggs.
00:07:44We even have saddle horses.
00:07:47Sort of a world all your own.
00:07:48That's exactly what I've tried to create.
00:07:50Well, they each his own.
00:07:53If you have to be isolated for your work, you've picked a lonely little island.
00:07:58Excuse me, please. I think I'll change.
00:08:07Well, she's a little worried because you aren't leaving until tomorrow.
00:08:11Well, I can understand that.
00:08:13But there's something else bothering her.
00:08:28Graphic.
00:08:30Graphic.
00:08:32Graphic.
00:08:32Graphic.
00:08:33Graphic.
00:08:33Would you please step over here?
00:08:34I'd like you to meet someone?
00:08:35Just a second, Doctor.
00:08:38That could go on for hours.
00:08:41Dr. Baines.
00:08:43There's no need to shop, Doctor.
00:08:44I'm right here.
00:08:45I'd like you to meet Captain Thorne Sherman.
00:08:48This is my other assistant, Radford Baines.
00:08:51How do you do?
00:08:52Two new litters since lunch, Doctor.
00:08:54Both support GT-116.
00:08:56That's good, but...
00:08:58We can breed them to the 205 group in about three weeks.
00:09:01But I'd prefer to wait and expose about half of them to the Hoskins factor first.
00:09:06If you agree.
00:09:09Good idea.
00:09:11Do you know there's a hurricane coming?
00:09:13Hurricane?
00:09:15Well, I don't suppose there's much we can do about that.
00:09:20Glad to meet you.
00:09:22Sherman, wasn't it?
00:09:29You have to excuse Radford.
00:09:31Anything that does not concern his project does not get through to him.
00:09:35Brilliant mind.
00:09:37He would start at it if someone didn't remind him to eat.
00:09:39Must be very interesting work.
00:09:40What's his field?
00:09:42Biology.
00:09:42We specialize in genetics, heredity.
00:09:45I'm afraid my interest doesn't run in that line, you know.
00:09:48Think what would happen if you could isolate and identify the inherited fact on each gene.
00:09:53Now, wait a minute.
00:09:54I'm afraid I'm not very good with pure research.
00:09:57This is practical research.
00:09:59Generally among mammals, the smaller the size, the higher the metabolism and the shorter the lifespan.
00:10:05Is that right?
00:10:06Well, I'm attempting to decrease the size while maintaining a low metabolism and resultant a longer lifespan.
00:10:13What reason?
00:10:16Overpopulation.
00:10:18Not a problem now, but it will be, in time.
00:10:26If we were half as big as we are now, we could live twice as long in our natural resources.
00:10:32Father, may I speak with you a moment?
00:10:35Will you please excuse us, Captain?
00:10:38Well, providing you drop the Captain, I prefer a thorn.
00:10:56Tell me something, Doctor.
00:10:57Has a hurricane ever hit this island before that you know of?
00:11:01I wouldn't know.
00:11:03You've only been here nine months and this place has been unoccupied for years.
00:11:06Well, have you ever been through one?
00:11:09Only the fringes.
00:11:10Well, this one's building up very fast.
00:11:12Pressure drops very quickly in the center.
00:11:14I'd advise you to get some doors and windows open in this place.
00:11:21Ventilators under root.
00:11:23And if you'll freshen Anne's drink, I'll go and check them.
00:11:26I'd be happy to.
00:11:28Thank heavens you arrived today.
00:11:31Why?
00:11:31Are rations getting short?
00:11:33No, it's more than that.
00:11:34Much more.
00:11:35We'll surely be able to sail tomorrow, won't we?
00:11:38Possibly.
00:11:40But not probable.
00:11:41Not too late, anyway.
00:11:43Takes a long time for a sea like that to quiet down.
00:11:46Well, if you're worrying about me, you needn't.
00:11:48I'm a good sailor.
00:11:50Well, I'm not worried about you.
00:11:53We'll sail when the time's right.
00:11:54I've got them opened, all right.
00:11:57Well, Captain, let me freshen you a drink.
00:12:01One for the road.
00:12:03I'm not trying to rush you, but it will be dark soon.
00:12:06I've invited Thorne for dinner, Father.
00:12:10Oh, I see.
00:12:14If you're not worried about your ship, you're welcome.
00:12:18I'll take a rainjack on that dinner, if you wish.
00:12:20Father, I've asked Thorne to stay.
00:12:25Progress, Doctor.
00:12:28This is the sole survivor of Group 30.
00:12:3228 months old today.
00:12:35Well, that's equivalent to 140 years to us.
00:12:38That's right.
00:12:39Yet it still maintains low metabolism without any sluggishness.
00:12:43It's not the breakthrough, but it certainly sets our course.
00:12:49Ratford, suspend series 52 through 96, and we'll concentrate on the rest.
00:12:56What is that?
00:12:57It's a sorex soricity.
00:13:00Looks like a small rat.
00:13:03Smells like a skunk.
00:13:05They have musk glands in their knees.
00:13:08These little fellows are our subjects.
00:13:10They have a birth cycle of 10 to 14 days.
00:13:14And using them, we can establish traits.
00:13:17We can trace the progressions for a number of generations over a short period of time.
00:13:21Well, how big do they get?
00:13:25That's an adult.
00:13:29See, the muscle is longer and thicker than the rat's.
00:13:32It extends over the lower mandible.
00:13:34See?
00:13:35Does he bite?
00:13:37Only when he's hungry.
00:13:38Well, maybe you better take him.
00:13:39He doesn't know me.
00:13:41All he knows is his next meal.
00:13:45He's just been fed.
00:13:47He'll be all right for another eight hours.
00:13:52A shutter blew open.
00:13:54Ratford?
00:13:55I got it, senor.
00:13:58Don't let that scare you.
00:14:00It's going to get worse.
00:14:02Storms always frightened her, ever since she was a child.
00:14:15They're not climbers.
00:14:17They're digging animals, a lot like the mole.
00:14:21They feed only at night unless they're starving.
00:14:24And when they are hungry enough, they'll tackle anything, regardless of size.
00:14:30No kidding.
00:14:31If you leave two of them in a cage for 12 hours without food, the stronger will eat the weaker.
00:14:37Like cannibals.
00:14:38Precisely.
00:14:39You see, their intense activity requires a tremendous amount of energy.
00:14:44To supply, they must eat three times their own weight in food every 24 hours, or starve.
00:14:52So, Ratford, Ratford, Ratford, would you please take this?
00:14:57Take it, my friend.
00:14:58Yeah.
00:15:04Some call them bone eaters.
00:15:07When the flesh is gone, they'll eat the bones for marrow.
00:15:09All their leave are teeth, horns, hooves.
00:15:13I could use another martini, do you mind?
00:15:16Of course, my dear.
00:15:17I'll get you one.
00:15:26There you are.
00:15:30Mario.
00:15:32Mario.
00:15:34Here, please.
00:15:36Mario, we'll show you to the bathroom.
00:15:38You'll freshen up a bit.
00:15:39Here, Mr. Albanian.
00:15:42Yes, sir.
00:15:43Follow me, please.
00:15:44Excuse me.
00:16:00Here, sir.
00:16:23You've got a problem, too?
00:16:25¿Qué paso?
00:16:26Nada.
00:16:27Nothing, señor.
00:16:28But you will live on the ship tomorrow.
00:16:31Well, I think that all depends on the wind and the sea, don't you?
00:16:35Sí.
00:16:36Sí, señor.
00:16:38I don't know.
00:16:43I feel the point.
00:16:45I see.
00:16:46Well, I'm glad to hear that.
00:16:48Now, if anybody else is concerned about my sailing tomorrow, why, you see, they feel the
00:16:53point, too, huh?
00:16:54I don't like to repeat myself.
00:16:56OK, señor.
00:16:58I don't like to see you.
00:17:02Love you.
00:17:19Love you, sir.
00:17:29I know, but I'm not saying that you created them, Jerry.
00:17:33I am saying that because of your drunkest stupidity
00:17:36in leaving the cage door open,
00:17:38you created the horrible situation that now exists.
00:17:41Look, Ann, this is a mistake any one of us might have made.
00:17:45And I'm getting a little sick of being called an irresponsible drunk.
00:17:50Now, believe me, I am.
00:17:56Excuse me.
00:18:08Care for a cigarette?
00:18:10Thanks.
00:18:11And thank heavens you arrived today.
00:18:13You said that before. What's the strain?
00:18:15If I don't make sense, please excuse me.
00:18:18But it seems like everything is coming to a head at once.
00:18:21I want to leave, but I want my father to go with me.
00:18:24Well, then, why doesn't he?
00:18:28We've discussed it many times, but he's adamant.
00:18:32I'm sure Jerry has a lot to do with his decision.
00:18:38He tried to convince me that the crisis will only last for a few...
00:18:47Well, this is certainly a cozy little scene.
00:18:52Might even be called intimate.
00:18:54Boy meets girl when all...
00:18:55Stop it, Jerry.
00:18:56That remark is uncalled for.
00:18:58What I do or have to say does not concern you.
00:19:01I can't disagree with you more, my dear.
00:19:03I'm concerned with everything you do,
00:19:05and I intend to keep it that way.
00:19:07Now, in my book, an engagement isn't a casual thing.
00:19:09In my book, it isn't either.
00:19:11And last night ended ours.
00:19:26No, it's not.
00:19:27No, it's not.
00:19:28No, it's not.
00:19:30No, it's not.
00:19:32No, it's not.
00:19:35No, it's not.
00:19:36No, it's not.
00:19:38No, it's not.
00:19:39No, it's not.
00:19:40No, it's not.
00:19:40No, it's not.
00:19:40No, it's not.
00:19:42No, it's not.
00:19:42No, it's not.
00:19:43No, it's not.
00:19:52Oh, my God.
00:20:13Help! Help!
00:20:15Stop the car!
00:20:16Somebody help!
00:20:18Help!
00:20:19Stop the car!
00:20:27Be reasonable.
00:20:29Everybody in the world is scared to death of something.
00:20:32That's evident.
00:20:33When they came at us last night, you knocked me down getting inside the fence.
00:20:36It's just that I can't stand them.
00:20:38And I've discovered something I can't stand.
00:20:41All right.
00:20:43But I advise you not to mention them to anyone.
00:20:46I'm going to complete these experiments with your father regardless of anything.
00:20:50Do you understand that?
00:20:51Nobody is going to take this chance away from me.
00:20:57That's Captain Sherman.
00:20:59Checking the weather. I'll get him.
00:21:05Captain, time for dinner.
00:21:13Come on!
00:21:15Somebody help!
00:21:25Help!
00:21:29Captain!
00:21:30Captain!
00:21:31Captain!
00:21:32Captain!
00:21:33Oh, my God.
00:22:04Well, I miss as good as a mile, I always say.
00:22:07You know, if one of those trees crashes through, it might just knock the whole...
00:22:10Well, honey, any tree on this side of the house will fall away from it, so just relax.
00:22:14But I think I'd better go back aboard.
00:22:17I don't think I'm not grateful for your hospitality. I am.
00:22:20I'll see you tomorrow.
00:22:21Thorne, your ship is safe.
00:22:23Please, stay here with me.
00:22:27Why? You scared or lonesome?
00:22:29Both.
00:22:31I'll take a rain check on it.
00:22:33Thorne, you can't leave.
00:22:36No one opens that gate after dark.
00:22:39Well, who's going to stop me? You?
00:22:42Well, Bess, no one opens that gate at night.
00:22:50Now, look, I don't ask questions because it's against my principles.
00:22:54But wouldn't you like to explain that?
00:22:57All right. Sit down and I will.
00:22:59Give me the gun.
00:23:01Not very becoming, anyway.
00:23:03Do you believe in fairy tales?
00:23:06Well, I'm a little old for that sort of thing, but, uh, what'd you have in mind?
00:23:10Well, I'll tell you about one.
00:23:11A true fairy tale.
00:23:13And you're right in the middle of it.
00:23:15Oh?
00:23:16Have you ever heard of a shrew?
00:23:18As in taming of the...
00:23:20Well, Radford called them Sauric sericity when he showed you one.
00:23:24Oh, then, shrew must be the common name for those cute little animals.
00:23:27Cute?
00:23:28That's the last word you can use to describe those little monsters.
00:23:31They're the most horrible animals on the face of the earth.
00:23:35As Father told you, they breed within three weeks after birth.
00:23:38The last time is around one year.
00:23:38I know what your father told me, but what's that got to do with me opening that gate?
00:23:45There are two or three hundred giant shrews out there.
00:23:50Monsters weighing between fifty and a hundred pounds.
00:23:55Fifty to a hundred?
00:23:58Wait a minute.
00:23:58You must be kidding.
00:23:59I'm definitely not kidding.
00:24:03That's as big as a full-grown wolf.
00:24:05And what's more, they are beginning to starve.
00:24:12No wonder you didn't want me to go out there.
00:24:15Thanks for saving my skin.
00:24:17Well, I'm sorry I had to threaten you with a gun.
00:24:20But I didn't know how else to stop you.
00:24:22Oh, it was very effective.
00:24:24But all you had to do was tell me about them.
00:24:26Well, I hoped I wouldn't have to.
00:24:28But you changed everything when you started to leave.
00:24:31And I had to stop you some way.
00:24:35You say there's two or three hundred out there?
00:24:38Anne!
00:24:44That's right, Captain Thorne.
00:24:46And if you'd stuck with your rowboat and played captain instead of trying to play detective,
00:24:50you wouldn't have to worry about how many are out there, would you?
00:24:53That's enough, Jerry.
00:25:00What's wrong, Anne?
00:25:02Well, Thorne decided to leave.
00:25:04To dissuade him, I started to tell him about the shoes.
00:25:09You might as well know the whole story.
00:25:10It's half of it.
00:25:17I guess we're all a little jumpy, Captain.
00:25:19Yeah, I'm sorry.
00:25:22Six months ago, we managed to isolate the fact of controlling size.
00:25:27Two leaders were born.
00:25:29Six individuals we kept to study.
00:25:32They were about the size of buckshot at birth.
00:25:36But the rate of growth was abnormal.
00:25:40They continued to grow, grow.
00:25:43They were mutants, but they inherited all the negative characteristics of their breed.
00:25:50Somehow, they managed to escape.
00:25:57But a month later, we saw one of their offsprings.
00:26:01They were multiplying.
00:26:03We did everything in the world to exterminate them, but no apparent luck.
00:26:10Then we haven't seen any.
00:26:12Since daylight neither blinds them, and they forage only at night.
00:26:15Well, they're starving.
00:26:19But the fact that two of them charged Ann and Jerry at the gate last evening
00:26:25indicates that the available food on the island is nearing depletion.
00:26:32Then what, Doctor?
00:26:34They will exterminate each other.
00:26:37It'll take a couple days.
00:26:39What do we do during that time?
00:26:41Stay indoors and wait until it's over.
00:26:47I thought we'd get some wires glued down on the transformer.
00:26:50I'm sorry.
00:26:51I'll get some lamps.
00:26:54Mario!
00:26:55Mario!
00:26:57Si, senor!
00:26:58There's a lantern in the pantry.
00:26:59Light it and bring it in here.
00:27:04Bradford, light all the candles you can find.
00:27:06All right, I will.
00:27:07Where's the generator?
00:27:08Outside.
00:27:09Can't get at it at night.
00:27:13Here, let me help.
00:27:15The lantern will give you all the light you need.
00:27:18I will join you shortly, Jerry.
00:27:31Well, Jerry, I felt she was sincere and made sense from her standpoint.
00:27:38Wanting her father to leave the island with her makes sense?
00:27:42I'd be much better for the project if I went with her for a few days.
00:27:48As a matter of fact, I think I'll talk to the doctor about that.
00:27:51That might be the answer.
00:27:52And another thing, I don't take much to this Thorne Sherman.
00:27:56He looks to me like the type that'd try anything.
00:28:01That left-handed dinner invitation.
00:28:03That was just to keep me here till after dark, wasn't it?
00:28:11I wanted you here tonight.
00:28:13I bet something terrible was going to happen.
00:28:16Why, you still feel the same way about it?
00:28:18Not as much.
00:28:19Not since you're here.
00:28:21I know everything.
00:28:36I love an open fire, don't you?
00:28:39Mm-hmm.
00:28:43The wind has a lonesome sound, doesn't it?
00:28:49Sure does.
00:28:50Back in Sweden, we don't have a wind this strong.
00:28:58You're a strange man, Thorne.
00:29:00I never met anyone like you.
00:29:03Oh?
00:29:04You seem so disinterested in everything.
00:29:07Aren't you the least bit curious?
00:29:10Don't you wonder about the unusual things around here?
00:29:14The guns, the fins, the shattered windows.
00:29:19My accent, anything?
00:29:21I'll tell you something.
00:29:23I'm only interested in anything that concerns me.
00:29:26Then I do something about it.
00:29:31You're going to sail with me tomorrow,
00:29:32whether you're further and hence me or not.
00:29:43Thorne, no!
00:29:55I don't think he was going out, Jerry.
00:29:57I couldn't take a chance.
00:29:58He's fool enough to.
00:29:59Don't be stupid.
00:30:00I had no intentions of going out there, opening that gate.
00:30:03Now somebody needed it.
00:30:05Did you hear it, Doctor?
00:30:07You sound like a human voice.
00:30:09How's they going to look?
00:30:10There's a livestock.
00:30:12His shoes got into the barn.
00:30:29Did Mario forget to borrow those doors?
00:30:32No.
00:30:34I put them in the barn myself.
00:30:37They couldn't get through the wood doors.
00:30:40They dug through the dirt floor.
00:30:42Let me ask you something, Doctor.
00:30:44How could you expose all our lives, yourself included,
00:30:47with those things out there?
00:30:49All you had to do was get the Coast Guard or the Navy
00:30:51to come in here and burn them out.
00:30:53Those things got loose.
00:30:55Any unusual experiment can produce unusual results.
00:30:59That's why I chose this island.
00:31:02It's isolated.
00:31:03Miles of open water in any direction.
00:31:07Our project is privately financed.
00:31:11It's not a problem for the government or military.
00:31:14The world is no danger.
00:31:19This species does not swim.
00:31:21And as far as the shrews are concerned,
00:31:24this island is their world.
00:31:26Well, very soon, right here on this island,
00:31:31there's going to be a miniature reproduction
00:31:33of an overpopulated world.
00:31:35And you'll see the importance
00:31:37of what we're working to avoid.
00:31:39I'm not concerned about all this theory.
00:31:42What I'm concerned about is our lives.
00:31:44There'll be ample time to panic
00:31:45when they run out of food
00:31:46and go on a 24-hour forage.
00:31:48How do you know they haven't already?
00:31:51That's possible.
00:31:52Their main diet has been the small animals on the island.
00:31:55And that source could have been depleted 18 or 20 hours ago.
00:32:00And that's why they went after the livestock.
00:32:03There's still some food on this island
00:32:05before they reach the crisis.
00:32:07Where?
00:32:12No worry about them digging in here.
00:32:15The floors are tile.
00:32:16But the walls aren't, Doctor.
00:32:18They're adobe.
00:32:19Our safest bet would be on that boat.
00:32:22You may be right.
00:32:24We can reach your boat in daylight.
00:32:27The shrews will gorge themselves on livestock.
00:32:31Don't you keep them lethargy for several hours?
00:32:33There's no sense looking at the dark side.
00:32:36And there's no sense minimizing a serious situation.
00:32:39It leaves you completely unprepared to cope with it.
00:32:43Now, we certainly can't make it tonight.
00:32:46That's out of the question.
00:32:47Maybe tomorrow.
00:32:50Hi, Evan.
00:32:51We'll get some sleep tonight.
00:32:53But we'll have a watch.
00:32:54An hour and a half apiece.
00:32:55Doctor, you go first and then Radford.
00:32:57Mario, Jerry, and then me.
00:33:00Shutter all the windows.
00:33:02Make sure they're locked good and tight.
00:33:03Check all these walls.
00:33:07Come on.
00:33:08No, I think I'll stay here by the fire.
00:33:10I feel safer.
00:33:12I couldn't stand it in that room alone.
00:33:15All right.
00:33:16As you wish.
00:33:17But try to get some sleep.
00:33:19I will.
00:33:52Let's go.
00:33:58Sir Farrell, here is Mario.
00:34:01You are next to make the patrol, no?
00:34:03Sure, Mario.
00:34:04Come on in.
00:34:07I've been waiting for you to finish.
00:34:10I must have dozed off.
00:34:12You kind of startled me.
00:34:15Sit down.
00:34:17Here.
00:34:18Have a drink.
00:34:19It will help you to relax.
00:34:20Gracias, señor.
00:34:22Sit down.
00:34:25Mr. Wilde.
00:34:28You just checked every room in the house, didn't you?
00:34:32See?
00:34:33Fine.
00:34:35You're a good man, Mario.
00:34:38A man that can be trusted.
00:34:49You know what I've been thinking about, Mario?
00:34:54Ann and that captain?
00:34:58You and me.
00:35:01Imagine an intelligent girl like her going for a common sea trap like him.
00:35:12I know why.
00:35:14You do, too.
00:35:17In case anything goes wrong, she's looking out for her own hide.
00:35:22That's why I keep thinking about you and me.
00:35:27Anything goes wrong,
00:35:31we're going to outlast them all.
00:35:47I'm going to trust you
00:35:49to take my turn at patrolling the house.
00:35:54But when you finish,
00:35:57don't wait for the captain.
00:36:00Come back here and get me.
00:36:03See, I'll probably feel good enough by then to take his turn.
00:36:09Okay, Mario?
00:36:11Si.
00:36:11Okay.
00:36:13Okay.
00:36:47Oh, my God.
00:36:49Oh, my God.
00:36:51Come on.
00:36:52Come on.
00:37:10female
00:37:14It is Mario.
00:37:16Oh, Mario, come on in.
00:37:18What is it?
00:37:18There is a big raton in la bodega.
00:37:21A shrew in the cellar?
00:37:22Si, I hear him singing down there.
00:37:25Well, how did he get in?
00:37:27The store broke out the kitchen window, but I closed it off.
00:37:30He went down there.
00:37:31Why should he go down there?
00:37:33The food for the little ratones.
00:37:34I put it out to enfrost.
00:37:36They love it.
00:37:37What did you tell Jerry?
00:37:38No, senor.
00:37:39Here is your turn next.
00:37:40Here is una luz.
00:37:42We're killing, no?
00:37:44Yeah.
00:38:01Ann.
00:38:03Ann, wake up.
00:38:04A shrew got in.
00:38:06It's all right.
00:38:06He's down in the cellar.
00:38:08Now, we're going down after him.
00:38:09But I don't want you to let anybody open that door until I tell you to.
00:38:13You understand?
00:38:15Good girl.
00:38:34Okay.
00:38:35Open it.
00:38:35Just a crack.
00:38:38Open.
00:38:40Hold on to it.
00:38:43Okay.
00:39:08You take that side.
00:39:11You take that side.
00:39:37Mario.
00:39:39Here.
00:39:40You see anything?
00:39:42I see where he was.
00:39:44I do not see where he is.
00:39:46Cuidado.
00:39:47Si, senor.
00:39:48I will be careful.
00:40:01I'm here.
00:40:02I'm here.
00:40:04I've also gotten busy.
00:40:06I'll take a second.
00:40:09I'll take a second.
00:40:36You all right down there?
00:40:38Doctor, get down here, quick!
00:41:20I got this on him right away. He couldn't have bled to death.
00:41:26Might as well let go of it. Won't do him any good now.
00:41:32What could have killed him?
00:41:36I'm not certain. Till the autopsy.
00:41:41Hematoxic syndrome.
00:41:43I'm afraid so. We'll know after pathology.
00:41:48Doctor, that's not the same animal you showed me.
00:41:52That's a monster.
00:41:54As I said, they are mutants.
00:41:58In controlling the size factor,
00:42:01we seem to have crossed some of the other characteristics.
00:42:04Well, you certainly did a good job of it.
00:42:07I've known that for some time, Captain.
00:42:15Would you please give me a hand with Mario Bradford?
00:42:19Bring up the animal.
00:42:38An extremely high poison content in the shrew's saliva.
00:42:41Mm-hmm. Now, compare it with this.
00:42:46Careful count isn't necessary.
00:42:49Any indication of the same poison,
00:42:51and Mario's blood will give you the answer.
00:42:53Yes, you're right.
00:42:57Look, Ann.
00:43:02Brooding about it's not going to do any good.
00:43:04Now, why don't you try to think of something else?
00:43:07Tell me, what do you do around here?
00:43:10Are you a scientist?
00:43:12I'm a zoologist.
00:43:14Oh.
00:43:15That's the study of animal life, isn't it?
00:43:18What do you specialize?
00:43:19What do you specialize in?
00:43:21They're dying.
00:43:23Well, I had a hand in these two.
00:43:25And I'm partly to blame.
00:43:36But this ends it.
00:43:38If we ever get off this island,
00:43:40I'll never have anything to do with it again.
00:43:42What will you do?
00:43:45Live normally.
00:43:46Like normal women do.
00:43:48May see it seem a little dull after the life I've been living.
00:43:54But rather dull and alive than excited and...
00:43:56I'll take a dull, alive woman every time.
00:44:11Say, Thorne.
00:44:15The autopsy has proved what we suspected.
00:44:20Several weeks ago, I concocted the most virulent poison I could with the materials I had at hand.
00:44:26And we put it out as bait.
00:44:30Mario was killed by poison.
00:44:33Doctor, I wonder if you thought the system of the Sorex enabled them to assimilate that poison.
00:44:39It remained in the salivary glands of their jaws.
00:44:43Isn't that wonderful?
00:44:46Well, I am sorry.
00:44:47Of course, I always speak from the clinical point of view.
00:44:51Well, don't you have something to counteract that poison?
00:44:56Once Mario was bitten, I'm afraid there's nothing anyone could have done.
00:45:02This indicates that they cannot afford to get even so much as a scratch from these animals.
00:45:08They're more poisonous than snakes.
00:45:10What, do you think they're all affected?
00:45:13The best way to find out is let them all bite you and see which bite you die after.
00:45:18We might just all get that chance, Jerry.
00:45:21You included.
00:45:23Doctor, I've closed all the doors in the house.
00:45:26I suggest we do the same thing with this hall and this lab.
00:45:29We'll cut down the chances of getting in the front of the house.
00:45:32I think if we keep a close watch in those walls and windows in there, we might make it till
00:45:37daybreak.
00:45:38The walls are two feet thick to you.
00:45:41Do you think they have a chance to dig in?
00:45:43Of course there's a chance.
00:45:45Anywhere that plaster's off, that adobe's as soft as mush where that rain hit it.
00:46:22It's not a bad idea, Doctor.
00:46:25But here's another possibility, Doctor.
00:46:28It's very light out.
00:46:29It's gonna be daylight soon.
00:46:32We'll take the shrew that killed Mario and throw it over the fence and use it for bait.
00:46:37If they show up for it, of course they'll run for the boats out.
00:46:41But if they don't, then I'll go down and have Rook lay to with a lighter.
00:46:44Then I'll return to the bend and the trail and give you the all clear signal.
00:46:49Sounds fine, Captain.
00:46:50Good. Then you explain it to the rest.
00:46:52Yes, I will.
00:47:06Well, the bait's been out for 20 minutes.
00:47:09Nothing's touched it.
00:47:09Good.
00:47:21.
00:47:22.
00:47:27.
00:47:49Even the wind has gone down, isn't that wonderful?
00:47:52I'm afraid it's not over, my dear.
00:47:54It's just a low.
00:47:55There'll be a lot more.
00:47:57He's right.
00:47:58I'll be back at the bend shortly.
00:48:00Now, you watch for my signal.
00:48:01You can't go long.
00:48:03I'll go with him.
00:48:04Not you, Father.
00:48:05You haven't even fired a gun.
00:48:06Take Rad or Jerry.
00:48:09Sure, I'll go.
00:48:11Then you'll be sure of getting the signal.
00:48:54Don't shoot that gun unless you have to.
00:48:56We've only got 20 rounds altogether.
00:48:59I know that as well as you do.
00:49:06Sherman, you stay away from her.
00:49:09Do you have that gun pointed at me?
00:49:12Right in the middle of your back.
00:49:15Look, we've got enough problems without worrying about Ann.
00:49:18I'm telling you, stay away from her.
00:49:20When the shrews get through with you, they won't even find a buckshot.
00:49:34I'm telling you, stay away from him.
00:49:35I won't, he'll get rid of anything.
00:49:36I won't even want him.
00:49:44I won't.
00:49:45Hey.
00:49:45That's how I'll go.
00:49:53Well, it's going to be a...
00:49:56Hey, look!
00:49:59Hey, look!
00:50:01Look!
00:50:07Where's this gift?
00:50:12I'll follow that check line.
00:50:13I've got to find him.
00:50:15Since last night, you won't find much of him.
00:50:18Would you shut up?
00:50:19I'm not going back.
00:50:21You're what?
00:50:22I'm staying here.
00:50:24All right.
00:50:25You suit yourself, but if I were you, I'd swim out to that boat.
00:50:30Can't swim.
00:50:31Then stay here.
00:50:33Wait a minute.
00:50:34You've got to give me a gun.
00:50:37Give you a gun?
00:50:43Sherman, wait!
00:50:44Wait!
00:50:50Come on.
00:50:56Bye, honey.
00:50:56Hurry up!
00:50:57Take care!
00:50:57You've got to wimp.
00:50:58Hold it!
00:50:59Try it!
00:50:59Hold it!
00:51:00Try it!
00:51:01Go take care!
00:51:01You've got to anduse some people.
00:51:04Hurry up.
00:51:05Put it!
00:51:05Go, Josh!
00:51:05Go, Josh!
00:51:05Get back here.
00:51:06Get back here!
00:51:08That's the way!
00:51:08Nice!
00:51:08Come, Josh!
00:51:10Get back here!
00:51:18This is the gun we had on the boat.
00:51:26They don't leave much, do they?
00:51:32Sherman, we've got to make a deal for...
00:51:38What is it?
00:51:39Shh.
00:51:41They've been trailing us on both sides.
00:51:45Where? I didn't see anything.
00:51:48Look, Sherman, you've got to give me a gun.
00:51:55All right.
00:51:56Whatever you do, don't you run.
00:51:58You stay in front of me, because I don't trust you.
00:52:15They're coming!
00:52:17They're coming!
00:52:25Open the gate!
00:52:30Open the gate!
00:52:32Open the gate!
00:52:35Open the gate!
00:52:39Open the gate!
00:52:40Let him in!
00:52:42Let's him in.
00:52:45Jerry, open that door.
00:52:59Drop the shoes. Let's him in.
00:53:01Jerry, the shoes were out there. I couldn't take a chance.
00:53:13Come on, get out of here.
00:53:16Come on!
00:53:17Get out of here!
00:53:18Get out of here!
00:53:20Get out of here!
00:53:23Get out of here!
00:53:26Get out of here!
00:53:31Get out of here!
00:53:35For heaven's sake, Doctor! Stop him!
00:53:51THE END
00:54:22All right, didn't he have it coming, or didn't he?
00:54:26What happened out there?
00:54:27Oh, nothing much.
00:54:29Jerry just tried to kill me twice in the last five minutes.
00:54:35Brooke came ashore last night.
00:54:37He's dead.
00:54:44This saw was left.
00:54:45Won't do us any good.
00:54:46It's got no ammo.
00:55:02I'm deeply sorry, Captain.
00:55:05I wish he had followed your orders.
00:55:08Look, Doctor, you casually mention animals.
00:55:11You didn't explain to us what we were facing out there.
00:55:14You have every right to feel the way you do.
00:55:18My mistake was only mine.
00:55:20It was one of judgment.
00:55:23I didn't know about the hurricane.
00:55:25I didn't anticipate the effect it would have on the shrews.
00:55:29I thought the house would be safe through the crisis.
00:55:32How could you expose your own daughter?
00:55:34How could you expose Ann to that?
00:55:36She was going to leave last week, but the boat didn't come.
00:55:40I need a drink.
00:55:46Anybody else care for one?
00:55:48I could use some coffee.
00:55:50I'll make some.
00:55:53Creamy sugar.
00:55:57Oh, my leg.
00:56:07Sign the door.
00:56:10You all right, Doctor?
00:56:12He just ripped my trousers, that's all.
00:56:14Are you sure that's all?
00:56:16I'm completely aware of it, Doctor.
00:56:38That was a stupid waste of ammunition.
00:56:40Never want them a clean mess.
00:56:42There's still four of them in there.
00:56:48How did they get in?
00:56:50Through that kitchen window.
00:56:51That rope must be rotten.
00:56:54It got him.
00:57:06He's dead.
00:57:07Oh, no.
00:57:10No.
00:57:23He recorded every symptom and reaction
00:57:27right up to the moment of his death.
00:57:33Jerry, tear down one of those drapes and cover him up.
00:57:37Harry.
00:57:38Sure.
00:57:39Sure.
00:57:41Gregus will cover Ann, and I'll cover him.
00:57:45You'll cover me, but who'll cover you?
00:57:48Shut up!
00:57:49We can get on the man who'll sway for the shit.
00:57:52Shut up!
00:57:56Now, you stop sniffling on things.
00:57:59It'll take a time to get us out of here.
00:58:26It won't take them off to dig around this.
00:58:27You're right.
00:58:29No telling where else they're digging, too.
00:58:53Come on.
00:58:54Come on, Harry.
00:59:07There's not enough stuff here to barricade those walls.
00:59:10I'll tell you, we'll pile some of those crates up over there.
00:59:12The route's our last chance.
00:59:13Here, help me, doctor.
00:59:15We can find something light.
00:59:17All right.
00:59:25Come on, Harry.
00:59:26Come on.
00:59:26We'll get him back.
00:59:27Come on.
00:59:33Come on.
00:59:47Dr. Yes, use these chemical drums as, as tanks, individual tanks! Here, I'll show you.
00:59:54All right.
00:59:55Stand down here.
00:59:56Yeah.
00:59:57Slow down now.
00:59:58All right.
00:59:59Slow.
01:00:00All right.
01:00:01Are you all right?
01:00:02Yeah.
01:00:11It'll work.
01:00:13It'll work.
01:00:14It'll work.
01:00:14But these drums are too tall for the bass.
01:00:17If the shoes don't push us over, the wind will.
01:00:20Not if we lash them together.
01:00:21All right.
01:00:23Hey, are there any more around here?
01:00:25Only that one over there.
01:00:27Do you have any coal chisels or hammers or anything?
01:00:30I can knock a hole in here and make five pieces.
01:00:32Get us.
01:00:33Let's move until the band is all right.
01:00:36All right.
01:00:37All right.
01:00:45Hey, here's another one.
01:00:48Hey, get that out there.
01:00:49We'll let's work on it.
01:00:51Hey, that's even better.
01:01:02Give me a little more slack.
01:01:06Get some rope and put it on that latch so we can read from the ground.
01:01:19Hey.
01:01:20Let's take a break.
01:01:20Take a break.
01:01:32All right.
01:01:33I'll leave the band.
01:01:34Come take a break.
01:01:35Come take a break.
01:01:37Take a break.
01:01:40I'll take a break.
01:01:41Come take a break.
01:01:42Let's go! Get through this!
01:01:46Come on, come on!
01:01:59Now, hold this answer, all right?
01:02:20All right, we're all set.
01:02:22Something's gonna be rough, but we should be able to duck walk to the beach.
01:02:26Where's Jerry?
01:02:27There's a lot of them out there! I can see them! I'm not going!
01:02:30Look! Come down here! That wind will blow you right off that roof!
01:02:34I told you, I'm not going! I'm staying here!
01:02:37We've got to get them down here somehow, and see if you can close them down here.
01:02:42Jerry! Jerry, please come down with us!
01:02:44No, Ann! They'll get you if you go out!
01:02:46Come down here, you fool!
01:02:48Poor devil, I hope he makes it.
01:02:50If he can't leave him, he's not responsible for himself.
01:02:55He's got to go now.
01:03:03All right, Doctor.
01:03:05All right.
01:03:11All right!
01:03:12All right!
01:03:12Now, hold up!
01:03:18All right!
01:03:23Everybody ready?
01:03:24I'm gonna open that gate!
01:03:27They're ready!
01:03:30Ready!
01:03:31Okay, here they come!
01:03:37Lock it out!
01:03:38Hold on!
01:03:40Hold on!
01:03:43Hold on!
01:03:44Hold on!
01:03:45Hold on!
01:04:14And what's the matter?
01:04:15Your side's dragging.
01:04:18You want to rest?
01:04:19You tired?
01:04:24What'd you say?
01:04:26She says she's all right.
01:04:28She's keeping her eyes closed.
01:04:31All right.
01:04:32Keep your eyes closed.
01:04:33They can't get at you through the slit.
01:04:47This empty drum is too heavy for her.
01:04:50I can barely hold up my side.
01:04:53I'll be all right in a minute.
01:04:57All right.
01:04:58You walk.
01:04:59I'll drag for a while.
01:05:06Listen.
01:05:06Don't let their head get under.
01:05:08They'll flip us over.
01:05:10Ah!
01:05:11Ah!
01:05:12Ah!
01:06:18He got my foot.
01:06:20Check your foot.
01:06:23No, my foot is free, but he got my foot.
01:06:26Is there a scratch?
01:06:28No, not a mark.
01:06:44Keep moving.
01:06:45Let's go.
01:06:47Let's go.
01:06:54God, I don't think I...
01:06:57What?
01:07:01Son!
01:07:03Wait, son!
01:07:06Son, we're close!
01:07:08We'll hit the water soon.
01:07:21It doesn't sound like they're following us anymore.
01:07:29We better work deeper.
01:07:36I'm about to hand out.
01:07:38Okay, let's swim for it.
01:07:39Okay.
01:07:47Okay.
01:08:06We are safe, aren't we?
01:08:10I mean, the storm.
01:08:12Sure.
01:08:13She rode out the first half, all right.
01:08:14That's always the roughest.
01:08:16Anyway, riding an anchor, I'll get a chance to learn a little more about that Swedish accent.
01:08:22In 24 hours, there'll be one shrew left on the island, and he'll be dead of starvation.
01:08:28An excellent example of overpopulation.
01:08:32Well, you know something, doctor?
01:08:34What's that?
01:08:36I'm not going to worry about overpopulation just yet.
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