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Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 American Independent black-and-white three-dimensional science-fiction film, produced by Jack Rabin and Al Zimbalist, directed by Arthur Hilton, that stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, and Marie Windsor. The film was released on September 3, 1953 in Los Angeles by Astor Pictures.
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00:02:20White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you hear us?
00:02:26White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you hear us?
00:02:40White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you show any sign of recognition?
00:02:56White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you show any sign of recognition?
00:03:14White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 63. Can you show any sign of recognition?
00:03:23Well...
00:03:25What do you know?
00:03:26White Sands calling Moon Rocket 4, code 64. Can you show any sign of protection?
00:03:47Help the others.
00:03:48All right, your sleeping beauties, hit the deck.
00:03:50Every man a tiger.
00:03:51Let's go.
00:03:55You all right, Helen?
00:03:56Sure, Kip.
00:03:57Thanks.
00:04:10In space.
00:04:14We've made it.
00:04:25Oh, brother.
00:04:27Am I gonna collect some bets?
00:04:35White Sands to Moon Rocket 4, code 63.
00:04:37Come in.
00:04:38Helen, there's no one here but us space people.
00:04:41Not yet.
00:04:42First, I want your initial reports.
00:04:44Remember, this is a scientific expedition.
00:04:46And not a stunt.
00:04:49How are you on course, Helen?
00:04:51On course.
00:04:52Are you sure?
00:04:53Quite.
00:04:55You know, lad, I have the strangest feeling as though all this has happened before.
00:05:01White Sands to Moon Rocket 4, code 63.
00:05:03Come in.
00:05:05Rocket 4 to White Sands.
00:05:07Granger speaking.
00:05:08Can you hear me?
00:05:10Can we hear you?
00:05:12Come in.
00:05:12We have passed the 2,000 mile level.
00:05:15Are traveling in space.
00:05:17Speed.
00:05:17Seven miles a second.
00:05:20Motors smooth.
00:05:21Fuel consumption point eight six five.
00:05:24Temperature density of atom chamber unchanged.
00:05:27Nitrate pictate acid secure.
00:05:29We will report again at 1,400.
00:05:32Over and out.
00:05:33Wait a minute, Commander.
00:05:34There's a world full of people listening in.
00:05:36Are you all right?
00:05:37Could we have a few words from the crew?
00:05:39No.
00:05:39Oh, come on, lad.
00:05:40Don't be stuffy.
00:05:42All right.
00:05:42Speak from your stations.
00:05:43But be brief.
00:05:45Rocket 4 to White Sands.
00:05:47Stand by.
00:05:48The next voice you hear will be Kip Reisner, co-pilot.
00:05:51All I gotta say is watch out for that first step.
00:05:53It's a pip.
00:05:55Helen Salinger, navigator.
00:05:59Hello, Alpha.
00:06:00We're on our way.
00:06:03This is Doug Smith, radio operator.
00:06:05I'm gonna bring you a piece of that green cheese for sure.
00:06:09Walt Wallace, engineer.
00:06:10We're humming along, folks.
00:06:12That new lubrication by the Delphite Oil Company sure turned the trick.
00:06:17Over to you, White Sands.
00:06:19That plug oughta make a couple of grand, huh?
00:06:23Over and out.
00:06:24Hold on, Rocket 4, code 63.
00:06:26We wanna switch you over to Washington and General Rayburn.
00:06:28Members of Atomic Rocket Crew 4,
00:06:30our congratulations on your magnificent achievement.
00:06:33You are embarked on a space journey of over 200,000 miles.
00:06:40At 25,000 miles per hour,
00:06:43you have 10 hours flight ahead of you.
00:06:48To the scientific ingenuity that made this flight possible,
00:06:51there must now be added
00:06:52your skill,
00:06:55your courage,
00:06:56and our prayers.
00:07:03Weight balance to right.
00:07:05Something's embedded in our rear section.
00:07:07The atomic chamber.
00:07:08Heat radiation going up fast.
00:07:11Must be a bead here. Can we shake it?
00:07:12Maybe centrifugal force will dislodge it.
00:07:14No, then, most certainly.
00:07:46We've dumped it. Nice work, Larrick.
00:07:48If we'd been paying more attention to our work,
00:07:50this might not have happened.
00:07:51Doug, didn't the meteor appear on the view screen?
00:07:54I don't know, sir. I was listening to the...
00:07:56Exactly.
00:07:58Well, for the rest of this journey,
00:08:00we operate strictly by the book.
00:08:03The planners of this expedition have foreseen all contingencies.
00:08:06We hope.
00:08:07We do more than hope.
00:08:08We work with confidence.
00:08:10Now then, Helen,
00:08:11will you set us on course?
00:08:12Yes, sir.
00:08:13Doug, tune in White Sands.
00:08:15I'm trying, sir, but there's no pip.
00:08:17I'm afraid I'm out of business.
00:08:19Commander, the atom chamber.
00:08:21The nitric acid.
00:08:23One of the containers must have broken.
00:08:25If the acid reaches the fuel chamber,
00:08:26we'll explode, won't we?
00:08:27Turn on the water line.
00:08:28That'll implies it.
00:08:30Nothing happened, sir.
00:08:32Pour it on.
00:08:35It won't work, sir.
00:08:36It's got to work.
00:08:38What are you doing?
00:08:38I want to check that obstruction on the water line.
00:08:40The acid will burn through that soup in one minute flat.
00:08:42I'll just need 59 seconds.
00:08:44I hope.
00:08:45Come back here.
00:08:46Captain!
00:09:05Phil.
00:09:24Hey!
00:09:24Go Ox!
00:09:27Shenade!
00:09:30Oh!
00:09:31I'm sorry!
00:09:31Hope.
00:09:32Come on!
00:11:17He's done it.
00:11:18It's under control.
00:12:15Every man a tiger.
00:12:17Let's go.
00:12:18Well, I guess I'm not out of business.
00:12:20You must have skin like a rhinoceros.
00:12:22It didn't even blister.
00:12:23We can't all be beautiful.
00:12:26Is Laird sore?
00:12:27After all, I did go over his head.
00:12:29Well, he gave us another lecture on discipline.
00:12:32He's right, you know, Kip.
00:12:33We came only this far because we did it by the book.
00:12:36Some things aren't in the book.
00:12:38I'm okay.
00:12:39Go and talk to Laird.
00:12:40Hmm?
00:12:41Go on.
00:12:42After all, you're his girl.
00:12:43For the duration of this trip, the only relation I have with Laird is a scientific one.
00:12:48This is no time to pamper with the emotion.
00:12:51I bet you got that from him.
00:12:53It's true.
00:12:54It's hooey.
00:12:55You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.
00:12:59Tell me, baby, if I ever fell in love with you, I'd chase you across the world around the moon
00:13:02and all the way stations in between.
00:13:10Go on, beat it.
00:13:13All right, hero.
00:13:14I'll go talk to Laird.
00:13:16But if you don't mind, it'll only be about our land thing.
00:13:24You two make a great team.
00:13:25And strong mind and strong back.
00:13:28I suppose so.
00:13:33View screen should be okay now, sir.
00:13:36Thanks, Doug.
00:13:43Helen, who is Alpha?
00:13:46Alpha?
00:13:47On the radio, you said Alpha.
00:13:49We're on our way.
00:13:51I don't remember saying that.
00:13:53Probably just a touch of space madness.
00:13:56You know, there's one school of thoughts that we'd all go insane.
00:14:01Alpha.
00:14:16You better pick your landing spot and start figuring.
00:14:19I already have.
00:14:20We're on course.
00:14:22That's what I call a navigator.
00:14:23It's a valley on the dark side of the moon.
00:14:27The dark side?
00:14:29How could you possibly know anything about the dark side?
00:14:32All men who's ever seen is the bright side.
00:14:34Well, the bright side cuts across part of this valley.
00:14:37You can just barely see it on the photographs.
00:14:40Well, why there?
00:14:41We'd plan to study the bright side and then circle to the dark side.
00:14:45Please, Laird.
00:14:46This is a perfect landing place.
00:14:47Believe me.
00:14:48I don't know why I know it, but...
00:14:51I know it for sure.
00:14:54You're the navigator.
00:14:56We'll take a look at it anyway.
00:14:58Please take your stations.
00:14:59Please, we're coming in.
00:15:28Start the retarders, Walt.
00:15:44Start the retarders off.
00:15:45Stabilizers on.
00:15:48Unbuckle, Walt.
00:15:49Nighty picking, Helen.
00:15:51I knew it was the right place.
00:15:54Someday I'm going to ask you how.
00:15:56What do we do first, Laird?
00:15:57Want to check the ship, do a repair job if necessary?
00:16:00Well, let's make some findings.
00:16:01We're on the moon, not in a machine shop.
00:16:04I'll go along with Helen on that.
00:16:06We'll make a short exploratory tour.
00:16:08Back, grab some sleep, and then we'll look the ship over.
00:16:10Okay, but I'd feel a lot better if I was sure we were ready to take off at a moment's
00:16:13notice.
00:16:13Why?
00:16:14It's my Navy background.
00:16:16In any engagement, be prepared to disengage.
00:16:18Well, this isn't the Navy.
00:16:20Come on, Doug, help me into my suit.
00:16:25These shoes are heavy.
00:16:28You won't notice it when you get outside.
00:16:30I want everybody to check everybody else's equipment.
00:16:33It must be set number two because of the absolute cold in the dark side.
00:16:38And when you get out there, remember, stay on the dark side.
00:16:41Without any oxygen, what can you possibly want with cigarettes?
00:16:44I feel more at home carrying them.
00:16:46About as silly as that gun, Kip.
00:16:48You know there's no life on the moon.
00:16:50I guess I'm like Helen.
00:16:51I feel more at home that way.
00:16:52I wish you'd tell him not to, Laird.
00:16:55Either we're on a scientific expedition or we're a bunch of boy scouts on an Audi.
00:17:01I agree with you, Helen.
00:17:02But I guess it won't do any hurt.
00:17:04There's too much infantile romanticism in this crew.
00:17:08Well, I guess I'd better leave this behind then.
00:17:11I was going to do this outside, but I guess I can wait.
00:17:14What are those?
00:17:15First letters from the moon.
00:17:17I even got my own cancellation stamp.
00:17:19Ought to be worth a couple of hundred bucks apiece.
00:17:21Why didn't you make up about 50 of them?
00:17:23Brings the price down, boy.
00:17:24Stamps has got to be rare.
00:17:26Mr. Walters, when you're ready.
00:17:29All set, sir.
00:17:30I'll go first.
00:17:32You wait here.
00:18:20I'll go first.
00:18:21It works! Come ahead!
00:19:18It works!
00:19:45Let's go!
00:19:46Think of it, Helen.
00:19:47Two hundred thousand miles away we were.
00:19:50Yet, we knew it would be like this.
00:19:53We'll head that way.
00:19:56Any particular reason?
00:19:58There's a cave in the side of the crater over there.
00:20:01I noticed as we were settling in.
00:20:03Buried treasure, perhaps.
00:20:05Kip, would you mind very much if we did operate by the book for a while?
00:20:09Whatever the commander says.
00:20:11Single file!
00:20:38Look out!
00:20:40Meteorite!
00:20:41Look out!
00:20:45Meteorite!
00:20:59Who'd you wish?
00:21:05How dare you work at the ice?
00:21:06How could this be?
00:21:07A sickle?
00:21:12Yeah.
00:21:15Never mind.
00:21:20Here we are at the dividing line.
00:21:22It may not seem like much to us,
00:21:24but if Helen will fish me out one of those silly cigarettes,
00:21:27I'll show you something.
00:22:15There it is.
00:22:17Just like Helen said.
00:22:29I wonder if the commander would permit an observation.
00:22:32Oh, come on, Kip.
00:22:33We don't have to get that formal.
00:22:35Well, I only wanted to point out
00:22:36that from the angle the ship entered the crater,
00:22:39it would have been impossible for Miss Salinger
00:22:41to spot that cave.
00:22:43You mean she just guessed it was there?
00:22:45If she could guess a landing spot
00:22:47on the dark side of the moon,
00:22:49I suppose she could guess a cave.
00:22:52What are you driving at?
00:22:53I don't know,
00:22:54but I'll guarantee it isn't in the book.
00:23:00Come on, let's go.
00:23:17Magnificent.
00:23:18Let's go in.
00:23:20Might as well.
00:23:22Wait a minute.
00:23:24Wouldn't it be wise for someone to stay behind
00:23:25and guard the ship?
00:23:26I don't think anybody will take it.
00:23:30Helen.
00:23:31Helen!
00:23:32Come on, Miss Bart.
00:23:35Stay right where you are.
00:23:37I don't want to lose anybody.
00:23:46Exactly as I dreamed it.
00:23:48Or did I?
00:23:51Maybe this is the dream.
00:23:55It's pretty weird.
00:23:58Have you had enough?
00:24:00If you're tired, we can go back.
00:24:02No.
00:24:03We go on this way.
00:24:05Bye.
00:24:15Bye.
00:24:17Bye.
00:24:23Bye.
00:24:27Bye.
00:24:36Somebody miscalculated on these boots, Laird. They're far too heavy.
00:24:40They were all right outside. I can't understand it.
00:24:45Laird.
00:24:47Look.
00:24:50Moisture.
00:24:51How can there be water without atmosphere?
00:24:54Impossible.
00:24:56This may be something that only looks like water.
00:24:59A scientist doesn't know enough to come in out of the rain.
00:25:01Laird, has there occurred to you that maybe this is atmosphere?
00:25:03On the moon?
00:25:05Could be why it's hard for us to walk.
00:25:07Well, this atmosphere has got to be gravitational pull to hold it.
00:25:10Even I know that.
00:25:12We'll go back and get our instruments.
00:25:13That won't be necessary.
00:25:17This will prove it.
00:25:21It's burning. That means oxygen.
00:25:25One at a time.
00:25:35It's air, all right.
00:25:45Wait till I tell him I was the first man to breathe on the moon.
00:25:47Maybe we can bottle this stuff for safe.
00:25:50Moon mist for chronic coughs and asthma.
00:26:01Well, Laird, you'll have to admit that one wasn't in the book.
00:26:04How do you figure it?
00:26:06That makes you very happy, I suppose.
00:26:08Huh?
00:26:09Just curious.
00:26:11Magnetic field on the dark side could exert a gravitational pull.
00:26:17A special one.
00:26:19Of course, we'd have to verify it.
00:26:20And this is a natural decompression chamber, isn't it, sir?
00:26:25We're almost at the end.
00:26:27How do you know we're almost at the end?
00:26:31Well, it stands to reason the air isn't stuffy, so there must be an opening nearby.
00:26:36All right. We'll leave the suits here.
00:26:41Well, I know one thing that goes with me.
00:26:43This.
00:26:44Where there's oxygen, there can be life.
00:26:46And where there's life, there's death.
00:26:49There you go again, Kip.
00:26:51Why is it that the unknown always frightens people?
00:26:54Why can't we expect love and friendship instead of death?
00:26:57I'm all for love and friendship, but I worry.
00:27:01Now, if you don't mind, Laird, I'll take the lead.
00:27:03But I do mind, Kip.
00:27:05In fact, I was about to suggest that you bring up the rear.
00:27:33the rear.
00:27:41Kip!
00:27:42Kip!
00:27:42Btrark! Look out!
00:27:56Ah! Ah!
00:28:02We got back!
00:28:11Helen.
00:28:13Easy, easy. Easy does it.
00:28:17We killed you.
00:28:21Isn't it funny? I... I knew about everything but this.
00:28:27Forgive me, Kip. I'm so sorry I was cross with you.
00:28:31You all right, Helen?
00:28:33Yes. Just let me rest a little.
00:28:39Lord, you come with me. We're going back and guard those spacesuits.
00:28:42The rest of you will follow as soon as Helen come off.
00:28:44Doug, take this.
00:28:46Any objections? Laird?
00:28:49No, Kip. Go ahead.
00:28:59Come on. Let's go. Look around.
00:29:03Come on.
00:29:03Come on.
00:29:06Come on.
00:29:20Come on.
00:29:48What happened?
00:29:50Nothing.
00:29:51I... I just opened my eyes and missed you.
00:29:55I'm all right now. Should we go on?
00:29:58Kip and Wall have come back to suits.
00:30:00We can join them if you're able.
00:30:02Back? Why back?
00:30:04I think we've had enough for one day.
00:30:05No. You've been listening to Kip. He's just afraid.
00:30:09I don't think Kip was afraid of anything, Helen.
00:30:11But we don't know what's ahead.
00:30:12Well, I'll tell you then.
00:30:14Adventure, discovery, knowledge.
00:30:16Isn't that why we came?
00:30:18Of course, but another day.
00:30:19Now.
00:30:20If you don't want to come with me, I'll go on alone.
00:30:22You listen to me.
00:30:24I'm still commander of this expedition.
00:30:26You're not my commander.
00:30:27I know where I want to go, and I'm going there.
00:30:29Helen, what's cutting into you?
00:30:30Take your hands off me.
00:30:31Granger, they're gone.
00:30:32The space suits?
00:30:33You must have missed them.
00:30:34They're gone all right, Commander.
00:30:35We went back to the place we left them.
00:30:36There were marks on the Sands that they'd been dragged away.
00:30:38Just to make sure we checked back as far as we could.
00:30:40Thania ran out of air.
00:30:41But without suits, we're trapped.
00:30:42Unless we find the joker that took them.
00:30:44And I'll have that gun now.
00:30:45That settles the argument Laird and I were having.
00:30:47If we can't go back, the obvious thing to do is go forward.
00:30:51You seem very proud of yourself, Helen.
00:30:54I am.
00:31:08There it is.
00:31:14You said that as if you knew it all the time.
00:31:18It ain't true.
00:31:19There can't be another world in the bowels of the moon.
00:31:23That's exactly what it is.
00:32:02Cold.
00:32:04I'd say there hasn't been a fire lit in this place in many years.
00:32:08Perhaps centuries.
00:32:11Probably an extinct civilization.
00:32:14It took some form of intelligence to steal those spacesuits.
00:32:17Of course it did.
00:32:19In a very high form to build a place like this.
00:32:22You seem to know all about it.
00:32:24What do they look like?
00:32:26Hey!
00:32:27Come here!
00:32:33Look.
00:32:34It's all ready for lighting.
00:32:36You bring your cigarettes and matches?
00:32:37I told you I didn't feel at home without them.
00:32:46Oh, that's better.
00:32:47I was getting a mighty lonely feeling.
00:32:49Helen.
00:32:50Helen, I asked you a question.
00:32:52What?
00:32:53You seem to know this place was here.
00:32:56What else do you know?
00:32:58Nothing.
00:33:00Certainly I've never been here before.
00:33:02I must have dreamed.
00:33:03Did you dream who stole our spacesuits?
00:33:05Of course not.
00:33:06I grant you, Kip, this is something we didn't foresee.
00:33:09But let's not lose our senses completely.
00:33:11Somebody stole our suits.
00:33:13And that somebody must still be around here.
00:33:17Hey!
00:33:18You out there!
00:33:20Hey!
00:33:22You out there!
00:33:23That guy sounds lost.
00:33:25Come on, Doug.
00:33:26Let's look around.
00:33:49Hey!
00:34:12What happened?
00:34:13Something jumped in the chair.
00:34:14What sort of thing?
00:34:15I couldn't tell.
00:34:15It jumped on my back and tried to get to my throat.
00:34:17Where's Helen?
00:34:18I don't know.
00:34:19But I caught a glimpse of her during the fight
00:34:20and she was just standing there watching.
00:34:21Callan!
00:34:23Callan!
00:34:25Callan!
00:34:27Callan!
00:34:30A fire!
00:34:36Callan!
00:34:38Spread out quickly!
00:34:55I got one over here!
00:34:58Let's have a look at it.
00:35:12Anything in the book about that, Professor?
00:35:15I don't know what to believe anymore, Kip.
00:35:17Well, you can believe this.
00:35:18They were definitely after this gun.
00:35:19From here on, we stick together
00:35:20so they can't pick us off one by one.
00:35:22I've got a hunch Helen will be back.
00:35:24We'll wait.
00:35:24We'll give her one hour.
00:35:29I'm still in command here, Kip.
00:35:31That's right, Laird.
00:35:33If you order us to separate and go hunting for Helen,
00:35:37we will.
00:35:41No.
00:35:43We'll wait.
00:35:48I am here, Alpha.
00:35:50It has been a long journey, Helen.
00:35:53Welcome to the moon.
00:35:55This is my second-in-command, Beta.
00:35:58And this is Lambda.
00:36:00The others you will meet in time.
00:36:04But there's still so much, I...
00:36:07I don't understand.
00:36:20You are now one of us.
00:36:22Ask anything.
00:36:24Well, I...
00:36:25I still can't be sure
00:36:28whether you're speaking my language
00:36:30or I yours.
00:36:31We need no language, Helen.
00:36:34We can project our thoughts long distances,
00:36:36as you well know.
00:36:38Someday we will teach you.
00:36:40In the meantime, we will speak your tongue,
00:36:43just as we speak all of us tongues.
00:36:46Remember that our generation
00:36:47predates yours by centuries.
00:36:50Yes.
00:36:51What you taught me about celestial navigation
00:36:53made me look like quite a genius.
00:36:56But why me, Alpha, and not the others?
00:36:59We have no use for men.
00:37:02What Beta means is that we have no contact
00:37:05or control over them,
00:37:06as we do among ourselves.
00:37:09It seemed rather difficult
00:37:10to get a crew entirely composed of women.
00:37:13We decided to concentrate on you.
00:37:16With your wisdom,
00:37:18how is it you never came to us on Earth?
00:37:20Our ancestors made one fatal error, Helen.
00:37:25When they discovered that the atmosphere around us
00:37:27was beginning to disappear,
00:37:29they decided to conserve oxygen.
00:37:34Do you know what that meant?
00:37:36Maximum energy reduction.
00:37:39Plan genocide to reduce population.
00:37:42Then, when we discovered
00:37:44we were only postponing the inevitable.
00:37:48It was too late.
00:37:49Our only hope was that a spaceship
00:37:51would come to us.
00:37:52And now that we're here,
00:37:55you will take back only three of us.
00:37:58We three.
00:38:00Only women?
00:38:02We have no men.
00:38:05But my knowledge is limited to navigation.
00:38:08Can you run the ship without them?
00:38:11They will teach us how.
00:38:13But you said you had no control over them.
00:38:16Show us their weak points.
00:38:18We'll take care of the rest.
00:38:21It's strange.
00:38:25I should care what happens to them.
00:38:29And yet I don't.
00:38:31No.
00:38:32You see,
00:38:33we don't care.
00:38:35And you are one of us.
00:38:42All right, Kip.
00:38:43It's one hour.
00:38:45You were wrong.
00:38:46Wait a minute.
00:38:49I hear something.
00:39:09Where have you been?
00:39:11I've been trying to convince them
00:39:12we're for their friends.
00:39:14You know, Kip,
00:39:15it was your gun that frightened them.
00:39:16I promised them you'd put it away.
00:39:19Then unpromise.
00:39:20This gun stays out
00:39:21until they produce the spacesuits.
00:39:23Try to convince them of that.
00:39:25Have no fears,
00:39:26Lieutenant Reisner.
00:39:27Your suits are safe
00:39:28and will be returned to you
00:39:29at the end of your visit.
00:39:31Helen,
00:39:32they speak English.
00:39:33Theirs is an ancient culture, Laird.
00:39:35Their communication system
00:39:37is far in advance to ours.
00:39:39You want to be friends?
00:39:41Then bring the spacesuits
00:39:42here and now.
00:39:42Oh, don't be a bore.
00:39:44It's all right, my dear.
00:39:45I understand.
00:39:47Your suits will be returned to you
00:39:48in the morning, Lieutenant.
00:39:51Good.
00:39:51That's when I'll start being friendly.
00:39:53Pay no attention to him.
00:39:54He's only the co-pilot.
00:39:56Commander Granger here
00:39:57is our chief pilot
00:39:58and head of our expedition.
00:40:01This is Doug Smith, radio operator,
00:40:02and Walt Walters is our engineer.
00:40:05I don't know all of their names yet,
00:40:07but this is Alpha, Lambda, and Beta.
00:40:10And most important of all,
00:40:11here is food.
00:40:14Alpha?
00:40:15Oh, yes.
00:40:17They seem to have mastered
00:40:18the art of mental telepathy.
00:40:20I don't understand it yet myself,
00:40:22but she was sending me messages
00:40:24all the way.
00:40:27Should we take a chance?
00:40:29Why not?
00:40:36Delicious.
00:40:37It tastes a little like honey-do-marin.
00:40:47May we serve you, Earth men?
00:40:50Well, thanks, Lambda.
00:40:52Come, sit down.
00:40:54Delighted.
00:41:12Come on, Kip.
00:41:13It's great.
00:41:15I brought my dinner with me.
00:41:18Rations?
00:41:19He must be nuts.
00:41:21Yes, sir.
00:41:23This is a nice layout.
00:41:35I wonder what the folks back home
00:41:36would think if they knew
00:41:38I was having dinner
00:41:39with a beautiful moon.
00:41:40Do you have a special Earth girl?
00:41:43No, nobody special.
00:41:45How about you?
00:41:48Incidentally,
00:41:49where are your menfolk?
00:41:52You're the first man
00:41:53I've ever seen.
00:41:55Ours died off
00:41:56when I was still a child.
00:41:58Gee,
00:41:59it's a lucky thing
00:42:00we came along.
00:42:01Oh, I mean,
00:42:03so you'd know
00:42:04what a man looks like.
00:42:05I mean,
00:42:06I'm sorry about your menfolk, Lambda.
00:42:09I...
00:42:09I didn't mean it any other way.
00:42:12I understand, Doug.
00:42:42but after the navigator
00:42:44has set the course,
00:42:45how do you adjust
00:42:46this automatic pilot?
00:42:48Well,
00:42:50that's pretty complicated
00:42:51and besides,
00:42:51it's restricted information.
00:42:53Let's talk about your people.
00:42:55I want to know
00:42:56how that girl, Lambert,
00:42:57disappeared from right
00:42:58under our noses
00:42:59and how you were able
00:43:00to contact Helen
00:43:01before we even hit the moon.
00:43:03That commander
00:43:04is a good deal
00:43:05more complicated
00:43:05than your automatic pilot.
00:43:07But if you will explain
00:43:08the wand,
00:43:09I will at least try
00:43:10to indicate
00:43:10how we have achieved
00:43:11complete control
00:43:12over our bodies and minds.
00:43:14Perhaps some other day.
00:43:16I'm sure you understand,
00:43:17but I'm under orders.
00:43:19As you wish.
00:43:21Some of our wine?
00:43:25Some of our wine?
00:43:31Say,
00:43:32you wouldn't have
00:43:33any small works of art
00:43:34that I could take home
00:43:35with me as a souvenir,
00:43:37would you?
00:43:40You may have this.
00:43:41Thanks.
00:43:42I was admiring it.
00:43:44What's it made of?
00:43:46You have no metal
00:43:47on earth to compare.
00:43:48We call these things
00:43:49sleigh bracelets.
00:43:51They're made out of gold
00:43:52sometimes.
00:43:52Gold?
00:43:53Why?
00:43:56The carriage trade.
00:43:57Plenty expensive.
00:43:59Gold.
00:44:00But it's so common.
00:44:03Gold common?
00:44:04We don't even bother
00:44:05to dig it.
00:44:07You mean it just
00:44:08hangs around loose?
00:44:10There's a place
00:44:11near here
00:44:12where there's more gold
00:44:13than you could carry away
00:44:14in your rocket ship
00:44:15in a hundred years.
00:44:17I don't believe it.
00:44:19At least not
00:44:20until you show me.
00:44:22I'll make a bargain
00:44:23with you.
00:44:25You take me
00:44:26aboard your rocket ship,
00:44:28I'll show you
00:44:29the cave of gold.
00:44:32Uh-uh.
00:44:33The skipper wouldn't buy it.
00:44:34Just wouldn't go for it.
00:44:36Besides,
00:44:37we'd need those space suits
00:44:38to get out of that tunnel.
00:44:40I know where the space suits are.
00:44:44A whole cave
00:44:45full of real gold.
00:44:48And you'd keep it a secret
00:44:49just between us?
00:44:51You wouldn't tell anybody?
00:44:54Or on Saturday night
00:44:55you can go out on the town.
00:44:57Dance, drink,
00:44:59just laugh a little too hard.
00:45:02I'd like the driving down
00:45:04to the beach best.
00:45:07Stretching out on the sand.
00:45:10Just a boy and a girl together.
00:45:14and maybe what you call
00:45:16a coke.
00:45:19You would.
00:45:21That's what I like best, too.
00:45:24With the right girl, of course.
00:45:28To the everlasting friendship
00:45:30of our peoples.
00:45:32Amen.
00:45:36And now I know
00:45:37you must be tired.
00:45:39We will return tomorrow.
00:45:41And with your space suits,
00:45:42my foolish friend.
00:45:44I can be head.
00:45:52Well, I hope
00:45:53you had yourselves a time.
00:45:55If we didn't blunder ahead
00:45:56and start a war
00:45:57between the worlds,
00:45:58it's no thanks to you.
00:45:59No thanks asked.
00:46:00The question is
00:46:01who's going to stand
00:46:01the first two I'll watch tonight.
00:46:03Helen.
00:46:03What for?
00:46:04Walt.
00:46:05Where is Walt?
00:46:06Last I saw,
00:46:07he was wandering off
00:46:08with Bader.
00:46:09How fast worker
00:46:10that guy.
00:46:11That's not funny.
00:46:13Walt.
00:46:15Walt.
00:46:17Walt.
00:46:21Walt Walters.
00:46:28Didn't we agree
00:46:29to stick together?
00:46:30I don't think
00:46:31he's in danger,
00:46:31he's in danger, Kip.
00:46:32What do you think,
00:46:33Miss Salinger?
00:46:34I think you're
00:46:35spoiling for a fight.
00:46:36You're so right.
00:46:37Would you like to step
00:46:37into my private office?
00:46:38Anytime.
00:46:39Kip!
00:46:39Don't worry.
00:46:41I won't slug her.
00:46:42Doug, stand guard.
00:46:44Okay, Kip.
00:46:44This way, Miss Salinger.
00:46:51Now then,
00:46:52which side are you on?
00:46:53I didn't know
00:46:53we had sides.
00:46:54I'm convinced
00:46:55you deliberately
00:46:55let us into this.
00:46:56I'd be very happy
00:46:57if you'd unconvinced me.
00:46:58I don't know
00:46:58what you mean.
00:46:59Look, Helen,
00:46:59I have a very high
00:47:00regard for you.
00:47:01You're smart,
00:47:01you have courage,
00:47:02and you're all woman,
00:47:03and if it hadn't been
00:47:04for Laird,
00:47:04I'd have tried
00:47:05to make it you
00:47:05and me a long time ago.
00:47:07Flattery will get you
00:47:08no place.
00:47:08Helen!
00:47:09Take your big hands
00:47:10off me!
00:47:10Not until you level
00:47:11with me.
00:47:14Oh, come on now.
00:47:15I'm not hurting you
00:47:16that much.
00:47:19Don't let go, Kip.
00:47:21Helen,
00:47:22what's the matter?
00:47:22Danger, Kip.
00:47:24They want to kill you.
00:47:25They'll take the spaceship
00:47:26and they'll make me
00:47:26go with them.
00:47:27Well, how?
00:47:28They can, Kip.
00:47:30They control me.
00:47:31Control you?
00:47:32Even with Laird,
00:47:33I liked you best,
00:47:35but Laird knew more,
00:47:36and they wanted me
00:47:37with him.
00:47:38They don't control
00:47:38you now, do they?
00:47:40No.
00:47:41But hang on.
00:47:43Hold on tight.
00:47:44You're doggone right,
00:47:45I will.
00:47:47You're doggone right.
00:48:02You won't tell Laird
00:48:03about this, will you?
00:48:05One of us will have to.
00:48:07I don't want to hurt him,
00:48:08and I'll handle it.
00:48:11Let's get back to Earth
00:48:12first.
00:48:13Sure, look, tell me.
00:48:14How do these cat women
00:48:15intend to play their hand?
00:48:17Well, not for a few days.
00:48:20But don't worry,
00:48:21they can't do a thing
00:48:22without me.
00:48:22I understand.
00:48:24What about Walt?
00:48:27Boys will be boys,
00:48:28I guess.
00:48:29Can we go in?
00:48:30I'm exhausted.
00:48:31Sure.
00:48:35Sleep well, Helen.
00:48:45Well, you were right, Laird.
00:48:47My apologies.
00:48:48She's a fine girl.
00:48:50Of course she is.
00:48:51You know, there's a lot
00:48:52of things I don't understand
00:48:53yet, but you can be sure
00:48:55that there's a perfectly
00:48:56valid and scientific
00:48:57reason for all of them.
00:48:58That's right, Laird.
00:49:00These people may be far
00:49:01ahead of us in many things.
00:49:02Not as far as they think.
00:49:04What do you mean?
00:49:06Nothing.
00:49:07We'll talk about it
00:49:08in the morning.
00:49:08Let's get some sleep.
00:49:09And I don't think
00:49:10we need to stand guard.
00:49:11By the way,
00:49:12if Walt comes back,
00:49:13eat him out
00:49:13on general principles,
00:49:14will you?
00:49:14You're the expert at that.
00:49:15You've got my full permission.
00:49:23In other words,
00:49:25this controls this
00:49:26in a ratio of six to one.
00:49:30The speed control retarder,
00:49:32the stabilizer,
00:49:34and the cutoff.
00:49:35You're too smart
00:49:36for me, baby.
00:49:37I like him stupid.
00:49:40Why don't you stay
00:49:41on the moon
00:49:41and let me do your job?
00:49:43Well, if that gold
00:49:45is piled as high
00:49:46as you say it is,
00:49:47one more trip
00:49:48and you can have my job.
00:49:50It's there for the looking.
00:49:52Come on.
00:49:52Let's go.
00:49:53Let's go.
00:49:57Let's go.
00:50:15Let's go.
00:52:41Hey.
00:52:43Sorry to disturb you.
00:52:44I feel like a chaperone to fraternity dance.
00:52:47What's the matter?
00:52:48Doug's just gone off with a little Lambda.
00:52:50Lambda?
00:52:51Well, that's bad, Kip.
00:52:52She's the dangerous one.
00:52:54Dangerous?
00:52:54That kid?
00:52:55Yes.
00:52:56You'd better go after them.
00:52:58There may have been a change in plans.
00:52:59Okay.
00:53:00Their mood, I don't imagine they went very far.
00:53:04Okay.
00:53:17They're moved, I don't imagine they went very far.
00:53:18They're done with a lot of food.
00:53:20Okay.
00:53:48That kid said, right?
00:53:57Aidan, it's really gold.
00:54:00Yes, Doc.
00:54:09Gold.
00:54:13Gold.
00:54:18Gold.
00:54:48Gold.
00:54:49Gold.
00:54:49Gold.
00:54:49Gold.
00:54:51Gold.
00:54:51What's the matter?
00:54:53Gold!
00:54:53Go away!
00:54:54Quick, quick!
00:54:55But why?
00:54:57If it's anything I've said or did ...
00:54:59No, no, please save yourself!
00:55:02From what?
00:55:04From me.
00:55:06Because I love you, Doug, yet I must kill you.
00:55:10I love you, too, Lambda, and I'm not afraid.
00:55:14Oh, listen to me.
00:55:16The survival of my people is at stake.
00:55:19In another few years, this underground world will be as dead as the bright side of the moon.
00:55:25I will come back, Lambda. I promise.
00:55:28This ship is only the first of many.
00:55:30Oh, but don't you see? We must be sure.
00:55:34Two million years of civilization.
00:55:37Does one gamble that on a promise?
00:55:42Lambda, I will come back.
00:55:57Kip, old man, I'm afraid I'm going to have to intercede for Walden Duck.
00:56:01You know, there must be something to this moon and romance stuff.
00:56:07All right.
00:56:09Now, Helen, you say something.
00:56:11It's obvious, isn't it?
00:56:13All that poppycock I told you out on the terrace was just to get you to go away.
00:56:16Now go away, will you?
00:56:20That's what I'd like to do.
00:56:22But I'm sure not getting any help.
00:56:32She's in tune with Helen.
00:56:34Granger's explaining the automatic pilot.
00:56:36I must talk to Alpha. Helen can tell her later.
00:56:43Is it important?
00:56:44Yes.
00:56:45I think we should take one of the men back with us.
00:56:48Why?
00:56:49Because if we show good faith, they might send more ships.
00:56:52Four of us will be enough.
00:56:54We will get their women under our power, and soon we will rule the whole world.
00:56:59But I don't want to rule the world.
00:57:01I want to live on it just like the Earth people do.
00:57:04Lambda, we are coming into a new situation.
00:57:07We must bring our culture to Earth.
00:57:10No.
00:57:11She's fallen in love with the radio operator.
00:57:14Is that true?
00:57:16And what if it is?
00:57:18There is no room in your life for love.
00:57:20We will choose your man eugenically.
00:57:23You and Beta will have girl children fit to carry on.
00:57:26The best of the Earth mongrels will be none too good.
00:57:29I won't do it.
00:57:31I love Doug, and you must take him.
00:57:33Threats, my dear?
00:57:35Yes.
00:57:36It just so happens you can't leave without us.
00:57:39And I won't tell you why.
00:57:41Lambda, you will tell me why.
00:57:44You think you can force me?
00:57:45My will is just as strong as yours.
00:57:56And now we have no time to waste.
00:58:04Kip.
00:58:04Well, I didn't expect to see you again.
00:58:06I think we'd better plan on getting out of here.
00:58:08No.
00:58:09When did you arrive at that momentous decision?
00:58:10Some of these moon people are planning to steal our ship.
00:58:13No.
00:58:15But one of them is on our side.
00:58:17I suppose you mean Helen.
00:58:18Well, Helen's liable to be a bit of a problem too.
00:58:20She's been marked.
00:58:21She's under the influence of these people.
00:58:23Kid, you interview me strangely.
00:58:25What gossip column you've been reading?
00:58:27Lambda told me.
00:58:29I guess we sort of fell in love.
00:58:31Blessings on you.
00:58:32Did she say when the catwomen intended to try the little game?
00:58:34As soon as they get all the information they need about the ship.
00:58:37Some of them was supposed to work on Walt and someone else on Laird.
00:58:40What?
00:58:41On Laird?
00:58:44Laird.
00:59:08Where have you been?
00:59:09Never mind that.
00:59:10We're just curious to know what you two lovebirds have been talking about.
00:59:13Don't tell him.
00:59:14Why not?
00:59:15I'm afraid you'd be very much disappointed.
00:59:17We were just talking sharp.
00:59:18Anything wrong with that?
00:59:19No.
00:59:19Not a thing.
00:59:20Except the catwomen are out to seal our ship.
00:59:22And Helen's tied body and soul to them.
00:59:24That's a lie.
00:59:26I resent that, Kid.
00:59:27What's your evidence?
00:59:28Well, for one thing, Doug got the dope from Little Lambda.
00:59:31No.
00:59:31For another, Helen told me herself.
00:59:32We were out in the terrace.
00:59:33No.
00:59:34And she told me to hold her tight.
00:59:35Not to kiss her.
00:59:36But just to hold her hand.
00:59:39Let go of my hand!
00:59:41Not this time, baby.
00:59:46Oh, thank you, Kid.
00:59:51Now, let's set the record straight.
00:59:54Are you in love with Laird?
00:59:56No.
00:59:57Have you been bleeding him for information to pass on to Alpha?
01:00:00Yes.
01:00:02And who do you really love?
01:00:07You.
01:00:10You take your...
01:00:11Don't let!
01:00:12Don't let!
01:00:14Laird!
01:00:15Stop!
01:00:15Stop!
01:00:16Laird!
01:00:18Stop!
01:00:25Laird!
01:00:26Stop!
01:00:27Stop!
01:00:30You wanna put her back under Alpha's spell?
01:00:32Helen!
01:00:33Helen!
01:00:34Helen!
01:00:35Where is she?
01:00:36Helen!
01:00:42Doug!
01:00:43They're on their way.
01:00:43I couldn't stop them.
01:00:44Who?
01:00:45Helen, Alpha and Beta.
01:00:47Just the three of them.
01:00:48They're going to steal the rocket ship.
01:00:49Why did they take two more of your people?
01:00:50They didn't want to for one thing.
01:00:51They couldn't for another.
01:00:52I hid out two of the spacesuits.
01:00:54We're still in business provided we can stop them before they reach the ship.
01:00:56Who goes with me?
01:00:57Doug.
01:00:58Let's go.
01:01:01There comes a time when you can't find it in the book.
01:01:05I know that now.
01:01:12How much head start do you think they have?
01:01:14Too much.
01:01:14Unless something holds them up.
01:01:29Lander.
01:01:30Would you leave me?
01:01:31But you turned against us.
01:01:33How could I?
01:01:34It was a moment of weakness.
01:01:36Wait for me here and I'll get another suit and join you.
01:01:38It's a trap.
01:01:39Come on.
01:01:40I won't let you go.
01:01:42Helen, look at me.
01:01:43My will is as strong as theirs.
01:01:46They'll kill you as they've killed Walt.
01:01:49Stay here.
01:01:50You will come with us.
01:01:52Don't listen.
01:01:53Helen, stand firm.
01:02:12Doug, the cat women are dead.
01:02:15Helen's all right.
01:02:33And as for you, young man, what's done is done.
01:02:39Is your radio okay?
01:02:41It's okay, sir.
01:02:43Contact White Sands.
01:02:44Tell them we're coming in.
01:02:51Moon Rocks at four calling White Sands.
01:02:53Moon Rocket four calling White Sands.
01:02:56Come in.
01:03:00You hear me, White Sands?
01:03:03What?
01:03:03Who?
01:03:04White Sands to Moon Rocket.
01:03:05Was that you?
01:03:06Don't blow a gasket, White Sands.
01:03:08We're coming in.
01:03:09Leaving Moon at 0117 your time.
01:03:12But what happened?
01:03:15That is a long story.
01:03:17Over to you and out.
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