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Village of the Damned (1960) [Full Movie] [Full Series]Full EP - Full
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00:00:46Good morning.
00:00:48Would you get me Major Berners?
00:00:50It is his light hall number.
00:01:06Well, thank you.
00:01:09Alan?
00:01:10It's Gordon.
00:01:12Look, you're coming down here today, aren't you?
00:01:15Could you pick up a book for me and bring it with you?
00:01:18It's...
00:01:32Gordon?
00:01:36Operator?
00:01:38Operator?
00:01:40You're blasted.
00:01:42Got cut off.
00:01:44That was my brother-in-law.
00:01:45Would you try and get through again?
00:01:46I've got to go and change.
00:01:47Yes, sir.
00:01:51Operator?
00:01:52We've been cut off from Midwich 2-5.
00:01:55Would you get it again, please?
00:01:56Hello?
00:01:58Hello?
00:01:59Will you replace your receiver, please?
00:02:02Please replace your receiver.
00:02:05Hello?
00:02:07Hello?
00:02:33Yes, sir.
00:02:51Hello, sir.
00:03:21BIRDS CHIRP
00:03:22Oh
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00:04:51Satsang with Mooji
00:05:02For more than an hour, you say?
00:05:04Yes, sir.
00:05:05Perhaps something went wrong with his phone.
00:05:07Ah, but this is what puzzles me, sir.
00:05:08You see, I've also tried the vicar, the general stores, and the post office.
00:05:11I can't get any reply from any of them.
00:05:13Well, country telephone exchanges being what they are.
00:05:16Yes, I know, sir, but, uh, well, look here, sir.
00:05:19Midwich is here.
00:05:21Now, 4th Brigade are running that exercise of theirs all around it.
00:05:25Well, I don't suppose there is anything in it, sir, but I was wondering,
00:05:28as I was going down for the weekend anyway,
00:05:29whether I could have your permission to leave earlier than I intended.
00:05:33All right, Alan.
00:05:34Give me a ring later. I'll be here till 5.
00:05:36Thank you, sir.
00:05:38Well, Alan.
00:05:39Yes, sir?
00:05:40Have a nice weekend.
00:05:42Give my respects to Gordon.
00:05:43I will. Goodbye, sir.
00:06:06Hello, Gobby.
00:06:07Oh, it's Major Bernard, sir.
00:06:08Now, Gobby, what's happened to the telephones?
00:06:10They've been trying to get through all morning.
00:06:11It's funny you should ask, Major.
00:06:13I've just been sent to look for the bus, which hasn't turned up.
00:06:16We can't get through by phone, either.
00:06:34There's your bus, Gobby.
00:06:37It's truth.
00:06:40Better have a look.
00:07:08Better have a look.
00:07:19All right, Alan.
00:07:20You'd better get hold of the local area commander.
00:07:22What's his name?
00:07:23Ward Johnson, sir.
00:07:24Oh, yes.
00:07:25Tell him to call me if he wants authorization.
00:07:27I'll get things moving this end.
00:07:29Oh, Alan.
00:07:29Yes, sir?
00:07:30Make sure the newspapers don't get hold of this for the time being.
00:07:33If anything has got out of hand there, we don't want any panic.
00:07:37Report back as soon as you have any results.
00:07:39Right, sir.
00:07:41Get me south-eastern command, please.
00:07:45Over here, sergeant.
00:07:53Silver, sergeant.
00:07:54Lift off the tunnel, assistant.
00:07:57Bring the men over here, Roger.
00:08:00Over there, sir!
00:08:02Over there, sir!
00:08:03Over here, sir!
00:08:04Over here, sir!
00:08:04Over here, sir!
00:08:22Look, the canary.
00:08:30You needn't go in if you don't want to.
00:08:32I'll have a go, sir.
00:08:33Quite sure?
00:08:33Sir.
00:08:42Sir.
00:08:43Sir.
00:08:44Sir.
00:08:52Sir.
00:08:53I'm in the captain now.
00:08:55Well, I'm late.
00:08:56You were ready, sir.
00:08:57No.
00:09:00No.
00:09:02No.
00:09:05No.
00:09:07Well, Alan, what on earth's happening here?
00:09:08Just a minute.
00:09:09Oh, hello, Doctor.
00:09:10Glad you're here.
00:09:11We may need you.
00:09:30What's wrong with you?
00:09:31That's all.
00:09:32We're trying to find out.
00:09:36Will you take a look at him, Doc?
00:09:37I'll take off the respirator.
00:09:44Pulse is normal.
00:09:46Seems to be breathing normally.
00:09:50Ah, I think he's just fainted.
00:09:53Ah, he's coming round.
00:09:55Alanan, you'd better let me know what this is all about.
00:09:57Doctor, when were you last in the village?
00:09:59Midwich?
00:09:59Oh, I left about 10 o'clock.
00:10:01Had a couple of patients to see in Widmarsh.
00:10:03Now there are roadblocks all over the place, St. Alan.
00:10:05I've got to get back.
00:10:07I've got patients to see.
00:10:08Well, my hunch is that all your patients in Midwich
00:10:10are in the same state as this man.
00:10:14All right.
00:10:14All right, old chap.
00:10:15Take it easy.
00:10:17Take it easy.
00:10:19What can it be?
00:10:21To put a man out like a light, penetrate our respirators,
00:10:24do all this.
00:10:27Some sort of gas?
00:10:29No, it can't be.
00:10:31Any breeze would have landed about a bit.
00:10:33The edges of the area are as well defined as that hedge there.
00:10:38Cold.
00:10:39What did you say?
00:10:40Ice cold.
00:10:43I'm all right, sir.
00:10:44Only cold.
00:10:46My hands like ice.
00:10:56Midwich to Charlie Alpha.
00:10:57Midwich to Charlie Alpha.
00:10:58Can you see anything?
00:11:00Over.
00:11:02Everything looks all right from here.
00:11:04Over.
00:11:05May be asleep to me.
00:11:08Hello, Charlie Alpha.
00:11:09This is Major Bernard speaking.
00:11:11Can you see nothing unusual at all in Midwich?
00:11:14Nothing moving?
00:11:14No, sir.
00:11:15Nothing.
00:11:17Matter of fact, that's odd.
00:11:18Nothing is moving down there.
00:11:20I can see some people, but they're not moving either.
00:11:26They're lying on the ground.
00:11:28As though they've fallen?
00:11:29Yes, sir.
00:11:31Right.
00:11:32Take it down slowly, but pull up the minute you feel anything.
00:11:35Feel anything, sir?
00:11:37Anything unusual?
00:11:40Watch up.
00:11:47It's all nothing moving, sir.
00:11:50Taking it down.
00:11:52Careful now.
00:12:03Easy.
00:12:09Easy.
00:12:14Easy.
00:12:28Easy.
00:12:31Easy.
00:12:35Easy.
00:12:36Easy.
00:12:36Easy.
00:12:37Easy.
00:12:39Easy.
00:12:39Easy.
00:12:42Easy.
00:12:42Easy.
00:12:56There's another aircraft approaching. Send out a general warning immediately.
00:12:59All aircraft to avoid this area are not to drop below 5,000 feet.
00:13:02Yes, sir. Midwich to base. Midwich to base. Emergency.
00:13:06I say again, emergency.
00:13:08Warn all aircraft to avoid area 5 miles radius.
00:13:11Latitude, 51 degrees, 10 minutes, 30 seconds north.
00:13:15Longitude, 1 degree, 11 minutes, 20 seconds west.
00:13:19Maintain minimum altitude of 5,000 feet. Out.
00:13:39Maintain minimum altitude of 3,000 feet.
00:13:40Blimey, look.
00:13:46Mountain of 3-2,000 feet.
00:13:51Oh, my God.
00:14:21Let's go.
00:14:57Let's go.
00:15:24Gordon.
00:15:27Darling, I'm sorry.
00:15:29I must have dozed off.
00:15:33Look at the time.
00:15:35It's almost three o'clock.
00:15:37Why didn't you call me?
00:15:41I'd better go and see about lunch.
00:15:47Anthea?
00:15:55I find myself asleep on the floor.
00:16:00What an extraordinary thing to do.
00:16:06Oh, I'm cold.
00:16:11Well, the fires have gone out.
00:16:14Did you...
00:16:17Did we faint?
00:16:19We must have blacked out.
00:16:20Why?
00:16:24My...
00:16:26My hands are...
00:16:28Quite numb.
00:16:30Oh.
00:16:33Gordon.
00:16:35What did happen?
00:16:37I don't know.
00:16:56Alan.
00:16:57You're all right.
00:16:59You're late.
00:17:00I couldn't get through.
00:17:01Couldn't get through.
00:17:02Alan, what did you mean, you're all right?
00:17:03I mean, how did you know?
00:17:04Well, it's an extraordinary thing,
00:17:05but we seem to have blacked out for several hours.
00:17:07I know, you see.
00:17:08It must have been some sort of slow peak in the gas.
00:17:10It wasn't only you two.
00:17:10The whole village fell asleep.
00:17:12The whole village?
00:17:13All of Midwich was cut off from the outside world for several hours.
00:18:10All of Midwich was cut off from the outside world for several hours.
00:18:13Not the telephone company, no.
00:18:15That's what I said.
00:18:16I mean, if they want to pull the wool over our eyes,
00:18:18they ought to try something better.
00:18:20Yes, well, I'm trying to find out...
00:18:21After all, we're not stupid, are we?
00:18:23What's happened isn't natural.
00:18:25I'll tell you what we'll do.
00:18:27I'll press for an official explanation
00:18:30while you help to stop the rumors getting about.
00:18:33All right?
00:18:38Do you mind?
00:18:40Soil samples?
00:18:41Yes, sir.
00:18:41Farm pipe?
00:18:42Even the bark on the trees.
00:18:43But I don't think it's...
00:18:44Don't forget insects, grasses, water, metals.
00:18:46The sooner and more elaborate these tests can be made, the better.
00:18:48Yes, sir.
00:18:49It's quite all right.
00:18:50This is Professor Gordon Zalibay.
00:18:51Oh, yes, I certainly am.
00:18:54Well, no one seems to have come to any harm.
00:18:57You cut some bruises where they fell.
00:19:00Lucky no one was in their bath.
00:19:01They might have been drowned.
00:19:03Yes, hello, Mrs. Harrington.
00:19:05Well, I think the least they can do is offer us some kind of compensation.
00:19:09But you feel all right?
00:19:10No thanks to them if I do.
00:19:12And a large bone in my best dressing to the bargain.
00:19:15What the wife means is...
00:19:17Well, you don't hardly expect to drop asleep before dinner, do you?
00:19:22Well, we've established that whatever it was was static, odourless, invisible.
00:19:27It didn't register on radar.
00:19:28It was non-metallic.
00:19:29It showed nothing on our Geiger counters.
00:19:31You've got the reports there, Gordon.
00:19:33There are no signs of any physical, biological, or psychological changes.
00:19:36Well, that's practically meaningless.
00:19:38For instance, serious exposure to X-rays or gamma rays need not have an immediate effect.
00:19:45But these people have to be kept under observation.
00:19:47And yourself?
00:19:48And my household.
00:19:49It would be a bit tricky to put you all in the sanatorium.
00:19:52In any case, my instructions are to keep this whole incident out of the limelight.
00:19:56National security, eh?
00:19:58If you like.
00:19:59Well, until we know the cause, we shan't know what to expect.
00:20:03Since you're there, Gordon, suppose you keep an eye at Midwich Fortress.
00:20:06If you do find anything, let us know through Allen.
00:20:08No need for any direct contact between us.
00:20:11More security, eh?
00:20:12Have a cautious.
00:20:14Gets under the skin, you know.
00:20:34Gets under the skin.
00:20:34In any case, we have a looking, we looked at this body.
00:20:36But if you're willing to meet, you can't taste it.
00:20:36It's too easy to keep it open.
00:20:37Well, as a little bit, I'm worried about your life.
00:20:52Anything else today, Mrs. Ellaby?
00:20:54No, that's all, thank you.
00:20:56I'll have to get in a new supply of these pickles, if you go on like this.
00:21:00Yes, I do seem to be getting through a lot these days, don't I?
00:21:03That'll be, um, seventeen and six.
00:21:05Shall I enter the account?
00:21:07Here, thank you.
00:21:08Oh, how's the professor?
00:21:10Oh, he's very well.
00:21:12Very well, indeed.
00:21:13Good morning.
00:21:14Good morning.
00:21:20Oh, dear.
00:21:21Yes?
00:21:23I think there's going to be news up at Kyle Manor.
00:21:27News?
00:21:28What kind of news?
00:21:33Hello.
00:21:37I said hello.
00:21:40Oh.
00:21:41How long have you been here?
00:21:43Ages.
00:21:44Liar.
00:21:52Now, I've just discovered a fascinating thing.
00:21:54Here are the plant samples we took that day.
00:21:56Now, this one, for example, a perfectly ordained pelargonium zonale.
00:21:59And you see what's happening?
00:22:00Exactly what you'd expect if I made a 50% ground.
00:22:02Why did you kiss me like that?
00:22:06Come on.
00:22:07What's the secret?
00:22:08Something's afoot.
00:22:09Why are you so happy?
00:22:12Now, Gordon, I want you to sit down.
00:22:15All right.
00:22:16Keep quite calm.
00:22:17There's nothing to worry about.
00:22:22Now, we have apparently succeeded in crossing a Xelopi Gordoneus with a Xelopi Anthium.
00:22:29Just what the results will be, we shan't know for some time yet.
00:22:36I think you should sit down.
00:22:38Can I give you some tea?
00:22:40No.
00:22:41A drink.
00:22:42Well, that would be right.
00:22:44Uh, feed her.
00:22:45Something to eat?
00:22:46Yes, please.
00:22:47What?
00:22:48Uh, cheese, pickles, and half a dozen anchovies.
00:22:52Recently my favorite diet.
00:22:53Hadn't you noticed?
00:22:54No.
00:22:55Mrs. Plumpton at the shop has.
00:22:57I've been too engrossed in my work.
00:22:59But we'll change all that.
00:23:10Thank you, darling.
00:23:12You've made my happiness complete.
00:23:15And all the more so because I'm old enough to appreciate it.
00:23:19Now then, what was it you wanted?
00:23:22Cheese, pickles, and half a dozen anchovies.
00:23:27Hmm.
00:23:40I'm afraid there's no doubt about it.
00:23:44Millie, I wish there was something I could say to comfort you because I know the sort of thing you'll
00:23:48have to put up with from some of the people in the village over this.
00:23:52But you can count on me to do anything I can to help you and your child.
00:23:55Do you think that I, do you think that I could?
00:23:58Millie, I've told you there's no doubt about it.
00:24:02Now, if there's anyone you want me to talk to about this.
00:24:06But I've never heard.
00:24:08It's impossible.
00:24:10It's impossible.
00:24:12Oh.
00:24:13Oh.
00:24:16This is some present, Jim.
00:24:18Thanks a lot.
00:24:19Where'd you say you got it?
00:24:20Tokyo?
00:24:21Oh, it's a real beauty.
00:24:24You can take action pictures in this light.
00:24:26Jan, look at me.
00:24:28When I learn to use this properly, I might go into the photo business.
00:24:31Jan, turn this way.
00:24:34That's right.
00:24:35I want to see how.
00:24:37What's the matter with you?
00:24:39Jim comes back after a whole year away and you look as if you were going to a funeral.
00:24:55An attempted suicide.
00:24:57Janet Paul, whose husband only came back from sea yesterday.
00:25:00It's dreadful.
00:25:01Three other women in the village, half out of their minds.
00:25:04Millie Hughes, Rose Shepherd and Mary Burnett.
00:25:06Please don't go.
00:25:07That's why we are asking you to tell us, Vicar.
00:25:09Please don't keep on.
00:25:11Don't you see that what you're asking me, it's not right ethically.
00:25:16Oh, for heaven's sake, Vicar.
00:25:17How do you think I feel?
00:25:20I married late in life.
00:25:22When my wife told me that she was going to have a baby, it was the happiest moment I've ever
00:25:25known.
00:25:27Don't talk to me about ethics.
00:25:29Don't you see that this is something which concerns all of us?
00:25:32That this is the one moment when it is your, your duty to break confidence.
00:25:39Very well.
00:25:40Four of them have been to see me.
00:25:42One of them is only 17.
00:25:45Even in Harrington?
00:25:46Yes.
00:25:47She was terribly frightened and frankly, so am I.
00:25:50I know these girls.
00:25:51I've watched them grow up.
00:25:52And when they tell me that they have no way of accounting for their condition,
00:25:55well, I'm compelled to believe them.
00:25:59That means that every woman in this village who is capable of childbirth is going to have a baby.
00:26:04I can't believe it.
00:26:06This is not a matter of belief, Vicar.
00:26:08It's a matter of fact.
00:26:10And there's something else.
00:26:12All this seems to date from that day two months ago when Midwich was cut off from the rest of
00:26:16the world.
00:26:37Who's next?
00:27:21This is Anthea Zalopy's doctor.
00:27:27Let's have a look at it.
00:27:40It's one of the most perfectly formed embryos I've ever seen.
00:27:44Yes, but is it normal?
00:27:48It's more than normal.
00:27:50It's a seven-month embryo after only five months.
00:28:06It's all right, darling.
00:28:07I've seen the x-rays and it's a fine specimen.
00:28:10Dr. Willis says it's perfect, absolutely normal.
00:28:13That should make us very happy.
00:28:15But it's going to be all right.
00:28:17Is it?
00:28:18Is that what you believe?
00:28:23You're tired, darling.
00:28:25That's right.
00:28:26I'm tired.
00:28:28And do you know why?
00:28:29Because every night I lie awake and worry.
00:28:32Well, now you don't have to worry anymore.
00:28:34You don't really believe that, do you?
00:28:36Dr. Willis says...
00:28:37I don't care what Dr. Willis says.
00:28:39Right, so it's not a monster.
00:28:41It's a perfect specimen.
00:28:42But what does that tell me?
00:28:43You're going to have a baby.
00:28:46Whose baby?
00:28:47Yours?
00:28:49Does it tell me what kind of life is growing inside me?
00:28:52What sort of brain it has?
00:28:53Where it comes from?
00:28:54Does it tell me that?
00:28:56Where does it come from?
00:28:59You must stop it.
00:29:00We've got to be rational about this.
00:29:03We may not be any better off than any of the others,
00:29:05but there's absolutely nothing we can do but wait.
00:29:07Gordon.
00:29:09Maybe it's ours, maybe it isn't.
00:29:11If it's ours, we shall know.
00:29:12I'm sorry, if it isn't.
00:29:12Gordon.
00:29:16I'm afraid.
00:29:22I'm so afraid.
00:29:42I'm afraid.
00:29:55I'm afraid.
00:29:57I'm afraid.
00:30:00I'm afraid.
00:30:02I'm afraid.
00:30:04I'm afraid.
00:30:08It's ours.
00:30:08I'm afraid.
00:30:12This happened.
00:30:14Let's go.
00:31:31I hope that none of them lives.
00:31:38What a ridiculous way to behave.
00:31:45We've done terribly busy, Mr. Zellerby, but doctors have to tell you that Mrs. Zellerby's fine.
00:31:49And the baby?
00:31:50Perfect.
00:31:51In every respect?
00:31:52No, Gordon.
00:31:53You got a cigarette?
00:31:54How about the baby?
00:31:55Oh, splendid.
00:31:56Unusually heavy, though.
00:31:57Ten pounds, eight ounces.
00:32:00Strange eyes.
00:32:02All right, you can go in now.
00:32:05You got a cigarette?
00:32:05Yes, of course.
00:32:09How many others have been delivered so far tonight?
00:32:12Routy is my third.
00:32:15What about there, Wade?
00:32:18Or slightly over ten pounds.
00:32:21You've all got these strange eyes.
00:32:27All that worry.
00:32:29And now, oh, Gordon, have you seen him?
00:32:35He's such a beautiful baby.
00:32:54I do love you so.
00:33:01He's probably jealous.
00:33:06Now, be quiet, Luna.
00:33:07Lie down and behave yourself.
00:33:22Handsome, isn't he?
00:33:30Take a look at this, Doctor.
00:33:32It's a section of hair.
00:33:37Yes, it's flat on one side.
00:33:40On the other, an arc.
00:33:42Somewhat in the shape of a narrow capital D.
00:33:46It belongs to my son, David.
00:33:49Have you ever seen such a hair type before?
00:33:53Have you noticed their nails?
00:33:55Yes, they're narrower than ours.
00:33:57Covering less of the upper surface of the digit,
00:33:59but as flat as normal nails.
00:34:02What did the blood test show?
00:34:04Oh, it's too early to tell.
00:34:06The blood circulating at present
00:34:07is still that of the mother's group.
00:34:09So they're apparently normal children
00:34:11with these exceptions.
00:34:13Strange eyes, arresting, I would say.
00:34:15An unknown hair group.
00:34:17And unusual fingernails.
00:34:21Well, if they are,
00:34:22their physical development
00:34:22is absolutely startling.
00:34:25In point of time,
00:34:26they're four months old,
00:34:27but their development and capabilities
00:34:28is that of 18 months.
00:34:31Ah!
00:34:34No, please, Mrs. Albury.
00:34:36No, no, please.
00:34:37Ah!
00:34:39Ah!
00:34:43You won't stop, sir.
00:34:44You won't stop!
00:34:51Oh, God.
00:34:55Oh, God.
00:34:58No.
00:35:00Now, what happened?
00:35:02I was giving David his bottle.
00:35:07I must have forgotten to test it.
00:35:10It was too hot for him.
00:35:13He...
00:35:13He's padded out.
00:35:15He just seemed to glare at her.
00:35:18Get my bag from the car.
00:35:19Is there for your reason
00:35:20to squall yourself?
00:35:22No.
00:35:22Mm-hmm.
00:35:24Mm-hmm.
00:35:29I haven't.
00:35:37Ah!
00:35:48Oh, dear.
00:35:55this box is a product of oriental ingenuity there are no visible means of
00:36:00opening it but if you do just what I've shown you it comes open I'll see if you
00:36:04can do it
00:36:15and it comes down
00:36:27now you've got it
00:36:36blended I see it shows that I was right to marry your sister your family has
00:36:41brains now watch this and remember that he's only one year old go on open it David
00:36:57yes there's something inside it's a chocolate
00:37:20come along time to your bar
00:37:24this is fantastic you think so
00:37:31come with me
00:37:33it's all right even it's only a box for the chocolates in it
00:37:36I don't know sir I'll never lie to have chocolates
00:37:38well it's quite harmless really I just gave some to date
00:38:07but you didn't even show her how to do it
00:38:09well that's exactly my point I didn't have to
00:38:12if you demonstrate something to one of them they all know it
00:38:16now watch
00:38:24I want that
00:38:25Keith give it back to him
00:38:27at once
00:38:49I want that
00:39:04Oh, my God.
00:39:36Oh, my God.
00:39:53Oh, my God.
00:39:58Oh, my God.
00:40:00Oh, my God.
00:40:09No, Nancy.
00:40:10Leave them alone.
00:40:20Ted Brouwer, you come inside this moment.
00:40:22I've told you about playing with those children before.
00:40:30There's my Philip.
00:40:32You're always all together.
00:40:33It's his turn to study.
00:40:35Is it your home?
00:40:36It's his home, too.
00:40:39You're anxious for us to leave, aren't you?
00:40:42You have the same every week.
00:40:44Twelve jars, fifteen shillings.
00:40:53You wish we wouldn't come here anymore, Mrs. Plumpton.
00:40:56No, I never said.
00:40:58It's what you're thinking.
00:41:00You've nothing to fear from us.
00:41:02However, in future, someone else will come for our order.
00:41:06Goodbye, Mrs. Plumpton.
00:41:08Good afternoon, Miss Ogle.
00:41:33Good afternoon, Miss Ogle.
00:41:38Some coffee?
00:41:39No, thanks.
00:41:44Gordon, do you think Anthea should know about this conference?
00:41:48What's being discussed?
00:41:49There's no reason to alarm her just because you're alarmed.
00:41:54I haven't got to a cold scientific detachment.
00:41:59People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ.
00:42:02What's important about them is whether they're good or bad.
00:42:05And these children are bad to everyone but you.
00:42:08But they are children, Alan.
00:42:10And children are not born with a sense of moral values.
00:42:12They have to be taught.
00:42:14With their intellect, that should be simple.
00:42:16Intellect?
00:42:16Intellect?
00:42:17That's all you care about.
00:42:18What if you can't teach them?
00:42:20What if you can't put the break of morals on them?
00:42:24First, we must try.
00:42:25You're blinded by this vision of intellect.
00:42:27You see David as another Einstein.
00:42:29Potentially greater.
00:42:29Solving the riddle of the universe.
00:42:31Your son, David.
00:42:34Anthea's son.
00:42:35I have no proof that he's mine.
00:42:58Where's father gone?
00:43:00To London.
00:43:02You must hurry, David.
00:43:03Why?
00:43:07You'll be late.
00:43:09No, I meant, why has he gone to London?
00:43:11He has some business there.
00:43:13What sort of business?
00:43:15A conference.
00:43:18Don't you like me to help you, David?
00:43:21Thank you, but I'm old enough to do things for myself.
00:43:24Father agrees with that.
00:43:28Darling, your finger.
00:43:31Let me do that.
00:43:33It doesn't hurt.
00:43:35Please don't fuss.
00:43:36It might turn septic.
00:43:39There.
00:43:43You said I must hurry.
00:43:46Goodbye, mother.
00:43:49Goodbye, David.
00:43:51And gentlemen, as the Home Secretary has permitted this disclosure, I can now inform you that Midwich is not the
00:44:00only colony of such children.
00:44:02Here, at the township in northern Australia, 30 infants were born in one day.
00:44:08But apparently something went wrong.
00:44:09All the children died within 10 hours of birth.
00:44:13In an Eskimo community, there were 10 births.
00:44:16The community didn't take kindly to this.
00:44:19Golden-haired babies born of black-haired mothers violated the taboos.
00:44:23None survived.
00:44:25In the communist world, there were two time-outs similar to the one at Midwich.
00:44:30One, at Irkutsk, here, on the borders of Outer Mongolia.
00:44:34A grim affair.
00:44:35The men killed the children and their mothers.
00:44:39Second, in the mountains of the northwest.
00:44:41All the children survived.
00:44:43Now, reports, though limited, indicate that they're receiving education on the highest level.
00:44:49All these time-outs happened on the same day as the one at Midwich.
00:44:54This is now three years ago.
00:44:56Haven't we established anything about the origins of these children?
00:44:58There's very little to go on.
00:45:00Zeleby, you must have some theory.
00:45:02Yes, I suggest that Zeleby may be somewhat too intimately involved.
00:45:05My position as a dubious father is influencing my scientific detachment. Is that what you think?
00:45:10I have reason to believe so.
00:45:12Well, let's hear what the others have to say.
00:45:15Dr. Carlisle?
00:45:17I went into the question of mutation.
00:45:20Once in a great many thousand years, an abrupt jump may take place in animal or in vegetable life.
00:45:26A new variation suddenly occurs for no apparent reason.
00:45:29Would that explain why entire groups of people were cut off for periods of several hours?
00:45:33No, sir. It would not.
00:45:35Very well. Any other line of thought?
00:45:38Yes. There is the possibility of the transmission of energy.
00:45:42May I put it this way?
00:45:45Already we can direct radar beams out into space with the utmost accuracy.
00:45:51Electrical impulses have been bounced off the moon and we are continually receiving impulses from other planets and stars.
00:45:58And impulses are energy and matter.
00:46:01We're aware of that, Professor Smith. Where does it take us?
00:46:03The Professor and I think alike.
00:46:05What we can do, others elsewhere in the universe may be able to do better.
00:46:10Exactly.
00:46:11Let me get this straight.
00:46:12You imply that these children may be the result of impulses directed towards us from somewhere in the universe.
00:46:18Well, of course, that's just a theory, but there's nothing to disprove it.
00:46:21They may be a case of mutation. They may be the world's new people.
00:46:25What we need is time to investigate. Time!
00:46:29Just a moment, Salabere.
00:46:30General Layton, you tell me of some developments at Midwich. What are they?
00:46:34A series of casualties, mostly among the village children.
00:46:37In each case, after some contact with the others.
00:46:40Children get into fights all over the world.
00:46:42These were not fights in the normal sense.
00:46:45No direct physical violence was involved.
00:46:47But two weeks ago, a boy, a good swimmer, was drowned in the Midwich pond for no logical reason.
00:46:52Children also have accidents.
00:46:54Gordon, you've seen it for yourself.
00:46:57The extraordinary power these children have.
00:46:59And the sinister way they use it.
00:47:01Extraordinary power, certainly. Yes, that's precisely why we need time.
00:47:05Time to...
00:47:06It's only a matter of time before these children get entirely out of hand.
00:47:09With fatal consequences.
00:47:11So what do you suggest?
00:47:13That they be shut away.
00:47:15You've been put in prison?
00:47:16Bluntly, yes.
00:47:17You might as well do away with them altogether.
00:47:20This isn't a police state yet.
00:47:22But don't you see what you're doing?
00:47:23If you imprison them, you will deprive the scientific world of the greatest opportunity it has ever had.
00:47:29Opportunity for what?
00:47:30For study.
00:47:31Gentlemen, a great deal has been said here about the power of these children, but nothing about the nature of
00:47:36this power.
00:47:37What we're dealing with is a mass mind.
00:47:40An entirely new development.
00:47:42Like a... like a colony of ants and bees.
00:47:46These children all want to dress alike.
00:47:48And what one learns, they all learn.
00:47:50I've demonstrated this to Ellen Burnett.
00:47:52They are one mind to the twelfth power.
00:47:56Now, just think what it would mean if we could guide it.
00:47:58We could leap forward in science a hundred years.
00:48:01At the risk of being destroyed.
00:48:03What cannot be understood must be put away.
00:48:05Is that your view?
00:48:06The age-old fear of the unknown?
00:48:08On the other hand, Ellaby, Leighton has a point.
00:48:11There is a potential danger here.
00:48:12We are gathered here as advisors, as scientists, as government experts.
00:48:17Now, take a look at our world.
00:48:19Have we made a good job of it?
00:48:21Who's to say that these children are not the answer?
00:48:24The answer to what?
00:48:24Well, to wars, to disease, to human want and misery,
00:48:28to all of the problems we've been unable to cope with.
00:48:30If they don't make an end of us in the meantime.
00:48:32We cannot throw away this potential just because of a few incidents.
00:48:36What is your suggestion?
00:48:37I'll compromise with Leighton.
00:48:39Let them live together under one roof in our village
00:48:41where they can be kept under observation.
00:48:43My department couldn't accept the responsibility.
00:48:45I personally will assume full responsibility.
00:48:48Just give me a year.
00:48:49Mr. Home Secretary, I can't agree to this.
00:48:51All I ask is a year.
00:48:53Now, surely that's not too much time when so much is at stake.
00:48:57Just give me one year.
00:49:05Very well.
00:49:06I will officially recommend your compromise.
00:49:09Thank you, gentlemen.
00:49:19And that's as far as we shall go today.
00:49:22Our next lecture will deal with structure.
00:49:25And by the way, don't forget you'll be living here from tomorrow.
00:49:28Now.
00:49:35Why do you smile, David?
00:49:37You don't know how to put your question.
00:49:42There isn't much point in my trying to be subtle, is there?
00:49:45The question I was going to put was...
00:49:47By the way...
00:49:51How deep do you see into my mind?
00:49:54Everything that's in the front of your mind?
00:49:56The thought processes?
00:49:58The reasoning that leads to my spoken words?
00:50:01We still have to master that.
00:50:03It'll come.
00:50:05Hmm.
00:50:05Well, that's frank.
00:50:07Thank you, David.
00:50:08At least I still have some privacy.
00:50:10Thank you, sir.
00:50:12Now, the question I want to ask is this.
00:50:14Are you aware of life on another planet?
00:50:25Then let me put it this way.
00:50:27It is possible that life exists elsewhere, isn't it?
00:50:37Well, we don't seem to be getting anywhere.
00:50:40Why are you so nervous when an aircraft flies above you?
00:50:44You're very observant, Father.
00:50:47Yes, but that doesn't answer my question.
00:50:49All right.
00:50:50Until recently, we haven't been able to make our control reach as far as a high aircraft.
00:50:55Well, now you have. Is that it?
00:51:00What are you going to do with that power?
00:51:04Father, we know what you're trying to find out.
00:51:07It'd be better if you didn't ask these questions.
00:51:11We want to learn from you.
00:51:15All right. That'll be all for today.
00:51:22David.
00:51:23Yes, Father.
00:51:29Now, what holds you?
00:51:33What I meant was that you don't have to go, David, if you don't want to.
00:51:37I'd rather go.
00:51:38You mean that because the others are moving into the school you feel that you must too? Is that the
00:51:42logic?
00:51:42Yes.
00:51:44Your mother is quite distressed about it.
00:51:46I don't really know why I should be.
00:51:49Lots of parents send their children away to school and David will only be half a mile away.
00:51:54I suppose there's nothing that'll make you change your mind.
00:51:57No.
00:52:02I think that's all.
00:52:32I'm very sorry. It was all my fault.
00:52:36You all right?
00:53:03Thank you, Father.
00:53:06Thank you, Father.
00:53:07Scary.
00:53:07Let's go.
00:53:12Oh, my God!
00:53:36Mrs. Zelleby, I wish you would be more specific in your testimony.
00:53:40I know these things are difficult,
00:53:42but it's our obligation to determine the responsibility for this man's death.
00:53:48I find it very difficult to remember.
00:53:55I... I...
00:53:56You told Constable Gobby you heard the screech of his brakes.
00:54:01Yes, that's right.
00:54:05He...
00:54:08He got...
00:54:09out of the car...
00:54:17Then what did he do, Mrs. Zelleby?
00:54:22Then he...
00:54:24He got back into the car...
00:54:30and drove straight for the wall.
00:54:35Thank you, Mrs. Zelleby. I don't think we need go any further.
00:54:39It seems to me quite apparent what happened here.
00:54:42Sir, Edward Paul, the deceased, his vision obscured,
00:54:46came close to striking and injuring a child.
00:54:49Then, obviously in nervous shock, struck the wall.
00:54:54I recommend that you bring in a verdict of accidental death.
00:54:57Mrs. Zelleby! You know they killed him!
00:55:00What do you do, George?
00:55:01Ask them! Just ask them!
00:55:06Who is that man?
00:55:08James Paul, sir, brother of the deceased.
00:55:12I shall overlook this outpost.
00:55:19Gordon, can't you see now that Midwich is living on top of a volcano?
00:55:23A force is building up. Sooner or later it's bound to explode.
00:55:26We still haven't any proof.
00:55:27For heaven's sake, how much more proof do you need? The death of James Paul?
00:55:30Alan, I'm much more aware of the situation than you think.
00:55:41Jim!
00:55:42Why not? Look what they did to my brother.
00:55:44This won't bring it back.
00:55:44Who's going to stop them if I don't try?
00:55:46You can't stop them with that, believe me.
00:55:49They're not human. They ought to be destroyed.
00:55:51Go home, Jim. I said go home.
00:55:54Leave here now before they get any closer.
00:56:00All right, Mr. Selleby.
00:56:29All right, Mr. Selleby.
00:56:35All right, Mr. Selleby.
00:56:47All right, Mr. Selleby.
00:56:48All right, Mr. Selleby.
00:56:48All right.
00:56:48All right.
00:56:55Now, let's go.
00:56:55All right, Mr. D.
00:56:56All right.
00:56:56I'm catching you.
00:56:56You're not.
00:56:57All right.
00:57:20Come on.
00:57:28Come on.
00:58:02Come on.
00:58:04Oh, all right, all right. I'm responsible. I never denied it.
00:58:08It's quite possible that but for me these two men would still be alive.
00:58:12I was overoptimistic.
00:58:13There's quite a shindig in London. They may be off to your blood, Gordon.
00:58:15Do you think I care a rap about that?
00:58:17What beats me is that I have failed to reach the children.
00:58:20But the point is they're shouting for action.
00:58:21Now, things have gone too far.
00:58:23The village is very near panicking.
00:58:25If only I could get inside the children's minds and read their thoughts as quite obviously they can read ours.
00:58:31Yes.
00:58:31Doesn't that assume they have thoughts and minds as we understand them?
00:58:37Alan, it's for you, General Layton.
00:58:40Excuse me.
00:58:42Come on.
00:58:45Yes, sir?
00:58:49I see, yes, sir.
00:58:53It's as though their minds were surrounded by...
00:58:57a brick wall.
00:59:01If only I could break through it.
00:59:03Yes, sir, certainly.
00:59:05Have I your permission to pass this on, sir?
00:59:08Right, thank you, sir.
00:59:09Goodbye.
00:59:17I'm afraid there have been grave developments.
00:59:20The Russian army group in the Western Urals is equipped with a new type of gun.
00:59:24It can project a shell up to 60 miles, an atomic shell.
00:59:29And apparently they tried it out yesterday.
00:59:32On the village of Raminsk, where their children live.
00:59:36And the village of Raminsk no longer exists.
00:59:41You mean everyone there?
00:59:42The entire place.
00:59:44They gave no warning.
00:59:45They couldn't evacuate the villagers without the children, knowing what was to happen.
00:59:49They developed more quickly than ours.
00:59:50They'd begun to...
00:59:51to take control.
00:59:53An attempt to move them with soldiers proved disastrous to the troops and the adults.
00:59:59I see.
01:00:00So now I suppose we're going to blow Midwich off the face of the earth.
01:00:05No, no, but...
01:00:07Well, in view of recent events,
01:00:09they feel your compromise has failed.
01:00:12Layton feels we ought to move immediately before it's too late.
01:00:15Destroy them.
01:00:18Well, they're...
01:00:19they're meeting tonight to come to a decision.
01:00:23They want me in town.
01:00:44What I say is, it's got to stop.
01:00:49First aid, then Jim Paul.
01:00:51The authorities don't do nothing.
01:00:53Are we going to wait until we all get wiped out?
01:00:57Those that are with me, follow me!
01:00:59Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
01:01:03let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
01:01:03let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
01:01:04let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
01:01:11let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
01:01:18let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let
01:01:30Oh, my God.
01:02:00Oh, my God.
01:02:37Oh, my God.
01:02:59Oh, my God.
01:03:02Oh, my God.
01:03:09Oh, my God.
01:03:22Oh, my God.
01:03:43Oh, my God.
01:04:18Oh, my God.
01:04:20Oh, my God.
01:04:24Yes, if you know about that, you should know what to expect.
01:04:26It'll not happen to us.
01:04:30It'll not happen to us because we have to survive, no matter what the cost.
01:04:40I don't think you'll go to London.
01:04:43We are now the only ones left, and you must learn that there's nothing you can do to stop us.
01:04:52You have to be taught to leave us alone.
01:04:59Leave us alone.
01:05:24He's out of danger now.
01:05:29He's out of danger now.
01:05:34He's out of danger.
01:05:36He's out of danger.
01:05:37He's out of danger.
01:05:54I talked to the other.
01:05:55I talked to General Layton.
01:05:56I talked to General Layton.
01:05:56I talked to General Layton.
01:05:56Troops are not the answer.
01:05:59The children will only make them shoot one another.
01:06:03Tonight should be enough for all of us, even me.
01:06:05What is the answer, then?
01:06:06I don't know.
01:06:07But no more people must be hurt.
01:06:11Is there no limit to the power of these children?
01:06:15No more than there is a limit to the mind.
01:06:22David!
01:06:24What do you want here?
01:06:26I should have thought...
01:06:26I want to speak to my father.
01:06:35David, why do you do these dreadful things?
01:06:39Wherever it is you come from, you're...
01:06:41You're part of us now.
01:06:44Couldn't you learn to live with us and help us live with you?
01:06:48I want to speak to my father.
01:06:51The effects seem to be wearing off.
01:06:54Major Burnett will be all right.
01:06:57What we did was only to warn him.
01:07:00And all of you.
01:07:03Leave us, Anthea.
01:07:04But I...
01:07:05Please.
01:07:17You're not afraid of us.
01:07:20No.
01:07:22But I'm sorry, David.
01:07:23I'm sorry I was wrong about you.
01:07:25If you didn't suffer from emotions, from feelings,
01:07:29you could be as powerful as we are.
01:07:31Yes.
01:07:33You'll never reach our minds.
01:07:35I've come to say it's time for us to go.
01:07:38Go where?
01:07:40Away from here before they try to destroy us.
01:07:44What will you do?
01:07:45Spread out and disperse.
01:07:48Soon we'll have reached the stage when we can form new colonies.
01:07:51In the meantime, we've attracted too much attention.
01:07:54You must help us to leave.
01:07:59How would you wish me to help you?
01:08:02You'll arrange a method of getting us away from here without attracting attention.
01:08:07You'll find a number of families spread over the country that'll take us in.
01:08:12Yes.
01:08:13Well, that'll take a bit of organizing.
01:08:15I need a few days.
01:08:16Yes.
01:08:17And be sure no one finds out.
01:08:20Otherwise, more people will be hurt.
01:08:23You'll tell us the arrangements you've made when you come to give us our lesson on Friday.
01:08:28David...
01:08:29You won't be able to deceive us.
01:08:30You know that, don't you?
01:08:33Yes, I know that.
01:08:34Very well. Let us know your arrangements on Friday.
01:08:42Good night, Father.
01:08:44Good night, David.
01:08:57A brick wall.
01:09:04All right now?
01:09:05The site's still a bit foggy, but clearing all the time.
01:09:11I'll just go and tell Gordon.
01:09:17Remember this?
01:09:20You wore a dark blue dress.
01:09:22Your hair was longer then.
01:09:25It caught the moonlight.
01:09:36We're ready, Gordon.
01:09:37Good.
01:09:41I wish you'd...
01:09:42It's 8.15.
01:09:44You'll be in London by 9.30.
01:09:45I wish you'd let me stay here.
01:09:47Oh, come with us.
01:09:48You know that isn't possible.
01:09:50I have things to do here.
01:09:51Poor old Alan would go into the nearest street if you let him drive.
01:09:55Nothing like feeling useless.
01:09:57You're still going to see the children tonight?
01:09:59Yes.
01:10:00Every Wednesday and Friday.
01:10:02After what happened?
01:10:02Especially after what happened.
01:10:04I think I've found a way of getting through to them.
01:10:07And if I'm right, we'll have no further trouble.
01:10:09How?
01:10:10I'll tell you if I succeed.
01:10:13Now, come on.
01:10:13I don't want you to be on the road all night.
01:10:17Yeah, now.
01:10:18This isn't like you.
01:10:20I know.
01:10:22It's silly of me, but I'm afraid of them.
01:10:25And I'm afraid for you whenever you're with them.
01:10:28They won't harm me.
01:10:30In a strange way, they trust me.
01:10:33Why, even David seems to accept me.
01:10:36Divorced from my emotions, of course.
01:10:39All right?
01:10:42Off you go.
01:10:46Alan, look after her for me.
01:10:50I'll give you a ring in the morning.
01:10:53Yes.
01:10:54In the morning.
01:11:44I don't even gosto.
01:11:48Just go there.
01:11:48I was sorry, I did.
01:11:48So long.
01:11:55Let's go.
01:12:23Brick wall.
01:12:25Let's think of a brick wall.
01:12:35I'm sorry, old man.
01:12:37You can't come.
01:12:40Look after your mistress.
01:12:49Let's go.
01:12:53Let's go.
01:12:54Let's go.
01:12:54Let's go.
01:12:55Let's go.
01:12:55Let's go.
01:13:18Let's go.
01:13:19Let's go.
01:13:20Let's go.
01:13:22I think I want you to take care of me.
01:13:24I don't know.
01:13:25Just a manner of speech, I suppose.
01:13:43What's the matter?
01:13:45Alan, I'm going back.
01:13:47Why?
01:13:48I'm going back.
01:13:59Good evening, children.
01:14:01Tonight we shall talk about atomic energy
01:14:03and how discoveries made about 100 years ago
01:14:07completely changed our conception
01:14:09of the elements and the place of the atom.
01:14:13You were to tell us tonight
01:14:14what arrangements you'd made for us.
01:14:17The place of the atom.
01:14:20It's 8.27.
01:14:23Why are you nervous?
01:14:27The arrangements, yes.
01:14:29Yes, I'll tell you about those in a few moments.
01:14:33But first of all, I want to finish my lesson.
01:14:36The question of atomic energy.
01:14:41You're not thinking of atomic energy.
01:14:45You're thinking of...
01:14:50a brick wall.
01:14:53A brick wall.
01:14:54A brick wall.
01:14:55I must think of a brick wall.
01:14:59A brick wall.
01:15:01I must think of a brick wall.
01:15:05A brick wall.
01:15:08A brick wall.
01:15:11I must think of a brick wall.
01:15:16It's almost half past eight.
01:15:18A brick wall.
01:15:21A brick wall.
01:15:26A brick wall.
01:15:28A brick wall.
01:15:29A brick wall.
01:15:37I must think of a brick wall.
01:15:43Let's go.
01:16:13Let's go.
01:16:42Let's go.
01:17:12Let's go.
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