Welcome back to our vintage cinema archive, your premier digital destination for high-quality restorations of golden age Hollywood and classic international genre cinema. Today, we invite you to blast off into the far reaches of the cosmos with one of the most spectacular, historically significant milestones in science fiction history: the 1955 Technicolor epic, This Island Earth.
Based on Raymond F. Jones’ acclaimed novel and directed by Joseph M. Newman, this ambitious space opera stars Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham, a brilliant atomic scientist who receives a mysterious, highly advanced electronic component called an "interocitor." Following a series of cryptic assembly instructions, Meacham and his colleague, Dr. Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue), are recruited into an elite, secret compound of global scientists managed by Exeter (Jeff Morrow), a sophisticated gentleman with a distinctively large forehead and a mesmerizing demeanor. The researchers quickly discover that Exeter is an extraterrestrial from the advanced planet Metaluna, who has come to Earth to harness atomic energy to save his dying world from a ruthless bombardment by rival enemy forces. When their hidden laboratory is compromised, Cal and Ruth are forced onto a flying saucer and transported across interstellar space to Metaluna itself. There, they must navigate a collapsing, war-torn alien landscape and evade a terrifying, biologically altered monster—the iconic Metaluna Mutant—in a desperate race to return to Earth before the planet is entirely obliterated.
Boasting lush, vibrant Technicolor cinematography, pioneering special effects, and unmatched mid-century art direction, This Island Earth remains a definitive high-water mark of 1950s imaginative cinema. Our channel is fiercely dedicated to preserving historic film treasures, offering a curated library of vintage science fiction classics, rare B-movies, gritty film noir thrillers, retro horror, and classic maritime adventures.
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Based on Raymond F. Jones’ acclaimed novel and directed by Joseph M. Newman, this ambitious space opera stars Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham, a brilliant atomic scientist who receives a mysterious, highly advanced electronic component called an "interocitor." Following a series of cryptic assembly instructions, Meacham and his colleague, Dr. Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue), are recruited into an elite, secret compound of global scientists managed by Exeter (Jeff Morrow), a sophisticated gentleman with a distinctively large forehead and a mesmerizing demeanor. The researchers quickly discover that Exeter is an extraterrestrial from the advanced planet Metaluna, who has come to Earth to harness atomic energy to save his dying world from a ruthless bombardment by rival enemy forces. When their hidden laboratory is compromised, Cal and Ruth are forced onto a flying saucer and transported across interstellar space to Metaluna itself. There, they must navigate a collapsing, war-torn alien landscape and evade a terrifying, biologically altered monster—the iconic Metaluna Mutant—in a desperate race to return to Earth before the planet is entirely obliterated.
Boasting lush, vibrant Technicolor cinematography, pioneering special effects, and unmatched mid-century art direction, This Island Earth remains a definitive high-water mark of 1950s imaginative cinema. Our channel is fiercely dedicated to preserving historic film treasures, offering a curated library of vintage science fiction classics, rare B-movies, gritty film noir thrillers, retro horror, and classic maritime adventures.
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00:00:09To be continued...
00:00:39To be continued...
00:01:10To be continued...
00:01:50To be continued...
00:01:59How about your conference with the Committee on Atomic Power?
00:02:01Well, not my conference.
00:02:03Twenty engineers and scientists were there.
00:02:04Twenty? Hardly a routine meeting, would you say?
00:02:06Yeah, and look, Cal...
00:02:07We won't buy the committees getting you VIPs together for a cocktail party.
00:02:11All right, boys, I'll tell you this much.
00:02:14Under discussion was the biggest job we've ever tackled.
00:02:16The industrial application of atomic energy.
00:02:18But that's not news, Cal.
00:02:20We all know there have been several industrial reactors in work already.
00:02:23Well, let us say, then, that in the light of recent developments, those plants may already be obsolescent.
00:02:28Electronics is your specialty. How does that fit in with atomic energy?
00:02:32You boys like to call this a push-button age.
00:02:34It isn't, not yet.
00:02:36Not until we can team up atomic energy with electronics.
00:02:39Then we'll have the horses as well as a cart.
00:02:41How long has the Army been handing out jets, Doctor?
00:02:44One of the boys at Lockheed handed me this one.
00:02:46I hope your taxpayers don't mind.
00:02:49Cal, when do we get to this push-button age?
00:02:51When fellas like me stop talking about it and get back to our labs.
00:02:54I'll see you gentlemen later.
00:02:55Goodbye.
00:02:56So long, Doc.
00:02:57Cal, are you working on anything along the lines you mentioned?
00:03:00Roughly.
00:03:01Well, remember me, will you?
00:03:03I'm concentrating on the reconversion of certain common elements into nuclear energy sources.
00:03:08Huh? How's that again?
00:03:09What counts is how I make it work.
00:03:11I see.
00:03:12Well, good flight, Cal.
00:03:14So long.
00:03:40Good flight, Cal.
00:03:40Good flight, Cal.
00:03:56Good flight, Cal.
00:03:57Good flight, Cal.
00:03:59Good flight, Cal.
00:04:01Good flight, Cal.
00:04:02Good flight, Cal.
00:04:04Good flight, Cal.
00:04:05Good flight, Cal.
00:04:06Good flight, Cal.
00:04:07Good flight, Cal.
00:04:07Good flight, Cal.
00:04:07Good flight, Cal.
00:04:352XD-341, calling Riberg control time.
00:04:392XD-341, this is Riberg control tower. Go ahead.
00:04:42Okay to come in, Webb.
00:04:44All clear, Cal. Drift south, about 20 miles per hour.
00:04:48Hi, Webb. What's Cal's ETA?
00:04:501410, but he's late.
00:04:52Half an hour late. That's my boss, the only guy in the world who can travel by jet and still
00:04:56be late.
00:04:57So you talk about me when I'm gone.
00:04:59Where are you?
00:05:00Look out the window.
00:05:07Come on.
00:05:08Come on.
00:05:23Come on.
00:05:26De'at-esus, let's go to earth now.
00:05:40Cal, what's wrong?
00:05:41I have no control.
00:05:46Cut loose, Cal. Fail out.
00:05:48Can't. I'm too low.
00:05:56Jerking around must have caused a flame out.
00:05:58No power, no nothing.
00:06:37No power, no nothing.
00:07:04No power, no nothing.
00:07:26No power, no nothing.
00:07:27Cal, you okay?
00:07:28Okay.
00:07:29What happened? How'd you bring it in?
00:07:31I didn't. Couldn't.
00:07:32What do you mean you didn't?
00:07:34Controls went out.
00:07:35Huh?
00:07:36That's right. No controls, no power.
00:07:38The plane died up there. I should be dead.
00:07:41I know everybody's seeing flying saucers and screwy lights up in the sky.
00:07:45Well, you can put me in the booby hatch, too, because so helped me, I saw this ship turn a
00:07:49bright green up there.
00:07:51Are you sure, Joe?
00:07:52Positive.
00:07:52Did you hear anything?
00:07:53Yes.
00:07:54A high-frequency howl.
00:07:56Very high.
00:07:57All the time your ship was...
00:07:58Green?
00:08:00Did Webb see it?
00:08:01Unless he's blind.
00:08:03Check him.
00:08:03Right.
00:08:04Oh, and Joe.
00:08:05Until we find out what happened, all three of us were blind.
00:08:21How's the little giant?
00:08:22Growing up. Getting ready to astound the world.
00:08:24Let's take a look.
00:08:26Figured that. She's all ready and waiting.
00:08:36Blowing the cylinder.
00:08:58Increase the rate of reaction.
00:09:05Check rate of radioactive decay.
00:09:11Positive.
00:09:12Same at once the whole week you were away.
00:09:15What did the committee say?
00:09:16Oh, they were a little excited.
00:09:18A little?
00:09:31Zero reading.
00:09:34The XC condenser must have shorted out again.
00:09:36Get the spare.
00:09:37Burned out yesterday.
00:09:41And don't ask me why I didn't order some new ones.
00:09:44I did.
00:09:46XC condensers in an envelope.
00:09:48Must be a gag dreamed up by the receiving department.
00:09:50I ordered two XC condensers and Supreme Equipment sent me these beads.
00:09:56You say they're a gag, but they're condensers.
00:09:58I checked one for capacity and voltage on the meter.
00:10:01And blew it to bits.
00:10:02Yeah.
00:10:03After it held at 33,000 volts and no leakage.
00:10:11If that were true, we could build a generator.
00:10:13One that would supply electric power to run an entire factory.
00:10:16It would fit in a matchbox.
00:10:18It's still red.
00:10:1933,000 volts.
00:10:22I'll try one on voltage tests.
00:10:24I've got one set up for you.
00:11:00500.000 volts.
00:11:01In the thin air?
00:11:0235,000 volts.
00:11:04Call Pete Knowles at Supreme.
00:11:06Okay.
00:11:17Pete Knowles, please.
00:11:22Pete, Cal Meacham, I ordered two AXC condensers, and you sent me some beads.
00:11:28Yes, beads.
00:11:30Well, I am serious. I just tested one bead for voltage, and...
00:11:34Oh?
00:11:36Well, thanks.
00:11:41Supreme didn't send them.
00:11:42They're crazy.
00:11:43Pete says they've had no condenser order from us in six weeks.
00:11:46Here's the duplicate of the order I sent by teletype three days ago.
00:11:53What's the address on the letterhead that came with the beads?
00:11:56No address. Look.
00:12:00Dear Dr. Meacham, in place of the condensers you ordered, we are sending you our AB619 model.
00:12:06We are certain it will interest you.
00:12:08Director, Electronic Service, Unit 16.
00:12:11I thought it was a subsection of Supreme.
00:12:16Electronic Service, Unit 16.
00:12:19Well, at least we can find out what they're made of.
00:12:40A diamond drill.
00:12:41The hardest element we've got.
00:12:44The bead isn't even scratched.
00:12:50Experimental lab. Wilson speaking.
00:12:53Yeah, sure.
00:12:54Sam wants to talk to you.
00:12:56He's at the hangar. He's been checking over the plane.
00:12:58Good.
00:12:59Hello, Sam.
00:13:05Sam can't find anything wrong.
00:13:08Did you double-check the controls?
00:13:11Of course not.
00:13:13Now, look here, Sam.
00:13:17All right, Sam. You win.
00:13:19Maybe I did have just a couple, but...
00:13:22All right. Good night.
00:13:26Maybe I should have had a couple.
00:13:30Maybe I will.
00:13:42Good morning.
00:13:43Good morning.
00:13:44Sign here.
00:13:58What have you got?
00:13:59I don't know.
00:14:00There's no return address.
00:14:10Electronic Service, Unit Number 16.
00:14:21Katherman tube with an endium complex of plus four.
00:14:24What are they talking about?
00:14:26I don't know, but this outfit has them.
00:14:29This isn't paper.
00:14:30Some kind of metal.
00:14:34Interociter incorporating planetary generator.
00:14:37Interociter with volterator.
00:14:39With astroscope.
00:14:42Here's something my wife could use in the house.
00:14:44An interociter incorporating an electron sorter.
00:14:47Although she probably gained 20 pounds while it did all the work for her.
00:14:52You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do.
00:14:55Laying a four-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.
00:14:59Cal, maybe we've been working too hard.
00:15:01Complete line of interociter parts.
00:15:04Incorporating greater advances than hitherto known in the field of electronics.
00:15:09What exactly is an interociter?
00:15:11I don't know.
00:15:12And I don't want to know.
00:15:14Well, I do.
00:15:15I want to know what it is and what it does.
00:15:18Order the list of parts on these pages.
00:15:20How are we going to build it?
00:15:22These symbols, they're like a foreign language.
00:15:26Anyway, we don't know the address.
00:15:28Well, you ordered the condensers from Supreme by teletype.
00:15:30Yeah.
00:15:31Which means that somebody intercepted that order and sent us those beads.
00:15:34Here, try it again.
00:15:36Too darn smart.
00:15:38That may be the dumbest man who ever walked this earth, Joe.
00:15:54Here's the invoice.
00:15:55No charge and no address.
00:15:57Listen to this.
00:15:58No interociter part can be replaced.
00:16:01Bear this in mind while assembling.
00:16:06Well, let's start unpacking.
00:16:24There's 2,486 parts.
00:16:28Each part is cross-indexed into a symbol pattern.
00:16:34Shouldn't be too hard at all.
00:16:36Sure, snap, maestro.
00:16:39Only, where do we start?
00:16:43Right here.
00:17:14You know what my kids would say.
00:17:16Dig this crazy mixed up plumbing.
00:17:19Plug it in, Joe.
00:17:20We'll see what happens.
00:17:33Now, what do I do?
00:17:35Clear your screen, please.
00:17:38You can hear me?
00:17:40Of course.
00:17:41Use the intensifier disc.
00:17:43The one in your hand.
00:17:46Place it in position on your right.
00:17:56Now, turn the control 18 degrees to the left.
00:18:14You have successfully accomplished your task, Dr. Meacham.
00:18:18You've assembled an interociter, a feat of which few men are capable.
00:18:22Who are you?
00:18:24I'm called Exeter.
00:18:26I'm a scientist like yourself.
00:18:27Shall we say, a colleague.
00:18:30My colleagues don't materialize out of strange machines.
00:18:33They're flesh and blood.
00:18:34And so am I, Dr. Meacham, as I hope you'll soon find out.
00:18:37Although I admit at the moment I do appear immaterial.
00:18:40But no matter.
00:18:42I represent a group which is seeking scientists of exceptional ability.
00:18:46All prospects must pass an aptitude test, which you've just done.
00:18:49I'm flattered.
00:18:50Only I don't remember applying for any job.
00:18:53You didn't.
00:18:54I beg your pardon, Mr. Wilson.
00:18:56Your camera will pick up nothing but black fog.
00:19:00Images on the interociter don't register on film.
00:19:03Put it away, Joe.
00:19:04Do continue, Dr. Meacham.
00:19:06We test out people without their knowledge.
00:19:08We leave nothing to chance.
00:19:10Except the chance that I'm uninterested in you or your group.
00:19:13Come, come, Doctor.
00:19:15It's not possible that a man of your scientific curiosity
00:19:17wouldn't want to find out who I am, where I come from,
00:19:21wouldn't give his right arm for more examples of our superior technical knowledge.
00:19:25I think I can assume, Dr. Meacham,
00:19:27that you're sufficiently intrigued to come to an immediate decision.
00:19:30We'd like you to join our team, as you might say, at once.
00:19:34You'll make arrangements to leave immediately.
00:19:36Wait a moment.
00:19:37I didn't say it.
00:19:38Five o'clock Wednesday morning, our plane will land at your field.
00:19:41It will wait exactly five minutes and then depart.
00:19:43Whether I'm aboard or not.
00:19:47Place the catalog on that table with the blueprints.
00:20:02Now stand aside, please.
00:20:04You too, Mr. Wilson.
00:20:22Just a minute.
00:20:24Please step back or you may be harmed.
00:20:28Further back.
00:20:47You too, Mr. Wilson.
00:21:06You okay?
00:21:08Okay.
00:21:10Within reason.
00:21:11There is any reason around here.
00:21:22I'm going to go over here.
00:21:23There's no reading now.
00:21:25Cal.
00:21:26Yes, Joe?
00:21:28Who else that Exeter is?
00:21:30I don't like him.
00:21:32Don't you, Joe?
00:21:35He was right about one thing.
00:21:38I'm going to be on that plane.
00:21:42I'm going to be on that plane.
00:21:52Cal, why don't you reconsider?
00:21:55I did. All right.
00:21:57And as a committee of one,
00:21:59I came to a series of decisions
00:22:00at exactly the fifth cup of coffee.
00:22:04One,
00:22:04whatever scientific knowledge
00:22:06this Exeter character has
00:22:08should be in our textbooks.
00:22:10Two,
00:22:11Joe Wilson, my able assistant,
00:22:13knows enough about a certain experiment
00:22:15to carry on without me for a while.
00:22:17I'm not sure of that, Cal.
00:22:18But Joe, my committee decided I'm expendable.
00:22:21Nothing you can say will change that.
00:22:23You always were an obstinate.
00:22:25Oh, well, I'm not worried.
00:22:27Not even a moth equipped with a lightning bug
00:22:29could fly in here this morning.
00:22:31So no plane is...
00:22:50He made it.
00:22:51I'm not sure of that.
00:23:51No pilot.
00:23:53No windows.
00:23:54Pal, you'll really be flying blind.
00:23:56Please be seated, Dr. Meacham.
00:23:58And welcome aboard.
00:24:09A seat belt is not required, Doctor.
00:24:15Please clear the stairs.
00:24:18So long, Joe.
00:24:19I'll be dropping you a card.
00:24:22Cal, get off right away.
00:24:23This whole thing smells to high heaven.
00:24:26Cal, I'm begging you, don't go.
00:24:28Please don't go.
00:24:32No, no, no, no.
00:24:34No, no, no.
00:24:35No, no, no.
00:24:37No.
00:25:41Good morning, Dr. Meacham.
00:25:44Hope you slept well.
00:25:47We'll be landing shortly.
00:26:49Good morning.
00:26:50Good morning.
00:26:51Where am I?
00:26:52Georgia.
00:26:53I kind of expected Neptune to Mars.
00:26:56Exeter asked me to greet you.
00:26:58I'm Dr. Ruth Adams.
00:27:00Ruth Adams.
00:27:01But this is wonderful.
00:27:02I never expected.
00:27:04Ruth, I'm Cal Meacham.
00:27:07Cal?
00:27:10Dr. Meacham.
00:27:11Of course.
00:27:13Four or five years ago, conference on thermal problems in nuclear reactors.
00:27:18Boston, wasn't it?
00:27:19Vermont.
00:27:20We were lecturing to a symposium of graduate students.
00:27:24Summer three years ago.
00:27:26After classes would go swimming in a little river near the school.
00:27:29You were an awful sissy about that icy water.
00:27:32Now, Ruth, don't tell me you've forgotten.
00:27:36Dr. Meacham, all I can say is I'm deeply flattered.
00:27:40Maybe a little envious of the girl you've mistaken me for.
00:27:44And now I think Exeter is waiting to greet you.
00:28:21I'm sure you must be puzzled, doctor.
00:28:23I'll never forget my own feelings on the day of my arrival.
00:28:27Exeter isn't exactly conventional in his hiring methods.
00:28:31Or his choice of personnel.
00:28:34I think that sounds like rather a personnel dig.
00:28:37Once you're at the club, I'm sure you'll like us much better.
00:28:40The club?
00:28:40That's what we like to call it.
00:28:42Exeter has spared nothing for our comfort or facilities for our work.
00:29:02Inside looks better, doctor.
00:29:04They'll bring your bags in.
00:29:12Your place.
00:29:24The elevator's down to Exeter's slave quarters.
00:29:27Our laboratories.
00:29:33Our living room, social center, library.
00:29:38Mrs. Exeter's office and study.
00:29:41Not exactly what you expected, Dr. Meacham, is it?
00:29:43Good morning, doctor.
00:29:45Good morning, doctor.
00:29:46Give me your coat.
00:29:54Good morning, client doctor.
00:29:56Good morning, Herr doctor.
00:29:57Good morning.
00:29:59Engelberg from Munich.
00:30:01The doctor's out for his morning constitutional.
00:30:03He's been here a week, but his English and my German.
00:30:18Who's that one?
00:30:20That's Brack, one of Exeter's assistants.
00:30:23But you'll find them all very helpful.
00:30:25What language do they speak?
00:30:28Anything you wish.
00:30:29English, Hindustani, Congoese, anything.
00:30:33Dr. Meacham, good morning.
00:30:36Good morning.
00:30:37Please come in, both of you.
00:30:42Sit down.
00:30:43Dr. Adams.
00:30:45Oh, yes, Steve.
00:30:47About that nuclear decay factor, Ruth.
00:30:49I'm afraid my equation just doesn't seem to work.
00:30:52I was hoping you could find time to go over it with me later.
00:30:55I still think the basic principle is all right.
00:30:59Maybe we can trust...
00:31:01Yes, well, thank you, Dr. Adams.
00:31:07Oh, there you are, Dr. Adams.
00:31:10I was just reminding Dr. Meacham that I'd promised to produce some of his colleagues in the flesh.
00:31:15May I use you as my Exhibit A?
00:31:17I'm afraid Dr. Meacham isn't too happy with me.
00:31:20At the airport, he was sure we were old friends.
00:31:22Obviously, I was wrong.
00:31:24The lady hardly remembers me.
00:31:26What is more important is...
00:31:27Who we are, what we're doing here.
00:31:32Dr. Meacham, I represent a group of scientists who work with but one purpose, to put an end to war.
00:31:40Naturally, such a goal can't be attained without experts of superior ability.
00:31:45Men of vision, men such as you, doctor, gathered here, exchanging information daily,
00:31:50putting aside all thoughts of personal success.
00:31:53We hope to achieve exciting new techniques, leap years ahead of the others.
00:31:57I don't think I need to tell you how effective our voices will be when the world learns of our
00:32:02achievements.
00:32:04Well, there you have it.
00:32:06Nothing new, perhaps, but then, what is?
00:32:09However, let me assure you, doctor, that we are dedicated men and women.
00:32:13And as such, we can accomplish wonders.
00:32:17Well, what do you think of us?
00:32:20This all sounds great, Mr. Exeter, but why me?
00:32:24Dr. Meacham, we happen to know that you're on the threshold of discovering limitless amounts of free nuclear energy.
00:32:31More specifically, the conversion of lead into uranium.
00:32:34Dr. Adams here has been working along the same lines as you have, perhaps just a step behind you.
00:32:40Although I might add that both of you are way ahead of anyone else in your field.
00:32:44Be careful.
00:32:45Exeter will flatter you to death.
00:32:47The truth is never flattering, Dr. Adams.
00:32:51Now, suppose you relax and think it over.
00:32:54Suppose when I do, I find I can't go along with you.
00:33:01Naturally, we'll expect you to be discreet about what you've seen here.
00:33:05Otherwise, you're free to leave, Dr. Meacham.
00:33:07As free as air.
00:33:09And now, suppose we continue your tour of inspection, right from our chairs.
00:33:23Conserving energy is one of our primary concerns, isn't it, doctor?
00:33:37Your laboratory, doctor.
00:33:39Immediately below this office, I believe.
00:33:42Still under construction, but in a few days, we'll have some surprises for you.
00:33:47Brack!
00:33:50Everything in order?
00:33:53Yes.
00:33:54Thank you, Brack.
00:33:59Any reason why you can't start in the morning, doctor?
00:34:02No.
00:34:04Another view of your laboratory with your own in Derociter, of course.
00:34:08In addition to which, we hope to provide you with...
00:34:12One of our other units calling, doctor.
00:34:15Other units?
00:34:16Yes, we have several at strategic points throughout the world.
00:34:20Please forgive me.
00:34:21Well, have a chat at dinner, Meacham.
00:34:24Excellent cuisine, by the way.
00:34:26Like everybody here, the chef must be dedicated to his work.
00:34:36You'll find the stairway through the living room and to your right.
00:34:39Your room is at the top of the stairs.
00:34:41Thanks.
00:34:45Dr. Meacham.
00:34:49I'm still sorry I wasn't the girl in Vermont.
00:35:08Yes?
00:35:10Your progress report, I find, is unsatisfactory.
00:35:13You are failing to beat the schedule as planned.
00:35:15And why?
00:35:18Because certain methods imposed upon me by the Council have not been effective here.
00:35:22I wish to discuss it with the Council.
00:35:24Impossible.
00:35:25The time element will not permit any discerning opinions.
00:35:28You will carry on with Plan A as instructed.
00:35:36Now, please report on status of personnel.
00:35:39With the arrival of Meacham, the personnel roster is complete.
00:35:42Proceed with Plan A.
00:35:50Proceed with Plan A.
00:36:17Proceed with melhor company would'veuarded his own plan.
00:36:25I couldn't find a letter S.
00:36:25Proceed with Leidiger.
00:36:26Monats-
00:36:29Thiens &
00:36:29What do you think of Mr.
00:36:30Mozart, Exeter?
00:36:32I'm afraid I don't know the gentleman.
00:36:36My mind must have been wandering.
00:36:38Your composer, of course.
00:36:39Our composer. He belongs to the world.
00:36:43Yes, indeed.
00:36:45The dinner, Exeter, was even more perfect than you promised.
00:36:48Now, if you'll excuse me, I could do with some fresh air myself.
00:36:52Would you care to join me, Dr. Adams?
00:36:55You, Dr. Carlson?
00:36:59Why don't you? Show them the grounds.
00:37:02We won't start cracking the whip on Meacham until tomorrow.
00:37:19It's quite a group, Exeter's collected. Quite.
00:37:23That's Dr. Hu Ling Tang. Tang's field is tritanium, the same as Dr. Engelberg.
00:37:29Dr. Marie Pichner, U-235. Dr. Bohrfield, plutonium.
00:37:33That puts all of us in the production of nuclear energy, doesn't it, Carlson?
00:37:37What are you getting at, Meacham?
00:37:38Why no biochemists, electronic experts, mechanical engineers.
00:37:43People equipped to make practical application of the energy the rest of us produce.
00:37:47I seem to remember that was part of Exeter's pitch.
00:37:51We try to make it a rule around here, Doctor, not to discuss our work after hours.
00:37:55Now, how about that fresh air?
00:37:56How about you and Dr. Adams showing me my laboratory instead?
00:38:00After all I've heard today, I can hardly wait to add my little contribution to the good work.
00:38:05This way, Doctor.
00:38:29You're lab and my lab are in this way.
00:38:34You're right.
00:38:34Steve and the others are on the right.
00:38:36This is yours over here.
00:38:46It's only neutron.
00:38:49We call him that because he's so positive.
00:38:51Stay off Dr. Meacham's equipment.
00:38:55Well, what do you think of it?
00:38:59It's not bad.
00:39:00Should be able to get started very quickly.
00:39:02Fine.
00:39:03But a word of warning.
00:39:04Don't let Exeter push you too hard.
00:39:06He's the kind of man who wants results yesterday.
00:39:11This is the same size lead slab I use in my own lab.
00:39:15I guess you're right.
00:39:16I guess Exeter doesn't expect me to waste any time.
00:39:24This is very interesting.
00:39:35Now, standing here with the lead slab in front of us,
00:39:39the lead reactor panel behind us,
00:39:41we're shielded from nuclear rays.
00:39:43Could be even from the prying eyes of Exeter's interocitor.
00:39:47What's your opinion, doctors?
00:39:52All right, I'll spell it out for you.
00:39:53The two of you walk around here as if you're scared of your own shadows.
00:39:56Ruth's even afraid to admit she and I once might have held hands.
00:39:59Well, that's okay with me.
00:40:01But either I've got to figure I'm a little crack,
00:40:03or that Exeter's cat has got both of your tongues.
00:40:06You ever stop to think that we have a right to throw a few questions at you, Meacham?
00:40:09What are you doing here?
00:40:11Look, I received a darn fool catalog.
00:40:14I couldn't resist it.
00:40:15I built it into Rossiter,
00:40:16arrived on that trick plane, and that's all I know.
00:40:19But so help me.
00:40:20In the next ten minutes, I'm going to know a lot more.
00:40:24I believe him, Steve.
00:40:27Well, I guess I do too.
00:40:29Now we're getting somewhere.
00:40:31To begin with, Cal,
00:40:33I was the girl in Vermont.
00:40:35Then why all of that?
00:40:36Because we couldn't take a chance.
00:40:37There's always the possibility you spent a few minutes under one of Exeter's sun lamps before you got here.
00:40:42Sun lamp?
00:40:42That's what it looks like.
00:40:44Only instead of a sun turn, you get your brain cells rearranged.
00:40:47Steve had a peek at one.
00:40:48Yeah, it's similar to lobotomy.
00:40:50It renders useless certain areas of the brain.
00:40:52Those areas controlling the power of the will.
00:40:54Up until now, Steve and I have been spared.
00:40:57We think Engelberg too, but we haven't the slightest idea why.
00:41:00Well, what about the others?
00:41:02Try talking to them.
00:41:04Well, that leaves the big one.
00:41:06Who's Exeter working for?
00:41:08We don't know.
00:41:08All we do know is what you've already guessed.
00:41:11Exeter is desperately trying to come up with new sources of atomic energy.
00:41:15And we're the geniuses he's depending upon to deliver for him.
00:41:19Well, he might get a surprise.
00:41:29Why did you wait, Brack?
00:41:30You should have told me.
00:41:31I was busy elsewhere.
00:41:33If you're so concerned, why don't you let me use the transformer?
00:41:36The transformer is not the only answer.
00:41:38Well, counsel differs.
00:41:40It says it's infallible.
00:41:41The counsel is wrong.
00:41:43I told the monitor so today.
00:41:45The transformer is morally abhorrent to the subjects.
00:41:48It sets up subconscious blocks which defeat our very purposes.
00:41:51You're being sentimental.
00:41:53I am being practical.
00:41:56No, Brack.
00:41:57You use a machine to control a man's brain.
00:42:00You destroy his initiative.
00:42:01You destroy his power to help us as we need help.
00:42:04We can both see it right here.
00:42:08It may be true.
00:42:11But are you sure?
00:42:13We're 30 miles from nowhere.
00:42:15Steve and I know we've tried.
00:42:17And if we did get out, who'd believe all this?
00:42:20Brack!
00:42:26I don't blame you doctors for being excited about working for Exeter.
00:42:29It's a rare privilege.
00:42:30He's a rare man.
00:42:32Our little neutron gave us away.
00:42:34He felt the impulses.
00:42:35That cat, I could put neutron under the thought transformer.
00:42:39Why not, Brack?
00:42:41And perhaps you'd like me to step in with him.
00:42:45Turn it off, Brack.
00:42:47Our friends won't be giving us any more information tonight.
00:42:55And the log of 236 plus 1.008 to the ninth.
00:43:02It's an interesting equation.
00:43:05I'll check it.
00:43:06You may find it'll help you over some of the more difficult obstacles, Meacham.
00:43:10And now, Doctor, I'd like to acquaint you with another of our accomplishments.
00:43:14Notice that section of lead plate behind you.
00:43:21Please bring it forward.
00:43:24About eight feet.
00:43:25Not seven feet.
00:43:34Not 100 feet.
00:43:40Now, please move back.
00:43:50By the door, doctor.
00:44:18When you're led to uranium processes working properly, the effectiveness of this ray will be increased enormously.
00:44:25Tell me, Exeter, why should a communication device be equipped with a destructive ray?
00:44:30Television waves can't penetrate mountains. With the aid of neutrino rays, we can.
00:44:36Neutrino rays?
00:44:37You've just observed one in action.
00:44:40I suppose the neutrino could be described as the missing link between energy and matter.
00:44:46Fascinating. If destruction is our goal...
00:44:49On the contrary. Just recently, one of our rays was used for quite another purpose.
00:44:54More specifically, to save your life.
00:44:56The green light?
00:44:57Exactly. Picking your plane up in midair and conveying it safely to Earth.
00:45:02After it first immobilized my controls.
00:45:07Maitchum, I must ask you to have faith in our ultimate aims.
00:45:11I must also ask you to refrain from meeting with any of your co-workers again.
00:45:16Except in our usual channels.
00:45:18Anywhere you want it.
00:45:20Very good, doctor.
00:45:21And your patience, I promise you, will be rewarded.
00:45:36Here's a sketch of the inner Osseter.
00:45:38I also have rough notes on its working controls.
00:45:41It's guesswork mostly, but better than nothing.
00:45:44And these are portraits of Exeter and Brack.
00:45:47Do you notice the peculiar indentations in both their foreheads?
00:45:51Coincidental, no doubt.
00:45:53And this is the one we're really proud of, Cal.
00:45:55We discovered this about a week ago, two miles south of here.
00:45:59The side of this hill has been hollowed out.
00:46:00And here's an acre of canvas covering the excavation.
00:46:04You tell me what's in there.
00:46:06Steve wanted to go back and find out what was inside, but...
00:46:09I guess I got cold feet.
00:46:11Just like Vermont.
00:46:13Still a sissy.
00:46:15They're fine, Steve.
00:46:17When we get out of here, I'll have them framed to my own expense.
00:46:19If we get out.
00:46:24He's just hungry.
00:46:31Goodbye, Neutron.
00:46:41Confirm, please.
00:46:43Plan A abandoned.
00:46:45Alternate plan in effect.
00:46:46Correct.
00:46:47Our ionization layer is failing rapidly.
00:46:49We may need transportation.
00:46:51Are you prepared to leave?
00:46:52We have been since your last communication.
00:46:55Although Meacham and Adams are achieving positive results.
00:46:58Can you give us another time period?
00:47:00Impossible.
00:47:01But it is hoped that you will be able to complete the project here.
00:47:04Bring them.
00:47:26Good.
00:47:27You will keep in contact until moment of departure.
00:47:30Then remove all evidence of installation.
00:47:33That is all.
00:47:40Take over.
00:47:54Step him.
00:47:56Step him.
00:47:57Step him.
00:48:00Step him.
00:48:02Step him.
00:48:03Step him.
00:48:03Repeat her.
00:48:06Go ahead and pass.
00:48:08I won't let him.
00:48:09Put him on the other side.
00:48:16What is it?
00:48:16Something I've seen before.
00:48:18Get off the road, quick.
00:48:37They're playing with us.
00:48:48We're sitting ducks in this thing.
00:48:50If we're going to make the airport, we'll have to do it on foot.
00:48:52When I stop, we'll pile out and take cover fast.
00:49:09Dave!
00:49:09Dave!
00:49:28We've got to get out of here.
00:49:29Where's that?
00:49:31Is that what's going on?
00:49:33Get down!
00:49:34Get away!
00:49:48We'll try and make the airport.
00:49:51Let's go.
00:50:58Is it flyable?
00:50:58It should be.
00:50:59Actually, it keeps it here for the staff.
00:51:35Let's go.
00:52:22They're pulling us up.
00:52:31Let's go.
00:53:17Let's go.
00:53:20Let's go.
00:53:49Let's go.
00:54:17Let's go.
00:54:23Let's go.
00:54:35Let's go.
00:55:04Let's go.
00:55:06Let's go.
00:55:06Let's go.
00:55:06Let's go.
00:55:07Let's go.
00:55:08Let's go.
00:55:29Let's go.
00:55:33Let's go.
00:55:33We're going through the thermal barrier.
00:55:35I'm afraid you'll find the temperature unpleasant for a short time.
00:55:37Let's go.
00:55:39Let's go.
00:55:41Let's go.
00:55:41Let's go.
00:55:42Let's go.
00:55:52Let's go.
00:55:55Let's go.
00:56:00Let's go.
00:56:19Prepare to leave Earth's orbit.
00:56:21All conversion must be completed during this time period.
00:56:24Follow me, if you will.
00:56:26Exeter, what are you using for power?
00:56:29How are you controlling the fantastic temperature on this ship?
00:56:31What's to prevent us from floating around like a bunch of balloons once we get away from Earth's gravity?
00:56:35Well, to answer the last question first, we create our own gravitational field,
00:56:39which means that no matter what position our ship takes in space,
00:56:43we here inside remain right side up.
00:56:45But at the moment, if we're going to get you to Metaluna alive,
00:56:49there's a little procedure you'll have to go through.
00:56:53What are you doing to them?
00:56:58Metaluna's atmospheric pressure is like that in your greatest ocean.
00:57:01If we entered Metaluna's orbit without conversion, we'd be crushed to death.
00:57:06Then in going from Metaluna to Earth, the tissues of our bodies would dwindle.
00:57:10We'd disintegrate completely.
00:57:12Correct, Meacham.
00:57:13If we're fortunate enough to return to Earth.
00:57:40Crack.
00:57:41Yes.
00:57:42You will prepare the doctors for the tubes.
00:57:46You're changing clothes such as ours,
00:57:49especially conditioned for life on Metaluna.
00:57:51Come with me.
00:58:24Light your hands above the rails.
00:58:27They're magnetized.
00:58:35There's an intercom system in the tubes.
00:58:37You may converse as long as you're able to.
00:59:07Ruth?
00:59:09Yes?
00:59:10You okay?
00:59:12And you?
00:59:13You like a new toothbrush.
00:59:40Ruth?
00:59:53You're a trigger.
00:59:54Oh my God.
01:00:03I'm scared.
01:00:04Look over the days of the rope.
01:00:04Your point is here.
01:00:07You're a vampire.
01:00:08Hey, let's go.
01:00:10Hello.
01:00:29Cal.
01:00:31Cal.
01:00:32Approaching enemy control sector.
01:00:34This is master control.
01:00:36Awaiting instructions.
01:00:39Cal.
01:00:45We'll energize only as necessary.
01:00:48Conserve power.
01:00:49Avoid contact with the enemy
01:00:51until the safety of ship is endangered.
01:01:12You'll feel stronger in a few moments.
01:01:20Now, I know you both feel as though you could sleep
01:01:23for at least a thousand years.
01:01:25But then you'd miss observing
01:01:27our approach to mental lunar.
01:01:29And with your curiosity,
01:01:32you'd never forgive me for that.
01:01:52I don't understand.
01:01:54What don't you understand, Doctor?
01:01:56Those two objects.
01:01:58They appear to be comets,
01:01:59but their paths are identical.
01:02:01Almost as though some intelligence
01:02:03were controlling them.
01:02:04Your deduction is quite correct, Doctor.
01:02:07Although the objects are not comets.
01:02:08They're meteors controlled by
01:02:10spacecraft of Zagon.
01:02:12Zagon, hit us!
01:02:13Zagon, hit us!
01:02:19We've offered to make peace with Zagon,
01:02:21but to no avail.
01:02:22Is Zagon a planet?
01:02:24A planet that was once a comet.
01:02:25As you can see,
01:02:27their spacecraft are actually guiding
01:02:28the meteors against us.
01:02:38Zagon is with us!
01:02:42Zagon is with us!
01:02:44Zagon is with us!
01:02:46Zagon is with us!
01:02:46I'm a man!
01:02:48Zagon is with us!
01:02:49I'm a man!
01:02:49Zagon is with us!
01:02:49Is PA's yellow!
01:02:49Now in fourth quadrant.
01:02:51Metal lunar contact in three time periods.
01:03:05in two time periods.
01:03:06Observe a closer view.
01:03:08View in third quadrant.
01:03:11Contact in two time periods.
01:03:18View in second quadrant.
01:03:20Contact in one time period.
01:03:26View in first quadrant.
01:03:28That ionization layer.
01:03:30What you're observing may well be the beginning of the end...
01:03:33for our world.
01:03:35The Zacon meteors are beginning to get through our ionized layer.
01:03:38That haze, a field of intense radiation.
01:03:41As you can well imagine, such a screen requires the output of...
01:03:43great amounts of atomic energy.
01:03:46And you're running out.
01:03:47That's why you were sent to Earth.
01:03:49And why you sent for us. You need uranium.
01:03:51In gigantic quantities.
01:03:54Our own deposits are exhausted.
01:03:56As our power diminishes, our protection fails.
01:04:09That's enough.
01:04:11Normal view.
01:04:26That's enough.
01:04:27Normal view.
01:04:28humor.
01:04:41Cool.
01:04:48Smallาง on body lines Sempre.
01:04:48Back to scp.
01:04:48Time.
01:04:51Party.
01:04:54Finally, protect another layer.
01:04:55The center here is a set.
01:04:55Durationino.
01:04:56Gun per sac.
01:05:03The End
01:05:34The End
01:06:05The End
01:06:33The End
01:07:04The End
01:07:12The End
01:07:23The End
01:07:53The End
01:07:54I'm sure personnel will need everyone. Have the crew report immediately for reassignment.
01:07:59Now we must report to the Monitor.
01:08:36Step in.
01:08:38Step in.
01:08:54Our educational complex is now rubble. Over there was a recreation center.
01:09:11This way.
01:09:16The monitor's structure.
01:09:38Welcome, Exeter.
01:09:40Welcome, Exeter. Observe your flight. Almost counted you lost. You're earth creatures.
01:09:45Dr. Adams, Dr. Adams, Dr. Adams, Dr. Meacham, the Monitor, supreme head of our government.
01:09:52Regrettable there is no time for amenities. I am certain your minds have difficulty grasping this transition from Earth to
01:09:58Metaluna.
01:09:58I have given them. I have given them. I have given them as much indoctrines. I have given them as
01:10:00much indoctrination as possible. Then you know that shortly we can expect Zagon to commence and sustain an all-out
01:10:05attack. Our ionization layer must be maintained until our relocation is effected.
01:10:11Relocation? Relocation? To where?
01:10:14To your Earth.
01:10:17A peaceful relocation. We hope to live in harmony with the citizens of your Earth.
01:10:23In harmony?
01:10:24Our knowledge and weapons would make us your superiors, naturally.
01:10:28Then why haven't your superior brains solved the problem of synthesizing uranium?
01:10:33Most of our scientists are dead. Our major laboratories destroyed.
01:10:37The wars reduced our population to a mere handful.
01:10:41That is true, Meacham.
01:10:43It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own.
01:10:49Children looking into a magnifying glass.
01:10:52Imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.
01:10:56Our true size is the size of our God.
01:11:00Do you still insist, Exeter, that we can allow any of these Earth creatures to have free minds?
01:11:06I do.
01:11:09I know them.
01:11:11I've lived with them.
01:11:13You have wasted our time.
01:11:15Take them to the thought transference chamber.
01:11:22Please come with me.
01:11:24I'm afraid you have no choice.
01:11:39Interocitor control.
01:11:41Hear me.
01:11:42Ionization failing at prime sector.
01:11:45Use emergency power and repel attack.
01:11:48Power transfer will begin immediately.
01:11:57Our say-gun friends seem to be hitting this prime sector quite regularly.
01:12:02Is that where it is? In there?
01:12:16My mind is my own and nobody is going to change it.
01:12:18I'm not going into that room.
01:12:20Nobody is. Come on.
01:12:25I'm sorry.
01:12:27I'd hoped to prepare you somewhat beforehand.
01:12:29This is a mutant.
01:12:31We've been breeding them here for ages to do menial work.
01:12:34Well, actually, they're similar to some of the insect life on your own planet.
01:12:37Larger, of course, with a higher degree of intelligence.
01:12:39This one has been given orders to guard this corridor as long as we're here.
01:12:43I beg if you go inside, cooperate voluntarily.
01:12:46If you do, I give you my word that you will not be harmed or your minds changed in any
01:12:50way.
01:12:50You defy the monitor.
01:12:52I already have.
01:12:53Do you believe in Cal?
01:12:54In this place, I wouldn't believe my grandmother.
01:12:57Come on.
01:13:12Go!
01:13:18Go!
01:13:19Go!
01:13:20Go!
01:13:20Go!
01:13:33The travel car, come on.
01:13:35Where are we going?
01:13:36The spaceship.
01:13:37At least it's safer there.
01:13:39You understand?
01:13:40Let it happen now.
01:13:42Meacham! Rude!
01:13:46Stand back, Exeter.
01:13:49Meacham, believe me, I want to help you.
01:13:52Time is short. Get into the car.
01:14:28He appears badly hurt. Stay close to me.
01:14:35Stand back.
01:14:38I command you. Stand back.
01:14:48Come here.
01:14:52Cal!
01:15:12Are you badly hurt?
01:15:13I'll be all right.
01:15:15Close off all hatches. Control room, quick.
01:15:35I'm all right.
01:15:41I'm all right.
01:15:50Rude, activate the telescope. Right control, 45 degrees left.
01:16:12Our ionization layer has failed completely.
01:16:16Will we be able to get out?
01:16:18Depends on the amount of energy we have left.
01:16:20If we have to ward off any heavy Zagon attacks.
01:16:24I don't know.
01:16:49You're right.
01:16:50No, no.
01:16:50Don't run out.
01:16:53You're right.
01:16:54Three."
01:16:54Four."
01:16:56Four."
01:16:57Four."
01:16:58Four."
01:16:58Four."
01:16:59Four."
01:17:09Four."
01:17:37That may be the last of them.
01:17:40Yes. They're concentrating all their attention on Metaluna.
01:17:46Those flashes of light. They're meteors. Hundreds of them.
01:17:51The intense heat is turning Metaluna into a radioactive sun.
01:17:55Temperature must be thousands of degrees by now.
01:17:59A lifeless planet.
01:18:02And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope.
01:18:08Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world.
01:18:13Giving light to those who may need it.
01:18:18Now, into the converter tubes.
01:18:26Ruth, you take the first tube. You the next.
01:18:29What about you? I'll use the third tube.
01:19:26Oh, does it burn public?
01:19:29I'm sorry.
01:20:07Exeter, are these troops strong enough to keep him out?
01:20:10Possibly.
01:20:11He's bleeding badly.
01:20:13In a very few moments, the pressure should destroy him.
01:20:18Help!
01:20:22Help!
01:20:23Help!
01:20:25Help!
01:20:41Run, Roof, run!
01:20:48Help!
01:20:52Help!
01:20:55Help!
01:21:13Oh, my God.
01:21:50Our speed is diminishing.
01:21:52We're now in the atmosphere of Earth.
01:21:55Your plane is where you left it, in the cargo hold.
01:21:59A conventional way for you to return to Earth, I admit, but perhaps the most practical.
01:22:07Where are you going?
01:22:10Our universe is vast, full of wonders.
01:22:16I'll explore.
01:22:18Perhaps find another metalunar.
01:22:20A place inhabited by beings not unlike myself.
01:22:25You see, I'm more adventurous than you imagined me.
01:22:30Exeter, you're a liar.
01:22:32You've used all your power bringing us here.
01:22:34Even if you had a place to go, you couldn't make it.
01:22:38Come with us.
01:22:40We'll heal your wounds.
01:22:42I'm afraid my wounds can never be healed.
01:22:44You have things to teach us.
01:22:50We're over your Earth now.
01:22:51It's time for you to go.
01:22:53Farewell.
01:22:53I'm afraid my wounds can never be healed.
01:23:15I guess I amی ax nacho Outside I'll see you.
01:23:21You're there.
01:23:21You'll see you.
01:23:22Then you're there.
01:23:31THE END
01:24:03THE END
01:24:31THE END
01:24:33THE END
01:24:34THE END
01:24:35THE END
01:24:51THE END
01:24:51THE END
01:24:57THE END
01:24:58THE END
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