From Hell It Came 1957 ★★ Sci-Fi, Horror (CC)

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From Hell It Came is a 1957 American science-fiction horror film directed by Dan Milner and written by Richard Bernstein, from a story by Bernstein and Jack Milner. It was released by Allied Artists in August 1957, on a double bill with The Disembodied (1957).   A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump out for revenge.   'From Hell It Came' delivers unintentional laughs and campy charm that make it enjoyable so-bad-it's-good entertainment, with its unique walking tree monster earning nostalgic affection from fans. However, the film suffers from wooden acting, absurd logic where victims can't outrun a slow-moving tree, laughably bad dialogue, and deeply problematic racist portrayals of indigenous people with patronizing white savior themes that haven't aged well. Best watched in a group setting.   Credits:  Tod Andrews as Dr. William Arnold  Tina Carver as Dr. Terry Mason  Linda Watkins as Mrs. Mae Kilgore  John McNamara as Prof. Clark  Gregg Palmer as Kimo  Robert Swan as Tano  Baynes Barron as Chief Maranka  Suzanne Ridgeway as Korey  Mark Sheeler as Eddie  Lee Rhodes as Norgu  Grace Mathews as Orchid  Tani Marsh as Naomi  Chester Hayes as Maku / The Tabanga  Lenmana Guerin as Dori

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00:04:36Come on, come on, come on, come on!

00:05:06Let's go!

00:05:44How come the travel posters never mention the drums?

00:05:52Islands of romance, islands of beauty.

00:05:55How come they never talk about the malaria and the jungle rocks?

00:05:58The fever and the heat.

00:06:01The stupid blind ignorance and those drums.

00:06:04Yes, that propaganda they feed the innocent tourists is enough to drive a man to drink.

00:06:09If I ever go back to the States, which seems unlikely,

00:06:12I'll become a research chemist in a distillery, combined business with pleasure.

00:06:16You're barely off that stuff, Professor.

00:06:18You'll wake up in the morning with a hangover, but the drums will still be here.

00:06:22Drums don't bother me, Doc. As a matter of fact, they have a nice anthropological beat.

00:06:26Well, maybe we ought to record it. Get it on the hit parade.

00:06:32You know, all kidding aside, those drums sound like trouble.

00:06:37Trouble for us, I'm afraid.

00:06:39Ever since the old chief died, the natives have been staring at us with hate in their eyes.

00:06:44I tried to save his life.

00:06:46The old chief was too far gone with that brew of bacteria the witch doctor fed him.

00:06:50By the time I got there, he was paralyzed, practically dead.

00:06:53I know. You did your best, Doc.

00:07:00No need to be nervous. Ordinarily the natives on this island are peaceful enough.

00:07:04You mean they were peaceful enough until they dropped that atom bomb on the Nogasa attoe.

00:07:09Fifteen hundred miles from here.

00:07:11Who would have thought that a freak typhoon could come from out of nowhere and wreck all calculations?

00:07:16Well, the facts remain that the atomic fallout landed here and that, uh, we trusty scientists from the International Foundation

00:07:24came running with our little Geiger counters to investigate.

00:07:27And what did we find? Plague. That's what's killing off the natives. It's not the fallout.

00:07:34Well, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

00:07:38You know, they heard about the fallout from the sailors on the boats that played with the islands.

00:07:44They think of it as some kind of devil dust.

00:07:47A curse brought on by the evil Americans.

00:07:50We know that so much, Eyewash.

00:07:52We've checked the radiation on this island. It's only 3.05 Rehnke.

00:07:56Hardly any more than an ordinary dental x-ray.

00:07:59Sure. Reasons on our side, but, uh, they don't seem to be buying it.

00:08:04I'll tell you who poisons their simple minds. It's Tano, their witch doctor.

00:08:07He's afraid of losing his patients to modern medicine.

00:08:10Wants to keep them steeped in their centuries-old superstitions.

00:08:14They worship him like some kind of high priest.

00:08:17Back in the States, they don't regard doctors that way.

00:08:20Sometimes they don't even pay their bills.

00:08:23I know what's on your mind. It's written all over you.

00:08:25You'd like to go back home, wouldn't you?

00:08:29Is it that evidence?

00:08:32Sure, I'll go back tomorrow. Only...

00:08:35Only you'd like to take a bride with you and the girl says no.

00:08:39Terry Mason's doing a great job in Baku Island.

00:08:42I don't think the Foundation would want to lose her.

00:08:44Why did I have to fall in love with a dedicated female scientist?

00:08:48She considers marriage some kind of prison.

00:08:51What do you expect from a pretty girl a few years out of med college?

00:08:54She wants excitement, adventure.

00:08:56She thinks of routine as a middle-aged thing.

00:08:58You know, sometimes I could kick her beautiful teeth in.

00:09:01Here I offer her the earth, the moon, the stars...

00:09:04And she prefers test tubes on a tiny Pacific Atoll.

00:09:08Forget her. Find somebody else.

00:09:10I've tried dozens of times.

00:09:20Well, there's nothing like a cup of your battery acid to pep you up.

00:09:24Only it needs a little more acid.

00:09:30Generator three was acting up.

00:09:32Luckily, I caught it just in time.

00:09:34All I can say is Jones and Pierce sure picked a good time to go over to Tanya Atoll with

00:09:37Reverend Cameron.

00:09:38They could have given me a hand.

00:09:40Uh, coffee?

00:09:41That's a very good idea.

00:09:45It'll taste better if you put a little iodine in it.

00:09:48I'd better drink it before it melts the spoon.

00:09:49Let's go.

00:09:50Help!

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00:09:57You're the help!

00:10:01Help!

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00:10:25I've warned her never to leave the trading post during one of the native ceremonies.

00:10:29Eddie, take her to the lab.

00:10:31Okay, Doc.

00:10:49Eddie, get me a wet towel.

00:10:50Check.

00:11:37Oh, save me.

00:11:38Save me.

00:11:39Help me.

00:11:40Easy, Mrs. Kilgore.

00:11:41Easy.

00:11:41Relax.

00:11:42You're perfectly safe.

00:11:43You're among friends.

00:11:43Oh, it was awful.

00:11:45I was there.

00:11:46I saw them kill Kimo.

00:11:47The blooming cannibals.

00:11:48They stuck a knife right in his heart.

00:11:50He was horrible.

00:11:51Simply horrible.

00:11:52And that native outside, he'd like to have killed me if he could.

00:11:55You're all right now, Mrs. Kilgore.

00:11:57No one's going to hurt you.

00:11:58I'll have nightmares the rest of my natural life.

00:12:00The heathens.

00:12:01They ought to drop a blooming hydrogen bomb in a mall and blow the pieces.

00:12:04Now, Mrs. Kilgore, please, try to control yourself.

00:12:12Don't be stingy at a time like this, dearie.

00:12:19My goodness.

00:12:21I must look ghastly in front of you gentlemen.

00:12:25There's nothing else I can do now.

00:12:26If you want me, I'll be in the radio room.

00:12:43There's nothing else I can do now.

00:12:44I can do now.

00:12:56I'll be in the radio room.

00:12:58Grivi puro capu, summa clova negatoro.

00:13:18Mrs. Kilgore, you passed the cemetery during a native ceremony.

00:13:23That's why they sent a man off to try to kill you.

00:13:24I just had to see you, Doctor.

00:13:27I ran out of that docu-medicine you gave me for my nerves.

00:13:31Doctor, you can't imagine the lonely life of a widow.

00:13:35Two husbands are buried, and now there's no one to care for me.

00:13:39Well, if we hadn't heard you scream, Mrs. Kilgore,

00:13:42we might be burying you beside your latest lamented husband.

00:13:45Well, I just couldn't stand those drones.

00:13:47Gave me a terrible case of the jitters.

00:13:50Oh, that horrible brute. I think he hit me.

00:13:54Doctor, wouldn't you like to examine me?

00:13:57See if I've suffered any injuries?

00:13:59Uh, Miss Kilgore, you appear to be in excellent shape.

00:14:02I'm afraid you're more, uh, frightened than, uh, hurt.

00:14:06Well, it seems like every place you go on this blooming island,

00:14:09you break a tribal law or something.

00:14:11Soon as I find a buyer for the trading post,

00:14:13I'm taking off for Australia like a bird.

00:14:16I'm going to open a little tea shop.

00:14:20After two years in this blooming rat hole,

00:14:22I think I'll open a pub instead.

00:14:24Well, until you do leave, Mrs. Kilgore,

00:14:26I advise you to give the natives a wide berth.

00:14:29Well, I like that.

00:14:32My poor Ernie and me, we opened the trading post

00:14:35to help these unfortunate people.

00:14:38And you made a nice profit trading beads and knives

00:14:41in exchange for copra and occasional pearls.

00:14:43Now, that's not a nice thing to say.

00:14:47I bet you're getting paid ansomely

00:14:49by that international atomic Watson that sent you here.

00:14:52I don't know why you want to study those natives for anyway.

00:14:56Mrs. Kilgore, I'm afraid you don't understand them

00:14:59the way the, uh, good professor does.

00:15:01He considers them civilized in their own delightful, primitive way.

00:15:05Why, he'll tell you a human sacrifice

00:15:07is no worse than a traffic accident.

00:15:09Well, I still don't know why they killed Kimo.

00:15:12Such a nice, polite fellow.

00:15:16Good looking, too.

00:15:17He committed the crime of learning something about modern science.

00:15:21He wanted to help his people.

00:15:22And for that, they killed him.

00:15:24Terrible thing.

00:15:26He was our one lick with the natives.

00:15:28Our one chance to lick the plague.

00:15:31Well, whether they like it or not, we've got to stop this epidemic.

00:15:33Once we do that, they'll trust us again.

00:15:35Of course, I'm not educated like you two.

00:15:38But it doesn't take much brides to see

00:15:40there's all kinds of strange things going on in this island.

00:15:42You're right about that, Mrs. Kilgore.

00:15:46As a matter of fact, I think we could use some more help

00:15:48to study the situation.

00:15:49I'll mention that now in my report to Washington.

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00:17:40Well, Bill.

00:17:43Oh, your pulse needs to be studied.

00:17:45You seem to be running a fever.

00:17:47At times like this, a violent chemical reaction sets in.

00:17:49May I prescribe a cold shower?

00:17:52Oh, I've already had one.

00:17:53We have our own shower.

00:17:54We build it out of the finest rusty pipe we could find.

00:17:57Sounds like real luxury.

00:17:59Oh, Terry, you remember Eddie, don't you?

00:18:01He worked in Baku for a while.

00:18:02Eddie!

00:18:05Sure.

00:18:06Hello, Eddie.

00:18:07Good to see you again, Dr. Mason.

00:18:08Can I get your bags?

00:18:09Yes, please.

00:18:10Thanks, Eddie.

00:18:12Terry, this isn't fair.

00:18:14I won't be able to keep my mind on my work with you here.

00:18:16I wish they'd sent somebody else.

00:18:18Then this isn't your doing?

00:18:20You mean, haven't you ordered here?

00:18:22Oh, you know how I feel about you, Terry.

00:18:24This is a danger spot.

00:18:25A little plague doesn't worry me.

00:18:27Oh, it's something worse.

00:18:29See that?

00:18:33That witch doctor's got them all stirred up.

00:18:36Terry, why don't you go back to Baku?

00:18:38Have them send somebody else.

00:18:39I've never dodged an assignment yet, Bill.

00:18:42Dr. Faulkner and Dr. Curley are my bosses.

00:18:44I can take orders only from them.

00:18:48Well.

00:18:50Okay, let's go.

00:19:29I can take orders only from them.

00:19:45Welcome to the island of forgotten scientists, Harry.

00:19:48You can imagine how pleased we were when Washington radioed you're on the way.

00:19:51Oh, thank you.

00:19:52Professor, it's so good to see you.

00:19:54How's the work going?

00:19:55Fine.

00:19:55I think you'll find our tests very interesting.

00:19:57I'm sure I will.

00:19:58We can talk shop later.

00:20:00I'm sure you'll want to unpack first anyway.

00:20:02Well.

00:20:03I'm doing some work in the lab and I'll see you at lunch.

00:20:05You can give me all the foundation gossip from Baku.

00:20:07Professor, it'll be a pleasure.

00:20:11Oh.

00:20:13Terry, this is Mrs. Kilgore.

00:20:14She runs the trading post.

00:20:16They told me a lady doctor was coming,

00:20:18but I figured it'd be one of them beanpole spinsters.

00:20:20Oh, well, I'm a specter, all right, Mrs. Kilgore.

00:20:24But you ain't no beanpole, that's for certain.

00:20:27My, that's a lovely suit.

00:20:29Well, thank you.

00:20:30I bought it in my last trip to Hawaii.

00:20:33Mmm.

00:20:33That perfume smells real nice.

00:20:36That come from Hawaii, too?

00:20:37No.

00:20:38I brought that from the States.

00:20:40It's arpege, and I have an extra bottle if you'd like one.

00:20:43Why, that's right and nice of you, Ducky.

00:20:46I mean, Dr. Mason.

00:20:48Oh, that's all right, Mrs. Kilgore.

00:20:49You needn't be so formal.

00:20:51You call me Ducky or Ducky or anything you want to.

00:20:53I will, dearie.

00:20:55And you call me Meg.

00:20:58Oh, uh, Ducky.

00:21:01Yes, Ducky.

00:21:03We've got your quarters ready.

00:21:05Mrs. Kilgore will take you over.

00:21:07I'll drive by later and pick you up.

00:21:09I knew you'd be tired from the trip, Ducky.

00:21:11So I got a native girl to help you.

00:21:14Oh, I thought Dr. Arnold said that the natives were angry with us outsiders.

00:21:18The tribe considers Orchid an outcast.

00:21:20She's the girl I got for you.

00:21:22And, being an outcast, she's not subject to tribal law.

00:21:25Her mother was a native, but her father was Dutch.

00:21:28When her parents died, she was raised by Reverend Cameron, the missionary.

00:21:31You want these bags now, Dr. Mason?

00:21:32Oh, yes, please.

00:21:33Thanks, Eddie.

00:21:34Come along, dearie.

00:21:36Oh, Terry.

00:21:39Yes.

00:21:41I'm glad you stayed.

00:21:48Thanks.

00:22:12I hope that you like it, dear.

00:22:14Oh, it's very nice.

00:22:15I'm sure I will.

00:22:16Orchid, this is Dr. Mason.

00:22:18Hello, Orchid.

00:22:20Eddie, I wonder if you can take me back to my quarters.

00:22:22I'd be glad to, Mrs. Kilgore.

00:22:24Oh, wait a minute, Meg.

00:22:29Mustn't forget that perfume I promised you.

00:22:31Oh, thanks, dearie.

00:22:33Eddie, we'd better be going.

00:22:35See you later.

00:22:36Oh.

00:22:51Why do they call you, Orchid?

00:22:53Because they say I'm wild, like our flowers.

00:22:57I'm glad that they seek me to be your servant.

00:23:00Maybe I can earn money to go to other islands.

00:23:03Yeah, they will not care that I'm an outcast.

00:23:07Then maybe I will marry.

00:23:09Are you married?

00:23:10No.

00:23:11Well, perhaps if I were, I may not have come here.

00:23:15Orchid, how do you come to speak such good English?

00:23:18The Reverend Cameron taught me how.

00:23:20He's been like a father to me.

00:23:22You certainly learned it well.

00:23:26You know, I think we'll get along fine.

00:23:44Terry, are you ready?

00:23:47I thought I'd show you around the lab before, uh, lunch.

00:23:51Hey, you're early.

00:23:53I see you're enjoying our, uh, luxury.

00:23:56Oh, it was wonderful.

00:23:59I'll be over as soon as I'm dressed.

00:24:02Okay.

00:24:24Orgu.

00:24:27I'm glad to see you.

00:24:29After Tano's orders forbidding the natives to come here, I thought I'd never see you again.

00:24:33I was Kimo's best friend.

00:24:35I think the same way he did.

00:24:37But you have come to help our people.

00:24:40Tano could do nothing for my wife, Dorey.

00:24:42He does not know how to fight the plague sickness, nor the marks on her face.

00:24:46Dorey, sit here.

00:24:53Ah, your face shows improvement.

00:24:56You are healing her, doctor.

00:24:58Others in the village know you have chased away the evil spirits with your medicine.

00:25:02No, agu, this plague is very serious.

00:25:04Talk to as many of your people as you dare and get them to come here for treatment in spite

00:25:08of the danger.

00:25:08Tano has no medicine to cure the plague.

00:25:11There are many who do not trust you since Kimo's father died, doctor.

00:25:14But it was Tano who gave him the poison medicine.

00:25:17Kimo said that, too, before they killed him.

00:25:20I believe it, but others do not.

00:25:31Well, Dr. Mason.

00:25:36This is Dorey.

00:25:37I'd like you to look at her.

00:25:39She's recovering from the plague, but seems to have suffered a slight radiation burn also.

00:25:44Had she a history of jungle rot or dermatitis before the fallout came?

00:25:47She had a history of eczema.

00:25:48It seemed to be almost cured before the fallout landed here.

00:25:53Before the former chief died and his son was killed, the natives came to us for treatment.

00:25:57However, the new chief, Maranka, and his witch doctor, Tano, forbid the natives to come here.

00:26:01Those who do are taking their lives in their hands.

00:26:04From the look of the scar tissue, it seems to be responding to your treatment.

00:26:09Terry, you specialize in dermatology and the removal of excessive scar tissue.

00:26:14Have you any ideas?

00:26:15It would help our situation here with the natives if we could speed up her recovery.

00:26:18Terry.

00:26:19Let's try Formula X-37.

00:26:21We had some good results on Bucu with it.

00:26:24We can begin treatment as soon as the supplies are unpacked.

00:26:27Terry, I hear that your group on Bucu rebuilt human tissue destroyed by jungle rot.

00:26:32Yes, we had some luck, I guess.

00:26:34Let's hope your luck holds out.

00:26:36Dorey, come back tomorrow.

00:26:38We'll try Dr. Mason's new medicine.

00:26:39I will bring her.

00:26:42I'm glad you have confidence in Dr. Arnold Norgue.

00:26:45He is a good man.

00:26:46Not evil like Tano.

00:26:49Come, Dorey.

00:26:53Our progress with these natives is very slow, Terry.

00:26:56Their superstitions are so deep-rooted.

00:26:58Yes, I know.

00:27:00Well, where's that lunch you promised me?

00:27:04You're looking at the best French chef on this island.

00:27:08And, uh, wait until you taste his coffee.

00:27:26It was for you that I helped kill Kimo, my husband.

00:27:31And since he died, the fire of your love has grown cold.

00:27:36I could never have a traitor like you as my wife.

00:27:39Get out of here.

00:27:42I know that you make those poison darts to kill the Americans.

00:27:47You are afraid of them.

00:27:50You throw me out so that you can make love to Naomi.

00:27:57You've come from her hut many times.

00:28:07I picked the poison berries for you.

00:28:09We have enough, Naomi.

00:28:12We will go now.

00:28:21This could be for you.

00:28:23Just as easily as for the Americans.

00:28:30For the Americans.

00:28:53You're welcome.

00:29:02Here you are, Terry.

00:29:07Nature's own flower shop.

00:29:09Orchids, hibiscus, you name them, we have them.

00:29:16Thanks, Bill.

00:29:18It's very lovely.

00:29:23Almost as lovely as you are.

00:29:28I'm going to fill your head every morning with jungle flowers.

00:29:32That's one of the advantages of living in this primitive area.

00:29:37You can give your girl a fortune in flowers.

00:29:41And it doesn't cost a cent.

00:29:52Here you are.

00:30:09Terry.

00:30:11Bill, dear.

00:30:13I'm not your girl.

00:30:14Or anybody's girl.

00:30:16Why do you have to be so stubborn?

00:30:18Why don't you admit you love me?

00:30:20Then, when Reverend Cameron comes back, he can marry us and we can go back to the States and live

00:30:24like normal people.

00:30:27Depends on what you call normal.

00:30:29Being cooped up in a stuffy apartment, having my ears blasted by rock and roll music, isn't my idea of

00:30:35normal.

00:30:36Rock and roll? Where do you hear the native drums?

00:30:39They'll really rock you.

00:30:43Terry, what do you want out of life?

00:30:46Do you want to go from one assignment to another out here on the islands like the professor?

00:30:50Do you want to go through life alone?

00:30:54Don't you want a husband?

00:30:56Children?

00:30:57Like other women?

00:31:09You do love me, don't you?

00:31:13Admit it.

00:31:15I don't love you.

00:31:17Then why'd you kiss me back?

00:31:21I don't know.

00:31:26My metabolism.

00:31:29It was unconscious, involuntary.

00:31:32Terry, will you stop being a doctor first and a woman second?

00:31:35Let your emotions rule you, not your intellect.

00:31:39Bill, I live by my intellect and reason.

00:31:43If I let my emotions run away, I wouldn't be any good in my work.

00:32:03Bill, isn't that the native cemetery that Orchard was telling me about?

00:32:08That's where they buried Kimo.

00:32:09Oh, the one Mrs. Kilgore saw murdered, the one with the knife in his heart.

00:32:15His grave should be somewhere over there.

00:32:19I'd like to see it.

00:32:22Oh, it's taboo territory.

00:32:25Uh-huh.

00:32:27Well, who's afraid of the local medicine man?

00:32:32Well, it's strange.

00:32:43That odd-looking stump.

00:32:45It seems to be breaking the ground around the grave.

00:32:50Could it be a growth from the roots of another tree?

00:32:54I don't know.

00:32:58We'd better get Clark out here to look at it.

00:33:00He's an expert on jungle trees and plants.

00:33:12Well, it isn't very likely that a tree or a stump of one would sprout out of a grave.

00:33:17You'd have to penetrate a six-foot coffin.

00:33:20Orchard says Kimo was buried in the six-foot coffin.

00:33:23Could a tree trunk grow out of a coffin?

00:33:25Who knows?

00:33:26Science doesn't have all the answers yet.

00:33:28It's probably a malformed growth of a tropical bush.

00:33:31Nothing particularly unusual about that.

00:33:33Professor, that's not a bush.

00:33:36No, it's a tree, all right.

00:33:38Don't tell me that matured stumps come ready-made from the ground.

00:33:41Next thing you know...

00:33:43Hello, Narku.

00:33:49Narku, what is it?

00:33:51Kimo's curse has come through.

00:33:54Spirit returns from the grave.

00:33:56You mean this?

00:33:58Yes.

00:33:59Narku, I thought you didn't believe in that witch doctor, Hocus Pocus.

00:34:03I have heard of stories like this from my grandfather, who was storyteller of the tribe.

00:34:07No, you mean it's a legend, a made-up story.

00:34:09No!

00:34:11No, it's the truth.

00:34:14Years ago, one of our great chiefs was murdered by his enemies.

00:34:19He was buried with seeds.

00:34:22Came back to life as a tree monster.

00:34:26Tree monster?

00:34:28Oh, now, Narku, I know about cannibalistic flowers, but this tree monster is utterly unbelievable.

00:34:34Oh, Dr. Mason, you are a wise lady, but there are many things even the wisest of us do not

00:34:40know.

00:34:42This tree monster was torn loose from the ground by a bolt of lightning.

00:34:48It roamed the island, killed many people.

00:34:53They called it Tabanga.

00:34:58Tabanga, what does that mean?

00:35:00Creature of revenge.

00:35:02What happened to this monster?

00:35:05It just disappeared one day.

00:35:07It never came back.

00:35:09Some say it walked into the quicksand at the edge of the forest.

00:35:13No one knew for sure.

00:35:19I just came from Mrs. Kilgore by way of the cemetery.

00:35:23I happened to pass Kimo's grave.

00:35:26There's a strange growth from the ground.

00:35:29It has a ceremonial dagger in its heart.

00:35:32See?

00:35:32Kimo's coming back.

00:35:34It looks so terrible, with green stuff coming from it.

00:35:38Like green blood from a dying man.

00:35:41Well, obviously, there's something there.

00:35:43We'd better go and investigate it.

00:35:46You're right, Howard.

00:35:47There isn't a regular heartbeat.

00:35:49Terry, give me the reading.

00:35:52This tallies with the lateral pulse.

00:35:54It's a human heartbeat.

00:35:57What do you make of that green ooze?

00:36:00Probably the equivalent of blood, the stuff that keeps it alive.

00:36:03Let's take a sample.

00:36:09Stand back.

00:36:11Geiger reading is high on 65.

00:36:14Radioactive materials in this thing.

00:36:16The Tabanga will soon remove itself from the ground.

00:36:20You mean this wooden zombie is going to uproot itself from the earth?

00:36:23Your grandfather must have been quite a storyteller.

00:36:26Please, Professor.

00:36:28If this one is like the other Tabanga, you must destroy it at once.

00:36:31I beg you, pull up the root so it will die before it murders everyone.

00:36:37Maybe you could throw it into the quicksand at the edge of the forest.

00:36:40Norgue, what you fear is scientifically impossible.

00:36:44You know what?

00:36:46I have an eerie feeling that this thing knows what we're saying.

00:37:12Professor, this is the reply from your message to Washington.

00:37:17Request you remove growth.

00:37:18Make thorough laboratory analysis.

00:37:20Have Arnold and Mason determine the influence of radiation, if any.

00:37:24Radio detailed report.

00:37:25Mail photos as soon as possible.

00:37:27Faulkner.

00:37:28Well, that's that.

00:37:30Better get busy.

00:37:31Thank you, Eddie.

00:37:33Well, the first thing to do is go out and dig up the monster and bring it to the lab.

00:37:36That won't be easy.

00:37:38The roots probably go quite deep.

00:37:40Yeah, we'll probably have to sever each root at soil level and seal it with stitches.

00:37:44I imagine the natives are in an uproar.

00:37:46Like Norgue, they probably feel the monster is another Tabanga.

00:37:49If moving that monster violates another tribal law, we'll be in for it.

00:37:53You know, we're greatly outnumbered here that could easily overpower us.

00:37:56And don't forget what Norgue said about it being taboo for strangers to go near the Tabanga.

00:38:00Well, I say let's get started.

00:38:03And I say let's throw it in the quicksands and forget about it.

00:38:05Well, they blame us for everything as it is.

00:38:07This could be the final straw.

00:38:08Where's your scientific curiosity, doctor?

00:38:11Anyway, Washington wants us to investigate it.

00:38:13So let's take a risk and see what happens.

00:38:15Professor, Bill is worried about me.

00:38:19Now, look, Bill, I can handle a gun if the occasion arises.

00:38:24Remember, we're both working for the Foundation.

00:38:27Well, I see I'm outvoted.

00:38:30All right, if you people feel like chopping wood, I don't mind a little exercise.

00:38:35Let's go get the chop.

00:38:41Norgue has disobeyed the taboo with the Americans.

00:38:44He must die with them.

00:38:45Norgue has many friends in the tribe.

00:38:48We must be careful.

00:38:49I say he must die.

00:38:52In good time.

00:38:59First, I will spread this powerful medicine at the base of the new Tabanga.

00:39:05It will go to the roots.

00:39:08Tabanga will become my servant and will kill when I tell it to.

00:39:15Norgue will be his victim.

00:39:23I will place the medicine on the Tabanga.

00:39:26It's the fourth day after two full moons.

00:39:30So has the spirit told me.

00:39:35You will remember, Tarno.

00:39:38Corey must also die.

00:39:47Norgue.

00:39:49Isn't this Corey, the wife of your dead friend, Kimo?

00:39:52You are Chief Maranka's woman.

00:39:54What do you come here for?

00:39:55He no longer loves me.

00:39:57He will take Naomi to be his wife.

00:40:00Corey, are you trying to tell us something?

00:40:02Yes.

00:40:03Tarno and Maranka are planning to kill all of you.

00:40:06Also Norgue.

00:40:07You're breaking the Chief's taboo by coming here.

00:40:10Isn't that true?

00:40:10I know it.

00:40:12And yet you came here to warn us?

00:40:13Yes.

00:40:15How do we know this isn't some kind of trick?

00:40:17You do not trust me.

00:40:19I don't blame you.

00:40:21Did Norgue tell you that I betrayed Kimo and caused his death?

00:40:25No.

00:40:25Norgue said nothing about that.

00:40:27They are evil.

00:40:28Tarno and Maranka.

00:40:30Both of them.

00:40:30They want to become gods of the island.

00:40:33That is why they want to drive you out.

00:40:36And all others who stand in their way.

00:40:39Are you in their way as we are?

00:40:41Yes.

00:40:41They want to kill me too.

00:40:44Please let me stay here with you.

00:40:46And do you think we can trust her, Norgue?

00:40:50You can trust Corey.

00:40:52Even though she lied once.

00:40:54I think now she tells the truth.

00:40:56All right.

00:40:56You can stay here with Orchid.

00:40:58You'd better get Dory and stay in the compound too.

00:41:02Monster must be uprooted and brought here tonight.

00:41:11Make as little noise as possible if you don't want to alert the natives.

00:41:15Bill, you dig there.

00:41:17Terry, you and I will sever the roots as he closes them.

00:41:20Hold the light with you, Eddie.

00:41:21No, no.

00:41:25Yes.

00:41:34Go home, don't you?

00:41:35Man.

00:41:35Bill, bill.

00:41:40Bill.

00:41:41Ball.

00:41:42Bill.

00:41:44Bill.

00:41:54The pulse beat is almost human.

00:41:57Maybe we ought to ship it back to the States.

00:41:59Make a great scarecrow.

00:42:00Reminds me of a chemistry prop I had at med school.

00:42:04Bill, during the operation, your arm accidentally brushed the knife in its heart.

00:42:08Oh, I didn't notice.

00:42:09I could have sworn it moved.

00:42:11Almost as if it were in pain.

00:42:20The pulse is weak.

00:42:22It's dying.

00:42:29The pulse is getting weaker.

00:42:31It's dying on us.

00:42:33Probably a stoppage in the circulation somewhere.

00:42:36Maybe a clot in the aorta.

00:42:37Well, we've done everything we can.

00:42:39There's nothing more we can do.

00:42:41Looks as if it'll stop beating altogether in a few minutes.

00:42:43Good. I'm all for throwing it in the quicksand. Let it return to its ancestors.

00:42:47Couldn't we try to energize the adrenal gland with an electrode resistor?

00:42:50How much energy would you need?

00:42:52I've read of experiments where they use 750 amps and 1,000 volts.

00:42:56Our generators can't give us that much power.

00:42:58Look, why keep this freak of nature alive?

00:43:01Your interest in it is morbid.

00:43:04Bill, it's purely scientific.

00:43:06And if you weren't so concerned with your natives and their silly taboos, you'd be helping us, not standing by

00:43:11doing nothing.

00:43:12I know it.

00:43:13Why don't we psychoanalyze the monster?

00:43:15Maybe its mother was scared by an oak tree.

00:43:17No, Bill.

00:43:18Why won't you be serious?

00:43:20Look, Terry.

00:43:22We came down here to treat people with a plague.

00:43:25And those may be suffering from atomic fallout.

00:43:27I'm no tree surgeon.

00:43:29Does this mean you two geniuses can't figure out the answer?

00:43:32Oh, I've got the answer.

00:43:34Let's pack our frozen-faced friend in a box and send it back to Dr. Faulkner.

00:43:37Maybe he can use it in his office as a clothes tree.

00:43:40Case closed.

00:43:54You two may consider this case closed, but this is an entirely new species of life.

00:43:59And as long as there's life in it, I'm going to work on it.

00:44:03Formula 447, is this something you've been working on at Baku?

00:44:06I've experimented with monkeys and parrots who've been exposed to a dangerous amount of radiation.

00:44:11This formula has achieved miraculous results in recreating hard action.

00:44:15Have you experimented with human beings?

00:44:18I'm afraid I'm years away from that phase of the work, Bill.

00:44:21It works very slowly. It takes several hours to show any effect.

00:44:26I want to try some on our wooden friend here.

00:44:29I have a few hundred cc's right with me.

00:44:32What do you think, Bill?

00:44:34Well, the monster's almost dead.

00:44:37Terry wants to waste her time on it. It's all right with me.

00:44:40Thanks. Will you help me with an intravenous injection?

00:44:44You've never experimented with anything this large before.

00:44:47Would you like to check your calculations?

00:44:50There isn't time. The thing's dying.

00:44:52We have to trust my calculations. It's now or never.

00:44:54All right, all right. We'll do it just the way you want to.

00:44:56Thank you, Dr. Arnold.

00:44:58Now will you hook up the IV bottle while I mix the formula?

00:45:01I will be delighted.

00:45:09The pulse is the same.

00:45:11No stronger, no weaker.

00:45:14The bottle's almost empty.

00:45:17Want me to take the tube out?

00:45:19Yes, thanks, Bill.

00:45:21Well, what do we do now, Terry? Sit up with the dying patient?

00:45:25No, I don't think that'll be necessary.

00:45:28My experiments show it requires at least eight hours for the formula to take effect.

00:45:33We might as well all get a good night's sleep and meet here at six o'clock in the morning.

00:45:37That I hardly approve of.

00:45:39Six o'clock?

00:45:40Six o'clock.

00:45:40Let's go.

00:46:14Let's go.

00:46:41Let's go.

00:47:16Let's go.

00:47:19Let's go.

00:47:38Let's go.

00:47:58Let's go.

00:48:05Let's go.

00:48:08Let's go.

00:48:10I guess you're right, Professor.

00:48:13Holy mackerel.

00:48:15You know, I know this sounds crazy, but maybe the tabanga is for real.

00:48:22And if it is, we're gonna need help.

00:48:26Eddie.

00:48:28Radio Bucu.

00:48:34Doc!

00:48:36Professor!

00:48:43Professor!

00:48:45Does this mean we're cut off from communication from the outside?

00:48:49I know.

00:49:10I know.

00:49:32I know.

00:49:37I know.

00:49:39I know.

00:49:40I know.

00:49:41I know.

00:49:53I know.

00:49:59I know.

00:50:05I know.

00:50:07I know.

00:50:21I know.

00:50:25I know.

00:50:26I know.

00:50:38You've been hiding from me a long time.

00:50:41I've been waiting for this chance.

00:50:45You've stolen my man.

00:50:47Now you must die.

00:51:13I know.

00:51:14I know.

00:51:21I know.

00:51:28I know.

00:51:29I know.

00:51:31I know.

00:51:32I know.

00:51:33I know.

00:51:34I know.

00:51:35I know.

00:51:36I know.

00:51:37I know.

00:51:40I know.

00:51:42I know.

00:51:43Oh, my God.

00:52:21Oh, my God.

00:52:43Oh, my God.

00:52:45Help!

00:52:46Help!

00:52:48Help me!

00:52:51Please, help!

00:52:52Help!

00:52:54Help!

00:52:57Help!

00:52:59Help!

00:53:02Help!

00:53:06Help!

00:53:07Help!

00:53:08Help!

00:53:15I just saw the Tabanga.

00:53:18Well, how did you know it was Tabanga?

00:53:19Because it looked like a tree.

00:53:22It had eyes and hands.

00:53:24And the knife was still in its heart like Kimo's.

00:53:31Do you have many love?

00:53:33I'm only calming a fright.

00:53:35She said she had seen the Tabanga.

00:53:38Where did you see it?

00:53:39In the forest near the quicksand.

00:53:42Are you sure it was the Tabanga?

00:53:43I swear it.

00:53:45We'll soon find out.

00:53:46We will go to the cemetery.

00:54:09This is dangerous.

00:54:11The Tabanga's been taken out.

00:54:13It was the Americans.

00:54:15They cut the roots to free the Tabanga.

00:54:17It will kill us all.

00:54:18Not if we kill it first.

00:54:21We'll have our bravest men hunted down and kill it.

00:54:23As long as the Tabanga's free, we are all in danger.

00:54:26After the Tabanga dies, then the Americans die.

00:54:30Come, take me to where you saw the Tabanga.

00:54:50The car is gone.

00:54:52This is where I left her.

00:54:54See?

00:54:54There's her knife.

00:54:58See?

00:54:59This is Corey's too.

00:55:08The Tabanga must have thrown Corey in the quicksand.

00:55:10We must find the Tabanga.

00:55:28The Tabanga has thrown men.hana.

00:55:34There's

00:55:35no Stay. The Tabanga

00:55:53will be too厲害.

00:55:55Go!

00:56:23Where's Morocco?

00:56:24Killed by the Tobongo.

00:56:26Cano, why didn't you destroy the Tobongo with medicine?

00:56:30Before I could get to it, the Americans had cut the roots and given it freedom.

00:56:34Now the evil spirits in the Tobongo are too strong and must be killed.

00:56:38Hurry, we have no time to waste.

00:56:39Margaret, what's wrong?

00:56:49I just came from the village, but the Bongo is not dead.

00:56:52That can't be.

00:56:54Tobongo came to the village and killed Maranka.

00:56:57Does anybody know where the Tobongo is now?

00:56:59Tano and his men are looking for it.

00:57:06What is it?

00:57:09The monster's still alive.

00:57:11I knew my formula would work. I was right, Professor, wasn't I?

00:57:15Yes, but I'm not sure how right I was to let you go ahead with it.

00:57:18Orchid reports that Tobongo's killed the chief.

00:57:20Oh, no. I... I just wanted it to live. Not to destroy.

00:57:26Don't blame yourself, Terry. The radiation dormant in the monster must have set off a chain reaction.

00:57:32We've got to stop that monster before there's any more killing.

00:57:36Isn't it strange that of all the natives on the island, the monster got Maranka?

00:57:40The Tobongo has a spirit of revenge. It killed Corey, Kimo's widow.

00:57:46We've got to help these people.

00:57:48It is dangerous for you to go.

00:57:50Tano blames you for taking the Tobongo from the ground.

00:57:53Orchid's right. With the Tobongo running amok, they'll kill anything in sight.

00:57:58Are the guns loaded?

00:58:01No.

00:58:19Tony! We've set our trap well.

00:58:22Now we must be certain that Tobongo will fall into this pit.

00:58:25We know that Tobongo has threatened three lives.

00:58:28Corey's, Maranka's, and mine.

00:58:31So I'm the next one he would kill.

00:58:34Therefore, I'm the bait that must lead him to the trap.

00:58:38Marco, climb a tree. Signal me when you see it coming. I'll stand here.

00:58:40The rest of you stand behind the trees.

00:59:20Tobongo comes. Tobongo comes.

00:59:41I'll be right back.

00:59:42Come on.

00:59:44Go.

00:59:45Go.

00:59:53Go.

00:59:58Go.

01:00:00Go.

01:00:01Go.

01:00:03Go.

01:00:04Go.

01:00:05Go.

01:00:07Go.

01:00:08Go.

01:00:09Go.

01:00:10Go.

01:00:21Now!

01:00:50Sabonga will die.

01:01:12Now!

01:02:04Wait a minute, Doc.

01:02:05This may be trouble.

01:02:07Eddie.

01:02:09See who's at the door.

01:02:10We're ready to shoot.

01:02:12Yes, sir.

01:02:16Well, what do you want?

01:02:17Come quick.

01:02:18Please help us.

01:02:19We cannot kill the Tobunga.

01:02:21We burned Tobunga with a mighty fire.

01:02:23But it didn't help.

01:02:24It came out alive.

01:02:26Please come before it kills us all.

01:02:28Do you know where the Tobunga is now?

01:02:30Good.

01:02:31You two wait outside.

01:02:47All right.

01:02:51All of you are alive.

01:02:52I thought I'd never see you again.

01:02:54When Oki told me about that horrible monster running amok, I didn't dare leave my house.

01:02:58An hour ago, the natives ran past the house screaming and jabbering about the monster.

01:03:03They said it was on the prowl.

01:03:06You two girls stay here.

01:03:07It's safer.

01:03:07Oh, no.

01:03:08I'm going with you.

01:03:10I won't stay here alone for a minute with you men going.

01:03:13What if that horrible thing came back?

01:03:15She's right.

01:03:16Obviously, locked doors mean nothing to the monster.

01:03:19Well, I can't keep you back if you insist on tagging along.

01:03:22Bring a gun for me, Eddie.

01:03:25I don't know how to shoot one of the blooming things, but I ought to feel safer with one also.

01:03:30Make it two, Eddie.

01:04:16Eddie, we should be able to pick up its trail if we can find any of that green ooze.

01:04:19I'll keep my eyes open, Doc.

01:04:42I'll keep my eyes open, Doc.

01:04:58I'll keep my eyes open for you.

01:04:59That's what you want to understand that it's an exchange for a few.

01:05:01Very small, very uninterrupted.

01:05:04I'll give them some matching lint.

01:05:09Not that all in life doesn't have pleasures on it.

01:05:12Particularly with such a charming gentleman,

01:05:14as the professor taught me.

01:05:16I know you should buy socks.

01:05:18But I have to buy socks.

01:05:41And I've looked for that green news everywhere.

01:05:45Everywhere I can see.

01:05:47And I haven't seen a sign of it.

01:05:49I never would have thought of such a thing from chemo.

01:05:52The lighting center, will you?

01:05:54I know you should buy socks.

01:05:56But I'll have to buy something like that.

01:05:58Emo and I had a baby in the car.

01:06:00Of course, he was much taller than I.

01:06:02But there's something about a tall man that I...

01:06:04Well, I don't know.

01:06:05You look it up at him and he looks down at you.

01:06:07And I don't know.

01:06:08You just go on like that indefinitely.

01:06:23All I want is very pleasant.

01:06:25But there's nothing like a good pub.

01:06:27There you sit with the gentleman every evening, Ricky.

01:06:35I don't know.

01:06:36Help!

01:06:37Help!

01:06:38What was that?

01:06:39It came from behind us.

01:06:46Where's Terry?

01:06:46I don't know.

01:06:47I was talking to her.

01:06:48And all of a sudden, poof, she disappeared.

01:06:50You think that blooming monster got hold of her?

01:06:52We've got to find her.

01:06:53Let's go back.

01:06:54Come on.

01:07:22Help!

01:07:41Come on.

01:07:42Down there.

01:07:59It's Terry.

01:08:04You're the best shot, Eddie.

01:08:06If you've got enough light to see, this moonlight's good enough.

01:08:09All right.

01:08:11Try for that knife.

01:08:13Maybe if you can hit that knife with a bullet, it'll drive it clear through the monster's heart.

01:08:16No!

01:08:27It has to turn to give me a crack at that knife, Doc.

01:08:29Fire a few shots, maybe it'll turn around.

01:08:37No effect on it at all.

01:08:39Try again.

01:08:40I'll aim above her.

01:08:44Doc, I never saw anything like this.

01:08:46Those bullets bounce off like BB shot on a stone wall.

01:08:48That knife's our only chance.

01:09:02Now!

01:09:04Now!

01:09:34There we go.

01:09:35Oh, Bill.

01:09:51We know now American magic is better.

01:09:54Maybe we need new medicine maker to replace Tonto.

01:09:57Will you be our witch doctor?

01:09:59Maybe for a little while, McCrew.

01:10:01Then perhaps we can teach some of your people.

01:10:04Oh, Professor Clark, that was ever so thrilling.

01:10:08And isn't it nice that you and the Niners can be friends again?

01:10:21Yes, it looks like a honeymoon and back to the States for them.

01:10:27By the way, Professor, I never asked you, are you married?

01:10:33No.

01:10:37It's not this bad place...

01:10:38No, Nick.

01:10:45It's not this bad place.

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