The Stranger from Planet X (1951) is a classic science fiction thriller filled with mystery, suspense, and otherworldly danger. Set against a tense and mysterious atmosphere, the film follows a strange visitor from another world and the events that unfold after its arrival on Earth.
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00:00:00The End
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00:01:40I don't know if she's still alive or not.
00:01:42They've had her now for the past 24 hours.
00:01:45I'm equally uncertain as to the fate of her father, Professor Elliot.
00:01:49Both are probably dead.
00:01:52The odds are 100 to 1, I too, will be finished before another sun rises.
00:01:55But tonight I'm going to try to fight for my life
00:01:59and those larger issues so perilously at stake affecting all mankind.
00:02:06If I fail, it seems most likely the consequences to humanity defy the imagination.
00:02:14As the only trained reporter who has been in a position to observe the terror from its inception
00:02:20and as one of the few living humans who has actually met face to face,
00:02:25a man from planet X,
00:02:29I will try to set down the strangest story a newspaper man ever covered.
00:02:36It began prosaically enough in a college observatory not far from Los Angeles.
00:02:43What is it?
00:02:46A new planet.
00:02:47For want of another name, at present we identified as Planet X.
00:02:51It was first spotted some weeks ago rushing out of space.
00:02:56Is this the reason Professor Elliot wired me to contact you?
00:02:59Have you known the Professor Long?
00:03:00Yeah, I was with the Eighth Air Force in England.
00:03:03The Professor was our chief meteorologist doping out weather for bomber raids.
00:03:07The British lent him to us.
00:03:09Good man, Elliot.
00:03:10Oh, the best.
00:03:11He and I became fast friends.
00:03:13He always said if he ever ran across anything of real importance,
00:03:16he'd give me a crack at it.
00:03:18He used to think he was kidding, but I guess not.
00:03:21No, I guess not.
00:03:24What's it all about, Doctor?
00:03:25The world, Mr. Lawrence, is now experiencing strange astronomical phenomena.
00:03:30Reports have come in from all over the globe of inexplicable objects being sighted in the sky.
00:03:35Surely you're not telling me a scientist like yourself believes such nonsense.
00:03:39No, I'm not telling you that.
00:03:41Well, then on what evidence do you base your statement?
00:03:45Unquestionable reports of trained observers.
00:03:48At first, this phenomenon seemed to have no particular focal point.
00:03:52It appeared at random here and there about the world.
00:03:57But about six weeks ago,
00:03:59tremendous concentration was detected over a certain section of the earth.
00:04:03In particular, it's barren and isolated area.
00:04:08Burry?
00:04:10Yes. What do you know about it?
00:04:12Well, nothing much except that this cablegram I got from Professor Elliot came from there.
00:04:17It says, uh, if you remember my promise for exclusive story,
00:04:21see Dr. Robert Blaine at University Observatory.
00:04:23Signed, Elliot.
00:04:25Strange waves.
00:04:28Resembling, but still not radar waves, have been bouncing off the earth.
00:04:32Coming from someplace outside, like the moon or Mars, for instance?
00:04:36Originating on some sphere outside.
00:04:38But not the moon or Mars, any known planet.
00:04:41Well, where does this planet X fit in?
00:04:44What's it rushing towards?
00:04:45The earth.
00:04:47You mean, you mean it's likely to collide with us?
00:04:50No, at least not a headlong collision.
00:04:53Oh, well, we've had these things before, like, uh, Halley's Comet, for instance, to name one.
00:04:58None which have come as close to our world as this one is expected to.
00:05:02In the next three weeks, if our calculations are correct.
00:05:05You, uh, think something will happen?
00:05:08I wish I knew exactly.
00:05:10At the best, atmospheric disturbances, hurricanes, probably tidal waves.
00:05:15And at the worst?
00:05:21Where does Professor Elliot fit in?
00:05:23He discovered the planet.
00:05:24Oh, is that why he's in Bury?
00:05:25If he's correct in his deductions, this isolated island is that part of the world the new planet will come
00:05:31closest to.
00:05:32Oh, gee, it sort of makes cold fingers run down my spine.
00:05:35How about you?
00:05:39Uh, this is not visible to the naked eye.
00:05:43Not yet.
00:05:46How do I get to Bury?
00:05:55Here you are, sir.
00:05:57This is Bury.
00:05:59Uh, do you know Professor Elliot?
00:06:01Aye, I've seen him once or twice.
00:06:04Where is he staying, do you know?
00:06:06Up at the Brock.
00:06:07Good evening, dear, sir.
00:06:08Well, hey, wait a minute.
00:06:17Mr. Lawrence.
00:06:19Hello.
00:06:20Sorry, I was late.
00:06:20I had a little motor trouble.
00:06:22Well, better late than never.
00:06:23Put your things in the back.
00:06:24All right, thanks.
00:06:32All set?
00:06:33Yeah, drive on, McDuff.
00:06:47Home's getting thicker.
00:06:49It's always worse on the moors than it is in the village.
00:06:54You don't remember me, do you?
00:06:56Well, I...
00:06:57Now, isn't that a fine example of how unfaithful men are?
00:07:00The last time I saw you, I got your solemn promise that when I grew up, I could be your
00:07:04girl.
00:07:05Good heavens, heen it, Elliot.
00:07:07Well, I...
00:07:07It took you long enough to recognize me.
00:07:10You know, the last time I saw you, you were crying because you had to go back to school.
00:07:13All gawky legs and butt teeth.
00:07:16I see you do remember me.
00:07:18Braces took care of the teeth.
00:07:19And, uh, nature took care of the legs.
00:07:21I hadn't thought you'd notice.
00:07:23There's a newspaper man in me.
00:07:25What a difference six years make.
00:07:27I don't think you've changed.
00:07:29Well, thank you kindly.
00:07:29Or should I thank you kindly?
00:07:49Thanks.
00:07:50Yeah.
00:07:53Hey.
00:07:54What did all this?
00:07:56Bombs?
00:07:57About the time.
00:07:58It's been this way for centuries.
00:08:00Whoever built this tower up here at the end of nowhere?
00:08:03They call these towers rocks.
00:08:05Originally built, local legend has it as a defense against the Viking raiders.
00:08:11Well, come on.
00:08:14As of midnight, the 13th of September, 1950, is as follows.
00:08:19John.
00:08:20Professor, it's good to see you.
00:08:21And you, my lad, and you.
00:08:23There's a cozy little place you have here.
00:08:25Serves its purpose.
00:08:26Oh, uh, you remember Dr. Mears, by any chance?
00:08:30Mr. Lawrence has forgotten.
00:08:32I forgive him.
00:08:34I doubt if he ever expected to see my face again.
00:08:39Frankly, I hadn't given it much thought.
00:08:41John and I are starved.
00:08:42I suppose you and Dr. Mears have already eaten.
00:08:44Yes, we had a bite.
00:08:45Take him down into the kitchen, my dear, and fix yourself something.
00:08:48It's just a tiny place right underneath here.
00:08:50Home is where the pantry is.
00:08:52Isn't that so?
00:08:53That's right.
00:08:53Come along.
00:08:58Here, let us continue.
00:09:021950, is as follows.
00:09:07When I like and talent for cookery, I make up in speed.
00:09:11But I really do brew a fine cup of tea.
00:09:13Well, I hope so.
00:09:15How many of these rooms are there?
00:09:17This one's mine.
00:09:19And there's another one under this.
00:09:20Dr. Mears occupies it.
00:09:21No, thanks.
00:09:21You have some.
00:09:24Hey, uh, how on earth does he happen to be here?
00:09:27Oh, you know, Father, soft-hearted as a sponge.
00:09:30Mears dropped in on us, uh, two weeks ago.
00:09:32Pleaded he was ill and broke, and jolly well looked it, too.
00:09:35And because he was one of Father's old students.
00:09:37So he's here.
00:09:39Hmm.
00:09:40Just, uh, dropped in?
00:09:41Mm-hmm.
00:09:44People don't just drop in here.
00:09:46A place on the edge of the world.
00:09:47I heard he was somewhere in Scotland.
00:09:49He's been in seclusion since that trouble he got into.
00:09:52I feel sort of sorry for him.
00:09:54No, you needn't.
00:09:55He should have gotten 20 years.
00:09:57He did go to prison for a while, didn't he?
00:09:59I was just a kid then.
00:10:02I trust I'm not disturbing you, Mr. Lawrence.
00:10:05Professor Elliot would like to see you upstairs.
00:10:07You go ahead, John.
00:10:08I'll be up in a minute, as soon as I put away these dishes.
00:10:11All right.
00:10:27Didn't interrupt you before you'd finished, did I?
00:10:29No.
00:10:29I was just having some tea.
00:10:30Where's Mears?
00:10:31Well, I thought he was behind me.
00:10:33Oh, must have gone to his room.
00:10:35I called you to take a look at our mysterious visitor
00:10:38before we lose her for the night.
00:10:40Good.
00:10:41Fogs rolling in off the moors.
00:10:45Go ahead, John.
00:10:57It's triple in size.
00:10:59It grows larger, nightly.
00:11:06Well, what do you think, Professor?
00:11:09I think, uh, I'll just have to wait and see on the 17th.
00:11:29Stray dogs.
00:11:31Eerie place, these moors.
00:11:33They're wet, too.
00:11:34Yet they have a grim beauty of their own.
00:11:37That hot tea you drank should have warmed you nicely.
00:11:40Is that why the British drink so much of it?
00:11:42The climate?
00:11:42And because we like it.
00:11:45Hello, lightning.
00:11:46Storm brewing.
00:11:48I've heard that one may tell how distant a storm is
00:11:50by the number of seconds between the lightning and the thunder.
00:11:53True?
00:11:54Well, let's see.
00:11:55One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
00:12:05Must be in Chicago.
00:12:06No thunder.
00:12:07No static electricity, maybe.
00:12:09This time of view?
00:12:11Say, how's the view from the top of the rise?
00:12:13Pretty, if there's anything to be seen.
00:12:15Well, I'm sure of that.
00:12:25The village is over there, but the fog's too thick.
00:12:28You'll have to take my word for the view.
00:12:30I'll do that.
00:12:32And add three of my own.
00:12:34I like it.
00:12:37We'd better be getting back.
00:12:38Dad'll worry.
00:12:39I'll bet right now he doesn't know we're alive.
00:12:42And it's getting cold.
00:12:43I hadn't noticed.
00:12:46Well, which way?
00:12:48Uh, this.
00:12:49I think it's closer this way.
00:12:53Take it easy.
00:12:59What on earth is that?
00:13:02I don't know.
00:13:04If I were mechanically minded, I could probably tell you.
00:13:07What could it be?
00:13:11That, as we say back in the States, is the $64 question.
00:13:15Well, careful.
00:13:15It might explode or something.
00:13:17Oh, it's not a bomb.
00:13:19At least I don't think it is.
00:13:21Besides, what would a bomb be doing up here?
00:13:24Fell out of a plane?
00:13:26Do any ever fly across here?
00:13:28Uh-uh.
00:13:29The only one that's been anywhere near here in the past six months must have been the one that set
00:13:33you off the breakwater this afternoon.
00:13:35Well, your father will probably be able to tell us what it is.
00:13:37Oh, you could never carry that back to the bracket, ma'am.
00:13:40Ah!
00:13:41Nothing to it.
00:13:46The measurements are singularly precise.
00:13:49What is it?
00:13:50How does it operate if it does or has?
00:13:53Well, you ask more than I'm prepared to answer.
00:13:55The theory might suggest that the inside is hollow.
00:13:58And it might have contained a propulsive element of some kind, a gas, perhaps.
00:14:02Look here.
00:14:03The metal is discolored, possibly from the generation of some terrific heat.
00:14:07It's fantastic.
00:14:10Professor, look.
00:14:13Interesting.
00:14:14That should work out at about one-fifth the specific gravity of steel.
00:14:18It could mean millions.
00:14:20Millions if that formula could be reproduced.
00:14:22Wait a minute.
00:14:23I don't know if I follow you.
00:14:24What do you mean if that formula could be reproduced?
00:14:26Where do you assume this came from?
00:14:28Well, my assumption may sound fantastic.
00:14:30It may be fantastic, for all I can say.
00:14:32But this object comes out of space?
00:14:36I could not deny the possibility.
00:14:39Do you realize what this metal could mean?
00:14:42It's harder than steel.
00:14:43It has tremendous tensile strength.
00:14:45And it weighs only a fifth as much as steel.
00:14:47The man who controls this formula...
00:14:51controls the industry of the world.
00:14:54Before you start spending those millions, doctor,
00:14:56consider a slight problem.
00:14:59What's that?
00:15:01If the professor's theory bears any fact,
00:15:04you're going to have a little difficulty
00:15:05mining that metal, don't you think?
00:15:07I was speaking metaphorically, of course.
00:15:10You reassure me.
00:15:11Let us concentrate on this remarkable object.
00:15:14Father, it's quite late.
00:15:16The scale is delicate.
00:15:17It responds to a breath upon it.
00:15:48Father, I propose you to apply it to the
00:15:49About 36 hours and 6,000 miles ago, I guess.
00:15:52Would you object to sharing a bed with Dr. Mears?
00:15:54Oh, no need to inflict myself on him.
00:15:56I noticed an inn at the village.
00:15:58Well, just for tonight.
00:15:59Tomorrow I'll make Dad get rid of Mears.
00:16:01Not on my account, please.
00:16:02On my own?
00:16:03Well, he upsets me.
00:16:05Well, we can't have you getting upset, can we?
00:16:12Where are you going?
00:16:13I'll drive you.
00:16:14All right.
00:16:26See you tomorrow.
00:16:27Well, good night.
00:16:29Thanks a lot for everything.
00:16:31Drive carefully.
00:16:32Oh, I know every stone on the road.
00:16:33Uh-huh.
00:16:34John.
00:16:36Yeah?
00:16:37It's nice having you here.
00:16:39Thanks.
00:16:39Good night.
00:16:40Good night.
00:16:47Good night.
00:16:48busy...
00:16:53you do?
00:17:16My apartment is gone.
00:17:18Good luck.
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00:23:10I can't see much.
00:23:12No face, at least, certain of that.
00:23:14What is it?
00:23:16Obviously, a creation of science.
00:23:18That's beyond question.
00:23:20But manufactured by whom?
00:23:22And for what purpose?
00:23:24Careful, Bobby.
00:23:25Look, the light went out.
00:24:06Let's get away from here.
00:24:08We should have waited until daylight.
00:24:10It was senseless coming out here in the dark.
00:24:12I'm uncanny.
00:24:13Come on, Father.
00:24:15Get up, Father.
00:24:17Is anything the matter?
00:24:22Father, do you hear me?
00:24:26Hurry.
00:24:27Come on.
00:24:28Hurry.
00:24:29Hurry.
00:24:51Please, wait.
00:24:52Father, stop.
00:24:56Father.
00:25:00Don't stare at me.
00:25:07Come with me.
00:25:09Slowly.
00:25:26All I was capable of was obedience when I heard a command.
00:25:29It was a complete paralysis of the faculties other than blind slavish movement.
00:25:36Well, we seem to be confronted by a concrete menace.
00:25:41Willful.
00:25:42Hostile.
00:25:43Do you think could it possibly have something to do with that planet?
00:26:29Oh, am I glad to see you.
00:26:31What's doing?
00:26:31I saw your car on the road.
00:26:32Is anything the matter?
00:26:33We've had a bad case of the jitters.
00:26:35But I shouldn't keep you out here on the doorstep.
00:26:37Come on in.
00:26:41Well, your theory, Professor, is that these singular occurrences are in some way connected
00:26:45with Planet X.
00:26:46Have you a better theory to offer?
00:26:49No, but you'll have to pardon me if it takes me a moment to get my bearings.
00:26:55What do you think this is building up to?
00:26:57Well, I must confess I'm beyond my depth.
00:26:59We have but one theory to work on.
00:27:01In approximately 60 hours, the planet's orbit will bring it into its closest position to this world.
00:27:07And Burry will be the nearest spot on the earth to the planet and whatever and whomever is upon it.
00:27:1460 hours.
00:27:16Don't you think we'd better notify the police?
00:27:18Well, what should we notify them of?
00:27:20Well, that ball out there, this gadget Enid and I found.
00:27:23And defeat everything that we've spent all these weeks in this forsaken spot to achieve, being overrun by the curious.
00:27:30Somebody's liable to run onto that thing out there.
00:27:32Oh, it isn't likely.
00:27:33This area of the moors is checkered with marshes.
00:27:36Many a straying farm animal has been swallowed up.
00:27:39This place has a bad name.
00:27:41The natives keep their distance.
00:27:43Where's this ball now?
00:27:44I'll take you.
00:27:47You can see it from the edge of this rock.
00:27:50Look.
00:27:57No sign of glass.
00:28:02You know what that looks like to me?
00:28:04A big diving bell.
00:28:06Well, the only difference between water and space is a matter of density.
00:28:13It's pretty quiet now.
00:28:14Let's go down and take a look.
00:28:15Hmm.
00:28:36Ah, that everlasting fog.
00:28:38They mistake put the climate around here.
00:28:42Come on.
00:28:45Let's go.
00:29:19Let's go.
00:29:20Diamonds cut glass.
00:29:22Not a scratch.
00:29:23Glass and practically any other substance on Earth.
00:29:27This must be tremendously resistant.
00:29:29I can't think of anything known to man equally so.
00:29:38And this you believe from out of space?
00:29:42What else?
00:29:52Well, what's the next step, Professor?
00:29:55Keep it carefully under observation until the 17th and find out whether it has any connection with what may or
00:30:00may not happen then.
00:30:03We'd better be getting back.
00:30:04We don't want to worry in it too much.
00:30:05Quite right.
00:30:16The thing he's holding.
00:30:17Watch it.
00:30:18Watch it.
00:30:19Don't move.
00:30:20If he doesn't take the idea and make a move for me, you run.
00:30:24Run as hard and as fast as you can and come back with help.
00:30:27Lots of it.
00:30:28Ever tried out running the speed of light?
00:30:30Well, here goes.
00:30:31This is a universal gesture.
00:30:32Maybe it'll work.
00:31:00What's the matter with him?
00:31:01Hear that hissing noise?
00:31:03Sounds like it's coming from that tank on his back.
00:31:06Probably filled with gas.
00:31:08Something like oxygen.
00:31:09Whatever it is, he's trying to regulate it.
00:31:12Seems as if he's trying to turn that knob to the right, but he doesn't have the strength or coordination.
00:31:16All right.
00:31:16All right.
00:31:40All right.
00:31:45Must have decided we're friendly natives.
00:31:47We've got to find some means of communication.
00:31:50He's capable of sound.
00:31:52It may be an attempt to communicate.
00:31:54It seems hopeless, though.
00:31:56Looks as if we're up against the blank wall.
00:31:58Well, let's meet it back to the brock.
00:32:00What, and leave him?
00:32:01The question is, will he let us?
00:32:04It's maddening.
00:32:05Here we have this astounding creature with his vast potential for fabulous knowledge to be given us,
00:32:10and we may only stand and stare at each other.
00:32:14Lawrence!
00:32:15Elliot!
00:32:18Oh, I'm getting primitive in my excitement.
00:32:21It's foolish of me.
00:32:22What about sign language?
00:32:24Shall I try it?
00:32:25Just don't alarm him.
00:32:34It's no use.
00:32:36Start backing up.
00:32:37If he makes a move for that thing in his holster, stop.
00:32:42All right.
00:32:43Back up.
00:32:58All right, now.
00:32:59On the double.
00:33:14John, where have you been?
00:33:15I've been so...
00:33:20Haven't you?
00:33:27I've been so...
00:33:27I'm.
00:33:50They look.
00:33:55Nothing works.
00:33:56He just keeps making that sound to everything we try to do.
00:33:59How is he in it? Did the sedative work?
00:34:01Yeah, she's asleep now.
00:34:03Good.
00:34:04We've got to reach him.
00:34:09You have found a means of communication, Doctor?
00:34:12Yes.
00:34:13What?
00:34:14The common denominator, Professor.
00:34:16The basic and universal language.
00:34:19Geometry.
00:34:20By George, Doctor, you've hit it.
00:34:22If anything should warrant success, this should.
00:34:24Excuse me, Professor.
00:34:26You've lost me.
00:34:27I'm the shadowy figure in the left background with a stupid expression on his face.
00:34:31I don't get this mathematics.
00:34:32Well, there may be no scientific achievement without mathematics.
00:34:35In itself, it's the purest language of science.
00:34:38Now, this creature represents an obviously superior race of beings where science is concerned.
00:34:43To be able to land on the Earth from a planet whose existence was previously unsuspected.
00:34:48Well, I'm up to you now.
00:34:49If there's anything our friend here should be able to understand,
00:34:52we might use as a bridge to reach him.
00:34:54It's this same basic language, geometry.
00:34:57Precisely.
00:34:58Professor, this is not an easy formula to devise.
00:35:01I understand, Doctor.
00:35:03You need undisturbed concentration.
00:35:04Let us know when you're ready.
00:35:06Come along, John.
00:35:07If you're leaving him alone, I presume your concern arises from fears for my safety, Mr. Lawrence.
00:35:14Spare yourself any anxiety.
00:35:15This creature is as intelligent as we.
00:35:18He knows that we are trying to find a mutual basis for understanding.
00:35:24I'm quite safe.
00:35:25Mirrors is right.
00:35:26Come, John.
00:36:04I'll have the world in my pocket, with your help.
00:36:32Now, don't start fussing about me like that, my dear.
00:36:36Well, I have a little touch of the flu.
00:36:38It's nothing to get so overwrought about.
00:36:40Well, you're going to stay in bed.
00:36:41Look, now, here's a compromise.
00:36:42Suppose I pedal into the village to the drugstore and get some medicine that will, well, at least alleviate the...
00:36:47Chemist in England.
00:36:48Chemist or drugstore, anyway, I'll get something that'll knock this out.
00:36:51You stay in bed till I get back.
00:36:54Oh, that creature downstairs...
00:36:56Oh, don't worry about him.
00:36:57I'll take a look at him.
00:36:59Well, I don't like leaving you here with...
00:37:01Well, I'll get back as fast as I can.
00:37:02Oh, wait.
00:37:03Here are the keys to the car.
00:37:04If you fix that tire, it'll save you a lot of time.
00:37:06All right.
00:37:15And what's over here now?
00:37:17Oh, morning, Constable.
00:37:20Isn't that Miss Elliot's car?
00:37:22Yeah, visiting her father.
00:37:24Ah, so you're the man from America.
00:37:26Yeah.
00:37:28Talks me saying none's our way left with the baroque.
00:37:31They're absolutely right.
00:37:33It's the various doings at all the time of the night.
00:37:36Naturally.
00:37:37Excuse me.
00:37:38All right.
00:37:39Naturally, you say, Mort.
00:37:41Yeah, Professor Elliot hasn't touched the flu.
00:37:43Oh, so.
00:37:44It's true.
00:37:45As a matter of fact, on the way in now to the chemist to get him some medicine.
00:37:49All right.
00:37:50So, if you'll excuse me.
00:37:58This shall be my secret.
00:38:23To think a fantastic gnome like you had a hurdle out of space
00:38:30to put this power into my hands.
00:38:35Well,
00:38:37now that we've made contact,
00:38:41I'm going to tear out every secret you've got.
00:39:11We're going to ration this.
00:39:14And you're going to start earning it.
00:39:16Dr. Mears.
00:39:20Dr. Mears.
00:39:32What is it?
00:39:33Father would like to see you.
00:39:58He's resting.
00:40:00Were you able to communicate with him?
00:40:03No.
00:40:08It was a futile attempt.
00:40:10I couldn't make him understand me at all.
00:40:13I'm most disappointed.
00:40:15I had high hopes.
00:40:17Oh, I felt sure you were on the right track.
00:40:22Well,
00:40:23I will have to try another method.
00:40:26How are you feeling?
00:40:29Everybody's so concerned about me.
00:40:31May I trouble you for a glass of water, please?
00:40:34Yes.
00:40:34Oof.
00:41:15Got the stuff.
00:41:16Should have you up and around in no time.
00:41:18Where's Enid?
00:41:19In the kitchen.
00:41:26Enid.
00:41:42Enid.
00:41:45Enid was gone.
00:41:46Had I sacrificed her just for a newspaper story?
00:41:50That was the thought which tormented me.
00:42:01She's nowhere around.
00:42:02The dungeon's empty.
00:42:03Empty?
00:42:04What happened after I left?
00:42:05Enid.
00:42:06He must have taken her with him.
00:42:07Come on.
00:42:08Where to?
00:42:08The sphere out on the moor.
00:42:10Where else would he take her?
00:42:11You got a gun, Professor?
00:42:12I have one.
00:42:13Well, bring it.
00:42:14Be careful, for heaven's sake.
00:42:15I'll go along with it.
00:42:15Now, wait a minute, Professor.
00:42:16Be sensible, please.
00:42:18You better stay in bed.
00:42:19We'll go out and reconnoiter and be back as soon as we can.
00:42:22Let's go.
00:42:22Well, the gun's in my room.
00:42:23I'll meet you out front.
00:42:27What did he do to him?
00:42:29Well, he was trying to establish communication.
00:42:31How?
00:42:32Oh, yes, I know geometrically, but how else?
00:42:34Well, what do you mean?
00:42:35Well, did he abuse him, provoke him in any way?
00:42:37Well, certainly wouldn't have been any sense in doing so.
00:42:40Well, I don't consider Mears a sensible man.
00:42:42He's an ambitious man, a brilliant man, an unscrupulous man,
00:42:45but certainly not a sensible one.
00:42:46But why should he be so foolish as to try to jeopardize...
00:42:49Well, he may have to answer for that one of these days.
00:42:52Here.
00:42:53Directions are on the bottle.
00:42:54You better take it and stay in bed.
00:43:05Anything?
00:43:06Not a sign.
00:43:07Nothing.
00:43:08We can't risk a move.
00:43:09Enid might be in there.
00:43:11What did you do to him back there in the dungeon?
00:43:13Do to him?
00:43:14Didn't do anything.
00:43:15Nothing at all.
00:43:16He showed a definite disposition toward friendliness when I left.
00:43:19Well, how can you talk of him as if he were a human being?
00:43:22How do we know what thought processes run through his head?
00:43:25How can we even assume that he thinks like we do?
00:43:28How can you anticipate what a fantastic organism like that might do or might not do?
00:43:32All right.
00:43:33All right.
00:43:33Stay here and I'll be back as soon as I can.
00:43:41And if anything should happen to Enid I'll never forgive myself.
00:43:46I should never have exposed it.
00:43:50This danger...
00:43:51I should never...
00:43:53have...
00:43:55exposed it.
00:44:09The night was haunted by terror,
00:44:11and the sickening conviction that the man from Planet X
00:44:14had Enid powerless in his grasp.
00:44:17If she was to be saved, I had to think, calmly.
00:44:21I checked off my resources.
00:44:23Help from the village?
00:44:24I dared not risk it with Enid a captive.
00:44:27The professor?
00:44:28Ill, helpless.
00:44:30Dr. Mears?
00:44:32Unstable, unpredictable.
00:44:34If I only were not so helpless before the voiceless threat of the unknown...
00:45:00There's nothing left behind the machine.
00:45:00There's nothing left behind the scene.
00:45:03Something is missing.
00:45:03All that's fine.
00:45:04If I don't want to die, I'm sorry.
00:45:04I'm going to slide this in the middle of the sky.
00:45:04I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:45:04I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:45:04I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:45:04How about the light comes in?
00:45:05I'm sorry, I'm sorry, O'clock.
00:45:05I'm sorry.
00:45:06I'm sorry, O'clock.
00:45:08I've lost my life...
00:45:08I've lost my life, yes.
00:45:09I've lost my life...
00:45:10I've lost my life...
00:45:11I've lost my life...
00:45:23Where was Enid?
00:45:25And where was the man from Planet X?
00:45:39Good evening to you, sir.
00:45:40Good heavens, man.
00:45:41Don't you knock?
00:45:41I thought you heard us coming up the stairs.
00:45:43No, I didn't.
00:45:44I didn't mean to fright you, sir.
00:45:46What brings you here?
00:45:48They would like to speak with the professor.
00:45:50Well, he's sick. He's under a sedative.
00:45:52What do you want with him?
00:45:53It is a matter of considerable importance.
00:45:55Aye, Sandy Burns and Mike Lang have gone.
00:45:58Gone? Where? Why?
00:45:59Clarence vanished.
00:46:00And none can tell where.
00:46:02I don't get you.
00:46:04Gordy and me, we've been out in the moor searching for him.
00:46:07We dropped by here to look in on you.
00:46:09Well, you don't think I have your two villagers up here, do you?
00:46:12Each night they drave the sheep in from the moors.
00:46:15Last night they didn't come home.
00:46:17There are two of them.
00:46:18And what we want to know.
00:46:20Is it any of your doing here at the Barak?
00:46:22Up here?
00:46:24You'll deny there's something very strange going on here.
00:46:27No.
00:46:29I won't deny it.
00:46:31Something strange has been going on.
00:46:32I was right.
00:46:33Boogie-doings.
00:46:34Aye, aye.
00:46:36No.
00:46:37What exactly is the nature of this?
00:46:39This, uh, Elliot has disappeared.
00:46:41Aye, Mr.
00:46:42Look, no.
00:46:43She has no.
00:46:44Are you any idea as to where she could be?
00:46:46Yes, I have.
00:46:48But I can't tell you.
00:46:50And why no?
00:46:51You wouldn't believe me.
00:46:53I'll have to show you.
00:46:54Oh, charming, is it?
00:46:57I'll have tried to explain on the way if your friend will stay with the professor while we're gone.
00:47:02Well, all right.
00:47:06But there'd best be no monkey business of a foreign nature.
00:47:09I'll go with you.
00:47:12And Gordy?
00:47:13Aye, Tommy.
00:47:14If I'm not back in a reasonable time, call out the village.
00:47:18Aye.
00:47:43Boogie's work.
00:47:53Iron, they believe such clapper, Claude.
00:47:55That's why I'm going to show you.
00:47:56It's that sphere which brought him out of space.
00:47:58Go quietly now.
00:47:59It's just over the next rise.
00:48:01Aye, it's daft jar.
00:48:02Completely flummoxed.
00:48:04Or it is some American joke.
00:48:05Look, I don't enjoy walking out on these cold moors.
00:48:08Professor Elliot hasn't been living in that boldy brock because he likes it.
00:48:11And his daughter hasn't disappeared.
00:48:12It's a joke.
00:48:14Aye.
00:48:15You make it sound very sober.
00:48:18It is a sorry part of the moors for honest men to be in.
00:48:22Come on, easy.
00:48:26Straight ahead now.
00:48:28Aye.
00:48:32I didn't see a thing.
00:48:33But this is the spot where I left Mears just a few hours ago.
00:48:36You tell me he's got a Y, too.
00:48:39Mears.
00:48:42Mears.
00:48:49Give me a light.
00:48:51Aye.
00:48:55I didn't see a thing.
00:48:57There, there.
00:48:58You see where the brush is flattened?
00:49:00What's this?
00:49:02Mears' binoculars.
00:49:04Ah, come on.
00:49:05It must be I've been sampling too much of our good Scott whiskey.
00:49:08Find it a pair of glasses and I mean or much.
00:49:10What about your two villagers have disappeared?
00:49:12Miss Elliot.
00:49:13And now Mears.
00:49:14Believe me, man, we're in trouble.
00:49:16We'll go back to the station house.
00:49:18I'll get out of search party.
00:49:19In the meanwhile, I'll keep me eyes on you.
00:49:21I don't care where you keep your eyes, provided you do something.
00:49:24Now, we'll go along with you.
00:49:28Tammy, has you found my mom?
00:49:30Was out on the morgue.
00:49:30Gave you any clue, Constable?
00:49:32Nay, not.
00:49:37We're going to found a thing.
00:49:40But two more persons are missing.
00:49:43One is the old professor's daughter.
00:49:46The other is one of the men staying up to the block.
00:49:49But don't you worry.
00:49:51We'll find them for you.
00:49:53Donnell.
00:49:53Aye.
00:49:54You go up one side of the village, knock on the doors.
00:49:56Andre.
00:49:57Aye.
00:49:57You go up the other side.
00:49:59We'll have to search the moor thorough.
00:50:01It'll take every man and body.
00:50:02Tell the men to bring what arms they have.
00:50:03Aye.
00:50:04Andre, Donnell, you hear that?
00:50:05Aye.
00:50:05Get on with you then.
00:50:08Gordy, what ails you, man?
00:50:10Act like you've seen a ghost or something.
00:50:12A ghost?
00:50:13No.
00:50:14Something of flesh and blood.
00:50:16Yet of neither.
00:50:17A horrible, monstrous creature with a heart as big as two men put together.
00:50:21A skin with the shine of a new shillin.
00:50:23And eyes that are no better than a dead codfish.
00:50:26Wait a minute.
00:50:27Where'd you see him?
00:50:27Why'd you leave the professor?
00:50:28I didn't leave him.
00:50:29He up and left me.
00:50:30What are you saying?
00:50:30I went to fill the water jug at the well.
00:50:32By the time I was coming back, the professor was walking into the fog with that friend of his who's
00:50:36been stopping with him.
00:50:37Dr. Mears?
00:50:38Aye, that's him.
00:50:39I heard him call by name.
00:50:40What happened?
00:50:41The professor's ill.
00:50:41The other one was helping him.
00:50:43They looked no better than a dead man himself with his glassy eyes.
00:50:46I was afraid.
00:50:47And I followed them.
00:50:51Then, then twas I saw it.
00:50:53It, it was one.
00:50:54The boogie.
00:50:56Boogie.
00:50:57With the big head and the peculiar hump on his back.
00:51:00He stepped out of the fog a wee bit before the professor and his friend.
00:51:03And I didn't wait to see what else happened.
00:51:06I ran until I thought my heart would burst from my chest.
00:51:08All right.
00:51:09Get back now.
00:51:09Get back.
00:51:11Well, Mr. Lawrence.
00:51:16What do you make of that?
00:51:17It's that creature from out of space.
00:51:20He's got Mears in his clutches and used him to get the professor into his hands.
00:51:23Chances are that's where you'll find the men from the village, too.
00:51:26Not from space.
00:51:27What clapper claws does this?
00:51:35It is a fearsome visitor from another world.
00:51:37Is it complete dapty, our constable?
00:51:48It is why the professor has been living up to the block.
00:51:53To see what would happen when an unknown planet came close to the earth on the night of the 17th.
00:52:00That's a few days from now.
00:52:02Why here on buttery?
00:52:03Because the professor's calculations told him this would be the area of closest contact with the planet.
00:52:07But the blue hooky.
00:52:10Does any of them?
00:52:11We have every reason to believe it is.
00:52:13You've got to jump again.
00:52:15Here, here, here.
00:52:15Wait, no.
00:52:16Don't look at the barricade.
00:52:18The lars and the children stay behind locked doors.
00:52:21You men.
00:52:27Be all over town in no time.
00:52:29We've got to get out on the moors.
00:52:30Man, you're going to get a loan out there tonight.
00:52:32Then we'll have to get help from the outside.
00:52:33Have you got a radio?
00:52:34Uh, I mean, a wireless?
00:52:35Not for outside contact.
00:52:44Call London.
00:52:45Tell them what's happened here and ask for help at once.
00:52:49Hello?
00:52:51Are you there?
00:52:53Hello?
00:52:54Hello there.
00:52:55It's dead.
00:52:56Let me try.
00:52:58Hello, operator?
00:53:00Operator.
00:53:00Hello, hello, hello.
00:53:02You had this trouble before?
00:53:04Only doing climate disturbances and the like.
00:53:06There's no local exchange here, huh?
00:53:07It's over in the mainland.
00:53:08The wire goes across the bottom of the sea.
00:53:10Well, except for the fog, the weather isn't too bad.
00:53:13I can't understand it.
00:53:15Look, lend me your bicycle and I'll go back to the Brock.
00:53:17Maybe there I'll find something that, well, who knows.
00:53:20Just a fine risk you'd be running.
00:53:22It's better than hanging around here just waiting.
00:53:25The bicycle's outside.
00:53:26Thanks.
00:53:27I'll be back in a few hours.
00:53:29You hang on that phone.
00:53:30Hey.
00:53:33Hello?
00:53:46I'll be back in a few hours.
00:53:54I'll be back in a few hours.
00:54:15These two must have undergone the same treatment.
00:54:17You mean they were often independent of their own inclinations and will?
00:54:21They were acting just like slaves, and seeking other villagers to be enslaved with them.
00:54:24But for what purpose?
00:54:25Can't you see, man? He's building an army.
00:54:27An army?
00:54:28And if he hasn't stopped, he'll have every man in this village to carry out his orders.
00:54:33Oh, man, you take the taste of the tea right out of my mouth.
00:54:36You have any luck with the phone?
00:54:37Nothing but jangling and clangling and buzzing.
00:54:40Isn't there any way at all we can get word off this island?
00:54:42Nay, nay, nay.
00:54:45Except...
00:54:46What? What? Well, talk, man.
00:54:48I was thinking perhaps heliograph.
00:54:50Well, try it at once.
00:54:52There's not enough sunlight to get to the nearest place.
00:54:56Well, there's enough to reach that boat out there.
00:54:58Hey, white jar.
00:55:00Well, fast, fast. Before it sails her body.
00:55:01Right, though.
00:55:07Hurry up. She'll be nosing into that fog bag in a few minutes.
00:55:09All right.
00:55:16Emergency.
00:55:19Village, terror-stricken.
00:55:25Contact Scotland Yard.
00:55:28There she's gone.
00:55:30Aye.
00:55:32Fog bank swallowed her up.
00:55:35Think they saw us?
00:55:37I cannot tell.
00:55:52I'm going to get out of here.
00:55:54I'm going to get out of here.
00:55:54Oh, look here, lad.
00:55:56Let me go.
00:55:57This is no time for prank.
00:55:59Oh, lad.
00:56:00What's wrong, Freddy?
00:56:02What a boy into here.
00:56:04Let me lose.
00:56:31Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:56:47And I found it at the new location where he'd moved it.
00:56:50It was being fortified.
00:56:51And I have no doubt that the men doing the job were the same ones who disappeared from the village.
00:56:55But I was too far away to recognize them.
00:56:58And I have some news for you two.
00:57:01Two more of the men of the village have been taken.
00:57:03How'd that happen?
00:57:04Young Wilkie and Bobby Harris.
00:57:06Young Wilkie went down to look at his cows.
00:57:09They hadn't been milked for two days.
00:57:10His sister said he left a little before sunrise.
00:57:13He didn't return.
00:57:15Bobby went down to look at his boat to see if it were up above the midnight tideline.
00:57:19He didn't return that.
00:57:20If the men left don't buckle down at the job, this is going to be a village of zombies.
00:57:23Oh, come on, you cannot get them off.
00:57:25It's just the fear of the unknown that has frightened them.
00:57:27Even if they were willing to take to rest, their losses would not let them.
00:57:30What are we going to do? Stand around here and let him send for us, too?
00:57:36Come.
00:57:38Come in.
00:57:41Gentlemen.
00:57:43Who are you?
00:57:43Are you in charge of this station, constable?
00:57:45Aye.
00:57:46I'm Inspector Porter.
00:57:48Inspector.
00:57:48This is Sergeant Ferris.
00:57:49Sergeant Lanyard?
00:57:50Yes.
00:57:51Gentlemen, pardon me.
00:57:54Come in, Inspector.
00:57:55Come in.
00:57:56Sit down.
00:57:58We were in Edinburgh.
00:57:59We received word from London.
00:58:01Our message did get through.
00:58:02The ship saw us.
00:58:03Aye.
00:58:03I understand a freight ship relayed to London by a wireless.
00:58:07A message she picked up while passing that was flashed by heliographically.
00:58:10I'm John Lawrence.
00:58:11Oh?
00:58:12American?
00:58:13Newspaper man.
00:58:14Affiliated press.
00:58:14How'd you get here?
00:58:15Small plane.
00:58:16Landed south of the village.
00:58:18Only field without boulders.
00:58:19It took us an hour to trudge here.
00:58:22You're a long way from home, Mr. Lawrence.
00:58:25What are you doing here in Burry?
00:58:27Sit down, Inspector.
00:58:28I'll try to tell you.
00:58:29Hey, sit on.
00:58:36Just how do you expect to cope with this situation, Inspector?
00:58:39Well, from what I've been told, I see only one way.
00:58:43A detachment of the military.
00:58:44That creature won't be taken.
00:58:46He'll fight.
00:58:47And all those people he's captured will die with him.
00:58:50Besides, how'll you get the soldiers here?
00:58:52The telephone's out.
00:58:53Our plane has a wireless.
00:58:55There just might be another way.
00:58:57Oh?
00:58:58What's that?
00:59:00It's now 9.30.
00:59:02I'll give you one till 11 o'clock to try what you can.
00:59:05If you're not back by that time, we'll open fire.
00:59:09But you've got to at least give us time.
00:59:10Why, that time, your job must be finished.
00:59:13If it isn't, 11 o'clock, Mr. Lawrence.
00:59:18But everyone out there might be annihilated.
00:59:19Enid, the professor, the people from the village, Dr. Mears, everyone.
00:59:23Professor Elliot told you that planet would be within the Earth's gravitational orbit by midnight.
00:59:28The consequences of such an unparalleled proximity could be anything.
00:59:35None of us know what that enigma out on the moors might be planning.
00:59:39Aye, you're right.
00:59:41Professor's theory was invasion.
00:59:44We can't risk determining whether it has any fact.
00:59:47A planet of such size, coming so close to ours, might cause a disastrous atmospheric upheaval as well.
00:59:55Therefore, Mr. Lawrence, 11 o'clock.
00:59:57We dare not delay beyond that time.
01:00:00Do you understand?
01:00:01Yeah.
01:00:03Even then, we may be risking too much.
01:00:06All right.
01:00:0811 o'clock.
01:00:20The hour is near.
01:00:25And the man from planet X is waiting.
01:00:55Be sure who's coming out of this fog before you start blasting, Inspector.
01:00:58I'll make certain.
01:00:59I, uh, I've written the story of what's happened here up to this minute.
01:01:03Can it depend on you to get into the right hands when security seems fit?
01:01:07I'll see that it reaches the proper hands.
01:01:09Thanks.
01:01:10Well.
01:01:12Good luck.
01:01:13Look out for yourself, laddie.
01:01:15Yeah, thanks.
01:01:42Let's read it.
01:01:47Professor Elliot.
01:01:49This is John.
01:01:50John Lawrence.
01:01:53Do you hear me?
01:01:54I hear you.
01:01:57Where's Enid?
01:01:59Where's Enid?
01:02:00Inside.
01:02:01What did Mirs tell you when he came back to the brock?
01:02:04Told me Enid had escaped and sent for me.
01:02:08Listen to me, Professor.
01:02:11Climb over this embankment.
01:02:13Very quietly.
01:02:14And walk straight ahead.
01:02:16Climb over this embankment.
01:02:21Walk.
01:02:23Straight ahead.
01:02:29Mirs.
01:02:31Dr. Mirs.
01:02:33Come here.
01:02:38Neil.
01:02:40Neil.
01:02:49You're able to communicate with the creature.
01:02:51Isn't that right?
01:02:52Yes.
01:02:53You found out how to do it in the dungeon bag of the brock.
01:02:56That's all?
01:02:57Yes.
01:02:59What's he doing now?
01:03:01What's his appearance here mean?
01:03:03He's establishing a wireless directional beam to his planet.
01:03:07At midnight, when the planet is at its closest approach to Earth,
01:03:11an invasion will be launched.
01:03:12Why?
01:03:13Why?
01:03:14It comes from a planet that's dying.
01:03:16It's turning to ice.
01:03:18If his people do not escape from the planet,
01:03:21before it swings back along its route through space,
01:03:24they will be doomed.
01:03:25How'd they get so close to Earth?
01:03:27They managed to make the planet deviate from its natural orbit
01:03:30by scientific degravitation.
01:03:33What was that object Enid and I found on the wars?
01:03:36It was a magnetically powered range finder
01:03:39used to determine the composition of the Earth's atmosphere.
01:03:42It was sent out in advance of the spaceship for experimental purposes.
01:03:47And how does he keep you a slave to his will?
01:03:50By exposing us to a ray.
01:03:53He exposes us to it every few hours.
01:03:58Wait here.
01:04:04Stop work.
01:04:08Walk straight ahead.
01:04:10Walk.
01:04:29Walk.
01:04:47Walk.
01:04:50Walk.
01:05:00The End
01:05:31The End
01:05:53Edith
01:05:53Edith
01:05:54Edith
01:05:55Come out of there
01:05:56Mirrors
01:05:57Stand up
01:05:57Up
01:05:59Run
01:05:59Over this wall
01:06:03Come down
01:06:06Darling it's me
01:06:07John
01:06:08Come on we must hurry
01:06:15There's something out there
01:06:17It's the professor
01:06:21It's glad I am to see you son
01:06:23Glad I am indeed
01:06:25Where are you going?
01:06:27Stop now
01:06:27Varys help me sit down
01:06:32Come along professor come along
01:06:39That's it Mon sit down here
01:06:43That's right professor
01:07:12Come along
01:07:3010-59.
01:07:38Get going!
01:07:42No!
01:07:43I can't do it!
01:07:50Mears! Come back!
01:07:53Fire!
01:07:59Fire!
01:08:12Fire!
01:08:24Fire!
01:08:30Fire!
01:08:44The planet!
01:09:20Fire!
01:09:21You're going back with Inspector Porter and his plane?
01:09:23Yep.
01:09:24But this time tomorrow afternoon, we'll be...
01:09:26Far out over the ocean.
01:09:28Going home.
01:09:32I'll miss you.
01:09:34Your father tells me you're coming to California,
01:09:36so he can confer with Dr. Blaine.
01:09:39Soon.
01:09:40Good.
01:09:42Is it true that no one will ever know what happened here?
01:09:47Knowledge would only bring more fear in a world already filled with it.
01:09:50Can such a thing be kept a secret?
01:09:52No.
01:09:54No, but it can be reduced to gossip.
01:09:57You know...
01:09:59I think that creature was friendly.
01:10:01I wonder what would have happened if...
01:10:03if Dr. Mears hadn't frightened him.
01:10:06Who knows?
01:10:08Perhaps the greatest curse to ever befall the world, or...
01:10:12perhaps the greatest blessing.
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