Una pareja de científicos americanos, Chris y Linda Cronyn, consiguen establecer contacto con Marte gracias a una válvula de hidrógeno inventada por Franz Calder, un científico nazi que trabaja para los rusos. Los primeros mensajes revelan un universo utópico. Sin embargo, al hacerse públicos, provocan una caos económico en todo el mundo occidental.
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30The End
00:01:00This is a story not yet told.
00:01:09It begins on a warm evening some years hence,
00:01:14when high on a mountaintop in Southern California,
00:01:17a giant telescope searches the heavens for the secrets there contained.
00:01:22You can't see it with the naked eye, but the metrometer shows it clearly.
00:01:35There's no question of the change in altitude.
00:01:39Hello, Chris. Linda. Sorry to have kept you waiting.
00:01:43They certainly took you in up here. Wouldn't even let us into the viewing room.
00:01:46They've classified the sky top secret now.
00:01:50Lewis.
00:01:52I asked Felder to develop these as quickly as possible.
00:01:54Yes, sir.
00:01:55Oh, Bolting. This is Chris Cronin, Mrs. Cronin.
00:01:58My assistant, Dr. Bolting.
00:02:00Hello, how do you do?
00:02:01How do you do?
00:02:02It's nice meeting you.
00:02:06Well.
00:02:07I hope you don't mind my tagging along.
00:02:10Oh, not in the least.
00:02:11We're very happy to have you.
00:02:13May I take your coat?
00:02:16You know, I expected you to be older.
00:02:18You are the radio man.
00:02:20If you think of yourself as the guy with the spyglass.
00:02:24I really walked right into that.
00:02:25I didn't mean it quite as it sounded.
00:02:27But do you seriously believe that you've established contact with Mars?
00:02:30Well, you take pictures of it.
00:02:32Why shouldn't I talk to it?
00:02:34Bolting.
00:02:35Yes.
00:02:39There's no question they have diminished in size.
00:02:42There's no knowing what tonight's pictures may show.
00:02:44We may learn more about Mars in the next few minutes.
00:02:47So that's the baby in person.
00:02:48It's so clear.
00:02:49It's unbelievable.
00:02:50This is the first picture.
00:02:52We took it a week ago tonight.
00:02:54See, here are the indentations I told you about.
00:02:57They couldn't be plainer.
00:02:58And all going from north to south.
00:03:00What are they?
00:03:01Canals.
00:03:02What else?
00:03:03Traversing the entire planet.
00:03:04And these big shadows here and here.
00:03:08Now you know how New York or Chicago would look if photographed from Mars.
00:03:12Look at those mountains at the pole.
00:03:14They must be as high as the Rockies.
00:03:16How do you tell their mountains?
00:03:17There have to be.
00:03:18What else would throw such deep shadows?
00:03:20Dr. Mitchell, what puzzles me is that you've had the giant telescope for years.
00:03:25Why are you just getting these pictures now?
00:03:27Mars's journey around the sun is an elliptical curve.
00:03:30Let me show you.
00:03:42It's now at perihelion.
00:03:44About 35 million miles from Earth instead of the usual 63.
00:03:48Now what's this one?
00:03:49Same angle, same exposure five nights ago.
00:03:53See any difference?
00:03:56Should I?
00:04:00Well, what have you got?
00:04:01I don't know.
00:04:03I can't believe it.
00:04:07Where?
00:04:09The mountains are gone.
00:04:11And the poles are level.
00:04:13You can't wipe out mountains taller than the Rockies in the space of a week.
00:04:16Boating.
00:04:18Look at the canals.
00:04:22They're different.
00:04:23Now they reflect light like mirrors.
00:04:25Water reflects light.
00:04:29Well, so does any other.
00:04:33Are you saying you think those pole formations are ice?
00:04:35And that in a week these Martians have melted ice caps thousands of feet high and used the water to irrigate the planet?
00:04:43Isn't that what the picture says?
00:04:45But that's impossible.
00:04:49There's no way to.
00:04:50Oh, there has to be.
00:04:52Why, they've done it.
00:04:54If we could just once ask them how.
00:04:57I thought you'd already established contact.
00:04:59Oh, it's Mars I'm getting my signal from right enough.
00:05:01But how do I give that signal meaning?
00:05:04How do I find a means of communication?
00:05:05Come on, Lynn.
00:05:08Let's get going.
00:05:09There's still time to send a signal.
00:05:10You're going to broadcast tonight?
00:05:12After seeing these?
00:05:13What do you think?
00:05:15One man who takes pictures.
00:05:17Another who believes he can talk over 35 million miles.
00:05:21It's like having a grandstand seat for the creation of the world.
00:05:25Or it's death.
00:05:35Where are you going, Lynn?
00:05:53I just want to have a look at the kids.
00:06:03Everything looks peaceful.
00:06:05All right, son.
00:06:15We'll be over at the lab.
00:06:17Don't stay up too late.
00:06:22Chris.
00:06:24Don't send a message tonight.
00:06:26What's got into you, Linda?
00:06:28Ever since you saw those pictures, you've been...
00:06:29Fair, Chris.
00:06:31Always eating fair.
00:06:32The whole world's scared.
00:06:37Why shouldn't I be?
00:06:39Every woman in the world, we all live in fear.
00:06:42It's become our natural state.
00:06:45Fear our sons will have to fight another war.
00:06:48Or fear they'll face worse.
00:06:50We've lived on the edge of a volcano all our lives.
00:06:53One day it has to boil over.
00:07:03Me talking to Mars won't affect Vesuvius Lynn.
00:07:05Chris.
00:07:19Chris.
00:07:19Chris, how can you be so sure?
00:07:40Don't you understand?
00:07:42Science has made the volcano we're sitting on.
00:07:45Nobel invented dynamite to ease man's life.
00:07:48It's eased a good many into annihilation.
00:07:51Einstein split the atom to create energy.
00:07:54Is Terra energy?
00:07:55Well, that's rubbish, Lynn.
00:07:58Scientifically, we've advanced further in the past 60 years than we have in the previous 2000.
00:08:03Radio, television, automobile, airplane, atomic fission, jet propulsion.
00:08:09And now, well, you, you saw those pictures tonight, heard what Mitchell said.
00:08:14If we can once talk to Mars, we may be talking to brains as far ahead of ours as ours are ahead of monkeys.
00:08:21In one moment, we may be able to leap ahead another 2000 years.
00:08:24And you'll have done it.
00:08:36You'll be the next to advance science.
00:08:39And maybe us.
00:08:41Right into oblivion!
00:08:42Linda.
00:08:47I'm sorry, Chris.
00:08:48But when I saw those pictures tonight, it all seemed too imminent.
00:08:53Well, sure it's imminent.
00:08:55It's what we worked for, isn't it?
00:08:57Why we built this lab, assembled a transmitter.
00:09:00It's why we've worked together all these years.
00:09:02They've been good years, Chris.
00:09:04Well, they've been great years.
00:09:06What do you want me to do now?
00:09:07Get a crummy research job in some plant?
00:09:10Maybe in 20 years get a paper published in some scientific magazine?
00:09:13Now, when we're on the verge of accomplishing everything we've worked for?
00:09:17All right, Chris.
00:09:20I'm ready.
00:09:29What do I say?
00:09:30That if I thought anything we're doing could boomerang against you or the kids, I'd blow up the whole works?
00:09:36You know that.
00:09:37But it can't hurt anyone.
00:09:38Whatever's been done, we've done together, Linda.
00:09:45Well, I don't believe harm can come from anything those hands have had a part in, that's all.
00:09:53All right, Chris.
00:09:54Let's go.
00:09:57Who am I to stand in the way of science?
00:09:59Who am I to stand in the way of science?
00:10:19Head on.
00:10:20I don't know.
00:10:50I don't know.
00:11:20I don't know.
00:11:50I don't know.
00:11:52How did you track me down?
00:11:54Get out!
00:11:56Stop acting like a fool.
00:12:02Get out of here!
00:12:04I told you not to follow me!
00:12:10You were supposed to keep in touch with me by shortwave.
00:12:22The seal isn't even broken.
00:12:24I have nothing to report.
00:12:26What are you doing here?
00:12:28Answer me!
00:12:30You said you would establish contact with Mars.
00:12:32That was your commitment.
00:12:34I'm trying.
00:12:36We are not paying you to try, Mr. Calder.
00:12:40We expect results.
00:12:42And you might have had results if you had done as I asked.
00:12:46Conduct your experiments at our laboratories at the Reservo.
00:12:50Where we could have supplied you with skilled assistants.
00:12:54Instead of which you buried yourself here in the Andes alone.
00:12:58No one to assist you.
00:13:00You mean no one to watch over me.
00:13:04I've had one taste of jail.
00:13:06I don't know why you complained.
00:13:08We extricated you.
00:13:09We helped you.
00:13:10We want scientists of your caliber, Mr. Calder.
00:13:13We treat them well when they serve us.
00:13:15Serve?
00:13:16Are you talking to me?
00:13:18I don't owe you anything.
00:13:19You owe us your freedom.
00:13:21It was the Americans who threw you into jail and our men who helped you to escape.
00:13:25Not to mention all this equipment which you have piled up.
00:13:28You owe us your freedom.
00:13:30It was the Americans who threw you into jail and our men who helped you to escape.
00:13:33Not to mention all this equipment which you have piled up.
00:13:39This was an investment.
00:13:42Now we demand an accounting.
00:13:44I'm not a bookkeeper.
00:13:46We don't make investments with no returns.
00:13:51You know our policy.
00:13:53Are you trying to frighten me?
00:13:55We had an agreement.
00:13:57It is my responsibility to see that it is carried out.
00:14:00You're threatening me with the extermination, huh?
00:14:04Is that the policy you refer to?
00:14:06You find the idea amusing.
00:14:08Highly.
00:14:10You won't harm me.
00:14:12You need me.
00:14:13Think they have humbled me, huh?
00:14:16Bringing me Franz Calder.
00:14:19To this.
00:14:21Cringing, hiding.
00:14:23Just another rat in his hole.
00:14:27But all this won't last.
00:14:29The rat will come out.
00:14:31The rat will come out.
00:14:33And then the world will listen.
00:14:39You want a report?
00:14:41I'll give you one.
00:14:43You can tell your masters that I've failed in my experiments.
00:14:56I've not been able to establish contact with Mars.
00:15:00Their money's been wasted.
00:15:02It is not a report they will appreciate.
00:15:04Still they won't exterminate me.
00:15:06Of that I wouldn't be too sure.
00:15:10Because you can also tell them that the Americans who stole my valve have succeeded.
00:15:16They have established contact with the red planet.
00:15:20Wait outside.
00:15:24Are you serious?
00:15:26Newspapers will tell you as much in a few days.
00:15:36It's not in the American character to keep silent about success.
00:15:40But that's incredible that they should actually...
00:15:43Why?
00:15:44You expected it from me.
00:15:45But you said that your equipment was the best in the world.
00:15:48That no one could duplicate your developments.
00:15:50I forgot the seven years start the American had on me.
00:15:53Seven years while I was in jail.
00:15:54Seven years!
00:15:55Ah, don't let's start that again.
00:16:00What shall I report?
00:16:02What can you report?
00:16:04That the Americans also want the secrets of a wiser civilization?
00:16:08So that they can turn them into new methods of destruction?
00:16:11How do you know all this?
00:16:15Because I'm the one other person with a hydrogen valve.
00:16:18I alone can pick up their signals and the replies.
00:16:22Then you can give us the questions they put to Mars and the answers they receive.
00:16:27Yes, exactly.
00:16:28And that's why I can laugh at your threats.
00:16:31Do you still want to kill me?
00:16:33Oh, don't talk like that.
00:16:35Nobody is threatening you.
00:16:37You're invaluable to us.
00:16:41It's not who gets the information first, but who first puts it to use.
00:16:46Oh, my dear friend.
00:16:51You must let me send you a less monotonous diet.
00:16:57My diet's already taken care of.
00:17:02I did not spend all your money on equipment.
00:17:05Is there anything else you need?
00:17:07Yes.
00:17:10One thing.
00:17:14Let's drink to it.
00:17:15By all means, my dear fellow.
00:17:23What is it?
00:17:26Your absence.
00:17:37Thank you very much, comrade.
00:17:43Considerate of you, leading us to his lair.
00:17:48Clever of you, dragging him down all on the strength of a single phrase.
00:17:53He thought himself so clever with us, you can find me only through finding Christ.
00:17:57You dropped your bunny rabbit.
00:17:58Oh!
00:18:01Oh!
00:18:04Oh!
00:18:05Oh!
00:18:07Oh!
00:18:08Oh!
00:18:10Oh!
00:18:12Oh!
00:18:14Oh!
00:18:15Oh!
00:18:17Oh!
00:18:19Oh!
00:18:20Oh!
00:18:21Oh!
00:18:22Oh!
00:18:23Oh!
00:18:25Oh!
00:18:26Oh!
00:18:29What was that outburst?
00:18:30He woke up and couldn't find his rabbit.
00:18:50Thanks.
00:18:51I guess I'd better get the...
00:18:52Here's your carbona.
00:18:53Oh!
00:18:55Don't you know we'd need this?
00:18:56Did you two ever start a project and not need it?
00:19:00She's pretty smart, huh?
00:19:01Hey, Mom, I got a TL for you.
00:19:03I could use one.
00:19:04Remember when the parents came to visit our class?
00:19:06One of my grimmest memories.
00:19:09All the fellas he said are that you were the youngest looking mother there.
00:19:12Isn't that nice?
00:19:13Boy, you should have seen those other crows.
00:19:15Oh, that did it.
00:19:16Now clean away this mess and get started on your homework.
00:19:19Right.
00:19:20Gosh, I only got my math on.
00:19:21You know I don't want to fuss over that.
00:19:23Well, before you pin any medals on yourself, an extra hour on history wouldn't hurt.
00:19:27At that, you're no genius.
00:19:29Well, you can't have everything.
00:19:32Oh, heavens, who's coming?
00:19:35Probably Mitchell to find out if Mars had anything intelligible to say.
00:19:38I'll get it.
00:19:46Is Mr. Cronin in?
00:19:48I'm Cronin.
00:19:49I'm Bill Carey.
00:19:50This is no time to barge in on you like this, but your reports didn't reach my desk until this morning.
00:19:54I flew right out.
00:19:55My reports brought you out.
00:19:57Oh, we grasp at any straw to get out of Washington for 24 hours.
00:20:00Please come in, Admiral.
00:20:02I'm Linda Cronin.
00:20:03How do you do, Miss Cronin?
00:20:04Forgive the mess, but all major mechanical projects seem to get started in the living room.
00:20:09This is our son, Stuart.
00:20:11Hiya, fella.
00:20:13Sit down, Admiral.
00:20:14Get some more ice, will you, son?
00:20:21Stuart.
00:20:22You will have a drink, won't you?
00:20:24Well, at this hour, I can't claim the sun's not over the Argar.
00:20:27Are you the Admiral Carey who broke the Japanese code?
00:20:30My one claim to fame.
00:20:32But, confidentially, it wasn't a very good code.
00:20:34Come on, Stuart.
00:20:39Ah, you don't know how glad I am to see you.
00:20:42We didn't know if you'd even bother with our show here.
00:20:45Rose to it like a marlin.
00:20:46But what beats me, if you are getting messages from Mars, how have you kept it out of the paper?
00:20:51We're not getting any messages. Not yet.
00:20:53Darn close to it if your reports stand up.
00:20:55Oh, if we ever do get messages, understandable ones, that is, they'll be given out.
00:21:00Four years the Navy gave me my belly full of hush-hush.
00:21:03I can understand that.
00:21:05So far, all we're getting are repetitions of our own signals coming back at us.
00:21:09And now these answers you get...
00:21:10Please sit down.
00:21:12These answers you get, couldn't they be your own signals bouncing off some object in outer space?
00:21:17Some other planet, booming back at you?
00:21:19I'm no authority on electronics, but I am.
00:21:22No, this is no bounce back.
00:21:24As I told you, we transform sound into light.
00:21:28And the speed of light is 186,000 miles a second.
00:21:31So you divide the distance to Mars by the speed of light,
00:21:34and you get the length of time it takes our light waves to reach Mars.
00:21:37Double that, and you get the time it takes our messages to come back.
00:21:40Now that could all be mechanical, but they don't come back in that exact number of minutes.
00:21:45It never takes less time, always more.
00:21:4820 seconds, 40 seconds, sometimes as much as a minute and a half.
00:21:52Sometimes, like tonight for instance, we get no answer.
00:21:56An echo will always sound, but sometimes the human brain sleeps.
00:22:00But why always the same signal back?
00:22:02Why never anything you can hang on to?
00:22:04Well, because I'm too stupid to give them a lead.
00:22:06That's why I yelled for help.
00:22:08Well, this is no picnic you've asked me on.
00:22:11You don't even know what language they speak, if any.
00:22:14It's like working out a system of communication with gollywogs.
00:22:18How the devil to find a point of contact?
00:22:23How about pie?
00:22:25That's hardly the way to offer it, Stu.
00:22:28And by the size of that slice, I doubt if there's anything left.
00:22:32I mean pie.
00:22:33Now what are you talking about?
00:22:34Well, if we're getting answers, they have to have a transmitter as powerful as ours.
00:22:38Go on, what are you driving at?
00:22:39Well, they can't build anything like that unless they know how to make a wheel.
00:22:43That means a circle.
00:22:45Then you can't make a circle without knowing the ratio of the diameter to the circumference.
00:22:49Pie.
00:22:50I still don't understand what that has to do with your sons ahead of your cronin.
00:22:54What is pie?
00:22:553.1416 as I remember.
00:22:58Roughly.
00:22:59That's it, roughly.
00:23:00Actually, it's 3.1415926 and so on.
00:23:03An infinite number of decimals.
00:23:05Well, so what?
00:23:06We broadcast 3.1416 to Mars and what can they answer?
00:23:09Nothing.
00:23:10But they must be trying as hard to talk to you as you're straining to talk to them.
00:23:13All they're looking for is an opening.
00:23:15So, you don't broadcast 3.1416.
00:23:20You broadcast 3.1415.
00:23:23And if they understand, they continue the equation.
00:23:25Right.
00:23:26Where'd you get that idea, son?
00:23:28Fighting into this.
00:23:29Come on, let's get over to the lab and try it on right now.
00:23:38Aren't you coming?
00:23:39Don't mind me.
00:23:40I'm just a babysitter around here.
00:23:41If this comes off, I'll wake you when we come in.
00:23:43What makes you think I'll be asleep?
00:23:463.1.4.1.5.
00:23:543.1.4.1.5.
00:24:003.1.4.1.5.
00:24:06Shut it off.
00:24:08What do we do now?
00:24:15The blasted waiting is always the worst part.
00:24:21How long?
00:24:223 minutes, 8 seconds each way.
00:24:256 minutes, 16 seconds all told.
00:24:27Plus the time it takes them to answer, if they answer.
00:24:30You know, this is gonna be the longest six and a quarter minutes I ever spent.
00:24:35You light that pipe, Admiral.
00:24:37And if Chris's hydrogen doesn't blow you up, he will.
00:24:40Always the danger of a leak and no way of telling it.
00:24:42Hydrogen's odorless.
00:24:43I told you I was no authority on electronics.
00:24:46What's the hydrogen for?
00:24:48Well, hydrogen sufficiently pressurized can be brought down to a temperature of about 451 degrees below zero.
00:24:54And nobody knows why, but sound waves can be picked up at that temperature that would be otherwise completely inaudible.
00:25:01And now certain minerals also have incredible acoustic properties. Quartz, for instance.
00:25:06That's what this valve is made of.
00:25:08And we warp it with a pressurized hydrogen.
00:25:10It gives us the energy for a power transmission a thousand times greater than any sound transmitter ever conceived.
00:25:16There it is.
00:25:18The red planet Mars.
00:25:21For over 2,000 years the symbol for war.
00:25:24And we dare to fly in the face of Providence and try to bring it closer to us.
00:25:34Sometimes my wife is less than enthusiastic about this project.
00:25:39I'm sorry.
00:25:43Darling, if nothing happens tonight, don't be too disappointed.
00:25:50It's got to happen.
00:25:51It's just got to happen.
00:25:56We've waited so blasted long.
00:25:58I know, but if it doesn't.
00:26:00Poor Linda with all her silly fears.
00:26:02And you hope it doesn't happen, really.
00:26:04You know what beats me?
00:26:05I just can't believe that you people really assembled all this yourself.
00:26:09No, we got a slight assist from the Carnegie Foundation.
00:26:13You realize if this comes off by this time tomorrow, you'll be the most famous man in the world?
00:26:18Funny, none of the credit's mine.
00:26:20Actually, it all belongs to a German scientist.
00:26:23A criminal.
00:26:24A brilliant criminal.
00:26:25With nothing but hate in his heart.
00:26:27What do you mean?
00:26:28Did you ever hear of Franz Calder?
00:26:31Calder?
00:26:32Calder?
00:26:33Do you remember the famous quotation,
00:26:35The human being is the best guinea pig?
00:26:37High voltage experiments on the human nervous system.
00:26:39The Nazi criminal.
00:26:40He invented the valve.
00:26:42I found the blueprints at Nuremberg.
00:26:44It's taken us all the years since then to build a transmitter capable of spanning the enormous distance.
00:26:49And we've been broadcasting for eight months, first without success, and now for-
00:26:52The last three weeks.
00:26:54We've been getting answers.
00:26:55Well, you're not going to give Calder any of the credit.
00:26:57Why not?
00:26:58It's his valve.
00:26:59The devil's entitled to his due.
00:27:01Two minutes to go.
00:27:02I wonder what kind of a world we're opening the door on.
00:27:14You'd wonder even more if you saw the pictures of Mars that we saw last night.
00:27:19Ice caps, thousands of feet high, melted away in a few days.
00:27:23Those people must use atomic power as we use water.
00:27:25If we had that power, the largest liner would cross the ocean on the energy contained in one lump of coal.
00:27:32Mm-hmm.
00:27:33Then what would happen to the people who own and work coal mines?
00:27:37Well, what happened to the people who owned or worked on canals when the railroads started?
00:27:41Still, Mr. Calder will have had his effect on the world.
00:27:46I wonder where he is now.
00:27:48We're all good scientists we don't hear of.
00:27:51In Russia, I suppose.
00:27:52Ten seconds to go.
00:27:57Switch out the lights, will you, darling?
00:28:10Three.
00:28:13One.
00:28:17Four.
00:28:20One.
00:28:22Five.
00:28:25Five.
00:28:29Three.
00:28:32One.
00:28:37Four.
00:28:39One.
00:28:44Five.
00:28:47Three.
00:28:50One.
00:28:53Five.
00:28:54Four.
00:28:55One.
00:28:59Five.
00:29:00Now our own signal back, the same blasted story.
00:29:01Chris, look.
00:29:02Nine.
00:29:03Two.
00:29:05Six.
00:29:07Linda, we've done it.
00:29:08Nine.
00:29:09Two.
00:29:10Six.
00:29:11Linda, we've done it.
00:29:12Dear Lord.
00:29:13Don't make us sorry.
00:29:14Six.
00:29:15Six.
00:29:16Linda, we've done it.
00:29:17Six.
00:29:18Linda, we've done it.
00:29:19Six.
00:29:20Linda, we've done it.
00:29:21Dear Lord.
00:29:23Don't make us sorry.
00:29:24One.
00:29:25Two.
00:29:42Two.
00:29:45One.
00:29:46Two.
00:29:47So far, Cronin is sticking to the estate.
00:30:17The establishment of mathematical and chemical formulas, very ingenious.
00:30:21They were able to frame a few questions.
00:30:23I read all that in the papers.
00:30:26What about you? Have you contacted Mars yourself?
00:30:29You're a fool, Argenian.
00:30:31If I can read their messages, they can read mine.
00:30:34Why should I let them know that they have competition?
00:30:37And so, what only two weeks ago was a secluded laboratory in the San Diego Mountains has become the new center of the world.
00:30:44Scientists, code experts, newsmen, all concentrated on only one thing.
00:30:49The first concrete word from Mars.
00:30:52Ladies and gentlemen, step right up closer.
00:30:54I want to introduce you to the keyhole of Mars.
00:30:56Now I have the only authentic, genuine picture of the planet Mars.
00:31:01What a thrill.
00:31:01All right, put it, folks, to send home to those people.
00:31:04All right, keep going.
00:31:05Here you are, folks.
00:31:06All right, folks.
00:31:07You move on, folks.
00:31:08Keep moving to me.
00:31:09Keep moving to me.
00:31:10Take them home, folks, to planet Mars.
00:31:12They're educational and constructive.
00:31:15Hey, Doc!
00:31:18Hiya, Doc.
00:31:18Hiya.
00:31:19Give them a rock.
00:31:19Hiya, Doc.
00:31:21Hiya, Doc.
00:31:23Hi, Mr. Cronin.
00:31:25Been to town?
00:31:26Yeah, just down to see how the press camp's coming along.
00:31:29They've got to put up two more buildings.
00:31:31Stuart wanted to see Admiral Carey and his staff at work.
00:31:44Итак, всего неделю тому назад, еще никому неизвестный молодой
00:31:47американский ученый по фамилии Христофор Кронин,
00:31:50живущий работающий в своей лаборатории
00:31:52в лес города Сан-Жи, Гиего, в Калифорнии,
00:31:55стал центром внимания всего цивилизованного мира.
00:31:58Вечные события.
00:32:04Впервые, за все время своего существования,
00:32:08Земля.
00:32:08Поехали.
00:32:09Let's go.
00:32:39Let's go.
00:33:09Let's go.
00:33:10Let's go.
00:33:11Let's go.
00:33:12Let's go.
00:33:13Let's go.
00:33:14Let's go.
00:33:16Let's go.
00:33:17Let's go.
00:33:19Let's go.
00:33:20Let's go.
00:33:21Let's go.
00:33:22Let's go.
00:33:23Let's go.
00:33:24Let's go.
00:33:25Let's go.
00:33:26Let's go.
00:33:27Let's go.
00:33:28Let's go.
00:33:29Let's go.
00:33:30Let's go.
00:33:31Let's go.
00:33:32Let's go.
00:33:33Let's go.
00:33:34Let's go.
00:33:35Let's go.
00:33:36Let's go.
00:33:37Let's go.
00:33:38Let's go.
00:33:39Let's go.
00:33:40Let's go.
00:33:41Let's go.
00:33:42Let's go.
00:33:43Let's go.
00:33:44Let's go.
00:33:45Let's go.
00:33:46Let's go.
00:33:47Let's go.
00:33:48Let's go.
00:33:49Let's go.
00:33:50The future of the livestock industry is at stake.
00:33:54Is the government going to continue to support the price of potatoes?
00:33:58Just a minute, how about the price of wheat?
00:34:00The hysteria which has greeted the martian's claims has become a national peril.
00:34:05All this after the release of only three messages.
00:34:09Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot too strongly stress the necessity for calmness.
00:34:13Do not allow yourselves to be emotionally disturbed by those messages.
00:34:18Argenia, this time you'd better get to your masters on the phone.
00:34:24Cronin's just received a message from Mars that's a sensation.
00:34:28The Martians have now announced that for the past three centuries,
00:34:32they haven't used coal, oil, electricity.
00:34:36Any form of power on which we rely, theirs has all been provided by cosmic energy,
00:34:42through which they have made hundreds of elements fissionable.
00:34:48If this is true, no miner in America, no miner in the world will have a job.
00:34:55Our interests are identical. We owners represent an investment of five billion dollars.
00:35:00It took Mars to make you recognize that identity of interest?
00:35:04Well, the oil men are in the same boat with us.
00:35:06Then let them bail it out. Oil is no concern of ours.
00:35:18The Martians are Feminine.
00:35:23The Martians still arrivals the great 1.
00:35:24The Martians is known as the Wolf's promise of the Martians.
00:35:27The Martians and the Martians of the West is a great city of the first century.
00:35:30The Martians of the East has been given to a good city of America.
00:35:34Oh, my God.
00:36:04What do you got to do about getting our jobs done, huh?
00:36:11He's got his name in a place.
00:36:13What do we get out of here?
00:36:14He's got his name in a place.
00:36:16What do we get out of here?
00:36:21This business keeps up.
00:36:22You'll need the army to help you.
00:36:25Quick, get going.
00:36:26He's got his name in a place.
00:36:27He's got his name in a place.
00:36:27Get out of here.
00:36:29He's got his name in a place.
00:36:31What do we get out of here?
00:36:34Hi, Dad.
00:36:53You're just in time for the news.
00:36:55I've had enough news for one day.
00:36:59Meanwhile, this morning, every American bank had long lines of depositors.
00:37:04Waiting to withdraw their funds.
00:37:07Owing to the difference in time, the latest bulletin from Mars had created its effect on Europe before we Americans had finished our breakfasts.
00:37:16In London, the Prime Minister called a special meeting of the Cabinet at Number 10 Downing Street.
00:37:22But this did not prevent pandemonium on the London Stock Exchange.
00:37:27The value of British Industrials has decreased nearly 10 billion pounds in the last two weeks.
00:37:35In Paris, the third government in two weeks failed of a vote of confidence.
00:37:40And President Romare, hopeless of forming a fourth government, suspended the Constitution and called upon the army to establish martial law.
00:37:50This, however, did not prevent wide disorders in Lyon, Marseille, and other French cities.
00:37:56Meanwhile, in Rome, the Holy Father urged a policy of patience and of faith.
00:38:01Turn that blasted thing off.
00:38:03Just on another minute, Dad.
00:38:05But in Milan and Genoa, there was widespread rioting.
00:38:09Turn it off, I said!
00:38:13They gotta hand it to you, Pop.
00:38:15When you blow the lid off, you really blow it off.
00:38:17Well, that crowd out there's madmen...
00:38:18I thought I told you to stay out of the street.
00:38:20I just wanted to take a look.
00:38:22Haven't you anything better to do than lollygag around where you haven't any business?
00:38:25It's enough work for you to do around here.
00:38:27Gosh, I did the whole lawn this afternoon.
00:38:29Yeah, and left the moor where everybody could stumble over it as usual.
00:38:32Trick or treat!
00:38:33Trick or treat!
00:38:36What's he made up for?
00:38:44It's Halloween, remember?
00:38:46And children like to go out and play trick or treat.
00:38:48That is, children who can get out of the house, too.
00:38:51And little boys who can't.
00:38:53They still like the fun of getting dressed up.
00:38:57You look scrumptious, son.
00:38:58See?
00:39:02See?
00:39:02Model tops.
00:39:03Trick or treat?
00:39:04Next year we'll go trick or treat.
00:39:06How'll that be?
00:39:07On your way, boys.
00:39:09And hands washed.
00:39:10Stu, will you see these polished up?
00:39:13Oh, Mom.
00:39:13Can you please?
00:39:15Be a good boy.
00:39:18I'll be in in a minute, dear.
00:39:19I'm sorry, Lynn.
00:39:38You don't have to take it out on the kids, Chris.
00:39:41Isn't that what I'm doing?
00:39:46I'm sorry.
00:39:46I'm sorry.
00:39:49Where are you going?
00:39:53The lab.
00:39:55Gary's ordered some new gadget installed.
00:40:01Mom, come here quick.
00:40:02Roger's pushing water all over.
00:40:04Hurry.
00:40:19How's it going?
00:40:27Oh, evening, sir.
00:40:29Quite an insulation you're getting here.
00:40:31What is it?
00:40:32What's the latest thing?
00:40:34We've only installed one other like it.
00:40:36That was in the Pentagon.
00:40:37It's an improvement on the cathode ray oscillograph.
00:40:40As soon as we get it wired up, then we're putting it outside in a cement vault.
00:40:42It'll take down your messages right out of the transmitter.
00:40:46It records them on film.
00:40:49Go ahead.
00:40:50Light it.
00:40:50Huh?
00:40:52Be interesting to see if the place really would blow up.
00:40:54You'll recall, Mr. Secretary, that the Joint Chiefs advised immediate control when the first message was received.
00:41:05Yes, I recall quite well, General.
00:41:07I also recall that the President overruled us.
00:41:11Yes?
00:41:12Admiral Carey, sir.
00:41:14Have him come in.
00:41:14Mr. Secretary, General Burdett.
00:41:21Hello, Bill.
00:41:22Sit down, Carey.
00:41:23Sit down.
00:41:27Have you decoded any other messages?
00:41:29No, sir.
00:41:30We've been sweating over a batch for nearly a week now, but no success.
00:41:34Thank heaven for that.
00:41:37We're closing down that decoding room out in California.
00:41:39But messages are still coming in, sir.
00:41:41Well, they'll be microwaved here as fast as they come in.
00:41:44And they're not getting outside this building.
00:41:46Your whole staff's coming back today.
00:41:48Nothing is to be released to the public.
00:41:50Nothing.
00:41:51You understand, gentlemen?
00:41:53Nothing.
00:41:59Is there anything else, sir?
00:42:01Our economic system shambles.
00:42:05Industrial production shot to blazes.
00:42:07Our entire civilization collapsing about our heads like a house of cards.
00:42:11And the whole Western world going down with us.
00:42:16This Cronin has done more to smash the democratic world in the last four weeks than the Russians have been able to do in 11 years.
00:42:23I can hear the laughter in Moscow now.
00:42:28No, Admiral, no.
00:42:31There is nothing more.
00:42:32Calling 2BLM.
00:42:39I'm calling 2BLM.
00:42:422BLM here.
00:42:42Go ahead.
00:42:43Where's the genian?
00:42:45Where's the genian?
00:42:47You will call him on another wavelength.
00:42:499-4-3-4 kilocycles.
00:42:52Broadcast band E.
00:42:54Use scrambler number 5.
00:42:55The call number is 9-K-BLM.
00:42:59Your call will be relayed.
00:43:01He's waiting for you.
00:43:04Calling 9-K-BLM.
00:43:07Calling 9-K-BLM.
00:43:08Go ahead, Calder, this is our genian.
00:43:36Are you all right?
00:43:38Don't worry about me.
00:43:40How about you?
00:43:41How are you, a genian?
00:43:44That's foolish of you to go where those monsters can lay hands on you.
00:43:49Shut up, you fool.
00:43:50Premier, I'm asking you, if you are the other news.
00:43:53Are there any more messages?
00:43:56Mars seems to have run out of messages for the moment.
00:44:00What are the Americans asking, Calder?
00:44:05If you can tell us that.
00:44:07As nearly as I can understand, they want to know how the Martians,
00:44:11if they use cosmic power for everything,
00:44:13are kept from blowing each other to bits.
00:44:17Send us the messages as soon as you get them.
00:44:20There must be no slip-ups.
00:44:21Is that understood?
00:44:23Haven't you got your money's worth yet?
00:44:24Is this dog, Calder, reliable?
00:44:37In English.
00:44:39If I want them to understand me, I'd speak Russian.
00:44:45Why didn't you insist on him coming here to work?
00:44:48I couldn't insist.
00:44:49He would have destroyed his valve.
00:44:50He's a madman, a lunatic.
00:44:52The world is full of lunatics.
00:44:53They want to start a war now, now when there is no need.
00:44:59Stalin did not dare precipitate one
00:45:00because he could not defeat the free economy of the West.
00:45:03Now the economy is shattered.
00:45:05The strength of the Western world
00:45:06fades like a dream in the night.
00:45:08Their civilization perishes.
00:45:14Lenin, dreamt of the world in his hands.
00:45:16Stalin tried to get it in his.
00:45:25Our premier will succeed.
00:45:27We will build our new world
00:45:29and the ruins of the West.
00:45:46Dr. Stokes.
00:45:59Yes.
00:46:01Yours is identical with Robert's translation.
00:46:04It can't mean anything else.
00:46:08How do you explain it?
00:46:10I don't even try.
00:46:12All the other messages deal with such abstruse scientific data
00:46:15that we can't make any headway.
00:46:16Then out of the blue, this.
00:46:20Why, it's...
00:46:21It's inspiring, Admiral, if nothing else.
00:46:27Get me the Secretary of Defense.
00:46:29He's at the White House, sir.
00:46:30Prepare a memorandum to him.
00:46:32Aye, aye, sir.
00:46:33Eyes only.
00:46:33Eyes only.
00:46:38We can't risk the Russians decoding those messages.
00:46:42I certainly don't want war.
00:46:46But Moscow, Leningrad, every nerve center in the Soviet Union must be wiped out.
00:46:55I cannot fly in the face of 180 years of American history.
00:46:59I cannot start a war.
00:47:02A month from now, we may not have the strength to fight one.
00:47:06The Russians may have in their hands the power to...
00:47:08Now...
00:47:08This country will not launch a war.
00:47:14Mr. President...
00:47:15You still know my first name, George.
00:47:17We've served a great many years together.
00:47:20And there's never been a day when I couldn't happily go along with any decision of yours.
00:47:25But I have a responsibility to this country, too.
00:47:27And I can't stand by and see it destroyed.
00:47:30Our difference is that I don't believe it can be destroyed...
00:47:33...by 13 slips of paper covered with obscure symbols.
00:47:37The Japanese Empire was destroyed...
00:47:39...by a slip of paper...
00:47:41...covered with obscure symbols.
00:47:44Once those symbols were translated into power...
00:47:47Excuse me, sir.
00:47:49Yes.
00:47:50You said to interrupt the men that they arrived, sir.
00:47:56Oh, yes, sir.
00:47:57Have them come in, please.
00:48:03Won't you come in, please?
00:48:06How do you do, Mrs. Cronin?
00:48:07How do you do, Mr. President?
00:48:09Mr. Cronin?
00:48:09Mr. President.
00:48:11It was very good of you to come.
00:48:12I'm only sorry you didn't bring your boy with you.
00:48:14I wanted to meet the culprit who started this whole business.
00:48:17Oh, uh, Mr. and Mrs. Cronin, Secretary of Defense, Mr. Sparks.
00:48:23Mr. Cronin?
00:48:23Mr. Sparks?
00:48:24Mr. Cronin.
00:48:25And General Burdett.
00:48:26General Burdett.
00:48:27Hello.
00:48:28Uh, won't you sit down, please?
00:48:36I'm not going to drag this out, Cronin.
00:48:39I'm afraid I've got to break your heart.
00:48:42You made a pretty fair start on that, Mr. President...
00:48:44...when you pulled Kerry back to Washington...
00:48:46...clamped the censorship on us.
00:48:48Have any further messages been decoded?
00:48:50Or aren't we allowed to know?
00:48:51There have been no further decodings.
00:48:54And now there will be no further messages to decode.
00:48:57You must shut down your transmitter.
00:48:59Shut it down?
00:48:59You're not serious.
00:49:00I've got to clamp the lid on this business.
00:49:02Stop these communications.
00:49:04Well, I suppose that lies within your power, Mr. President.
00:49:07You can declare a national emergency.
00:49:08I don't have to declare it.
00:49:10It's here.
00:49:11And not merely national.
00:49:12You've shattered the economy of the civilized world.
00:49:14I'm not interested in economics, Mr. Secretary.
00:49:17Who makes or who loses money doesn't seem as important to me...
00:49:20...as the chance to advance civilization a thousand years in one jump.
00:49:23Our job isn't the advancement of civilization.
00:49:26It's to preserve the country, hand it down to us.
00:49:28If we believed that, every scientist from Franklin to Edison would have been suppressed.
00:49:31Gentlemen, gentlemen.
00:49:34I'm sorry, Mr. President.
00:49:36If you order it, sir, of course I'll have to shut my transmitter down.
00:49:39But I'll never do it of my own volition.
00:49:41Even though it threatens national security?
00:49:43Does it threaten national security to know that man can look forward to a longer lifespan?
00:49:48That he has at his disposal the power to eliminate 90% of the world's work?
00:49:52We've learned that from the four messages we've decoded.
00:49:55There are 13 others that we haven't translated.
00:49:58Plus the one we received today.
00:50:00So long as they're not decoded, they can't threaten anything.
00:50:04I said that we haven't translated.
00:50:06Kerry released the bulletin on cosmic power at 11.22 p.m. Pacific Coast time, the night of the 27th.
00:50:13The same bulletin was released in Moscow at 9.30 a.m. the morning of the 28th.
00:50:18What of it? We broadcast everything on the Voice of America anyway.
00:50:22But there's an 11-hour differential between Moscow and San Diego, Cronin.
00:50:259.30 a.m. in Moscow is 52 minutes earlier than 11.22 the night before in San Diego.
00:50:33You mean the Russians are intercepting and decoding?
00:50:36What is any other explanation possible?
00:50:39Calder!
00:50:40Who?
00:50:41The man who invented the hydrogen valve.
00:50:43It's the very heart of the transmitter.
00:50:44Now you see how important it is to stop your communication with this other planet.
00:50:47I see now why they can't be stopped.
00:50:50What do you mean?
00:50:51If Calder can pick up our messages, he can also pick up messages of his own.
00:50:55We may stop, but he won't.
00:50:57And then our national security really is threatened.
00:51:00Yes.
00:51:01For the Secretary, Mr. President, eyes only.
00:51:11What's a note from Admiral Kerry?
00:51:14They've decoded another message today's.
00:51:17Kerry's outside now, Mr. President.
00:51:19Have him come in, please.
00:51:20Admiral Kerry?
00:51:24Come in, Admiral.
00:51:25Come in.
00:51:27You'll forgive me, Mr. President, but the Secretary left orders that no matter where he was...
00:51:31Have you got another message?
00:51:33Yes, we've got one.
00:51:36Oh.
00:51:37May I, sir?
00:51:38I think he's entitled to that.
00:51:44Well, this is nonsense.
00:51:45It's impossible.
00:51:47What is it, Cronin?
00:51:48You remember, sir, we asked them how, with their free use of cosmic energy, they were prevented from blowing each other off the face of the map.
00:51:53Well, if they have an answer to that, I'll welcome it.
00:51:57Well, according to this, they submitted the question to their supreme leader.
00:52:02You say spiritual, Bill?
00:52:03I'm not sure it shouldn't be something even stronger.
00:52:06God-like was Dr. Stokes' translation.
00:52:09What is the message, Chris?
00:52:11You have been given knowledge and have used it for destruction.
00:52:16Seven lifetimes ago, you were told to love goodness and hate evil.
00:52:22Why have you denied the truth?
00:52:24The Sermon on the Mount, on Mars.
00:52:28But don't talk nonsense, Linda.
00:52:30Love goodness and hate evil.
00:52:32What else would you call it?
00:52:34Well, I...
00:52:34I don't understand it.
00:52:37I don't either, Chris.
00:52:38But I'm glad we installed the oscillograph, because once the messages are recorded on film, no one can accuse us of garbling them.
00:52:44Well, Mr. President, I said I'd never voluntarily suppress a message.
00:52:50But I was wrong.
00:52:52This one can't go out.
00:52:53Why not?
00:52:54Well, it doesn't make sense.
00:52:55It's not scientific.
00:52:56Well, maybe it's the one scientific truth we've forgotten.
00:52:58You mean you take this message seriously?
00:53:00We took the others seriously, didn't we?
00:53:02If we were right to release one message, we must release this, too.
00:53:07Mr. President, you know the panic those other messages have caused.
00:53:10Loose a wave of religious hysteria on top of it, and every crackpot on his brother will be lecturing on street cars.
00:53:14Mr. President, you're worried about national security.
00:53:20Is there one word in that message that threatens our security, or anyone else's?
00:53:28And a solution there was none, save in the rule of Christ alone.
00:53:40My father was very fond of Emerson.
00:53:42May I see that message, please?
00:53:49You're not going to release it.
00:53:52Your arguments in defense of scientific freedom have convinced me.
00:53:56Well, this time Cronin is right, Mr. President.
00:53:58We can't hitch our wagon to that star.
00:54:02We've switched stars, Mr. Secretary.
00:54:04Now we're following the star of Bethlehem.
00:54:12That message is to be broadcast all over the world, in all languages, exactly as decoded.
00:54:18The last Mars-Sendung has no further explanation.
00:54:47Yes, yes, Calder, I heard you.
00:55:14But what does it mean?
00:55:17Why ask me?
00:55:19I'm an expert on electronics, not religious movements.
00:55:23Are there any other messages?
00:55:26Questions by the thousands.
00:55:29Better no answers.
00:55:32Are there any other messages?
00:55:34Questions by the thousands.
00:55:38Better no answers.
00:55:40I know I am not alone in being struck by the phrase with which the message begins.
00:55:54Seven lifetimes ago are the words.
00:55:57But we know that the Martian's life is 300 years.
00:55:59So, seven lifetimes is about 2,100 years.
00:56:03Or, as near as one could ask, to the era in which the carpenter of Nazareth went forth to preach his message.
00:56:11Is it only coincidence that the message he broadcast 2,000 years ago should again be broadcast from the supreme being on Mars?
00:56:20If so, then how explain that this authority should know what we on Earth were told 20 centuries ago?
00:56:29Or is it possible that the man of Nazareth and the man of Mars are the same?
00:56:36Get them curlers out of your hair.
00:56:37What for?
00:56:38We're going to church, that's what for.
00:56:43Do you feel all right?
00:56:44Now, look, don't argue with me.
00:56:45Get the curlers out of your hair and let's get dressed and get out of here.
00:56:51This ain't no time to take chances.
00:57:05It has brought hope when we have lost all hope.
00:57:30It has brought light into a world of darkness.
00:57:33All over the world, regardless of their religious beliefs, men have found a new faith by which to live.
00:57:48No, not a new faith, but an old one many of us had allowed ourselves to lose.
00:57:54A faith that is universal in men of all faiths.
00:57:58For, while to us the words from Mars seem the very essence of the Christian doctrine,
00:58:03let us not forget that they are also the essence of all other religions.
00:58:08Christian, Mohammedan, Jewish, Buddhist.
00:58:13All are heeding the call to prayer, kneeling humbly in the search for divine guidance.
00:58:18I pray particularly that behind the Iron Curtain, where our eyes are not permitted to see,
00:58:27men will open their hearts to the message of peace and the promise that their rulers have so long denied.
00:58:34Today's message reads,
00:58:39Ye have denied God's word and worshipped false gods.
00:58:48Thy torment is the price of thine own sin.
00:58:54Today's message includes Mars from Mars.
00:58:55Today's message indicates,
00:58:58listen to me,
00:58:59listen to me,
00:59:00Otrécся от слова позднего.
00:59:03Ты поклонился Алису.
00:59:06И муки твои
00:59:07суть награда за твои прегрешения.
00:59:10И муки твои
00:59:11суть награда
00:59:12за твои
00:59:14прегрешения.
00:59:16Come on.
00:59:46Come on.
01:00:16Come on.
01:00:46Come on.
01:01:01His messages are spreading all over the country, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and no one knows how.
01:01:07Villagers that have never even seen the radio suddenly erupt.
01:01:10Have you heard the latest message?
01:01:12Is there another?
01:01:13The Americans released it an hour ago.
01:01:17He who follows the tyrant's banner shall wear the tyrant's chains.
01:01:23He who carries God's banner shall know everlasting life.
01:01:29Paton, do you expect me to tell them that?
01:01:33What you tell them is no concern of mine.
01:01:44Everlasting life!
01:01:59Hello, Calder.
01:02:04Are you there?
01:02:06Calder, are you there?
01:02:08Press knees.
01:02:11Come in, Calder.
01:02:17He doesn't answer.
01:02:22Comrade General, I would not suggest...
01:02:25So just what?
01:02:26These uprisings.
01:02:28Is it possible that...
01:02:29It is possible that another mass transplantation of population may be necessary.
01:02:34We have fostered a famine 30 years ago.
01:02:36We shall foster another.
01:02:38Let 20 or 30 millions of these sheep die.
01:02:43And see how long the religious faith lives.
01:02:45But if the messages continue?
01:02:48We have found a religious revival necessary to get them to fight the Germans.
01:02:53We will have another and they will fight the West.
01:03:04Are you sure the valve's working?
01:03:06I've checked it a dozen times.
01:03:08There must be some reason for their silence up there.
01:03:10Well, they can be a thousand.
01:03:12We've got two atmospheres to get through.
01:03:14Ours may be clear and theirs may be impenetrable.
01:03:16Or the transmitter's out of whack.
01:03:19Maybe the operator's got the measles.
01:03:20Or maybe he's finished his allotted 300 years.
01:03:23Or maybe they've said everything they have to say.
01:03:25Maybe the rest is up to us.
01:03:30Call in 2B, 7XK.
01:03:31He won't answer.
01:03:32Come on.
01:03:34There is no need for me in there.
01:03:36You can have the honor of telling the premier that your communication have bogged down.
01:03:42I don't want to answer his questions.
01:03:44Talk English, you fool!
01:04:10Anything is preferable to that atrocious accent.
01:04:14I'm sorry, comrade premier.
01:04:16Perhaps if I try it again.
01:04:18Has the patriarch arrived yet?
01:04:20Niekak niet.
01:04:22Go to the airport!
01:04:29Well?
01:04:29There is no answer.
01:04:33Nieponimaj.
01:04:35Štou slučilo?
01:04:35Komrade premier, if I may suggest, the transmitter, we could contact the airport with it.
01:04:48Hurry!
01:04:53Prodlžajte.
01:04:55Za svijetanje.
01:05:00Nikto nie отвечajet.
01:05:02No čože?
01:05:03We are trying.
01:05:04Look!
01:05:13The lights are still on out there.
01:05:21Singing.
01:05:25It...
01:05:25It was one of the favorite anthems of the cathedrals.
01:05:29That will silence their hymns.
01:05:41What do these superstitious peasants think?
01:05:44They cannot come preach against our guns!
01:05:46appear on the demonstrant.
01:05:47They cannot come preach against their guns...
01:05:48It makes me think.
01:05:48They cannot come preach against our guns!
01:05:49I cannot come preach against your feet...
01:05:49It's impossible.
01:05:54It's impossible for you to speak.
01:05:55But, for me, it's impossible for you to speak.
01:06:00It's impossible for you to hear me to hear you those who are blinders.
01:06:00Kingy Crocket!
01:06:08Hello?
01:06:09Yes, Dr. Mitchell.
01:06:11No, she and Stuart went to town.
01:06:13I haven't got back yet.
01:06:14The baby had the sniffles and I...
01:06:16What?
01:06:18Are you serious?
01:06:20Well, yes, yes, right away.
01:06:22What's that?
01:06:30The first program ever to be televised to the Western world from Russia.
01:06:36Ladies and gentlemen, the British ambassador to Moscow.
01:06:40And I have been appointed to speak for my fellow members of the diplomatic corps.
01:06:44In days to come, thousands of volumes will be written about the miracle of these last twelve days.
01:06:50The miracle of a nation finding its soul.
01:06:54As the messages from Mars spread throughout the country,
01:06:58the heart of the Russian people began to swell with an old faith.
01:07:04And spontaneous demonstrations of that faith took place.
01:07:07From the churches, they moved on the jails, the fortresses.
01:07:12And here in Moscow, the arrival yesterday of the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church
01:07:18provided the tinder that burned down the Soviet edifice.
01:07:22Thousands of the residents of this city are now dead.
01:07:27They died in the creation of a new government.
01:07:31The patriarch has its provisional head.
01:07:34As the new leader, the new Russia, he will speak to you himself.
01:07:39This morning, our armies, in occupation of other lands, have been recalled to our own soil.
01:07:58We have thrown off our chain of 40 years of bondage.
01:08:04We now free our neighbors of theirs.
01:08:07This is the first act of our new government.
01:08:12The second is the reopening of our churches so that our people may worship God in freedom and in accord with their own conscience.
01:08:24The bells of those churches now speak for us.
01:08:30They speak only what is in our hearts.
01:08:36The prayer that all men can henceforth live in peace.
01:08:43I wish you were a little older, son.
01:08:47I wish you could remember this.
01:08:49Mama, I have to go give.
01:09:12Oh, we're famous people, Sonia, Mother and I.
01:09:14Names in the papers, decorations, scientific awards.
01:09:17You know what's really important? You. You're our immortality.
01:09:22You and your brother, the kids you'll have and the lives you'll lead.
01:09:25You're the blessed generation.
01:09:29Chris, have you heard the news?
01:09:36Mitchell called me. I couldn't believe it.
01:09:38I heard it on the car radio. Chris, you should see that crowd.
01:09:41You should see their faces.
01:09:43And I didn't want the religious messages released.
01:09:46Dad, the Russians on the radio.
01:09:51Suffering cow.
01:09:59Maybe you've reformed the Russians, Papa, not young hopeful.
01:10:02Lin? Yes?
01:10:19Suppose it's over. Communications, I mean.
01:10:21Suppose, suppose we never make it again.
01:10:23There's nothing wrong with the transmitter.
01:10:25Atmospheric conditions won't explain it either.
01:10:26No matter how bad they are, we'd pick up something.
01:10:28Would it really matter?
01:10:30We talk of their older civilization, and what have they given us?
01:10:32Nothing we couldn't have had all along.
01:10:34Prayers were given us long before wires.
01:10:36Good evening, Mr. Cronin.
01:10:47Who are you?
01:10:49How'd you get in here?
01:10:51My credentials.
01:10:54The hydrogen valve.
01:10:55The original specifications.
01:10:56Where did you get these?
01:10:57I drew them.
01:10:58Calder.
01:10:59Franz Calder.
01:11:00Franz Calder.
01:11:01Where have you come from?
01:11:04This afternoon you parked your station wagon in front of the post office.
01:11:12Didn't look in the back when you drove home.
01:11:14Neither did the guards that surround your place.
01:11:17Where have you come from?
01:11:20This afternoon you parked your station wagon in front of the post office.
01:11:24Didn't look in the back when you drove home.
01:11:27Neither did the guards that surround your place.
01:11:30This is the most stupendous joke I've ever heard.
01:11:34We thought you were in Russia, and here you were in this country all the time.
01:11:37Only since yesterday, Mr. Cronin.
01:11:38It wasn't exactly a triumphant entry.
01:11:53Mr. Cronin, did you ever have to crawl through the mud beneath a barbed wire fence?
01:11:58Hide like a hunted animal to avoid the border inspectors?
01:12:03In heaven's name, why?
01:12:05Why?
01:12:09I developed a dislike of jails.
01:12:13Jail? Are you out of your mind, man?
01:12:15Have you heard nothing of what's happened in the world?
01:12:17In spite of your record that have been an open door for the inventor of the hydrogen valve?
01:12:22Which you stole.
01:12:24Well, don't talk nonsense.
01:12:26Your specifications became government property. Anyone had a right to use them.
01:12:29That's a matter of opinion.
01:12:33Don't worry, Mr. Cronin.
01:12:35Chris has given you credit for everything that belongs to you.
01:12:38Every scientific journal has given you full credit.
01:12:40If you'll forgive me, where I've been, the latest scientific journals were not at hand.
01:12:45I lived in a hut at 11,000 feet in the Andes. An avalanche finished it.
01:12:50But I dug myself out.
01:12:56Nine days ago.
01:13:01Well, I'm glad you got out anyway.
01:13:04We're just about to broadcast. You might be interested in seeing...
01:13:07You're right. It will amuse me.
01:13:08All set, Lynn? Yes.
01:13:10Yes.
01:13:14It's a shame you didn't get a chance to carry on your work yourself.
01:13:15In a small way, I did.
01:13:16You built a transmitter.
01:13:17Naturally.
01:13:18And then you might have picked up Mars.
01:13:19I tried. I never succeeded.
01:13:20All right, Lynn, shut it off.
01:13:21Well, with your knowledge and the valve, you should have succeeded.
01:13:23Unless, of course, atmospherics play tricks at that altitude.
01:13:25It's a shame you didn't get a chance to carry on your work yourself.
01:13:28In a small way, I did.
01:13:29You built a transmitter.
01:13:30Naturally.
01:13:31And then you might have picked up Mars.
01:13:32I tried. I never succeeded.
01:13:34All right, Lynn, shut it off.
01:13:35Well, with your knowledge and the valve, you should have succeeded.
01:13:37Unless, of course, atmospherics play tricks at that altitude.
01:13:38On some people, Mr. Cronin.
01:13:39You won't mind if I take my coat off, huh?
01:13:40Yes.
01:13:41On some people.
01:13:42What do you mean by that?
01:13:43Of course.
01:13:44I only got up with what I had in my pocket.
01:13:49And you might have picked up Mars.
01:13:50I've tried. I never succeeded.
01:13:51All right, Lynn, shut it off.
01:13:54Well, with your knowledge and the valve, you should have succeeded.
01:13:56Unless, of course, atmospherics play tricks at that altitude.
01:13:58On some people, Mr. Cronin.
01:13:59You won't mind if I take my coat off, huh?
01:14:02Yes.
01:14:03On some people.
01:14:04What do you mean by that?
01:14:05Of course, I only got out with what I had in my pockets, but I think this will interest you.
01:14:18There are messages, and the replies, all of them.
01:14:22The ones that weren't decoded, too.
01:14:24Then you did pick up Mars.
01:14:26No.
01:14:28How else could you get these?
01:14:29When did you hear from Mars last?
01:14:31Nine days ago, wasn't it?
01:14:32A little after eight o'clock.
01:14:34Now, you figure the difference in time.
01:14:37And you'll find it was about half an hour before my set was smashed.
01:14:46I don't believe it.
01:14:47How slow you were in thinking up that pie formula.
01:14:52And the creation of our vocabulary.
01:14:55Aren't you grateful that I made it so easy for you?
01:15:04Here you were, the whole mobilized science of the world behind you.
01:15:09And there was I, alone, giving you answers.
01:15:13You sent the messages.
01:15:15The whole thing was a fraud.
01:15:16That credit I will share with you.
01:15:19Why? What were you after?
01:15:21Shall we say, uh, amusement?
01:15:25You thought you'd created a new earth, and I destroy it.
01:15:31A new heaven.
01:15:33And that I shall destroy.
01:15:36Once my story is told.
01:15:37Once my story is told.
01:15:39You can't do it!
01:15:43You can see the possibilities for entertainment, huh?
01:15:47Listen to me, Mr. Calder.
01:15:49I've two children over there in that house.
01:15:52And I'm just one of millions.
01:15:54Millions of women that for the first time know their children are secure.
01:15:56You can't destroy that!
01:15:59Paradise lost, Mrs. Cronin. Paradise lost.
01:16:02That's my present to the world.
01:16:05He's lying, Linda.
01:16:07Those messages were from Mars.
01:16:08They came from outside the atmosphere.
01:16:09You take me for an amateur, huh?
01:16:12I shot my signals up to hit the heavy side layer.
01:16:15They deflected down at any angle.
01:16:17Naturally, they seem to come from outside the atmosphere.
01:16:20No.
01:16:22Once I detected your signals, the rest was easy.
01:16:27I could accomplish much more making you believe I was Mars
01:16:33than ever getting Mars myself.
01:16:36Chris.
01:16:37What is it?
01:16:38He did not send the religious messages.
01:16:40Of course I didn't. You know that.
01:16:42What do you mean?
01:16:44Here are his messages.
01:16:46The very first few as we received them.
01:16:48But when we asked how they've kept themselves from blowing each other to bits,
01:16:51his answer was, one tribe must hold the power.
01:16:54It had nothing to do with the Sermon on the Mount.
01:16:56It was the prophet talking to us.
01:16:59The prophet?
01:17:01Clever of you to create him.
01:17:03You played right into my hands.
01:17:08I smashed your economic system with a power panic.
01:17:11But that still left my friends in Moscow.
01:17:14I had to smash them too.
01:17:18From my hut I could see the statue of Christ.
01:17:20I never thought of using him against them.
01:17:24Thank you for that idea.
01:17:27They must have been desperate.
01:17:29Who?
01:17:31Carey, Sparks, all of them.
01:17:33They must have done this in Washington.
01:17:35Darling, you were there.
01:17:37You spoke with Sparks and the President.
01:17:39Did you think they were play-acting?
01:17:41I don't know. I don't know.
01:17:42Who did it with immaterial?
01:17:44When I saw the effect on Moscow, I knew you'd created my weapon for me.
01:17:48That's why I let you raise the world up.
01:17:51With all that muck, right up to the sky.
01:17:54So I can dash it down to hell when I tell my story.
01:17:58You can't do it, Calder.
01:18:03Who's to stop me?
01:18:05God?
01:18:07He had his chance nine days ago.
01:18:10If I hadn't dug myself out,
01:18:13you'd have gotten away with your fraud.
01:18:16It was no fraud.
01:18:18You'd have won.
01:18:20It was no fraud.
01:18:22You don't expect me to believe those messages were not faked.
01:18:25We expect you to believe the truth just the way the rest of the world believes.
01:18:30Just the way we believe.
01:18:32But here is my proof.
01:18:34There have been no messages since my transmitter was shattered.
01:18:41How will you explain that to the world, Mr. Cronin?
01:18:46Sermon on the Mount.
01:18:49Peace on Earth.
01:18:51No, Mrs. Cronin.
01:18:52You are not dealing with a superstitious peasant.
01:19:00If those first messages were fake, the last were two.
01:19:05The world will believe me.
01:19:08Just as your husband believed me.
01:19:09And then you'll all be at each other's throats again.
01:19:14All of you!
01:19:16And I'll have done it.
01:19:18Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
01:19:23My favorite poem, Mrs. Cronin.
01:19:25The unconquerable will.
01:19:29And study of revenge.
01:19:31Immortal hate.
01:19:34And courage never to submit or yield.
01:19:38That's my God, Mrs. Cronin.
01:19:41Satan.
01:19:43Lucifer's my hero.
01:19:45God beat him.
01:19:48But I'll have beaten God.
01:19:51And nothing will convince you.
01:19:56Nothing!
01:19:57It's 8.26, according to your clock.
01:20:13I sent a telegram in your name.
01:20:16Inviting the press to be here at 8.30.
01:20:19They were only to wait a few minutes before they hear my story.
01:20:46Why didn't you tell it right away?
01:20:47Why did you come here to torture us?
01:20:50Suppose someone had stolen the fruits of your genius.
01:20:53Wouldn't you want to see them humbled in the dust?
01:20:56Perhaps.
01:20:57It doesn't matter.
01:21:00Linda.
01:21:02You go back to the house.
01:21:04Do you remember what you said to me the night of the first message?
01:21:08Nothing I was connected with could produce evil.
01:21:12It won't, Chris.
01:21:14We'll finish it together.
01:21:15I want you with the boys.
01:21:21It'll only take a minute.
01:21:23Is that what you really want?
01:21:25I love you, darling.
01:21:26You do think me a fool?
01:21:27You think I let you walk out of here to call those tymer guards over your ass?
01:21:28You do think me a fool?
01:21:29You think I let you walk out of here to call those tymer guards over your ass?
01:21:30You do think I let you walk out of here to call those tymer guards over your ass?
01:21:31You do think me a fool?
01:21:32You think I let you walk out of here to call those tymer guards over your ass?
01:21:33What's the matter, man?
01:21:34You do think me a fool?
01:21:35You think I let you walk out of here to call those tymer guards over your ass?
01:21:39What's the matter, man?
01:21:40Cheer up.
01:21:41The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:21:42You like publicity, don't you?
01:21:45Two minutes before they get here.
01:21:46You do think me a fool?
01:21:47You do think me a fool?
01:21:48You think I let you walk out of here to call those tymer guards over your ass?
01:21:52What's the matter, man?
01:21:53Cheer up.
01:21:54The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:21:55You like publicity, don't you?
01:21:56Two minutes before they get here.
01:21:59Give me a cigarette, Chris.
01:22:00I can't go through with it, Lynn.
01:22:01Not now.
01:22:02The police will be here in a few minutes.
01:22:03The police will be here in a few minutes.
01:22:04What's the matter, man?
01:22:05Cheer up.
01:22:06The reporters will be here in a few minutes.
01:22:07You like publicity, don't you?
01:22:08Two minutes before they get here.
01:22:10Give me a cigarette, Chris.
01:22:25I can't go through with it, Lynn.
01:22:28Not now.
01:22:29The boys are safe.
01:22:30This is their chance.
01:22:31Give me the cigarette.
01:22:38Funny.
01:22:39In all the years, I've never seen you smoke.
01:22:42You're not going to smoke in here.
01:22:49God gave us free will, Mr. Calder.
01:22:52It's what distinguishes us from the animals.
01:22:55We can choose between good and evil.
01:22:57But if we choose evil now, that's the end of the human story.
01:23:03I can't let you do it.
01:23:04Stay where you are!
01:23:05It's a simple problem, isn't it, Mr. Calder?
01:23:08To let you tell your story and risk setting mankind at each other's throats again.
01:23:14Or to see that you keep silent and save mankind.
01:23:18Of them!
01:23:19Give me a light.
01:23:20Don't!
01:23:21Don't!
01:23:22The room's alive with hydrogen.
01:23:23But Spachner would...
01:23:24Stop!
01:23:25Stop!
01:23:26You wouldn't kill your wife!
01:23:27Chris!
01:23:28Look!
01:23:29Look!
01:23:30Now will you believe.
01:23:31Your set's destroyed.
01:23:32But there's a message coming in.
01:23:33There's your proof!
01:23:35No.
01:23:36Not now.
01:23:37He won't.
01:23:38He won't.
01:23:39No.
01:23:40Not now.
01:23:41He won't.
01:23:42beat me now.
01:23:43Ah!
01:23:44Ah!
01:23:45No, not now.
01:23:46He won't.
01:23:47Beat me now.
01:23:49Ah!
01:23:50Ah!
01:23:51There's your proof.
01:24:01No, not now.
01:24:03He won't beat me now.
01:24:15We do not know and never shall
01:24:17what caused the destruction of that laboratory in California.
01:24:21We only know that Chris and Linda Cronin are gone.
01:24:26And that in our time there will be no more messages from Mars.
01:24:31For God in his infinite wisdom
01:24:34has decreed that the revelations which came through them,
01:24:38his servants, were sufficient to fulfill his purpose.
01:24:42At the very moment when they were snatched up in that chariot of fire
01:24:46into the bosom of truth everlasting,
01:24:48a final message was being received.
01:24:52Only the first few words of that message were recorded
01:24:54before the explosion cut it short.
01:24:57Those words were,
01:24:59you have done well, my good.
01:25:03The rest is silence.
01:25:05Silence.
01:25:08No.
01:25:10No, for as I speak the bells of a million churches
01:25:13in every far corner of the earth
01:25:16ring out in salutation to the earth's new day of hope.
01:25:20the voices of the joyful
01:25:24rise in a thousand hymns,
01:25:27hymns not of grief
01:25:30but of thanksgiving.
01:25:33And mankind, kneeling in gratitude for its redemption,
01:25:41prays for the spirit of this man and this woman.
01:25:45Of them, as of no mortals before them,
01:25:48it may be said,
01:25:50the whole earth is their sepulcher.
01:25:53And so the message does not remain unfinished.
01:25:58The miracle we have beheld has cleansed our souls
01:26:02and wiped the scales from our eyes.
01:26:05With the new vision given us,
01:26:08we who were left can complete that message.
01:26:12Ye have done well,
01:26:17good and faithful servants.
01:26:22Enter ye
01:26:24into the joy of your Lord.
01:26:29Thy monument
01:26:31is a world of peace.
01:26:37You're lucky, boys.
01:26:39You're their sons.
01:26:40You're your sons.
01:27:10You