Things to Come (1936) - Full Movie - H.G. Wells
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00:04:05You're early!
00:04:07I�ve completed. It was too late.
00:04:10What...?
00:04:12The rumors of the war.
00:04:14Someday a wolf will come.
00:04:16These fools are capable of anything.
00:04:18In that case, what happens to medical research?
00:04:20It has to stop.
00:04:22That'll mess me up.
00:04:24Mess you up. Mess everything up.
00:04:26My God, if war gets loose again.
00:04:28Happy Christmas, everyone.
00:04:34What's the matter with you fellas?
00:04:36All that.
00:04:38This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything.
00:04:40Threatened men live long
00:04:42and threatened wars never occur.
00:04:44Another speech by him.
00:04:46I tell you, there's nothing in it.
00:04:48It's just to fuck people up about the air estimates.
00:04:50Now, why meet wars halfway?
00:04:52Why not look on the bright side of things?
00:04:54You're all right.
00:04:56Your business is going up.
00:04:58You've got a jolly wife, a pretty home.
00:05:00All's right with the world, eh?
00:05:02All's right with the world.
00:05:04Certainly.
00:05:06Passworthy, you should have been called Pippa Passworthy.
00:05:08You've been smoking too much.
00:05:10You're not, you're not eupectic.
00:05:12Oh, come on, it's Christmas.
00:05:14Noel, Noel.
00:05:16Noel, Noel.
00:05:18Born is the
00:05:20King of Israel.
00:05:34Nice toys they have nowadays.
00:05:36Nice, nice toys.
00:05:38The toys we had were simpler.
00:05:40Ever so much simpler.
00:05:42Noah's arks and wooden soldiers.
00:05:44Nothing complex like these.
00:05:46You know, I wonder sometimes
00:05:48that perhaps all these new toys
00:05:50aren't a bit too much for them.
00:05:52It teaches them to use their hands.
00:05:54And I suppose their grandchildren
00:05:56will see even more wonderful things.
00:05:58Progress.
00:06:00Progress.
00:06:02I'd like to see
00:06:04the wonders they'll see.
00:06:06You won't be too sure of progress.
00:06:08Oh, listen to the incurable pessimist.
00:06:10What's to stop progress nowadays?
00:06:12War.
00:06:14Firstly, there isn't going to be a war.
00:06:16And secondly, war doesn't stop progress.
00:06:18It stimulates progress.
00:06:20Yes, war can be a highly stimulating thing.
00:06:22But you can overdo a stimulant.
00:06:24Oh, well, after all,
00:06:26don't be exaggerating the horrors of war.
00:06:28Don't we rather overdo that song?
00:06:30After all, you know, the last war
00:06:32was as bad as some people make out.
00:06:34We didn't worry.
00:06:36Something great seemed to have got hold of us.
00:06:38Something greater still
00:06:40may get hold of us next time.
00:06:42If we don't end war, war will end us.
00:06:44Well, what can you do?
00:06:48Yeah.
00:06:50What can we do?
00:07:02Peace and earth.
00:07:04Goodwill towards men.
00:07:06Real old-fashioned Christmas this year.
00:07:08Fresh little snow with a nip in the air, eh?
00:07:12What was that?
00:07:14Sounded like a gun.
00:07:16Guns, yeah.
00:07:18Merry Christmas, Gabelle.
00:07:20Here's to another good year for all of us.
00:07:22Another year of recovery, eh?
00:07:24What's a search like this for?
00:07:26I don't know.
00:07:28I've never seen anything like it.
00:07:30What's a search like doing now?
00:07:36Yes.
00:07:38There must be anti-aircraft maneuvers.
00:07:40Maneuvers at Christmas?
00:07:42No.
00:07:44Listen.
00:07:46Guns again.
00:07:56Yeah.
00:07:58Gabelle speaking.
00:08:00There's a hill down there.
00:08:06Mobilization.
00:08:08Oh, God.
00:08:10Perhaps it's only precautionary mobilization.
00:08:16The unknown aircraft
00:08:18passed over Sea Beach and dropped bombs
00:08:20within a few hundred yards of the waterworks.
00:08:22They then turned seaward again.
00:08:24By this time, they'd been picked up with the searchlights
00:08:26by a battleship dinosaur.
00:08:28Before they could mount out of range,
00:08:30she'd opened upon them with her anti-aircraft guns,
00:08:32unfortunately without result.
00:08:34Of course, everyone has said this time
00:08:36they'll start without any declaration of war.
00:08:38Oh, listen.
00:08:40We do not yet know the nationality of these aircraft,
00:08:42though of course there can be little doubt
00:08:44of their place of origin.
00:08:46But before all things, it is necessary
00:08:48for the country to keep calm.
00:08:50No doubt the losses suffered by the fleet are serious.
00:08:52Is that losses of the fleet?
00:08:54General mobilization have been issued,
00:08:56and the precautionary civilian organization
00:08:58against gas will at once be put into operation.
00:09:00Our instructions have just come to hand.
00:09:02We shall cut off for five minutes
00:09:04and then read you the general instructions.
00:09:06Please call in all your friends.
00:09:08Call in everyone you can.
00:09:12You've got your stimulant, Pazuelli.
00:09:14Something great has got you.
00:09:18War is coming.
00:09:24War is coming.
00:09:28War is coming.
00:09:32War is coming.
00:09:36War is coming.
00:09:40War is coming.
00:09:44War is coming.
00:09:48War is coming.
00:09:50War is coming.
00:09:54War is coming.
00:09:58War is coming.
00:10:02War is coming.
00:10:06War is coming.
00:10:10War is coming.
00:10:14War is coming.
00:10:16War is coming.
00:10:20War is coming.
00:10:24War is coming.
00:10:30Please keep still and listen.
00:10:32War has broken out suddenly.
00:10:34There may be an air raid,
00:10:36but it is not likely to be a very serious one.
00:10:38You must be prepared for it.
00:10:40The danger will not be great.
00:10:42As soon as the danger is over,
00:10:44the sounds will sound all clear.
00:10:46The streets will be dangerous.
00:10:48Do not assemble in crowds.
00:10:50Keep indoors. Go home.
00:10:52Those who are far from home can take refuge in the underground railways.
00:10:54Go home. Go home.
00:10:56Go home.
00:10:58Get out of the square. Get out of the streets.
00:11:00Go home and keep home.
00:11:02Put out your lights. Close the windows.
00:11:04With a wet sheet or a wet blanket,
00:11:06close the doors and windows.
00:11:08Keep indoors. Keep indoors.
00:11:10Get out of the streets.
00:11:12Go home.
00:11:14Keep indoors.
00:11:16Go home.
00:11:26My dear.
00:11:28My dear.
00:11:30Are you sorry we had these children?
00:11:32No.
00:11:34Life must carry on.
00:11:36Why should we surrender life
00:11:38to the brutes and fools?
00:11:40I loved you.
00:11:42I wanted to serve you
00:11:44and make life happy for you.
00:11:46But think of the things
00:11:48that may happen to them.
00:11:52Were we selfish?
00:11:54You weren't afraid to bet.
00:11:56We were children yesterday.
00:11:58We're anxious.
00:12:00But we're not afraid.
00:12:06Courage, my dear.
00:12:10May that little heart have courage.
00:12:30Are you an officer, Daddy?
00:12:32Well, you've got to do your bit, you know, sonny.
00:12:34You've got to do your bit.
00:12:36I'm an officer too, Daddy.
00:12:38That's the spirit. Carry on, sir.
00:12:40Carry on.
00:12:44Goodbye, son.
00:12:46There.
00:12:48Quick march.
00:13:09An air raid is approaching every town.
00:13:11An air raid is approaching every town.
00:13:13Gas masks are being distributed.
00:13:15See that they're kept tightly behind the hills.
00:13:17Get to cover.
00:13:19Get under cover at once.
00:13:21The enemy are not in any great force,
00:13:23but our anti-aircraft gunners will speedily dispose of them.
00:13:38Fire!
00:14:08Fire!
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00:19:54God, why do we have to murder each other?
00:19:56Go, my friend.
00:19:58That is my gas.
00:20:00It's a bad gas.
00:20:04Funny, if I'm...
00:20:06If I'm killed by my own poison...
00:20:08Quick, get this off!
00:20:11Funny, if I'm...
00:20:13If I'm killed by my own poison...
00:20:15Quick, get this off!
00:20:28Here, get this on, quickly!
00:20:30Give it to her!
00:20:32I've given plenty to others.
00:20:34Why should I not have some myself?
00:20:36Give it to her! I'm done!
00:20:41That's it. Breathe through your mouth.
00:21:05I dropped the gas on her.
00:21:08Maybe I've killed her father and mother.
00:21:13Maybe I've killed her whole family.
00:21:18And then I go and give up my mask to save her.
00:21:23That's funny.
00:21:29That's a joke.
00:21:37That's a joke.
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00:24:28Look! He's carrying infection!
00:24:38I didn't mean it.
00:24:44Mary, I didn't...
00:24:49There's no more left, Father.
00:24:51This is the last drop.
00:24:55God!
00:24:58What is the use of trying to save this mad world from this punishment?
00:25:02Oh, Father, if only you could get some sleep.
00:25:04How can I sleep?
00:25:06See how they wander out to die.
00:25:28Why don't you shoot them?
00:25:30It's their lives or ours.
00:25:32Let's get guards and make a cordon.
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00:25:50That's how they dealt with the peskins in the dark ages.
00:25:56Richard!
00:25:58My sister.
00:26:00Gordon! How do you know?
00:26:03My heart beats fast, but she feels faint.
00:26:06She won't answer me.
00:26:08What can I do for her?
00:26:10I thought something might be known.
00:26:12Oh, Janet. And you, you poor dear.
00:26:15Richard.
00:26:16I might be infected.
00:26:24Is there nothing to make her comfortable?
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00:26:31Nothing.
00:26:33Nothing will make anyone comfortable anymore.
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00:27:39No! Don't shoot!
00:27:42Shoot, I tell you! Shoot!
00:27:49That's the way to do it. Shoot them!
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00:28:27May Day, 1970.
00:28:31The pestilence has ceased.
00:28:33Thanks to the determined action of our chief in shooting all wanderers,
00:28:37there have been no cases for two months.
00:28:40The pestilence has been conquered.
00:28:43The chief is preparing to resume hostilities
00:28:46against the hill people with the utmost vigor.
00:28:49Soon we shall have victory and peace.
00:28:53Soon we shall have victory and peace.
00:28:56All is well.
00:28:57God save the chief.
00:28:59God save our land.
00:29:06Any more insulated wire?
00:29:08We've got no rubber wire at all, sir.
00:29:10Any rubber tape?
00:29:11There's not a scrap left in the place.
00:29:13We used the last on the other motor.
00:29:15Oh, what's the use?
00:29:17There's no petrol anywhere.
00:29:19What's the good of sitting in a job like this?
00:29:22Nothing will ever fly again.
00:29:24Flying's over. Everything's over.
00:29:26Civilization's dead.
00:29:44Hello.
00:29:46The roads, isn't it?
00:29:48Yes.
00:29:49It's a good pre-pestilence machine.
00:29:51I oil it and turn it over at times.
00:29:53You think it'll go fast some day still?
00:29:56Oh, I'm not one of your petrol hoarders.
00:29:59But all the same, that engine turns over still.
00:30:03Why, I remember when I was a lad, when it was new,
00:30:06we thought nothing of going a hundred miles in it.
00:30:09A whole hundred miles.
00:30:11Less than three hours I've done it in.
00:30:13Over that shore, everything's all gone now.
00:30:16Gone forever, eh?
00:30:18Afraid so.
00:30:25Richard.
00:30:26What is it?
00:30:27You won't think me mad.
00:30:28Why, darling?
00:30:29I thought I heard an aeroplane this morning, at dawn.
00:30:32I thought it was a dream, but...
00:30:34Nonsense. I tell you, flying's finished.
00:30:36We shall never get in the air again.
00:30:38Never.
00:30:47Hey, get on to the bus.
00:30:49No.
00:30:50The bus is coming.
00:30:52Oh, no.
00:30:54Get on to the bus.
00:31:17Hey!
00:31:19Anything to report, Gordon?
00:31:21Nothing very hopeful, Chief.
00:31:23I must have those aeroplanes somehow.
00:31:25I do what I can, but you can't fly without petrol.
00:31:28I'll get petrol for you, trust me.
00:31:30You look after the machines.
00:31:31I know you haven't got the stuff, but you can get round that.
00:31:33For example, transfer parts.
00:31:35Use bits of one to mend another.
00:31:37Be resourceful.
00:31:38Give me only ten machines in working order.
00:31:40Give me only five.
00:31:41I don't want them all.
00:31:43Ten machines in working order.
00:31:44Give me only five.
00:31:45I don't want them all.
00:31:46And we'll end this war of ours forever.
00:31:49I'll see you get your reward.
00:31:52Is your wife, Gordon?
00:31:54You keep her well hidden?
00:31:56Salutation, lady.
00:31:58Use your influence with our master mechanic.
00:32:00The competent state wants his service.
00:32:02I'm sure my husband does his best for you.
00:32:04That's hardly enough, lady.
00:32:05The competent state demands miracles.
00:32:08Not everyone can work miracles as you do, Chief.
00:32:10Oh, I'm sure you could work miracles if you tried, lady.
00:32:13Rudolph!
00:32:15Lady, lady, I showed it to you, but you said you didn't want it.
00:32:18Wadski's been up to his tricks again.
00:32:20He'll have to answer for them.
00:32:21But he's been keeping things back from me again.
00:32:23Only Wadski keeps things back.
00:32:25What do you think of our master mechanic here,
00:32:26the one that may have those planes of mine
00:32:28to end this war of ours with the Hillman?
00:32:30Well, can't you make him?
00:32:31I thought you could make everybody do everything.
00:32:34Some things you can't do, madam.
00:32:35You can't fly without petrol.
00:32:37You can't mend machines without tools or material.
00:32:39You've gone back too far.
00:32:41Flying's become a lost skill in every town.
00:32:43Are you really as stupid as that?
00:32:45I'm as hopeless as that.
00:32:47And now, Chief, what are you going to do about it?
00:32:49He's going to let me have those machines,
00:32:50and I'm going to let him have coal.
00:32:52Stuff to make oil.
00:32:54It's a lost skill. It's a dream of the...
00:33:02There it is!
00:33:03You were right!
00:33:04A plane once more!
00:33:10Look! There he is!
00:33:12Oh, look!
00:33:16He's shutting off! He's coming down!
00:33:18What's the meaning of this?
00:33:21They've got aeroplanes before us,
00:33:23and you told me we couldn't fly anymore.
00:33:26While we've been fumbling, they've been active.
00:33:28Here, some of you, you and you,
00:33:30find out who this is and what it means.
00:33:32There's only one man in it. Hold him!
00:33:34Somewhere they can still make new machines.
00:33:37I didn't dream it was still possible.
00:33:39Yes, but who is this man?
00:33:40How does he dare come here?
00:33:41Fetch him to the town hall.
00:33:42Guard his machine and bring him to me there.
00:33:49Come along, Mary. I must see that machine.
00:34:07Who's in control of this part of the country?
00:34:25The chief. What we call the boss.
00:34:28Good. I want to see him.
00:34:30He sent me to arrest you.
00:34:32You can't do that.
00:34:34But I'll come and see him.
00:34:36You're under arrest whether you'll admit it or not.
00:34:39The country's in a state of war.
00:34:41Well, come along. I know the way.
00:34:53I remember this place well.
00:34:55I used to live over there for years.
00:34:58Ever heard of a man named Parthworthy?
00:35:01Harding?
00:35:03Here he comes now.
00:35:11So you're Harding.
00:35:14I seem to remember.
00:35:16Something about you.
00:35:18You were a young man.
00:35:20You're John Kerber.
00:35:23I remember you.
00:35:24I used to visit your house here.
00:35:27Endless years ago before the wars.
00:35:30You're still flying.
00:35:32Your hair is grey, but you look young enough.
00:35:34Harding's here. Who's in control of this place?
00:35:37We have a chief, a warlord.
00:35:41The usual thing.
00:35:42I want to look up your warlord.
00:35:44Where can we go and talk?
00:35:46My laboratory is the best thing. It's just over here.
00:35:49Right.
00:35:56Here.
00:35:59You can't go in there.
00:36:00You're under arrest. You've got to go with me to the chief.
00:36:02All in good time.
00:36:04I must see this gentleman first.
00:36:05Well, you've got to go with me.
00:36:07Orders are orders. The boss first.
00:36:15Where is this man? Why isn't he brought here?
00:36:17He's got up with Dr. Harding.
00:36:19He has to be brought here. I must deal with him.
00:36:21Here, you can't go to him. That's impossible.
00:36:23He must come to you.
00:36:24I'll send another man for him. Send three men.
00:36:26He's got to be brought here.
00:36:28So that's the sort of man your boss is.
00:36:30Not an unusual type.
00:36:31Everywhere we find these little semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.
00:36:35That's what endless warfare has led to.
00:36:37Brigandage.
00:36:38What else could happen?
00:36:40But we, who are all of the left of the old engineers and mechanics, have pledged ourselves to salvage the world.
00:36:45We have the airways, all that's left of them.
00:36:46We have the seas.
00:36:48And we have ideas in common.
00:36:51The brotherhood of efficiency.
00:36:53The free masonry of science.
00:36:56We're the last trustees of civilization when everything else has failed.
00:36:59I've been waiting for this.
00:37:02I'm yours to command.
00:37:03Not mine. Not mine.
00:37:05No more bosses.
00:37:06Civilization's to command.
00:37:08Tell him you'll have to come.
00:37:10He won't come on foot.
00:37:11Well, we'll have to carry him.
00:37:13I don't know what'll happen to me, sir, if you don't come.
00:37:27Well, what do you want to see me about?
00:37:29Who are you? Do you know this country's at war?
00:37:32At war? Still at it, eh?
00:37:36We must clean that up.
00:37:38What do you mean, we must clean that up?
00:37:40War's war.
00:37:41Who are you, I say?
00:37:43The law.
00:37:44Law and sanity.
00:37:46I am the law here.
00:37:47I said law and sanity.
00:37:49Where do you come from? Who are you?
00:37:51Wings over the world.
00:37:54Well, you know you can't come into a country like this in this fashion.
00:37:57I'm here.
00:37:58Do you mind if I sit down?
00:38:01And now, for the fourth time, who are you?
00:38:05I tell you, wings over the world.
00:38:07That's nothing. What government do you under?
00:38:09Common sense.
00:38:10I belong to world communications.
00:38:12We just run ourselves.
00:38:14Eh?
00:38:15You'll run into trouble if you try and land here in wartime.
00:38:18What's the game?
00:38:20Order and trade.
00:38:22Eh?
00:38:23Can you do anything in munitions?
00:38:25Not our line of business.
00:38:26Fuel, spare parts. We've got planes. We've got planes.
00:38:28I've got boys that have trained a bit on the ground.
00:38:30We've no fuel. It hampers us. We might do a deal.
00:38:32We might.
00:38:33I know where I can get some fuel. I've got my plans later.
00:38:35But if you can manage a temporary accommodation, we'd do business.
00:38:39World communications helps no one to make war.
00:38:41End war. End war.
00:38:43I want to make victorious peace.
00:38:46I seem to have heard that phrase before.
00:38:48When I was a young man.
00:38:50But it made no end of war.
00:38:52Now look here, Mr. Aviator. Let's see how we stand.
00:38:54Come down to actuality.
00:38:56The way you swagger, you don't seem to realize you're under arrest.
00:38:59You and your machine.
00:39:01You'll find other planes looking for me if I happen to be delayed.
00:39:05We'll deal with them later.
00:39:07Now you can start a trading agency here if you like.
00:39:10I've no objection.
00:39:11The first thing we shall want is to get our planes in the air again.
00:39:15Right. A laudable ambition.
00:39:17But our new order has an objection to private airplanes.
00:39:19The impudence.
00:39:20I'm not talking about private airplanes.
00:39:22Our airplanes are public airplanes.
00:39:25This is an independent sovereign state at war.
00:39:28I know nothing about any old order.
00:39:31I'm the chief here.
00:39:33And I'm not taking any orders old or new from you.
00:39:37I suppose I've walked into trouble.
00:39:39Yeah, you can take that as right.
00:39:44Where do you come from?
00:39:46I flew from my headquarters in Basra this morning.
00:39:49We have some hundreds of new type planes and we're building more, fast.
00:39:53The factories are working again.
00:39:54We're gradually restoring order and trade in the whole Mediterranean area.
00:39:58We're scouting this region now to see how things are.
00:40:00You'll find out.
00:40:02This is an independent sovereign state.
00:40:04Yes, we must talk about that.
00:40:06We don't discuss it.
00:40:08We don't approve of independent sovereign states.
00:40:10You don't approve.
00:40:12We mean to stop them.
00:40:13That's war.
00:40:14If you will.
00:40:17Well, I think we know how we stand.
00:40:20Burton, take this man.
00:40:23If he gives you any trouble, club him.
00:40:26You hear that, Mr. Wings over your wits.
00:40:29My friends know my whereabouts.
00:40:32If I don't come back, they'll send a force to find me.
00:40:35Perhaps they won't find you.
00:40:37They'll find you.
00:40:38They'll find me ready.
00:40:41Take him to the detention room downstairs.
00:40:44Yes.
00:40:55Now, was that wise?
00:40:56Wise?
00:40:57Yes, wise to quarrel with him at once.
00:40:59Quarrel with him?
00:41:00Confront him if you're going to quarrel with me.
00:41:03You must clean that up.
00:41:05Clean that up?
00:41:06My war.
00:41:07There's things behind him.
00:41:09Things behind him?
00:41:10Some sort of aerial bus driver?
00:41:13Standing up to me.
00:41:15Like an equal.
00:41:16So you lost your temper and you bullied him.
00:41:18I don't bully, I just handle the man.
00:41:28He's the first real aviator that has come this way for years.
00:41:31Think of what that means, my dear.
00:41:33You want aeroplanes, don't you?
00:41:35You want your aeroplanes put in order?
00:41:37A really clever man could have had some of those machines up long ago.
00:41:40I'm sure of it.
00:41:42Along comes this stranger who's going to clean me up.
00:41:46You expect me to hand my planes over to him, lock, stock and barrel?
00:41:49Why talk nonsense?
00:41:50You could have persuaded him under supervision.
00:41:52Supervision?
00:41:53The sort of oafs I've got here to supervise him.
00:41:56He'd be too much for them.
00:41:57Oh, well, of course, if he's going to be too much for you,
00:41:59why don't you hang him and hide his machine before the others are after you?
00:42:02I don't agree with you, I don't agree with you.
00:42:05Now, this stranger hasn't taken me by surprise.
00:42:10I knew he was coming.
00:42:11Yes, I knew he was coming.
00:42:14I felt this conspiracy of their bus drivers brewing somewhere in the world.
00:42:19I felt they were getting ahead with their aeroplanes down there somewhere.
00:42:22Very well, now's our chance.
00:42:24We've got this fellow bottled up.
00:42:25They won't even begin to miss him for days.
00:42:28I've got everything fixed for now,
00:42:30for an attack straightaway on the Floss Valley to the old coal and shale pits
00:42:33where there's oil, too.
00:42:34Then, up we buzz.
00:42:41Fire!
00:43:12Fire!
00:43:38Victory approaches!
00:43:40Your sacrifices have not been in vain.
00:43:43Our old struggle with the hill men has come to its climax.
00:43:46Our new victory at the coal pits
00:43:48has brought a great supply of oil within our reach.
00:43:51Once more, we may hope to take the air
00:43:54and look our invaders in the face.
00:43:57With 40 aeroplanes,
00:43:59as large a force, I venture to say, as any in the world,
00:44:02this new oil can be adapted to our needs.
00:44:05That's quite a simple business.
00:44:08Nothing remains but the conclusive bombing of the hills.
00:44:11Then, for a time,
00:44:13we can hope for a rich, rewarding peace.
00:44:16A peace of the strong man armed who keepeth his house.
00:44:20And now, at this supreme crisis,
00:44:22you, Gordon, our master mechanic,
00:44:24refuse your help.
00:44:25Where are my planes?
00:44:27The job is more difficult than you think.
00:44:29Our few machines are hopelessly old.
00:44:31We'll have them twenties down at once.
00:44:32To be exact, nineteen.
00:44:34We'll never get the others off the ground.
00:44:36The thing can't be done as you imagine it.
00:44:37I want assistance.
00:44:38What assistance?
00:44:39Your prisoner.
00:44:40What, you want that chap in black with wings over the world?
00:44:44You want him released?
00:44:45He knows his business.
00:44:46I don't.
00:44:47Now, make him my technical advisor.
00:44:49I don't trust you technical chaps.
00:44:51Then you won't get an airplane out.
00:44:52I want those planes.
00:44:56What if you get him?
00:44:57Then I want Dr. Harding out, too.
00:44:59We're old associates.
00:45:00I can't help that.
00:45:01If anybody in every town can adapt to that crude oil
00:45:03for our aeroplanes, it's Harding.
00:45:05If not, it can't be done.
00:45:06We had a bit of an argument with Harding.
00:45:10He's the only man who can do this work for you.
00:45:26Unto his hands.
00:45:29Well?
00:45:31Well what?
00:45:32Salute.
00:45:33No, no, no.
00:45:34Oh, never mind the salute.
00:45:35Now, we'll talk about that later.
00:45:36Now, look here.
00:45:37Let's see how we stand.
00:45:38You, Gordon, are to undertake the reconstruction
00:45:39of our air force.
00:45:40The prisoner, Cabal, is to be placed at your disposal.
00:45:42Everywhere he goes, he is to be under guard and observation.
00:45:44No relaxing in there.
00:45:46Neither you nor he are to go within 100 yards
00:45:48of his airplane.
00:45:49Mind that.
00:45:50Now, you, Harding, are to assist Gordon
00:45:52with a secure problem and place your knowledge
00:45:54of poison gas at our disposal.
00:45:55I have nothing to do with poison gas.
00:45:57You've got the knowledge of it.
00:45:58I have to wring it out of you.
00:46:00The states, your mother, your father,
00:46:02the totality of your interests.
00:46:05No discipline can be too severe for the man
00:46:07that denies that by word or deed.
00:46:10Nonsense.
00:46:11We have a duty to civilization.
00:46:13You and your sort are driving us straight back
00:46:15to eternal barbarism.
00:46:17But this is pure treason.
00:46:19I protest against you.
00:46:22All my life has been interrupted and wasted
00:46:24and spoiled by war.
00:46:26I will not stand any longer.
00:46:28But this is treason.
00:46:29Treason.
00:46:30No, no, no.
00:46:31Stop that.
00:46:32We need of your service.
00:46:34Tell what you want.
00:46:35You are conscripted.
00:46:37You are under my orders now and under no other
00:46:40orders in the world.
00:46:42I am master here.
00:46:43I am the state.
00:46:44I am the state.
00:46:45I am the state.
00:46:46I am the state.
00:46:47I am the state.
00:46:48I am the state.
00:46:49I am the state.
00:46:50I am the state.
00:46:52I need fuel and gas.
00:46:54Neither fuel nor gas.
00:46:56You refuse?
00:46:57Absolutely.
00:46:59I don't want to be forced to extremities.
00:47:02May I have a word?
00:47:05I understand you want all of those out-of-date
00:47:07crocs of yours which you call your air force
00:47:09to fly again and fly well.
00:47:11They shall.
00:47:12With the help of that man Cabal you have in the
00:47:14cells, Dr. Harding here, you may even have a
00:47:17dozen of your planes in the air again.
00:47:20You.
00:47:22You are a traitor to civilization.
00:47:24I won't touch you.
00:47:27If you will give me Cabal and if you leave me
00:47:30free to talk with Harding, I promise you you
00:47:32will see your air force, a third of it at any
00:47:35rate, in the sky again.
00:47:36You talk as if you are driving a bargain with me.
00:47:39I'm sorry, chief.
00:47:40It's not I who makes these conditions.
00:47:42It is the nature of things.
00:47:44You're going to have technical services.
00:47:46You're going to have scientific help without
00:47:48treating the men who give it to you properly.
00:47:50That's what I said all along.
00:47:52You're bullying too hard, my dear, and there's
00:47:54a limit to bullying.
00:47:55Why?
00:47:56You can't make a dog hunt by beating it.
00:47:58I want those planes.
00:48:04I wanted to look at you.
00:48:07I am at your service, madam.
00:48:09You're the most interesting thing that has
00:48:11happened in every town for years.
00:48:13You honor me.
00:48:14You come from outside.
00:48:17I began to forget there was anything outside.
00:48:20I want to hear about it.
00:48:22May I offer you my only chair?
00:48:24You know, I'm not a stupid woman.
00:48:27I'm sure.
00:48:28This life here is limited.
00:48:30War always going on and never ending.
00:48:33Flags marching.
00:48:35Oh, I adore the chief.
00:48:37I've always adored him since he took control on
00:48:39the festivals days when everyone else lost heart.
00:48:42He rules.
00:48:43He's fun.
00:48:44Everyone, every woman finds him strong and attractive.
00:48:48I can't complain.
00:48:50I have everything that is to be had here.
00:48:52And yet, this is a small, limited world we live in.
00:48:58You bring in the breath of something greater.
00:49:00When I saw you swooping down out of the air,
00:49:03when I saw you marching into the town hall,
00:49:05I felt this man lives in a greater world.
00:49:08And you spoke of the Mediterranean,
00:49:10and the East, of your camps and factories.
00:49:13I read about the Mediterranean, and Egypt, and Greece, and India.
00:49:17Oh, I can read a lot of those old books.
00:49:21I'm not like most of the younger people here.
00:49:23I learned a lot before education stopped and schools closed down.
00:49:27I want to see that world.
00:49:29Skies, snowy mountains, blue seas, sunshine.
00:49:34If I had my way, you could fly to all that in a couple of hours.
00:49:38If you were free, and if I was free.
00:49:43I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things.
00:49:47You don't understand our imagination.
00:49:49How wild our imaginations can be.
00:49:52I wish I were a man.
00:49:54Oh, if I were a man!
00:49:58What do your people try to do to us?
00:50:02What are you going to do to this boss of mine?
00:50:05The immediate question seems, what does he mean to do to me?
00:50:08Something violent and foolish.
00:50:11Unless I prevent it.
00:50:13That's how I see things.
00:50:15And if he kills you?
00:50:18We shall come here and clean things up.
00:50:20But if you're killed, how can you say we?
00:50:23We go on. That's how things are.
00:50:26We are taking hold of things.
00:50:28In science and government, in the long run, no man is indispensable.
00:50:33The human things go on.
00:50:35We, forever.
00:50:37I see.
00:50:39And this warlike state of ours here.
00:50:42It has to vanish, like the Tyrannosaurus and the Sabre-toothed Tiger.
00:50:49Oh, so here you are.
00:50:51I said I should talk to him and I have.
00:50:53I told you to leave that fellow alone.
00:50:55Yes, and sat up there drinking and swaggering and looking as proud as you could.
00:50:59Rudolph the Victorious.
00:51:01Here am I trying to find out what this black invader means.
00:51:04You think I wanted to come and talk to him?
00:51:06This grey, cold man.
00:51:08While you're swaggering here, there are more planes away there at Basra getting ready.
00:51:12Basra?
00:51:13His headquarters. Have you never heard of Basra?
00:51:16These are matters for us to talk about.
00:51:20This lady has been putting me through a severe cross-examination.
00:51:23But the gist of it is that away there in Basra, new airplanes are rising night and day.
00:51:28Like hornets round a hornet's nest.
00:51:31What happens to me is a small affair.
00:51:34They'll finish you.
00:51:36The new world of United Airmen will finish you.
00:51:40Listen.
00:51:41You can almost hear them coming now.
00:51:45Not a bit of it.
00:51:46What he says is the truth.
00:51:47What he says is bluff.
00:51:48Make peace with the other and let him go.
00:51:50That means surrender of our sovereign independence.
00:51:53But more machines will be coming and more and more.
00:51:55And he's here, hostage for their good behavior.
00:51:58Come, madam. Enough of this little diplomatic mission of yours.
00:52:02You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.
00:52:11I don't know what she's been saying to you.
00:52:15I don't much care.
00:52:17There's no making peace between you and me.
00:52:19It's your world or mine and it's going to be mine.
00:52:23For all your threats of swarms of hornets and so on, you're a hostage.
00:52:28Remember that.
00:52:30And don't be too sure you'll win.
00:52:35Now just sit here and think that over, Mr. Wings of the world.
00:52:46Now get round to the other side and look at these engine bearer braces, quickly.
00:52:53If I could get to my plane, there's a wireless there.
00:52:56It's hopeless. They won't even trust me.
00:52:58You shall have to make a job of this.
00:53:04I can manage to get you a reserve petrol. Let me have that for this plane.
00:53:07Good.
00:53:08It won't be easy to make a getaway.
00:53:12These oil pump connections aren't very good, but we'll have to risk it.
00:53:16I think we'll manage it all right now that Harding knows his part of the job.
00:53:19Good.
00:53:22Look!
00:53:38Look! It's your Gordon. He's flying at last.
00:53:52Look!
00:54:02Look!
00:54:03An aeroplane out of the arch, boys.
00:54:05This is pre-war.
00:54:12Where do you come from?
00:54:13We come from the North Sea, from Evertown.
00:54:15He says Cabal is a prisoner.
00:54:17They've got him, sir, and he's in danger. I had great difficulty in getting here.
00:54:20You say Cabal is in danger?
00:54:21In very great danger.
00:54:22The boss there is a violent tough.
00:54:24Job for our new squadron.
00:54:26Well, now we've got a chance to try the new gas of peace on somebody.
00:54:29There's no time to lose, sir. May I report to headquarters?
00:54:31Yes. Take him to the council.
00:54:38At last we have definite news.
00:54:40What is it?
00:54:41Gordon didn't fall into the sea. He got away.
00:54:43A fishing boat saw him making for the French coast.
00:54:45Perhaps he reached his pals.
00:54:46Well?
00:54:47Well, he'll be coming back.
00:54:48He'll be bringing the others with him.
00:54:50Curse these world communications.
00:54:54Curse all airmen and...
00:54:56gasmen and machine men.
00:54:59Why didn't we leave their machines and their sciences alone?
00:55:01I might have known.
00:55:02Why did I tamper with flying?
00:55:04Well, we needed aeroplanes against the hill states.
00:55:07Somebody else would have started in again with aeroplanes and gas and bombs if we hadn't.
00:55:11These people would have come interfering anyhow.
00:55:13Why was all this science ever allowed?
00:55:14Why was it ever let begin?
00:55:16Science?
00:55:17It's an enemy of everything that's natural in life.
00:55:21I dreamt of those fellas last night.
00:55:23Great, ugly, black, inhuman chaps.
00:55:25Oh, like machines.
00:55:27Bombing and bombing.
00:55:29Yes, I guess they'll come bombing all right.
00:55:30Then we'll fight them.
00:55:32Since Gordon got away, I've had those airboys up to see me.
00:55:34They've got guts. They'll do something still.
00:55:36We'll fight them. We'll fight them.
00:55:38Ha!
00:55:39We've got hostages.
00:55:40Better than to shoot them anyway.
00:55:42Where's that chap Harding?
00:55:45Of course.
00:55:46He can't tell us what to do against this gas.
00:55:48We'll have to pull his arm off and knock his teeth out of his throat.
00:55:51Get him! Get him!
00:55:52Here he is, Captain Harding.
00:55:58I have to come to Earth sometime.
00:56:01What is this world communications?
00:56:04A handful of men like ourselves.
00:56:07They're not magic.
00:56:16Watch out!
00:56:33Do you iron truss these good dry tested machines?
00:56:38You are not mechanics. You are warriors.
00:56:42You have been trained not to think, but to do.
00:56:46...may be to die!
00:56:50I salute you!
00:56:51I, your chief!
00:57:17What do you know about these world communication people?
00:57:20Have they got gas? What sort of gas?
00:57:22I know nothing about gas. Tell us about these masks, anyway.
00:57:26Well, they're rotten. They're no good at all.
00:57:29What sort of gas have they got?
00:57:31I tell you, gas isn't my business.
00:57:33Well, they can't gas us when you're here, anyway.
00:57:36Here they are! Listen! They're coming already!
00:58:17We're here. Tell them to stand by.
00:58:20Clumsy great things! Our boys will have them down in no time!
00:58:24They're too clumsy!
00:58:50Look at this! She threw us out by the rest of our pillars! Go on! I'll patch in!
00:59:20Poor boy's got him!
00:59:30They're both coming down, cowards!
00:59:32But they can't be scared that we have hostages!
00:59:34The hostages? I'm not done yet. Go on, Petra, bring them out here.
00:59:37Out in the open. Try them out where they can be seen.
00:59:39Where's the other fellow? He's the prize hostage. He's the best of the lot.
00:59:46They'll know him, won't they?
00:59:51Look! Is that gas?
01:00:03You won't get out of this! You!
01:00:07Don't you see we're beaten?
01:00:12Shoot them! What are you all doing? Why don't you move?
01:00:16I never did you any harm. I saved your father and I saved you.
01:00:20Couldn't you call up your man there to stop them?
01:00:25I won't have it like this!
01:00:30What's happening?
01:00:33Everything's swimming!
01:00:37Shoot! Shoot! We never shot enough yet!
01:00:42We never shot enough?
01:00:46We spared them now they've got us.
01:00:49Oh, well, well, well.
01:00:53Why should I be beat like this?
01:00:59Shoot! Shoot!
01:01:03Shoot! Shoot!
01:02:04There they are.
01:02:09Mary!
01:02:15No, no, she's not hurt. She's asleep like the others.
01:02:20Cabal's safe! Cabal!
01:02:23Well done, Gordon!
01:02:26Well, they laughed at me for sticking to my gas mask, but thanks to that I'm here and everyone else is sleeping.
01:02:33I wonder if they'll ever use gas masks again.
01:02:35Sir!
01:02:36What is it?
01:02:40This man's not sleeping. He's dead.
01:02:44Dead in his world, dead with him, and a new world beginning.
01:02:49Poor old boss here and his flags in his bollocks.
01:02:54And now for the rule of the air and a new life for mankind.
01:03:03The End
01:03:17Our job is only beginning.
01:03:20For now we have to put the world in order.
01:03:23It will be a long and complicated struggle, but we have the unity of a common order and a common knowledge.
01:03:29This is how I conceive our plan of operations.
01:03:32First a roundup of brigands.
01:03:34At last, dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiers.
01:03:38The last would-be conquerors.
01:03:40Then settle.
01:03:42Organize. Advance.
01:03:44This zone, then that.
01:03:46And at last, wings over the world.
01:03:49And a new world begins.
01:03:53Do you realize the immense task we shall undertake
01:03:56when we set ourselves to an active and aggressive peace,
01:04:00when we direct our energies to tear out the wealth of this planet
01:04:04and exploit all these giant possibilities of science
01:04:08that have been squandered hitherto upon war and senseless competition?
01:04:13We shall excavate the eternal hills.
01:04:16We shall make such use of the treasures of sky and sea and earth
01:04:20as men have never dreamt of hitherto.
01:04:24I would that I could see our children's children in this world we shall win for.
01:04:29But in them and through them we shall live again.
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01:10:14Is it any better world than it used to be?
01:10:29I rebel against this progress.
01:10:31What has this progress, this world civilization, done for us?
01:10:34Machines and marbles.
01:10:37They've built this great city of theirs, yes.
01:10:40They've prolonged life, yes.
01:10:42They've conquered nature, they say, and made a great white world.
01:10:47Is it any jollier than the world used to be in the good old days
01:10:50when life was short and hard and merry and the devil took the hindmost?
01:10:53All the same, what can we do about it?
01:10:55Rebel. And rebel now. Now. Now is the time.
01:10:58Why now in particular?
01:10:59Why, because of this space gun business.
01:11:02Because of this project to shoot human beings at the stars.
01:11:05People don't like it, shooting humans away into hard, frozen darkness.
01:11:09They're murmuring.
01:11:11They've murmured before and nothing came of it.
01:11:14Because they had no leader.
01:11:17But now, suppose someone cried,
01:11:23Halt! Stop this progress!
01:11:27Suppose I shouted to the world, make an end to this progress.
01:11:30I could talk, talk.
01:11:32Radio is everywhere. This modern world is full of voices.
01:11:36I'm a master craftsman. I have the right to talk.
01:11:39Yes, but will they listen to you?
01:11:41They'll listen. Trust them.
01:11:44If I shout, arise! Awake!
01:11:49Stop this progress before it is too late!
01:12:10I like these history lessons.
01:12:15What a funny place New York was.
01:12:18All stinking up and full of windows.
01:12:20They built houses like that in the old days.
01:12:22Why?
01:12:23They had no light inside their cities as we have,
01:12:26so they had to stick them up into the daylight.
01:12:28What there was of it,
01:12:30they had no properly mixed and conditioned air.
01:12:33Everybody lived half out of doors.
01:12:36They had windows with brittle glass.
01:12:39The age of windows lasted four centuries.
01:12:42They never seemed to realize that we could light the interiors of our houses
01:12:45with sunshine of our own,
01:12:47so there was no need to stick them up ever so high into the air.
01:12:50They keep on inventing new things now, don't they?
01:12:53And making life lovelier and lovelier.
01:12:56I don't know.
01:12:58They keep on inventing new things now, don't they?
01:13:01And making life lovelier and lovelier.
01:13:04And lovelier, yes.
01:13:06And bolder.
01:13:08I suppose I'm an old man, my dear,
01:13:10but some of it seems like going too far.
01:13:12This space gun of theirs that they keep on shooting.
01:13:16What is this space gun, great-grandfather?
01:13:19Well, it's a gun that is charged by electricity.
01:13:23It's a lot of guns inside one another,
01:13:26but what is the gun next inside?
01:13:28I don't properly understand it,
01:13:30but the cylinder it shoots out last goes swish right away from the earth.
01:13:33I wish I could fly around the moon.
01:13:36Well, that in time.
01:13:38Won't you come back to your history pictures again?
01:13:40I'm glad I didn't live in the old world.
01:13:43I know that John Cabal and his airmen tidied it all up.
01:13:47Did you see John Cabal, great-granddad?
01:13:49Well, you can see him in your pictures.
01:13:51But you saw him when he lived.
01:13:53You really saw him?
01:13:55Yes.
01:13:56I saw the great John Cabal with my own eyes when I was a little boy.
01:14:01He was a lean, brown old man with hair as white as mine.
01:14:06He was the great-grandfather of our Oswald Cabal,
01:14:09the president of our council.
01:14:16I take it the space gun's passed all its preliminary trials,
01:14:19and there's nothing left now but to choose the two who are to go.
01:14:22That's going to be the trouble.
01:14:24A lot of young people have been applying.
01:14:26Young men and young women.
01:14:28I never dreamt the moon was so attractive.
01:14:30Practically, the gun's perfect now.
01:14:32There are risks, but reasonable risks.
01:14:34And the position of the moon in the next three or four months
01:14:36gives us the best conditions for getting there.
01:14:39It's only the choice of the two now that matters.
01:14:41Well?
01:14:42There are going to be difficulties.
01:14:44That man Theotokopoulos is talking on the radio about it.
01:14:47He's a fantastic fellow.
01:14:50Yes, but he's making problems.
01:14:52It's not going to be easy to choose these young people.
01:14:55With all these thousands offering themselves,
01:14:57we've looked into thousands of cases.
01:14:59We've rejected every one who's in perfect health
01:15:01or any one of her friends who objected.
01:15:03And the fact is, we want you to talk to two people.
01:15:06There's Raymond Passworthy of General Fabric.
01:15:08You know him?
01:15:09Yes, I know him.
01:15:10And his son.
01:15:11We want you to see the son, Maurice Passworthy.
01:15:13Why?
01:15:14He asks to go.
01:15:15We think you ought to see him.
01:15:17He's waiting here.
01:15:23Is Maurice Passworthy there?
01:15:25He's on his way.
01:15:27Good.
01:15:32You want to talk to me?
01:15:33Forgive me, sir. I came straight to you.
01:15:35You're asking a favor.
01:15:36A very big favor.
01:15:38I want to be one of the first two human beings to go around the moon.
01:15:41It means danger.
01:15:43Great hardship anyhow.
01:15:45You realize there's an even chance of never coming back alive.
01:15:48There's still a greater chance of coming back a cripple.
01:15:51Give me credit for not minding that, sir.
01:15:54Yes, a lot of you young people don't mind that.
01:15:58But why should I give you a favor?
01:16:00Well, I'm the son of a friend of yours.
01:16:03People seem to feel you oughtn't to send someone you don't know, sir.
01:16:06Go on.
01:16:07We've talked about this over and over again.
01:16:10We?
01:16:11Yes, both of us.
01:16:12It's her idea even more than it's mine.
01:16:15Her idea?
01:16:17Who is she?
01:16:18Someone much closer to you than I am.
01:16:20Much closer to you than I am, sir.
01:16:23Go on.
01:16:24It's Catherine, your daughter.
01:16:27She says you can't possibly send anybody's child but your own.
01:16:40I might have known.
01:16:44Today I'm going to put it to the world plainly.
01:16:47Is this thing to go on?
01:16:48Or are we sane and normal human beings who put an end to it?
01:16:51And an end to all such follies forever?
01:17:19What is this progress?
01:17:21What is the good of all this progress onward and onward?
01:17:25We demand a halt.
01:17:26We demand a rest.
01:17:28The object of life is happy living.
01:17:30We will not have human life sacrificed to experiment.
01:17:33Progress is not living.
01:17:35It should only be the preparation for living.
01:17:37They stage the old Greek tragedy again.
01:17:40And a father offers up his daughter to his evil gods.
01:17:45And that voice is sounding to the whole world.
01:17:48No.
01:17:49The old slavers have taken new names.
01:17:52They'll have to hear him and make what they can of him.
01:17:55What does this space gun portend?
01:17:57Make no mistake about it.
01:17:59The slavers they put upon themselves today,
01:18:02they will impose tomorrow upon the whole world.
01:18:06Is man never to rest?
01:18:09Never to be free?
01:18:11A time will come when you in your turn will be forced away
01:18:15to take your chance upon strange planets
01:18:18and in dreary, abominable places beyond the stars.
01:18:23An end to progress.
01:18:25Make an end to this progress now.
01:18:28Let this be the last day of the scientific age.
01:18:32Make this space gun the symbol of all that drives us
01:18:35and destroy it.
01:18:37Now.
01:18:41Hooray!
01:18:45I wonder what they will make.
01:18:54Well for you, Gabal.
01:18:55The great grandson of John Gabal, the heir dictator,
01:18:58the man who changed the whole course of the world.
01:19:01You've got experiment in your blood, you and your daughter.
01:19:04But I'm more normal.
01:19:06I don't believe my boy would have thought of it.
01:19:08The two of them must have got together.
01:19:10This time there's no attempt to land on the moon.
01:19:16When...
01:19:17When is this great experiment to be made?
01:19:19How much longer have we got before they go?
01:19:21When the space gun is ready.
01:19:22Sometime this year, you mean?
01:19:23Soon.
01:19:25Then is there no way of saving our children from this madness?
01:19:30But would it be saving our children?
01:19:32Oh, here they are.
01:19:35Father, where do we go?
01:19:36Yes, you're the girl.
01:19:37It's an hour.
01:19:38Two hours ago.
01:19:39Two hours ago.
01:19:51Your speech has struck fire.
01:19:53All the people are excited and angry.
01:19:55Some are already going out of the city towards the space gun.
01:19:57Nothing is wanted now but bleeding.
01:19:59We must go right on with this.
01:20:01To the space gun.
01:20:04And so we end an age.
01:20:10Young people.
01:20:11Just beginning life.
01:20:14You want to go into that outer horror.
01:20:18Why don't you send somebody who's sick of life?
01:20:20They want fit young people, alert and quick.
01:20:22And we're fit young people.
01:20:24We can observe and come back and tell.
01:20:26Cabal, I just want to ask you one plain question.
01:20:29Why did you let your daughter dream of going on this mad moon journey?
01:20:33Because I love her.
01:20:34And I wanted to live to the best effect.
01:20:37Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect.
01:20:42The nearer the thorn, the sweeter the leaf.
01:20:45The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
01:20:49I'm a broken man.
01:20:51I don't know where honor lies.
01:20:53You haven't got things right, Passworthy.
01:20:56Our fathers and our fathers' fathers cleaned up the old order of things because it killed children.
01:21:01It killed those who were unprepared for death.
01:21:03Because it tormented people in vain.
01:21:05Because it outraced human pride and dignity.
01:21:07Because it was an ugly spectacle of waste.
01:21:11But that was only a beginning.
01:21:13There's nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose.
01:21:17Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death.
01:21:21It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
01:21:24Cabal.
01:21:27Cabal, the gun's in urgent danger.
01:21:29It's a race against time now to save it.
01:21:31Theodore Coppola's is up with a crowd of people already.
01:21:33He's going to the space gun now.
01:21:34They're going to break it up.
01:21:35They say it's the symbol of your tyranny.
01:21:37Are there weapons?
01:21:38Bars of metal.
01:21:39They can smash delicate apparatus.
01:21:40They can do endless mischief.
01:21:42But you have a traffic control.
01:21:43Can't they produce the police?
01:21:45Very few.
01:21:46We've nothing but the gas of peace and it isn't ready.
01:21:48It'll take hours yet.
01:21:50We must hold this crowd back at any cost for a time until the gas of peace is ready.
01:21:54Yes, sir.
01:21:55Come on.
01:22:17Well, they're ranting.
01:22:18It's barbarism come back.
01:22:19Who are you?
01:22:20William Jeans, astronomical department, space gun.
01:22:22Well, we've stopped the airways.
01:22:23They'll have to go afoot.
01:22:24And they'll take an hour or more to get there.
01:22:25Even those who've already started.
01:22:27That gun mustn't be broken up.
01:22:29After all, the final experiments have been made.
01:22:31When everything was ready.
01:22:32When everything was ready?
01:22:33If they smash up that infernal gun, then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.
01:22:37They won't smash the gun.
01:22:39Suppose the gun was fired now.
01:22:40Would the cylinder reach the moon?
01:22:42It would miss and fly into outer space.
01:22:44It's five now.
01:22:45If the gun were fired before seven...
01:22:47And it could be.
01:22:48Yes.
01:22:49Then we go now.
01:22:50No, no, no.
01:22:51I don't know what to say, but don't go.
01:22:52Don't go.
01:22:53But father, we must go now or we may never go.
01:22:55And then for the rest of our lives, we'll feel we've shirked and lived in vain.
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01:29:42We must go now.
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01:29:54We must go now.
01:29:55We must go now.
01:29:56We must go now.
01:29:57We must go now.
01:29:58We must go now.
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01:30:00We must go now.
01:30:01We must go now.
01:30:02We must go now.
01:30:03We must go now.
01:30:04We must go now.
01:30:05We must go now.
01:30:06We must go now.
01:30:07We must go now.
01:30:08They are coming.
01:30:13They are coming.
01:30:18There, there they go, that faint gleam of light.
01:30:27I feel that what we've done is monstrous.
01:30:31What they've done is majestic.
01:30:33Will they come back?
01:30:34Yes, and go again and again, till the landing is made and the moon is conquered.
01:30:38This is only a beginning.
01:30:40But if they don't come back, my son and your daughter, what of that cabal?
01:30:44Then, presently, others will grow.
01:30:47Oh, God, is there ever to be any age of happiness?
01:30:50Is there never to be any rest?
01:30:52Rest enough for the individual.
01:30:54Too much and too soon, and we call it death.
01:30:57But for man, no rest and no ending.
01:31:00He must go on, conquest beyond conquest.
01:31:03First, this little planet and its winds and waves.
01:31:07And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him.
01:31:11Then the planets about him.
01:31:14And at last, out across immensity to the stars.
01:31:19And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time,
01:31:24still he will be beginning.
01:31:28But we're such little creatures.
01:31:31Poor humanity is so fragile, so weak.
01:31:34Little, little animals.
01:31:37Little animals.
01:31:40And if we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness
01:31:45and live and suffer and pass,
01:31:49mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done.
01:31:54It is this or that,
01:31:58all the universe or nothingness,
01:32:04which shall it be, husband?
01:32:08Which shall it be?
01:32:12Which shall it be?
01:32:22Which shall it be?
01:32:26Which shall it be?
01:32:31Which shall it be?
01:32:39Husband!