Name: Things To Come 1939
Uploaded: 2025-01-07T10:13:55.224Z
Duration: 1 h 32 min 53 s
Channel: alugha classics
Description: Things to Come (also known as Shape of Things to Come and in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British science fiction …

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speaker♪ (bells ring in tune)

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speaker♪ (dramatic orchestral music)

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speaker♪ (dramatic Christmas music)

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speaker♪ (voices singing) Born is the king of Isreal

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speaker♪ (dramatic Christmas music)

2:00 → 2:03

speaker♪ (voices singing) Noel, noel

2:03 → 2:07

speaker♪ Noel, Noel

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speaker♪ Born is the king of Israel

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

2:22 → 2:27

speaker♪ While shepherds watched their flocks by night

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speaker♪ All seated on the ground

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speaker♪ The angel of the Lord came down

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speaker♪ And glory shone around

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker♪ God rest ye merry gentlemen

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speaker♪ Let nothing you dismay ♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

2:56 → 3:00

speaker♪ Remember Christ our Savior

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speaker♪ Was born on Christmas Day

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker♪ Remember Christ our savior was born on Christmas day

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker♪ Many tidings of comfort and joy

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speaker♪ Comfort and joy

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker- Hello young Harding, you're early.

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speaker- Yes, I've finished, Doc.

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speakerIt was too late start anything fresh.

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speakerWhat's all this fuss in the papers tonight, Mr. Cabal?

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speaker- Wars and rumors of wars.

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speaker- Crying wolf? - Someday a wolf will come.

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speakerThese fools are capable of anything.

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speaker- In that case, what happens to medical research?

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speaker- [Cabal] It has to stop.

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speaker- That'll mess me up. - Mess you up? Mess everything up!

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speakerMy God, if war gets loose again--

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speaker- [man] Merry Christmas everyone!

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speaker♪ While shepherds watched their flocks by night

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speaker♪ All seated on the gr-- what's the matter with you fellas?

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speakerOh, that...ha.

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speakerThis little upset across the water doesn't mean anything.

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speakerThreatened men live long, and threatened wars never occur.

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speaker(chuckles) Another speech by him...

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speakerand I tell you, there's nothing in it!

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speakerIt's just a peep about the air estimates.

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speakerNow why meet wars halfway?

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speakerWhy not look on the bright side of things?

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speakerYou're all right, your business is going up,

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speakeryou've got a jolly wife, pretty home--

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speaker- All's right with the world, eh?

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speakerAll's right with the world.

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speaker- Certainly.

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speaker- Passworthy, you should have been called Pippa Passworthy.

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speaker- Oh, and Cabal, you've being smoking too much.

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speakerYou're not...you're not eupeptic.

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speakerOh come on, it's Christmas!

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speaker♪ (singing) Noel, noel...

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speaker♪ (all singing) Noel, noel

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speaker♪ Born is the king of Israel

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speaker(banging on toy drum)

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speaker♪ (whimsical music)

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speaker- Nice toys they have nowadays, nice toys...

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speakerThe toys we had were much simpler,

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speakerever so much simpler.

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speakerNoah's arks and wooden soldiers...

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speakernothing complex like these.

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speakerYou know, I wonder sometimes if perhaps all these new toys

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speakeraren't a bit too much for them.

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speaker- It teaches them to use their hands.

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speaker- And I suppose their grandchildren

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speakerwill see even more wonderful things.

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speakerProgress, progress...

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speakerI'd like to see the wonders they'll see.

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speaker- Don't be too sure of progress.

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speaker- [man] Oh, listen to the incurable pessimist.

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speaker- And what's to stop progress nowadays?

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speaker- War.

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speaker- First, there isn't going to be a war,

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speakerand second, the war doesn't stop progress,

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speakerit stimulates progress!

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speaker- Yes, war can be a highly stimulating thing...

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speakerbut you can overdo a stimulant.

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speaker- Oh, after all...aren't we exaggerating the horrors of war?

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speakerDon't we rather overdo that some?

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speakerAfter all, even the last war wasn't as bad

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speakeras some people make out.

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speakerYou didn't worry, something...

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speakersomething great seemed to have got hold of us.

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speaker- Something greater still may get a hold of us next time.

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speakerIf we don't end war, war will end us.

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speaker- Well, what can you do?

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speaker- Yes...what can we do?

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speaker♪ (ominous sentimental music)

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speaker(bells ringing) ♪ (ominous sentimental music)

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speaker- Peace on earth, goodwill towards men...

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speakerA real old fashioned Christmas this year.

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speakerFresh little snow with a nip in the air, eh?

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speaker(chuckles)

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speaker- What was that? It sounded like a gun.

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speaker- Oh, there are no guns here.

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speakerMerry Christmas, Cabal.

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speakerHere's to another good year for all of us.

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speakerAnother year of recovery, eh?

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speaker- [woman] What are search lights doing now?

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speaker(explosions in distance)

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speaker- Yes...

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speakerWell it must be... anti-aircraft maneuvers.

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speaker- Maneuvers at Christmas? No! (rumbling in distance)

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speaker- Listen, guns again!

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speaker(explosions in distance)

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speaker(phone rings)

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speaker- Yes? Cabal speaking.

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speakerThe Hilltop air force base...

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speakerI'll be there.

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speaker(phone sets down) ♪ (whimsical music)

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speaker♪ (whimsical music)

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speakerMobilization. - Oh God!

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speaker- Perhaps it's only a precautionary mobilization?

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speaker♪ (triumphant orchestral music plays on radio)

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speaker- [radio announcer] The unknown aircraft passed over Sea Beach,

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speaker and dropped bombs within a few hundred

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speaker yards of the waterworks.

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speaker It then turned seaward again.

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speaker By this time, they'd been picked up

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speaker in the search lights of the Battleship Dinosaur.

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speaker Before they could land out of range,

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speaker she had opened upon them with her anti-aircraft gun,

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speaker unfortunately without result.

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speaker- Of course everyone has said that this time they'll

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speakerstart without any declaration of war.

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speaker- Oh listen!

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speaker- [radio announcer] We do not yet know

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speaker the nationality of these aircraft,

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speaker though of course there could be little doubt

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speaker of their place of origin.

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speaker But before all things, it is necessary for the country

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speaker to keep calm.

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speaker No doubt that losses suffered by the fleet are serious--

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speaker- Losses in the fleet? - Listen...listen!

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speaker- [radio announcer] And it is imperative that the whole nation

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speaker should at once stand to arms.

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speaker Orders for a general mobilization have been issued,

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speaker and the precautionary civilian organization against gas

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speaker will at once be put into operation.

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speaker Our instructions have just come to hand...

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speaker We shall cut off in five minutes,

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speaker and then read you the general instructions.

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speakerPlease call in all your friends.

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speaker Call in everyone you can!

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speaker- You've got your stimulant, Passworthy.

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speakerSomething great has got you.

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speakerWar has come.

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker(vehicles rumble)

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speaker- Please keep still and listen:

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speakerWar has broken out, suddenly.

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speaker[announcer] There may be an air raid,

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speakerbut it is not likely to be a very serious one.

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speakerYou must be prepared for it!

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speakerThe danger will not be great.

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speakerAs soon as the danger is over,

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speakerbugles will sound "all clear."

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speakerThe streets will be dangerous.

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speakerDo not assemble in crowds.

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speakerKeep indoors. Go home.

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speakerThose who are far from home

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speakercan take refuge in the underground railway.

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speakerGo home! Go home! Go home!

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speakerGet out of the square! Get out of the street!

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speakerGo home now!

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speaker(crowd yelling & commotion)

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speaker[announcer] Board the windows.

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speakerPut a wet seal or a wet blanket over doors and windows.

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speaker(crowd yelling & commotion)

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speaker[announcer] Go home and stay calm! Keep indoors.

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speakerGo home! Go home!

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speaker(alarm rings) (crowd yelling & commotion) Do not attempt to go out.

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speaker- My dear...my dear...

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speakerAre you sorry we had these children?

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speaker- No.

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speakerLife must carry on.

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speakerWhy should we surrender life to the brutes and fools?

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speaker- I loved you...

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speakerI wanted to serve you and make life happy for you...

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speakerbut think of the things that may happen to them...

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speakerWere we selfish?

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speaker- You weren't afraid to bear them.

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speakerWe were children yesterday.

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speakerWe're anxious...but we're not afraid.

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speakerReally.

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speakerCourage, my dear...

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speakerand may that little heart have courage.

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speaker- Are you an officer, Daddy?

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speaker- Well you've got to do your bit, you know sonny.

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speakerGot to do your bit. - I'm an officer too, Daddy.

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speaker- (chuckles) That's the spirit! Carry on sir, carry on!

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speakerGoodbye, son. (kiss smooches)

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speakerThere. Now then.

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speakerQuick, march!

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speaker(rhythmic drum beat)

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker- [announcer] An air raid is approaching Everytown!

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speakerAn air raid is approaching Everytown!

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speakerGas masks are being distributed.

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speakerSeal the mask tightly behind the ears.

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speakerGet to cover! Get under cover at once!

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speakerThe air raid is only going to increase.

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speaker♪ (dramatic music) (engines whirring)

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speaker(artillery firing)

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speaker(explosions) (sound of chaos & destruction)

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speaker(artillery fires)

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speaker(explosions) (sounds of chaos & destruction)

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speaker(screaming)

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speaker(commotion)

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speaker(explosions) (sounds of chaos & destruction)

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speaker(aircraft rumbling overhead)

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speaker(faint rumbling sounds)

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker(aircraft squadron rumbling)

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speaker(airplane rumbles)

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speaker(machine gun fires)

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speaker(machine gun fires)

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speaker(airplane rumbles)

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speaker(machine gun fires)

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speaker(machine gun fires)

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speaker(airplane rumbles)

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speaker(airplane roars & whines)

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speaker(crash)

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speaker(airplane engine sputters)

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speaker(thump)

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speaker(flames crackle)

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speaker- Bad shape, eh?

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speakerWhy does it come to this?

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speakerCurse it, why do we have to murder each other?!

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speaker- Gold, my friend... that is my guess.

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speakerIt's a bad guess.

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speakerFunny if I'm...if I'm killed by my own poison.

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speaker- Quick, get this on! (wounded man coughs)

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speaker- Here get this on, quickly! - Give it to her.

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speakerI've given plenty to others.

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speakerWhy should I not have some myself?

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speakerGive it to her! I'm done!

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speaker(coughs)

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speaker- Breathe through your mouth. (coughs)

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speaker(coughing)

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speaker(wounded man coughs)

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speaker(wounded man coughs)

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speaker(pistol thumps on ground)

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speaker(coughs)

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speaker- I dropped the gas on her...

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speakerMaybe I've...killed her father and mother...

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speakerMaybe I've killed her whole family...

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speaker(coughs)

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speakerand then I go and give up my mask to save her.

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speaker(coughs)

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speakerThat's funny... (coughing)

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speaker(laughing & coughing)

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speakerThat's a joke... (coughing)

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speaker(coughing violently)

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speaker(gunshot)

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speaker(flames crackling)

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speaker(airplane rumbles away) (flames crackling)

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speaker♪ (dramatic ominous music) (artillery firing)

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speaker♪ (dramatic ominous music)

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speaker♪ (dramatic ominous music)

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speaker- Look, he's carrying infection!

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speaker♪ (dramatic ominous music)

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speaker- Odd here...

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speaker(man mumbles)

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speaker♪ (ominous music)

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speaker- Is there more left, Father? This is the last drop.

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speaker(glass tube breaks) - God...

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speakerWhat is the use of trying to save this mad world?

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speaker- Oh father, if only you could get some sleep!

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speaker- How can I sleep?

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speakerSee how they wander out to die...

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker- Why don't you shoot them?

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speakerIt's their lives or ours!

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speakerLet's get God to make a court!

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker(gunshot)

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speaker♪ (ominous music)

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speaker- That's how they dealt with the pestilence in the Dark Ages.

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speaker♪ (ominous music)

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speaker- Richard!

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speaker- My sister...

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speaker- Gordon! How do you know?

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speaker- Her heart beats faster, and she feels faint,

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speakerand...she won't answer.

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speakerWhat can I do for her?

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speakerI thought something might be known.

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speaker- Poor Janet...

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speakerand you, you poor dear!

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speakerRichard-- - I might be infected.

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speaker♪ (ominous music)

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speakerIs there nothing to make her comfortable?

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speaker♪ (ominous music)

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speaker- Nothing...

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speakerThere's nothing that will make anyone comfortable anymore.

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speaker♪ (dramatic music)

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speaker- No!

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speakerDon't shoot!

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speaker- Shoot her, Dale, shoot!

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speaker(gunshot)

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speakerThat's the way to do it...shoot 'em!

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speaker(bell ringing) (crowd clamoring)

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speaker(bell rings louder)

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speaker- [man] May Day, 1970.

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speakerThe pestilence has ceased... thanks to the determined action

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speakerof our Chief in shooting all wanderers,

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speakerthere have been no cases for two months.

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speakerThe pestilence has been conquered!

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speakerThe Chief is preparing

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speakerto resume hostilities against the Hill People

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speakerwith the utmost vigor.

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speakerSoon we shall have victory and peace.

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speakerAll is well.

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speakerGod save the Chief! God save our land!

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speaker(objects clatter)

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speaker- Have you any more insulated wire?

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speaker- [man] We've got no type of wire at all, sir.

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speaker- Do you have any tape?

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speaker- [man] There's not a scrap left in the place.

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speakerWe used the last on the other motor.

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speaker- Oh, what's the use?!

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speakerThere's no petrol anyway.

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speakerI don't believe there's three gallons of petrol left

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speakerin this accursed ruin of a town!

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speakerWhat's the good of sitting in a job like this?

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speakerNothing will ever fly again. Flying's over,

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speakereverything's over! Civilization's dead!

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speaker(sheep baaing)

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speaker(dog yelps)

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speaker(child cries)

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speaker(sheep baaing)

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speaker- Hello.

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speaker- It's a Rolls, isn't it?

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speaker- Yes.

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speakerIt's a good pre- pestilence machine.

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speakerI can turn it over at times.

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speaker- Do you think it'll go fast someday still?

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speaker- Oh I'm not one of your petrol hoarders.

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speakerBut all the same!

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speakerThat engine turns over still.

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speakerWhy I remember when I was a lad, when it was new.

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speakerWe thought nothing of going 100 miles in it.

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speakerA whole 100 miles...less than three hours I've done it in.

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speakerOh but that sort of thing's all gone now...gone forever, huh?

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speaker- Afraid so.

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speaker- Pip! Pip...

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speaker- Richard? - What is it?

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speaker- You won't think me mad? - Why darling?

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speaker- I thought I heard an airplane this morning, at dawn.

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speakerI thought it was a dream, but--

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speaker- Nonsense. I tell you, flying's finished.

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speakerWe shall never get in the air again...never.

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speaker♪ (triumphant orchestral music)

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speaker- Aye, come on! The Boss!

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speaker- [woman] Look...The Boss!

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speaker- The Boss is coming!

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speaker(commotion)

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speaker- Cheers to The Boss!

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speaker♪ (triumphant music & cheering)

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speaker♪ (triumphant music)

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speaker(crowd cheers) ♪ (triumphant music)

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speaker- Anything to report, Gordon? - Nothing very hopeful, Chief.

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speaker- I must have those airplanes somehow.

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speaker- I do what I can, but you can't fly without petrol.

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speaker- I'll get petrol for you, trust me.

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speakerYou look after the machines.

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speakerI know you haven't got the stuff,

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speakerbut you can get 'round that. For example, transfer parts!

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speakerUse bits of one to mend another.

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speakerBe resourceful!

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speakerGive me only ten machines in working order,

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speakergive me only five. I don't want them all...

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speakerand we'll end this war of ours forever.

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speakerI'll see you get your reward.

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speakerThis your wife, Gordon?

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speakerYou keep her well-hidden.

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speakerSalutation, lady...we could use your influence

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speakerwith our master mechanic.

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speakerThe confident state wants his service.

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speaker- I'm sure my husband does his best for you.

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speaker- That's hardly enough, lady.

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speakerThe confident state demands miracles!

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speaker- Well not everyone can work miracles as you do, Chief.

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speaker- Oh, I'm sure you could work miracles if you tried, lady.

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speaker- [woman] Bruno!

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speaker- [man] Lady, lady, I showed it to you but you

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speakersaid you didn't want it!

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speaker- Wadsky's been up to his tricks again?

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speakerHe'll have to answer for them.

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speaker- He's been keeping things back from me again.

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speaker- Not only Wadsky keeps things back,

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speakerwhat do you think about master mechanic here,

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speakerwho won't let me have those planes of mine

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speakerto end this war of ours with the Hillmen.

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speaker- Well, can't you make him?

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speakerI thought you could make everybody do everything.

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speaker- Some things you can't do, madam.

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speakerYou can't fly without petrol.

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speakerYou can't mend machines without tools or materials.

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speakerWe've gone back too far.

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speakerFlying's become a lost skill in Everytown.

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speaker- Are you really as stupid as that?

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speaker- I'm as hopeless as that.

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speaker- Well now Chief, what are you going to do about it?

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speaker- He's going to let me have those machines,

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speakerand I'm going to let him have coal!

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speakerStuff to make oil.

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speaker- It's a lost skill, it's a... (aircraft rumbling)

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speakerThere it is!

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speaker[Gordon] You were right! A plane once more!

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speaker- [man] Look! There it is!

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speaker- [woman] Look!

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speaker- He's shutting off! He's coming down!

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speaker- [chief] What's the meaning of this?

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speakerThey've got airplanes before us!

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speakerAnd you told me we couldn't fly anymore!

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speakerWhile we've been pummeling, they've been active!

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speakerYes, some of you, you and you...find out who this is

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speakerand what it means!

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speakerThere's only one man in it! Hold him!

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speaker- Somewhere they can still make new machines!

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speakerI didn't dream it was still possible--

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speaker- Yes, and who is this man?

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speakerHow did he dare come here? - Fetch him to the Town Hall.

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speakerGuard his machine and bring him to me there!

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speaker(aircraft engine revs) - Come along Mary,

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speakerI must see that machine!

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speaker(engine revvs)

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speaker(faint murmuring)

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speaker- Who's in control in this part of the country?

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speaker- [soldier] The Chief... what we call The Boss.

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speaker- Good. I want to see him.

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speaker- He sent me to arrest you.

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speaker- You can't do that...but I'll come and see him.

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speaker- Well, you're under arrest whether you'll admit it

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speakeror not...the country's in a state of war!

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speaker- Well, come along. I know the way.

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speaker(birds chirping & children chattering)

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speakerI remember this place well.

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speakerI used to live over there for years.

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speakerEver heard of a man named Passworthy?

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speaker(crowd murmurs)

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speakerHarding? - [all] Yes!

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speaker- Look, here he comes now.

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speaker(crowd chatters excitedly)

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speaker(footsteps crunching)

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speaker- So you're Harding?

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speaker- I seem to remember... something about you.

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speaker- You were a young man.

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speaker- You're...John Cabal!

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speakerI remember you...

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speakerI used to visit your house here, endless years ago

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speakerbefore the wars.

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speakerYou're still flying?

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speakerYour hair is grey, but you look young enough.

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speaker- How are things here? Who's in control of this place?

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speaker- Well, we have our Chief...the warlord.

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speaker- The usual thing.

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speakerI want to look up your warlord. Where can we go and talk?

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speaker- My laboratory is the best thing. It's just over here.

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speaker- Right.

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speaker(indistinct crowd chatter)

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speaker- [officer] Here!

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speakerYou can't go in there! You're under arrest!

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speakerYou've got to go with me to The Chief!

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speaker- All in good time.

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speakerI must see this gentleman first.

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speaker- Well you've got to go with me!

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speakerOrders are orders, The Boss first!

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speaker(book slams on desk)

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speaker- Where is this man? Why isn't he brought here?

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speaker- He's gone out with Dr. Harding.

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speaker- He has to be brought here. I must deal with him.

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speaker- Here, you can't go to him.

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speakerThat's impossible. He must come to you.

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speaker- Well send another man for him. Send three men!

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speakerHe's got to be brought here.

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speaker- So that's the sort of man your boss is...

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speakerNot an unusual type.

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speakerEverywhere we find these little semi-military upstarts,

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speakerrobbing and fighting.

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speakerThat's what endless warfare has led to: brigandage.

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speakerWhat else could happen?

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speakerBut we, who are all that are left of the old engineers

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speakerand mechanics, have pledged ourselves to salvage the world.

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speakerWe have the airways, all that's left of them.

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speakerWe have the seas...

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speakerand we have ideas in common.

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speakerThe Brotherhood of Efficiency, the Free Masonry of Science...

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speakerWe're the last trustees of civilization

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speakerwhen everything else has failed.

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speaker- I've been waiting for this.

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speakerI'm yours to command. - Not mine, not mine...

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speakerNo more bosses.

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speakerCivilization's the command.

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speaker- [captain] Tell him he'll have to come.

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speakerIf he won't come on foot, well, we'll have to carry him!

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speakerI don't know what will happen to you sir if you don't come.

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speaker(doors open)

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speaker- [Cabal] Well, what do you want to see me about?

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speaker- Who are you? Do you know this country's at war?

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speaker- [Cabal] At war?

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speakerGo at it, then.

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speakerWe must clean that up.

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speaker- What do you mean, we must clean that up?

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speakerOur war!

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speakerWho are you, I say! - The law.

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speakerLaw and sanity. - I am the law here!

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speaker- I said law and sanity.

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speaker- Where do you come from? Who are you?

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speaker- Wings Over the World.

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speaker- Well you know you can't come into a country like this

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speakerin this fashion! - I'm here.

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speakerDo you mind if I sit down?

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speaker- And now, for the fourth time...who are you?

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speaker- I tell you, Wings Over the World.

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speaker- That's nothing. What government are you under?

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speaker- Common sense.

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speakerI belong to World Communications.

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speakerWe just run ourselves. - Eh!

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speakerYou'll run into trouble if you try

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speakerand land here in war time!

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speakerWhat's the game?

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speaker- Order and trade. - Trade, eh?!

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speaker- Can you do anything in munitions?

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speaker- Not our line of business.

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speaker- Do you have spare parts? We've got planes!

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speakerWe've got planes, I've got boys that have trained a bit

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speakeron the ground. We've no fuel, it hampers us.

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speakerWe might do a deal. - [Cabal] We might.

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speaker- [chief] Any way I can get some fuel?

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speakerI've got my planes here, but if you can manage

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speakera temporary accommodation, we can do business.

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speaker- World Communications helps no one to make war.

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speaker- End war! End war!

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speaker[chief] I want to make victorious peace!

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speaker- I seem to have heard that phrase

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speakerbefore...when I was a young man.

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speaker[Cabal] But it's made no end of war.

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speaker- Now look here, Mr. Aviator. Let's see how we stand.

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speakerCome down to actuality.

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speakerThe way you swagger, you don't seem to realize you're

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speakerunder arrest! You and your machine!

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speaker- You'll find other planes looking

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speakerfor me if I happen to be delayed.

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speaker- We'll deal with them later.

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speakerI'll even start a trading agency here, if you'd like.

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speakerI've no objection.

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speakerThe first thing we shall want

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speakeris to get our planes in the air again.

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speaker- Fine. A laudable ambition.

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speakerBut our new order has an objection to private airplanes.

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speaker- The impudence!

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speaker- I'm not talking about private airplanes.

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speakerOur airplanes are public airplanes.

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speakerThis is an independent sovereign state at war.

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speakerI know nothing about any old order.

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speakerI'm the chief here...

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speakerand I'm not taking any orders, old or new, from you!

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speaker- I suppose I've walked into trouble.

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speaker- Yes, you can take that as right.

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speaker- Where have you come from?

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speaker- I flew from my headquarters at Basra this morning.

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speakerWe have some hundreds of new type planes,

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speakerand we're building more, fast.

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speakerThe factories are working again.

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speakerWe're gradually restoring order and trade

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speakerin the whole Mediterranean area.

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speakerWe're scouting this region now to see how things are.

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speaker- You found out!

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speakerThis is an independent, sovereign state.

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speaker- Yes, we must talk about that.

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speaker- [chief] We don't discuss it.

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speaker- We don't approve of independent sovereign states.

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speaker- [chief] You don't approve?

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speaker- We mean to stop them. - That's war.

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speaker- If you will.

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speaker- Well, I think we know how we stand.

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speakerBurton...take this man.

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speakerIf he gives you any trouble, club him.

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speakerYou hear that, Mr. Wings Over Your Wits?

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speaker- My friends know my whereabouts.

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speakerIf I don't come back, they'll send a force to find me.

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speaker- Perhaps they won't find you.

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speaker- They'll find you. - They'll find me ready!

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speakerTake him to the detention room downstairs.

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speaker(door opens)

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speaker- Now was that wise? - Wise?

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speaker- Yes, wise to quarrel with him at once.

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speaker- Quarrel with him? Confound him,

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speakerhe began to quarrel with me!

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speakerHa!

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speaker"You must clean that up, clean that up..." My war!

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speaker- There's things behind him!

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speaker- Things behind him?

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speakerSome sort of aerial bus driver...

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speakerStanding up to me...like an equal!

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speaker- So you lost your temper and you bullied him.

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speaker- I don't bully, I just handled the man.

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speaker- He's the first real aviator that

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speakerhas come this way for years!

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speakerThink of what that means, my dear.

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speakerYou want airplanes, don't you?

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speakerYou want your airplanes put in order?

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speakerA really clever man would have had

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speakersome of those machines up long ago.

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speakerI'm sure of it!

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speaker- Along comes this stranger who's going to...clean me up,

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speakerand you expect me to hand my planes over to him,

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speakerlock, stock and barrel?

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speaker- Why talk nonsense?

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speakerYou could have persuaded him under supervision.

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speaker- Supervision?

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speakerWith the sort of oafs I've got here to supervise him?

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speakerHe'd be too much for them.

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speaker- Oh well, of course if he's going to be too much for you,

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speakerwhy don't you hang him and hide his machine with what

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speakerthe others are after you?

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speaker- [chief] I don't agree with you, I don't agree.

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speakerNow this stranger hasn't taken me by surprise...

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speakerI knew he was coming.

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speakerYes, I knew he was coming.

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speakerI felt this conspiracy of air bus drivers

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speakerbrewing somewhere in the world.

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speakerI felt they were getting ahead with their airplanes

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speakerdown there somewhere.

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speakerVery well, now's our chance.

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speakerWe've got this fella bottled up,

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speakerthey won't even begin to miss him for days.

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speakerI've got everything fixed now, from an attack

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speakerstraightaway on the first ballad,

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speakerto the old coal and shale pits, where there's oil too.

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speakerThen...up we buzz!

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speaker♪ (dramatic orchestral music) (gunfire)

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speaker(grenade explodes)

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speaker♪ (dramatic orchestral music) (gunfire) (sounds of war)

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speaker♪ (triumphant orchestral music)

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speaker(cheering) ♪ (triumphant orchestral music)

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speaker♪ (uplifting music)

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speakerVictory approaches!

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speakerYour sacrifices have not been in vain!

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speakerOur old struggle with the Hillmen has come to its climax.

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speakerOur new victory at the coal pits has brought

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speakera great supply of oil within our reach.

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speakerOnce more, we may hope to take the air,

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speakerand look our invaders in the face.

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speakerWe've 40 airplanes... a larger force

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speakerI venture to say as any in the world.

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speakerThis new oil can be adapted to our needs.

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speakerThat's quite a simple business.

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speakerNothing remains but the conclusive bombing

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speakerof the Hills.

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speakerThen for a time, we can hope for a rich, rewarding peace.

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speakerA peace of the strong man armed will keep in his house.

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speakerAnd now at this supreme crisis, you

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speakerGordon, our master mechanic, refuse your help!

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speakerWhere are my planes?

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speaker- The job's more difficult than you think.

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speakerHalf your machines are hopelessly old.

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speakerYou haven't 20 sound ones, to be exact, 19.

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speakerYou'll never get the others off the ground.

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speakerIt didn't confidant as you imagined.

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speakerI want assistance. - What assistance?

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speaker- Your prisoner.

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speaker- What, do you want that japping black,

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speakerthat Wings Over the World?

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speakerYou want him released? - He knows his business.

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speakerI don't, and I'll make him my technical advisor.

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speaker- I don't trust you technical chaps!

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speaker- Then you won't get an airplane up.

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speaker- I want those planes!

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speakerWhat if you get him?

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speaker- And I want Dr. Harding out, too.

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speaker- They're all associates. - I can't help that.

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speakerIf anybody in Everytown can adapt to that crude oil

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speakerfor our airplanes, it's Harding...

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speakerIf not, it can't be done.

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speaker- Oh, we had a bit of an argument with Harding.

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speaker- He's the only man who can do this work for you.

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speaker- Get him. (snaps fingers)

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speaker♪ (triumphant music)

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speakerUndo his hands.

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speakerWell?

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speaker- Well what? - Your salute.

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speaker- **** the salute! (guards grumble)

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speaker- Oh nevermind the salute, now. We'll talk about that later.

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speakerNow look here, let's see how we stand.

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speakerYou, Gordon, are to undertake the reconstruction

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speakerof our air force.

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speakerThe prisoner Cabal is to be placed at your disposal.

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speakerEverywhere he goes, he's to be under guard and observation.

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speakerNo relaxing in that!

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speakerNeither you nor he are to go within 100

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speakeryards of his airplane, mind that.

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speakerNow you Harding,

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speakerare to assist Gordon with this fuel problem...

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speakerand place your knowledge of poison gas at our disposal.

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speaker- I have nothing to do with poison gas!

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speaker- You've got the knowledge if I

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speakerhave to wring it out of you!

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speakerThe State, your mother, your father,

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speakerthe totality of your interests!

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speakerNo discipline can be too severe for the man

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speakerthat denies that by word or deed!

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speaker- Nonsense! We have a duty to civilization.

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speakerYou and your sort are driving us straight

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speakerback to eternal barbarism!

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speaker- But this is pure treason!

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speaker- I protest against being dragged away from my work!

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speakerConfound your silly war and your war material

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speakerand all the rest of it!

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speakerAll my life has been interrupted and wasted and spoiled by war!

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speakerI'll not stand it any longer! - But his is treason, treason!

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speaker- No no no no, stop that!

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speaker- [chief] We have need of your service.

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speaker- Now what do you want? - You are conscripted!

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speakerYou're under my orders now, and under no other orders

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speakerin the world!

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speakerI am master here. I am the state!

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speakerI need fuel, and gas!

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speaker- Neither fuel nor gas.

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speaker- You refuse? - Absolutely!

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speaker- I don't want to be forced to extremities.

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speaker- May I have a word?

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speakerI understand you want all of those out-of-date trucks

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speakerof yours, that you call your air force,

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speakerto fly again, and fly well.

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speaker- They shall!

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speaker- With the help of that man Cabal

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speakerthat you have in the cells, and Dr. Harding here,

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speakerwe may even have a dozen of your planes in the air again.

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speaker- You!

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speakerYou're a traitor to civilization!

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speakerI won't touch it!

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speaker- If you will give me Cabal...

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speakerand if you leave me free to talk with Harding...

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speakerI promise you you'll see your air force...a third of it

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speakerat any rate, in the sky again.

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speaker- You talk as if you're driving a bargain with me.

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speaker- I'm sorry Chief, it's not I who makes these conditions,

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speakerthis is the nature of things.

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speakerIf you're going to have technical services,

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speakeryou're not going to have scientific help

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speakerwithout treating the men who give it to you properly.

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speaker- That's what I've said all along.

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speakerNo bullying too hard, my dear. There's a limit to bullying.

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speakerWhy...you can't make a dog hunt by beating it.

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speaker- I want those planes!

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speaker- I wanted to look at you.

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speaker- [Cabal] I am at your service, madam.

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speaker- You're the most interesting thing

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speakerthat has happened in Everytown for years.

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speaker- [Cabal] You honor me.

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speaker- You come from...outside.

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speakerI've begun to forget that there was anything outside.

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speakerI want to hear about it.

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speaker- [Cabal] May I offer you my only chair?

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speaker- You know, I'm not a stupid woman.

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speaker- [Cabal] I'm sure.

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speaker- This life here is limited.

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speakerWar, always going on and never ending.

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speakerFlags, marching, (scoffs) I adore The Chief.

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speakerI've always adored him, since he took control of the pestilence days,

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speakerwhen everyone else lost heart.

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speakerHe rules; he's firm... everyone, every woman

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speakerfinds him strong and attractive.

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speakerI can't complain... I have everything

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speakerthat is to be had here, and yet...

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speakerthis is a small, limited world we live in.

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speakerYou bring in the breath of something greater.

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speakerWhen I saw you swooping down out of the air, when I saw you

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speakermarching into the Town Hall, I felt

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speakerthis man lives in a greater world...

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speakerand you spoke of the Mediterranean and the East,

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speakerof your camps and factories...

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speakerI've read about the Mediterranean,

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speakerand Egypt, and Greece, and India...

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speakerOh, I can read! A lot of those old books.

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speakerI'm not like most of the other people here.

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speakerI learned a lot before education stopped

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speakerand schools closed down.

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speakerI want to see that world.

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speakerThe skies, snowy mountains, blue seas, sunshine--

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speaker- If I had my way you could fly to all that

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speakerin a couple of hours.

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speaker- If you were free.... and if I was free.

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speakerI don't suppose any man has ever understood

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speakerany woman since the beginning of things.

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speakerYou don't understand our imagination,

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speakerhow wild our imaginations can be...

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speakerI wish I were a man.

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speakerOh, if I were a man!

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speakerWhat will your people try to do to us?

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speakerWhat are you going to do to this boss of mine?

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speaker- The immediate question seems what does he mean to do to me?

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speaker- Something violent and foolish...unless I prevent it.

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speaker- That's how I see things.

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speaker- And if he kills you?

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speaker- We shall come here and clean things up.

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speaker- But if you're killed, how can you say we?

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speaker- We go on...that's how things are.

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speakerWe're taking hold of things.

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speakerIn science and government in the long run,

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speakerno man is indispensable.

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speakerThe human things go on...we, forever.

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speaker- I see...and this war-like state of ours here?

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speaker- It has to vanish, like the Tyrannosaurus

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speakerand the saber- toothed tiger.

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speaker(door opens)

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speaker- Ah, so here you are!

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speaker- I said I would talk to him, and I have.

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speaker- I told you to leave that fellow alone.

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speaker- Yes, and you sit up there blinking and swaggling

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speakerand looking as proud as you could;

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speakerRudolf the Victorious!

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speakerAnd here am I trying to find out what this black invader means!

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speakerYou think I wanted to come and talk to him?

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speakerThis grey, cold man!

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speakerWhile you're swaggering hither,

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speakerthere are more planes at Basra getting ready!

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speaker- Basra? - His headquarters.

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speakerHave you never heard of Basra?

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speaker- These are matters for us to talk about.

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speaker- This lady has been putting me

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speakerthrough a severe cross examination,

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speakerbut the gist of it is, that away there in Basra,

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speakernew airplanes are rising night and day,

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speakerlike hornets 'round a hornets' nest.

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speakerWhat happens to me is a small affair.

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speakerThey'll finish you.

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speakerThe new world of United Airmen will finish you.

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speakerListen...you can almost hear them coming now.

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speaker- Not a bit of it!

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speaker- What he says is the truth! - What he says is bluff.

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speaker- Make peace with the airmen and let him go!

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speaker- That means surrender our sovereign independence!

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speaker- But more machines will be coming, and more and more!

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speaker- And he's here, hostage for their good behavior.

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speakerCome madam, enough of this

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speakerlittle diplomatic mission of yours.

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speaker- [woman] You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog!

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speaker(chief chuckles)

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speaker- I don't know what she's been saying to you...

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speakerI don't much care!

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speakerThere's no making peace between you and me!

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speakerIt's your world or mine, and it's going to be mine!

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speakerFor all your threats of swarms of hornets

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speakerand so on, you're a hostage! Remember that.

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speakerAnd don't be too sure you'll win.

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speakerSo just sit here and think that over,

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speakerMr. Wings Over the World. (mocking tone)

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speaker- [Cabal] Now get 'round to the other side

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speakerand look to these engine braces, quickly.

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speakerIf I could get to my plane, there's a wireless there.

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speaker- It's hopeless, they won't even trust me!

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speaker- Then we shall have to make a job of this.

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speaker- If I could manage to get your reserve petrol,

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speakerand let me have that for this plane--

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speaker- [Cabal] Good.

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speakerIt won't be easy to make a getaway.

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speaker[Cabal] These oil pump connections aren't very good,

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speakerbut we'll have to risk it.

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speaker- I think we'll manage to go right now

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speakerthat Harding knows he's part of the job.

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speaker- [Cabal] Good.

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speaker(airplane rumbling)

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speaker- Look! It's your Gordon! He's flying at last!

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speaker(airplane rumbling)

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speaker(sound of bodies shuffling)

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speaker- Look! An airplane out of the north, boys!

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speakerIt's pre-war!

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speaker- Where do you come from?

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speaker- I come from the North, sir...from Everytown.

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speaker- He says Cabal is a prisoner.

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speaker- They've got him sir, and he's in danger.

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speakerI had great difficulty in getting here.

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speaker- You say Cabal is in danger?

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speaker- In very great danger.

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speakerThe boss there is a violent type.

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speaker- Hmm...jump for our new squadron.

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speaker- Now we've got a chance to try the new gas of peace on somebody!

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speaker- [Gordon] There's no time to lose. May I report to headquarters?

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speaker- Yes. Take him to the council.

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speaker- At last we have definite news! - What is it?

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speaker- Gordon didn't fall into the sea...he got away.

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speakerA fishing boat saw him making for the French coast.

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speakerPerhaps he reached his pals.

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speaker- Well? - Well, he'll be coming back.

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speakerHe'll be bringing the others with him.

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speaker- Curse these World Communications!

54:57 → 55:02

speakerCurse all airmen and... gasmen and machinemen!

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speakerWhy didn't they leave their machines

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speakerand their sciences alone?

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speakerI might have known. Why did I tamper with flying?

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speaker- Well, we needed airplanes against the Hill State.

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speakerSomebody else would have started in again with airplanes

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speakerand gas and bombs if we hadn't.

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speakerThese people would have come into fearing anyhow.

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speaker- Why was all this science ever allowed?

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speakerWhy was it ever let begin? Science?!

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speakerIt's an enemy of everything that's natural in life.

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speakerI dreamt of those fellows last night,

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speakergreat ugly, black inhuman chaps...

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speakerAll like machines, bombing and bombing--

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speaker- Yes, I guess they'll come bombing alright--

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speaker- Then we'll fight 'em!

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speakerSince Gordon's got away I've had those airboys up to see me.

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speakerThey've got guts, they'll do something still.

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speakerWe'll fight 'em! We'll fight 'em...ha!

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speakerWe've got hostages...they'll never shoot them anyway.

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speakerWhere's that chap Harding?

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speakerOf course!

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speakerHe can tell us what to do against this gas!

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speakerIf I have to pull his arm off

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speakerand knock his teeth down his throat!

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speakerGet him, get him! - Go get Harding.

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speaker(door creaks)

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speaker- I have to come to earth sometime...

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speakerWhat is this World Communications?

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speakerA handful of men, like ourselves.

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speakerThey are not magic.

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speaker(feet scrambling)

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speaker(feet scrambling up steps)

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speaker[chief] Do you men trust these good tried, tested machines?

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speakerYou are not the mechanics, you are warriors!

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speakerYou have been trained not to think, but to do!

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speaker[chief] Maybe...to die.

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speakerI salute you! I, your chief!

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speaker(dog barks)

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speaker(faint chatter)

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speakerWhat do you know about these World Communications people?

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speakerHave they've got gas? What sort of gas?

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speaker- I know nothing about gas.

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speaker- Tell us about these masks, anyway.

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speaker- They're rotten.

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speakerThey're no good at all.

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speaker- What sort of gas have they got?

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speaker- I tell you, gas isn't my business!

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speaker- Well they can't gas us when you're here, anyway.

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speaker- Here they are! Listen! They're coming already!

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speaker- McGill, tell them to stand by.

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speaker- Clumsy great things!

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speakerOur boys will have 'em down in no time!

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speakerThey're too clumsy!

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speaker(machine gun fire) (aircraft rumbling)

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speakerWhere are the rest of our fellas?

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speakerGo on! Attack them!

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speaker(machine gun fire) (aircraft rumbling)

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speaker- Those boys got him!

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speaker- They're both coming down! Cowards!

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speaker- But they can't forget that we have hostages!

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speaker- The hostages! I'm not done yet!

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speakerGo on, fetch 'em! Bring 'em out here, out in the open!

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speakerTie 'em up where they can be seen.

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speaker(aircraft rumbling)

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speakerWhere's the other fellow? He's the prized hostage.

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speakerHe's the best of the lot! They'll know him.

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speaker- Fetch him! - Fetch him!

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speaker(aircraft noise)

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speaker(soft explosion)

59:55 → 59:56

speaker- Look!

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speakerIs that gas?

59:57 → 1:00:04

speaker(loud rumbling)

1:00:04 → 1:00:07

speaker(loud popping)

1:00:07 → 1:00:09

speaker- You won't get out of this!

1:00:09 → 1:00:11

speakerYou! - Don't you see we're beaten?

1:00:11 → 1:00:15

speaker(soft booming)

1:00:15 → 1:00:17

speaker- [chief] Do something!

1:00:17 → 1:00:19

speaker- What are you all doing? Why don't you move?!

1:00:19 → 1:00:21

speaker- I never did you any harm!

1:00:21 → 1:00:23

speakerI saved your father and I saved you!

1:00:23 → 1:00:26

speakerCouldn't you call off your man there to stop this?

1:00:26 → 1:00:29

speaker(soft explosions)

1:00:29 → 1:00:32

speaker- I won't have it like this!

1:00:33 → 1:00:35

speakerWhat's happening?

1:00:36 → 1:00:39

speakerEverything's swimming!

1:00:40 → 1:00:41

speakerShoot!

1:00:42 → 1:00:43

speakerShoot!

1:00:43 → 1:00:46

speakerWe never shot 'em off yet!

1:00:46 → 1:00:48

speaker(chief cries out)

1:00:49 → 1:00:52

speakerWe spared 'em, and now they've got us!

1:00:52 → 1:00:55

speakerOur world, not theirs!

1:00:55 → 1:00:57

speaker(grumbles & coughs)

1:00:57 → 1:01:01

speakerWhy should I be beaten like this?

1:01:02 → 1:01:04

speaker(bell rings) Shoot! Shoot!

1:01:04 → 1:01:07

speaker(gun fires) Shoot!

1:01:07 → 1:01:08

speakerShoot!

1:01:08 → 1:01:11

speaker(gun fires)

1:01:12 → 1:01:16

speaker(bell rings)

1:01:16 → 1:01:24

speaker(aircraft rumbling)

1:01:24 → 1:01:55

speaker♪ (dramatic sentimental music) (aircraft rumbling)

1:01:55 → 1:02:08

speaker♪ (triumphant sentimental music)

1:02:08 → 1:02:10

speaker- There they are!

1:02:10 → 1:02:12

speaker♪ (triumphant sentimental music)

1:02:12 → 1:02:13

speakerMary!

1:02:13 → 1:02:18

speaker♪ (triumphant sentimental music)

1:02:18 → 1:02:20

speakerNo no, she's not hurt.

1:02:20 → 1:02:21

speakerShe's asleep like the others.

1:02:21 → 1:02:23

speaker(footsteps scrambling)

1:02:23 → 1:02:25

speaker- Cabal's safe!

1:02:25 → 1:02:28

speaker- Cabal! - Well done, Gordon!

1:02:29 → 1:02:32

speakerWell, they laughed at me for sticking to my gas mask...

1:02:32 → 1:02:36

speakerbut thanks to that I'm here and everyone else is sleeping!

1:02:36 → 1:02:38

speakerI wonder if they'll ever use gas masks again?

1:02:38 → 1:02:39

speaker- [man] Sir!

1:02:39 → 1:02:41

speaker- What is it?

1:02:42 → 1:02:46

speaker- This man's not sleeping...he's dead!

1:02:47 → 1:02:49

speaker- Dead, and his world dead with him...

1:02:49 → 1:02:52

speakerand a new world beginning.

1:02:52 → 1:02:56

speakerPoor old Boss, here in his flags and his folly.

1:02:56 → 1:02:59

speakerAnd now for the rule of the earth,

1:02:59 → 1:03:01

speakerand a new life for mankind.

1:03:01 → 1:03:20

speaker♪ (triumphant orchestral music)

1:03:20 → 1:03:23

speaker[Cabal] Our job is only beginning.

1:03:23 → 1:03:25

speakerFor now we have to put the world in order.

1:03:25 → 1:03:28

speakerIt will be a long and complicated struggle,

1:03:28 → 1:03:30

speakerbut we have the unity of a common order

1:03:30 → 1:03:32

speakerand a common knowledge.

1:03:32 → 1:03:35

speakerThis is how I conceive our plan of operations:

1:03:35 → 1:03:38

speakerfirst a roundup of brigands, that last dismal vestige

1:03:38 → 1:03:41

speakerof ancient predatory soldiers.

1:03:41 → 1:03:43

speakerThe last would-be conquerors.

1:03:43 → 1:03:47

speakerThen settle, organize and advance.

1:03:47 → 1:03:49

speakerThis zone, then that...

1:03:49 → 1:03:52

speakerand at last, Wings Over the World!

1:03:52 → 1:03:54

speakerAnd the new world begins.

1:03:56 → 1:03:59

speakerDo you realize the immense task we shall undertake,

1:03:59 → 1:04:04

speakerwhen we set ourselves to an active and aggressive peace?

1:04:04 → 1:04:06

speakerWhen we direct our energies to tear out

1:04:06 → 1:04:08

speakerthe wealth of this planet, and exploit

1:04:08 → 1:04:11

speakerall these giant possibilities of science

1:04:11 → 1:04:13

speakerthat have been squandered hitherto

1:04:13 → 1:04:16

speakerupon war and senseless competitions.

1:04:16 → 1:04:19

speakerWe shall excavate the eternal hills.

1:04:19 → 1:04:23

speakerWe shall make such use of the treasures of sky, and sea

1:04:23 → 1:04:27

speakerand earth, as men have never dreamt of hitherto.

1:04:27 → 1:04:30

speakerI would that I could see our children's children

1:04:30 → 1:04:33

speakerin this world we shall win for them...

1:04:33 → 1:04:36

speakerbut in them and through them we shall live again.

1:04:36 → 1:04:58

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:04:58 → 1:05:02

speaker(gas hisses)

1:05:02 → 1:05:13

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:05:13 → 1:05:14

speaker(zapping sound)

1:05:14 → 1:05:17

speaker(boom)

1:05:17 → 1:05:27

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:05:27 → 1:05:28

speaker(zapping sound)

1:05:28 → 1:05:31

speaker(boom)

1:05:31 → 1:05:33

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:05:33 → 1:05:35

speaker(boom)

1:05:35 → 1:05:38

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:05:38 → 1:05:39

speaker(boom)

1:05:39 → 1:05:50

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:05:50 → 1:05:53

speaker(boom)

1:05:53 → 1:10:04

speaker♪ (dramatic music)

1:10:05 → 1:10:26

speaker(faint chatter)

1:10:31 → 1:10:32

speaker- [man] Is it a better world than it used to be?

1:10:32 → 1:10:35

speakerI rebel against this progress!

1:10:35 → 1:10:38

speakerWhat is this progress this "World Civilization" has done for us?

1:10:38 → 1:10:41

speakerMachines and marbles...

1:10:41 → 1:10:43

speakerThey've built this great city of theirs, yes...

1:10:43 → 1:10:45

speakerThey've prolonged life, yes...

1:10:45 → 1:10:47

speakerThey've conquered nature they say,

1:10:47 → 1:10:50

speakerand made a great, white world.

1:10:50 → 1:10:52

speakerIs it any jollier than the world used

1:10:52 → 1:10:54

speakerto be in the good old days, when life was

1:10:54 → 1:10:56

speakershort and hot and merry and the devil took the hindmost?

1:10:56 → 1:10:58

speaker- All the same, what can we do about it?

1:10:58 → 1:11:01

speaker- Rebel, and rebel now! Now is the time!

1:11:01 → 1:11:02

speaker- Why now in particular?

1:11:02 → 1:11:05

speaker- Why, because this space gun business.

1:11:05 → 1:11:08

speakerBecause of this project to shoot human beings at the stars.

1:11:08 → 1:11:10

speakerPeople don't like it, shooting humans

1:11:10 → 1:11:13

speakeraway into hard, frozen darkness.

1:11:13 → 1:11:14

speakerThey're murmuring.

1:11:14 → 1:11:17

speaker- They've murmured before and nothing came of it.

1:11:17 → 1:11:20

speaker- Because they had no leader.

1:11:20 → 1:11:23

speakerBut now...

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speakerSuppose someone cried..."Halt!

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speakerStop this progress!"

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speakerSuppose I shouted to the world,

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speaker"Make an end to this progress!"

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speakerI could talk. Talk...

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speakerRadio is everywhere.

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speakerThis modern world is full of voices.

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speakerI'm a master craftsman, I have the right to talk!

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speaker- Yes, but will they listen to you?

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speaker- They'll listen, trust them.

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speakerIf I shout..."Arise!

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speakerAwake! Stop this progress before it is too late!"

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speaker(indistinct chatter)

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speaker- [girl] I like these history lessons.

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speaker- [man] Mm-hmm.

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speaker- What a funny place New York was.

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speakerAlways sticking up and full of windows.

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speaker- They built houses like that in the old days. - Why?

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speaker- They had no light inside their cities as we have,

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speakerso they had to stick them up into the daylight...

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speakerwhat there was of it.

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speakerThey had no properly mixed and conditioned air.

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speakerEverybody lived half out of doors.

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speaker[man] They had windows of rippled glass.

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speakerThe age of windows lasted four centuries.

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speakerThey never seemed to realize

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speakerthat we could light the interiors

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speakerof our houses with sunshine of our own,

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speakerso there was no need to stick them

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speakerup ever so high into the air.

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speaker- [girl] They keep on inventing new things now, don't they?

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speakerAnd making life lovelier and lovelier.

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speaker- Lovelier, yes...and bolder.

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speakerI suppose I'm an old man, my dear,

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speakerbut some of it seems like going too far.

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speakerThis space gun of theirs that they keep on shooting...

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speaker- What is this space gun, Great Grandfather?

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speaker- Well, it's a gun that is charged by electricity.

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speakerIt's a lot of guns inside one another,

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speakerand each one discharges the gun next inside.

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speakerI don't properly understand it,

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speakerbut the cylinder it shoots out last goes whish,

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speakerright away from the earth.

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speaker- I wish I could fly onto the moon.

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speaker- (chuckles) Well, that in time.

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speakerWon't you come back to your history pictures again?

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speaker- I'm glad I didn't live in the old world.

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speakerI know that John Cabal and his airmen tidied it all up.

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speakerDid you see John Cabal, Great Grandad?

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speaker- Well you can see him in your pictures.

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speaker- But you saw him when he lived? You really saw him?

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speaker- Yes.

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speakerI saw the great John Cabal with my own eyes

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speakerwhen I was a little boy.

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speakerHe was a lean, brown old man with hair as white as mine.

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speakerHe was the great grandfather of our Oswald Cabal,

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speakerthe president of our council.

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speaker- I take it the space gun's passed

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speakerall its preliminary trials, and there's nothing left

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speakernow but to choose the two who are to go.

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speaker- [man] That's going to be the trouble.

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speakerThousands of young people have been applying.

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speakerYoung men and young women.

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speakerI never dreamt the moon was so attractive.

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speaker- Practically, the gun's perfect now.

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speakerThere are risks, but reasonable risks...

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speakerand the position of the moon in the next three or four months

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speakergives us the best conditions for getting there.

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speakerIt's only that the choice of the two now that matters.

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speaker- Well?

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speaker- What's going to be difficult is, that man Theotocopulos

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speakeris talking on the radio about it.

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speaker- He's a fantastic fellow!

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speaker- Yes, but he's making trouble.

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speakerIt's not going to be easy to choose these young people.

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speakerWith all these thousands offering themselves...

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speaker- We've looked into thousands of cases.

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speakerWe've rejected everyone of imperfect health,

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speakeror any one of their friends who objected.

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speakerAnd the fact is, we want to talk to two people;

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speakerthere's Raymond Passworthy of General Traffic. You know him?

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speaker- Yes, I know him. - And his son.

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speaker- We want to see the son, Maurice Passworthy.

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speaker- Why? - He asks to go.

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speaker- We think you ought to see him. He's waiting here.

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speaker- Is Maurice Passworthy there?

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speaker- [man] He's on his way. - Good.

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speaker(humming sound & faint chatter)

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speaker[Cabal] You want to talk to me?

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speaker- Forgive me sir, I came straight to you.

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speaker- You're asking a favor. - A very big favor.

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speakerI want to be one of the first two human beings

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speakerto go around the moon.

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speaker- It means danger... great hardship, anyhow.

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speakerYou realize there's an even chance

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speakerof never coming back alive?

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speakerAnd still a greater chance of coming back a ****.

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speaker- Give me credit for not minding that, sir.

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speaker- Yes, a lot of you young people don't mind that...

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speakerbut why should I give you a favor?

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speaker- Well, I'm the son of a friend of yours...

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speakerand people seem to feel you oughtn't

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speakerto send someone you don't know, sir.

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speaker- Go on.

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speaker- We've talked about this over and over again.

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speaker- We? - Yes, both of us.

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speakerIt's her idea even more than it's mine.

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speaker- Her idea? Who is "she"?

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speaker- Someone much closer to you than I am, sir.

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speaker- Go on.

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speaker- It's Catherine... your daughter.

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speakerShe says you can't possibly send anybody's child but your own.

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speaker- I might have known.

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speaker- Today I'm going to put it to the world plainly.

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speakerIs this thing to go on?

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speakerOr are we sane and normal human beings to put an end to it...

1:16:54 → 1:16:58

speakerand an end to all such follies forever?

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speaker(indistinct chatter)

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speakerWhat is this progress?

1:17:27 → 1:17:30

speakerWhat is the good of all this progress onward and onward?

1:17:30 → 1:17:33

speakerWe demand a halt, we demand a rest!

1:17:33 → 1:17:35

speakerThe object of life is happy living.

1:17:35 → 1:17:38

speakerWe will not have human life sacrificed to experiment!

1:17:38 → 1:17:41

speakerProgress is not living...it should only

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speakerbe the preparation for living.

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speaker[Theotocopulos] They staged the old Greek tragedy again,

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speakerwhen a father offers up his daughter to his evil gods!

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speaker- And that voice is sounding to the whole world.

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speakerWe might suppress it--no,

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speakerthey'll have to hear him and make what they can of him.

1:17:58 → 1:18:01

speaker- What does this space gun portend?

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speakerMake no mistake about it...the slavers

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speakerthey put upon themselves today,

1:18:06 → 1:18:10

speakerthey will impose tomorrow upon the whole world!

1:18:10 → 1:18:15

speakerIs man never to rest? Never to be free?

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speakerA time will come...

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speakerwhen you and your turn

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speakerwill be forced to wait and take your chance

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speakerupon strange planets...

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speakerand in dreary, abominable places beyond the stars!

1:18:27 → 1:18:29

speaker[Theotocopulos] An end to progress!

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speakerMake an end to this progress now!

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speakerLet this be the last day of the scientific age.

1:18:36 → 1:18:40

speakerMake the space gun the symbol of all that drives us,

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speakerand destroy it!

1:18:42 → 1:18:44

speakerNow!

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speaker(crowd clamors)

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speaker- I wonder what they will make of it.

1:18:51 → 1:18:57

speaker(indistinct chatter)

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speaker- [man] Well, you know...

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speakeryou're the great grandson of John Cabal, the air dictator,

1:19:01 → 1:19:04

speakerthe man who changed the whole course of the world.

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speakerYou've got experiment in your blood, you and your daughter!

1:19:07 → 1:19:09

speakerAnd I'm...I'm more normal!

1:19:09 → 1:19:11

speakerI don't believe my boy would have thought of it.

1:19:11 → 1:19:12

speakerThe two of them must have got together.

1:19:12 → 1:19:14

speaker- They'll come back together.

1:19:14 → 1:19:17

speakerThis time there's no attempt to land on the moon.

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speaker- When...when is this great experiment to be made?

1:19:23 → 1:19:24

speakerHow much longer have we got before they go?

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speaker- When the space gun is ready. - Sometime this year, you mean?

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speaker- Soon.

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speakerThen...is there no way of saving our children from this madness?

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speaker- But would it be saving our children?

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speaker- [Passworthy] Well, here they are.

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speaker- Father, we're to go? - [Cabal] Yes, you're to go.

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speaker- Announced? - Two hours ago.

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speaker(indistinct chatter)

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speaker- Your speech has struck fire!

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speakerAll the people are excited and angry!

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speakerSome are already going out of the city

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speakertowards the space gun.

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speakerNothing is wanted now but leading!

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speaker- We must go right on with this...to the space gun!

1:20:07 → 1:20:11

speakerAnd so we end an age!

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speaker- Young people... just beginning life...

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speakeryou want to go into that outer horror!

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speakerWhy don't you send somebody who's sick of life?

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speaker- They want fit young people, alert and quick...

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speakerand we're fit young people.

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speakerWe can observe and come back and tell.

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speaker- Cabal, I just want to ask you one clean question:

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speakerWhy did you let your daughter dream

1:20:34 → 1:20:36

speakerof going on this mad moon journey?

1:20:36 → 1:20:37

speaker- Because I love her...

1:20:37 → 1:20:39

speakerand I want her to live to the best effect.

1:20:39 → 1:20:42

speakerDragging out life to the last possible second

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speakeris not living to the best effect.

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speakerThe nearer the thorn, the sweeter the leaf.

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speakerThe best of life, Passworthy, lies

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speakernearest to the edge of death.

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speaker- I'm a broken man...

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speakerI don't know where honor lies.

1:20:56 → 1:20:58

speaker- You haven't got things right, Passworthy!

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speakerOur fathers and our father's fathers

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speakercleaned up the old order of things

1:21:02 → 1:21:03

speakerbecause it killed children!

1:21:03 → 1:21:06

speakerIt killed those who were unprepared for death...

1:21:06 → 1:21:08

speakerbecause it tormented people in vain!

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speaker[Cabal] Because it outraced human pride and dignity!

1:21:10 → 1:21:13

speakerBecause it was an ugly spectacle of waste!

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speakerBut that was only a beginning!

1:21:16 → 1:21:18

speakerThere's nothing wrong in suffering

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speakerif you suffer for a purpose.

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speakerOur revolution didn't abolish danger or death,

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speakerit simply made danger and death worthwhile!

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speaker- [man] Cabal!

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speakerCabal, the gun's in urgent danger!

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speaker[man] It's a race against time now to save it!

1:21:33 → 1:21:36

speakerTheotocopulos has gathered a crowd of people already.

1:21:36 → 1:21:38

speakerHe's going to the space gun now. They're going to break it up!

1:21:38 → 1:21:40

speakerThey it's the symbol of your tyranny.

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speaker- Are there weapons? - Bars of metal.

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speakerThey can smash delicate apparatus.

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speakerThey can do endless mischief!

1:21:45 → 1:21:47

speaker- But you have a Traffic Control, can't they

1:21:47 → 1:21:49

speakerproduce the police? - [man] Very few.

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speakerWe've nothing but the gas of peace and it isn't ready!

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speakerIt'll take hours yet.

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speakerWe must hold this crowd back at any cost for a time,

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speakeruntil the gas of peace is ready!

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speaker- Hey listen!

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speaker(crowd clamoring)

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speakerLook...

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speaker(crowd clamoring)

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speaker- Cabal, they're rioting! It's barbarism come back!

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speaker- Who are you?

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speaker- William Jean, technician for the department's space gun.

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speaker- Well we've stopped the airways, they'll have to go afoot,

1:22:27 → 1:22:28

speakerand they'll take an hour or more to get there.

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speakerEven those who have already started.

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speaker- That gun mustn't be broken up!

1:22:32 → 1:22:34

speakerAfter all the final experiments have been made,

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speakerwhen everything was ready! - When everything was ready?

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speakerIf they smash up that infernal gun then, honor is satisfied

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speakerand you needn't go.

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speaker- They won't smash the gun.

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speaker- Suppose the gun was fired now.

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speakerWould the cylinder reach the moon?

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speaker- It would miss and fly into outer space.

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speakerIt's five now...if the gun were fired before seven--

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speaker- And it could be? - Yes!

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speaker- Then... - We go now!

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speaker- No, no, no!

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speakerOh I don't know what to say, but, don't go. Don't go!

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speaker- Oh but Father, we must go now or we may never go!

1:22:58 → 1:22:59

speakerAnd then for the rest of our lives

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speakerwe'll feel we've shirked and lived in vain. We must go now!

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speaker(faint chatter)

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speaker(indistinct chatter)

1:23:24 → 1:23:29

speaker(engine powers up)

1:23:29 → 1:23:33

speaker(crowd clamors) (aircraft hums)

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speaker(aircraft hums)

1:23:37 → 1:23:42

speaker(crowd clamors)

1:23:42 → 1:23:46

speaker(crowd clamors) (aircraft hums)

1:23:46 → 1:24:28

speaker(aircraft hums)

1:24:28 → 1:24:40

speaker(aircraft powers down)

1:24:43 → 1:24:48

speaker(aircraft whines softly)

1:24:57 → 1:25:00

speaker- Quickly, this way.

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speaker(crane humming)

1:25:09 → 1:25:12

speakerIf you go up to the platform, we'll guard this below.

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speaker- Right.

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speaker(humming sounds)

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speaker(elevator doors open)

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speaker(humming sounds)

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speaker(soft hum)

1:26:04 → 1:26:12

speaker(door mechanism whines)

1:26:12 → 1:26:23

speaker(soft hum)

1:26:23 → 1:26:26

speaker- [man] Contract all your muscles when the concussion comes.

1:26:26 → 1:26:28

speakerIn five minutes, you'll be able to get loose and move about.

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speaker(soft hum)

1:26:31 → 1:26:39

speaker(door mechanism whines)

1:26:39 → 1:26:44

speaker(soft hum)

1:26:44 → 1:26:46

speaker(switches click)

1:26:46 → 1:26:58

speaker(loud hum)

1:26:58 → 1:27:02

speaker(faint crowd noise) (loud hum)

1:27:02 → 1:27:04

speaker- There's the man!

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speaker[Theotocopulos] There's the man who roped up his daughter

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speakerto the devil of science!

1:27:09 → 1:27:11

speaker- What do you want here?

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speaker- We want to save these young people from your experiments!

1:27:14 → 1:27:17

speaker[Theotocopulos] We want to put an end to this inhuman foolery!

1:27:17 → 1:27:20

speakerWe mean to destroy that gun!

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speaker- [Cabal] We have a right to do what we like with our lives,

1:27:22 → 1:27:24

speakerwith our sort of lives!

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speaker[Cabal] We don't grudge you your artistic life.

1:27:26 → 1:27:29

speakerYou have safety, plenty, all you want!

1:27:29 → 1:27:31

speaker- [Theotocopulos] We want to make the world safe for men.

1:27:31 → 1:27:33

speaker- [Cabal] No one prevents you.

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speaker- [Theotocopulos] How can we do that when your science and inventions are

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speakerperpetually changing life for us?

1:27:38 → 1:27:41

speakerWhen you're everlastingly contriving strange things!

1:27:41 → 1:27:44

speakerWhen you make what we deem great seem small?

1:27:44 → 1:27:47

speakerWhen you make what we think strong seem feeble?

1:27:47 → 1:27:50

speakerWe don't want you in the same world with us!

1:27:50 → 1:27:54

speakerWe don't want this expedition! We don't want mankind

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speakerto go out to the moon and to the planets.

1:27:57 → 1:28:00

speakerWe'll hate you more if you succeed than if you fail.

1:28:00 → 1:28:01

speakerDestroy the gun!

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speaker(crowd clamors)

1:28:04 → 1:28:08

speaker- Before you can even reach the base of the gun, we'll fire.

1:28:08 → 1:28:11

speakerBeware of the concussion...

1:28:11 → 1:28:13

speakerBeware of the concussion!

1:28:13 → 1:28:35

speaker♪ (dramatic suspenseful music)

1:28:35 → 1:28:37

speaker- Standby, control room.

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speaker♪ (dramatic suspenseful music)

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speakerDo you have all outside observers?

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speaker♪ (dramatic suspenseful music)

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speakerStand by for fire!

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speaker♪ (dramatic suspenseful music)

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speaker(zapping sound)

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speaker(rumbling sound) ♪ (dramatic suspenseful music)

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speaker(loud boom)

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speaker♪ (sentimental orchestral music)

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speaker- There! There they go! That faint gleam of light.

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speaker- I feel that what we've done is monstrous!

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speaker- What they've done is magnificent.

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speaker- Will they come back?

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speaker- Yes, and go again and again, until the landing is made

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speakerand the moon is conquered. This is only a beginning.

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speaker- But if they don't come back, my son and your daughter,

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speakerwhat of that Cabal?! - Then presently others will go.

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speaker- Oh God, is there ever to be any age of happiness?

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speakerIs there never to be any rest?

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speaker- Rest enough for the individual man,

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speakerToo much and too soon, and we call it death...

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speakerbut for man, no rest and no ending.

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speakerHe must go on, conquest beyond conquest.

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speakerFirst this little planet in its winsome ways,

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speakerand then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain it.

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speakerThen the planets about it...

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speakerand at last, out across immensity to the stars.

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speakerAnd when he has conquered all the deeps of space,

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speakerand all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.

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speaker- But...we're such little creatures.

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speakerOur humanity is so fragile, so weak...little animals.

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speaker- Little animals...

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speakerand if we're no more than animals,

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speakerwe must snatch each little scrap of happiness

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speakerand live, then suffer and pass...

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speakermattering no more than all the other animals

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speakerdo or have done.

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speakerIt is this...or that.

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speakerAll the universe or nothingness!

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speaker♪ (dramatic sentimental music)

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speakerWhich shall it be, Passworthy?

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speakerWhich shall it be?

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speaker♪ (orchestral dramatic sentimental music)