1. Faster than a speeding bullet.Copy !req
2. More powerful than a locomotive.Copy !req
3. Able to leap tall buildings
in a single bound.Copy !req
4. - Look. Up in the sky.
- It's a bird.Copy !req
5. - It's a plane.
- It's Superman.Copy !req
6. Yes, it's Superman,
strange visitor from another planet...Copy !req
7. who came to Earth with powers
and abilities...Copy !req
8. far beyond those of mortal men.Copy !req
9. Superman, who can change
the course of mighty rivers...Copy !req
10. bend steel in his bare hands...Copy !req
11. and who. Disguised as Clark Kent...Copy !req
12. —mild-mannered reporter for a great
metropolitan newspaper.Copy !req
13. fights a never-ending battle for truth,
justice and the American way.Copy !req
14. And now, another exciting episode
in the Adventures oi Superman.Copy !req
15. Two of the best Stillson wrenches
ever made.Copy !req
16. Toss them away.Copy !req
17. And there goes a slow valve
that ain't even hardly worn.Copy !req
18. Get all the equipment
in that hole and bury it.Copy !req
19. What's the idea, Corrigan?
This stuff costs money.Copy !req
20. The idea's because I'm telling you to.
and I'm responsible for it, not you.Copy !req
21. Hey. car coming down the hill.Copy !req
22. Hi. Pop. Catch!Copy !req
23. My oranges.
Thank you for remembering. Mr. Craig.Copy !req
24. Well. Folks. There it is.
Havenhurst Experimental Number One.Copy !req
25. - How does it look?
- Just like any other oil well.Copy !req
26. Above ground. Sure. But take
my word for it, it's the deepest ever drilled.Copy !req
27. Oh. wait a minute.
Don't take my word for it.Copy !req
28. Hey. Pop. this is Miss Lane and Mr. Kent.Copy !req
29. - How do you do?
- Pop Shannon.Copy !req
30. Best watchman in the oil field.Copy !req
31. They're gonna do a feature story
on the well.Copy !req
32. - Oh. newspaper reporters. Huh?
- That's right.Copy !req
33. I'm afraid you're a little bit late.
They're just shutting her down.Copy !req
34. - They're what?
- Shutting her down.Copy !req
35. - What's the big idea?
- I wouldn't know.Copy !req
36. Mr. Corrigan gave the order.Copy !req
37. They just pulled the last drill.
Now they're stripping the base.Copy !req
38. Well. That's a fine thing.
And nobody tells me.Copy !req
39. How can I handle public relations
if I don't know what's going on?Copy !req
40. - Excuse me.
- I don't know.Copy !req
41. This is just ducky.Copy !req
42. If they've shut down. There must be
a reason. Was the well a duster?Copy !req
43. This well? No. sir.Copy !req
44. We struck gas at 13.200.
and when you strike gas. You look for oil.Copy !req
45. - It figures.
- Well. It was a nice plane trip anyway.Copy !req
46. But wait till the chief hears about this.
He'll blow his top.Copy !req
47. There might be a story
on the deepest oil well ever abandoned.Copy !req
48. What about pictures?Copy !req
49. Take out your Brownie
and get some of the derrick.Copy !req
50. Okay. But why is nothing ever easy?Copy !req
51. They can't do this to me. Bill.
Look at the spot it puts me in.Copy !req
52. I get these people to make a 2500-mile trip.
all the way from Metropolis. Now what?Copy !req
53. All I know is I made my report
to the home office last Monday.Copy !req
54. Then the order came through
to shut her down.Copy !req
55. Well. If you ask me. it doesn't add up.Copy !req
56. Just what was in that report? I mean.
the one you sent to the home office.Copy !req
57. Ah. you're the newspaperman.Copy !req
58. Right. I'm Clark Kent. The Metropolis
Daily Planet. This is Miss Lane.Copy !req
59. Too bad you came all the way
out here for nothing.Copy !req
60. Just one of those things. I guess.
But about that report.Copy !req
61. - That's company business. Confidential.
- I see.Copy !req
62. Bill. We promised these people
full cooperation.Copy !req
63. Then you cooperate.
I haven't got the time.Copy !req
64. Okay. Eddie. Let's dump those shackles.Copy !req
65. Would you mind answering
just one question?Copy !req
66. - What is it?
- How far down did you get?Copy !req
67. Thirty-two thousand.
seven hundred and forty feet.Copy !req
68. Thirty-two thousand? Why. that's more
than six miles down.Copy !req
69. Good heavens.
Practically to the center of the Earth.Copy !req
70. Not quite. But it's deeper
than man's ever gone before.Copy !req
71. - Mind if I get a few shots?
- Go ahead.Copy !req
72. I'm awfully sorry about this.
but you see how it is.Copy !req
73. The right hand never knows
what the left hand is doing.Copy !req
74. We'll put you folks up at the hotel
in Silsby for tonight.Copy !req
75. Company's expense. Of course.Copy !req
76. I'm really sorry you came all this way
without getting a story.Copy !req
77. I'm not so sure we won't get a story.Copy !req
78. Hello there. You all packed?Copy !req
79. - How about you?
- I'll wait till morning.Copy !req
80. This certainly is a gay
and cheerful little place. Isn't it?Copy !req
81. Silsby. Population 1430. home of
the world's deepest oil well. Big deal.Copy !req
82. Craig doesn't like to drive at night.Copy !req
83. Otherwise. We'd have been
on our way to Dallas.Copy !req
84. - Where is Craig?
- Turned in.Copy !req
85. He's worn-out from this afternoon.Copy !req
86. He left us the car keys
in case we wanna go out.Copy !req
87. Oh. fine. At least I can say I've seen Silsby.
Couldn't have lived without it.Copy !req
88. What were you reading?
Anything interesting?Copy !req
89. As a matter of fact. Lois. I wasn't reading.
I was sitting here thinking.Copy !req
90. - What about?
- About Corrigan.Copy !req
91. - His attitude this afternoon.
- Oh. he's just a fool.Copy !req
92. I don't know.
I think I'll drive out to the well.Copy !req
93. - What for?
- Nothing. Look around.Copy !req
94. - Talk to the watchman.
- Good idea. I'll go with you.Copy !req
95. Now. what do you expect to
find out there this time of night?Copy !req
96. What do you expect to find, Mr. Kent?Copy !req
97. All right. Come along.Copy !req
98. Well. Where do we start?Copy !req
99. Great Scott!Copy !req
100. Is he dead?Copy !req
101. - Heart attack?
- I don't know.Copy !req
102. Now. don't go building this thing up.Copy !req
103. He was an old man. He had
a heart attack. It's as simple as that.Copy !req
104. I wonder.Copy !req
105. Those oranges on the floor.
how'd they get there?Copy !req
106. He was probably sitting in this chair
when the attack came on.Copy !req
107. He tried to get up. the sack of
oranges was on the table...Copy !req
108. he knocked it over with his arm.
and they spilled out on the floor.Copy !req
109. That's fine. Except for one thing.Copy !req
110. How'd that sack get over here?Copy !req
111. Good question.Copy !req
112. Well. We better notify somebody.
The sheriff or constable or—Copy !req
113. Call Craig. Let him handle this.
I'm going outside and take a look around.Copy !req
114. Hello. Operator.
Would you get me the hotel in Silsby.Copy !req
115. Hello. I'd like to speak to Mr. Craig.
Craig. That's right.Copy !req
116. Lois. You all right? What happened?
Answer me.Copy !req
117. Hello? Hello?Copy !req
118. Hello. Who's this?
Craig. This is Clark Kent.Copy !req
119. Get hold of the sheriff
and Corrigan and get here right away.Copy !req
120. I'm at the well. No. I can't explain.
Just get over as quick as you can.Copy !req
121. Nothing out there.
What's the verdict, doc?Copy !req
122. It looks like a heart attack.
It'll take an autopsy to make that official.Copy !req
123. I don't find any signs of violence.
How old was he?Copy !req
124. Close to 70.Copy !req
125. That's probably it then.
I'll send Reagan up for the body.Copy !req
126. Doctor. Could Shannon have been
frightened to death?Copy !req
127. - Frightened?
- Yes. I mean by something he saw.Copy !req
128. Possibly. A sudden shock
could've caused an attack.Copy !req
129. Provided he had a heart condition
to begin with.Copy !req
130. Oh. Miss Lane. Remember to take another
one of those capsules before you go to bed.Copy !req
131. - Good night, all.
- Good night, doc.Copy !req
132. I don't reckon
there's much more we can do up here.Copy !req
133. Aren't you going to do
anything about the creatures?Copy !req
134. Now. Miss Lane. Mr. Corrigan and me.
we looked all over and we couldn't—Copy !req
135. You don't believe me.
You think I made the whole thing up.Copy !req
136. The inquest will likely be on Wednesday.
We'll need you folks.Copy !req
137. - We'll be there.
- Come on. Clark. Let's get back to the hotel.Copy !req
138. Somebody has to stay here
till the undertaker gets here.Copy !req
139. It'll stay.Copy !req
140. I will too. If you don't mind
giving me a lift back to town.Copy !req
141. Well. We'll be on our way. See you later.Copy !req
142. I guess you know
why I hung around, Mr. Corrigan.Copy !req
143. No. why?Copy !req
144. - I thought you might be ready to talk now.
- About what?Copy !req
145. About that report
you sent to the home office.Copy !req
146. Just why did you close the well down?Copy !req
147. I told you once, the report's confidential.Copy !req
148. That was this afternoon.
Shannon was still alive then.Copy !req
149. And why did you bury those tools?Copy !req
150. Kent. You're a newspaperman.
You want a story.Copy !req
151. Well. I can give you one that's so big.
so fantastic that you wouldn't dare print it.Copy !req
152. Whatever you can prove. I'll print.Copy !req
153. Okay. Come on.Copy !req
154. We started drilling 21 months ago.
September the 5th.Copy !req
155. Nine months later.
June the 3rd. we hit 24.810 feet.Copy !req
156. Deeper than any well's
ever been drilled before.Copy !req
157. June the 26th. at 30.000 feet...Copy !req
158. I took a sample of the stuff
that we'd been boring through...Copy !req
159. put it in a test tube. Labeled it.
and stuck it on the rack.Copy !req
160. This one. I switched off the lights
and started to leave...Copy !req
161. then I remembered that
I'd left my keys on the table.Copy !req
162. I turned to get them. And this is what I saw.Copy !req
163. - Radium?
- That's what it looks like.Copy !req
164. A friend is coming
with a Geiger counter tonight.Copy !req
165. It might just be
harmless phosphorescence.Copy !req
166. That's what I figured. Until this last one.
That one looks as hot as a fireman's helmet.Copy !req
167. Those five samples
were taken at various levels?Copy !req
168. At intervals of 500 feet.Copy !req
169. And the radium content increases?Copy !req
170. That's what scared me.Copy !req
171. I was afraid if we went any deeper that
we'd be coming up with almost pure radium.Copy !req
172. I wouldn't want to expose anyone to that.Copy !req
173. But you did go deeper?Copy !req
174. Yes. At 32,600 feet. The drill broke through.Copy !req
175. Broke through what?Copy !req
176. It was hanging in midair, as if we'd gone
through the last solid layer of the Earth.Copy !req
177. And after that. Nothing. Just empty space.Copy !req
178. You mean the center of the Earth is hollow?Copy !req
179. Is there any other explanation?Copy !req
180. Well. Anyway. When I got the drill head up.
It had sort of a funny look to it.Copy !req
181. - What do you mean. Funny?
- I don't know. It didn't look right.Copy !req
182. So just for luck. I scraped it
and put the stuff under the microscope.Copy !req
183. Here. Take a look.Copy !req
184. - What are they?
- I don't know.Copy !req
185. But whatever they are. They're alive.Copy !req
186. I thought that all life
ceased below the first rock level.Copy !req
187. So did everyone else.
But these things were alive six miles down.Copy !req
188. Then it's possible there can be other forms
of life down there. More highly developed.Copy !req
189. Maybe another civilization.
And here's the point.Copy !req
190. We've drilled a hole right down
to the center of the Earth.Copy !req
191. Whatever is down there could come up.Copy !req
192. And you think something
came out of that hole tonight?Copy !req
193. I don't know. But those creatures
that Miss Lane said she saw...Copy !req
194. and Pop being scared to death.Copy !req
195. - I put a metal cap on the drill casing. But—
- The cap was off when I got there.Copy !req
196. That's our ring.Copy !req
197. Yes?Copy !req
198. Yes. doc.Copy !req
199. No. he left right after you did.
He should be in town by now.Copy !req
200. What?Copy !req
201. Well. Where was this?Copy !req
202. Okay. I'll be right down.Copy !req
203. Doc Saunders. The coroner.Copy !req
204. Those creatures. Jeff Reagan saw them
walking on the road.Copy !req
205. He was on his way out here
to get the body...Copy !req
206. lost control of his car and turned over.Copy !req
207. - Where was this?
- Just outside of town.Copy !req
208. There's no question about it now. Whatever
they are. Humans or monsters. They're here.Copy !req
209. - They've come from the center of the Earth.
- We'd better be going.Copy !req
210. Corrigan. Look.Copy !req
211. These oranges.
Those creatures must've handled them.Copy !req
212. If that stuffs radioactive.
anything they touch will be...Copy !req
213. Come on. we're wasting time.Copy !req
214. Hello.Copy !req
215. Who are you?Copy !req
216. It looks like the news got around.
Those are Luke Benson's dogs.Copy !req
217. We can't let him get near those creatures.Copy !req
218. Don't worry. Corrigan.
Let me handle it.Copy !req
219. Joe. you and Larry Carpenter
cover the woods west of the mill.Copy !req
220. Get one of those searchlights
from the firehouse.Copy !req
221. Rick Maddox, Chuck Webber.
you cover the paths beyond the fork.Copy !req
222. Eddie and Matt.
check the arroyo east of town.Copy !req
223. The rest of us will run the dogs
from Miss Pomfrey's place.Copy !req
224. Just a minute, please. Before you start.
I'd like to warn you.Copy !req
225. - These creatures may be dangerous.
- Is that right? Now. who are you?Copy !req
226. - Kent. I'm a newspaperman.
- Have you seen these critters?Copy !req
227. - No. I haven't.
- These folks have. Miss Pomfrey here—Copy !req
228. Yes. I was putting my hair up when—Copy !req
229. And Jeff Reagan. Almost killed him.
and you're telling us they're dangerous.Copy !req
230. - You don't understand.
- We understand plenty.Copy !req
231. You keep out of this or you'll get hurt.
Come on. boys. Let's go.Copy !req
232. - You must listen to me.
- They know what they're doing.Copy !req
233. They haven't any idea.Copy !req
234. Listen to me. all of you.Copy !req
235. You don't know anything about
these creatures. Where they come from.Copy !req
236. Here's the man that can tell you.
Go on. Corrigan.Copy !req
237. They came up out of the drill shaft
in the oil well. From six miles underground.Copy !req
238. They look strange to us. We must look just
as strange to them. But as far as we know...Copy !req
239. they don't mean us any harm.Copy !req
240. - Yeah? What about old Pop Shannon?
- What about me?Copy !req
241. Me too. There I was.
putting my hair up—Copy !req
242. All these things happened
because you were frightened.Copy !req
243. - If you'll just be reasonable—
- And what? Just settle down...Copy !req
244. and let them take over? Not likely.Copy !req
245. If you shoot at shadows.
someone's liable to get hurt.Copy !req
246. Go home. Lock your doors.
Let me handle this.Copy !req
247. - You?
- Are you crazy. Clark?Copy !req
248. Please. I promise you I'll take care of
these little creatures. One way or another.Copy !req
249. If you don't wanna talk
or look at any of my books...Copy !req
250. maybe you'd like to play catch.Copy !req
251. Why...Copy !req
252. it's getting prettier.Copy !req
253. It sort of shines all over.Copy !req
254. Are you magic?Copy !req
255. - Where'd that scream come from?
- Sounds like it was up the street.Copy !req
256. Come on!Copy !req
257. Well. I hope you realize what a fool
you've made of yourself.Copy !req
258. He always does that.
Gets himself in a jam and then runs away.Copy !req
259. Let's see what's happening outside.Copy !req
260. The little girl's all right.
She was just scared.Copy !req
261. Get out of that doorway.Copy !req
262. Put the gun down. Benson.Copy !req
263. Men like you make it difficult
for people to understand one another.Copy !req
264. You were warned
nothing would come of this but trouble.Copy !req
265. You fellas know what to do. Get going.Copy !req
266. What about the hounds. Luke?Copy !req
267. Get them on the scent.Copy !req
268. Superman.Copy !req
269. Am I glad to see you.Copy !req
270. - Miss Lane.
- This is Mr. Craig and Mr. Corrigan.Copy !req
271. - How do you do?
- I guess you know what happened.Copy !req
272. I know what will happen
if they aren't stopped.Copy !req
273. Where's the sheriff?
Why isn't he doing something?Copy !req
274. The sheriff? There's only one person who
can handle this job. And that's Superman.Copy !req
275. Dogs have got the scent.Copy !req
276. Pop Shannon maybe don't mean nothing.Copy !req
277. And Jeff Reagan's old enough
to take care of himself.Copy !req
278. But when these critters come after
a little kid. I aim to do something about it!Copy !req
279. Let's go.Copy !req
280. They climbed through this window.Copy !req
281. You mean they were actually
inside the house?Copy !req
282. Yes. The child wasn't afraid. It was
the mother's screams that frightened her.Copy !req
283. I know what you're thinking.Copy !req
284. You better wrap the child and her mom
in blankets and take them to the hospital.Copy !req
285. There's nothing to do now but wait
for decontamination.Copy !req
286. Decontamination?Copy !req
287. - Those creatures may be radioactive.
- Good grief.Copy !req
288. That's the one thing Benson
and his friends don't know.Copy !req
289. The dogs have cornered them.Copy !req
290. I better go.Copy !req
291. They're up there. The two of them.
We flushed them out of the arroyo.Copy !req
292. - Who's on the other side?
- Larry Carpenter and the Prow boys.Copy !req
293. We got them trapped.
They can't get away.Copy !req
294. Tie up the dogs. Matt.
Eddie. Get that searchlight.Copy !req
295. Let me take the first shot, Luke. Old Betsy
here will knock them off like sitting ducks.Copy !req
296. You sure they're up there?Copy !req
297. Unless they went over the spillway.
If they did. We got nothing to worry about.Copy !req
298. Sweep her across the top of the dam.Copy !req
299. Hunted by men and dogs,
trapped on the high parapet of the dam...Copy !req
300. the strange little creatures
from the dark center of the Earth...Copy !req
301. are now at the mercy
of Luke Benson and his mob.Copy !req
302. What will happen?Copy !req
303. Stand by for a preview of part two of
"The Unknown People"...Copy !req
304. in the Adventures of Superman.Copy !req