1. ♪ Born is the King of Israel ♪Copy !req
2. ♪ Noel, noel;Copy !req
3. ♪ Noel, noel ♪Copy !req
4. ♪ Born is the King of Israel,♪Copy !req
5. ♪ While shepherds watched their flocks
by night ♪Copy !req
6. ♪ All seated on the ground ♪Copy !req
7. ♪ The angel of the Lord came down ♪Copy !req
8. ♪ And glory shone around ♪Copy !req
9. ♪ God rest you, merry gentlemen ♪Copy !req
10. ♪ Let nothing you dismay ♪Copy !req
11. ♪ Remember Christ our Savior ♪Copy !req
12. ♪ Was born on Christmas day ♪Copy !req
13. ♪ Remember Christ our Savior ♪Copy !req
14. ♪ Was born on Christmas day ♪Copy !req
15. ♪ And bring tidings ♪Copy !req
16. ♪ Of comfort and joy ♪Copy !req
17. ♪ Comfort and joy ♪Copy !req
18. Hello, young Harding.
You're early.Copy !req
19. Yes, I'd finished up.
It was too late to start anything fresh.Copy !req
20. What's all this fuss about
in the papers tonight, Mr. Cabal?Copy !req
21. - Wars and rumors of wars.
- Crying wolf?Copy !req
22. Someday a wolf will come.Copy !req
23. These fools are capable of anything.Copy !req
24. In that case, what happens
to medical research?Copy !req
25. It has to stop.Copy !req
26. That'll mess me up.Copy !req
27. Mess you up? Mess everything up.Copy !req
28. My God! If war gets loose again -Copy !req
29. Happy Christmas, everyone.Copy !req
30. ♪ While shepherds watched
their flocks by night ♪Copy !req
31. ♪ All seated on the gro - ♪Copy !req
32. What's the matter with you fellows?Copy !req
33. Oh, that.Copy !req
34. This little upset across the water
doesn't mean anything.Copy !req
35. Threatened men live long
and threatened wars never occur.Copy !req
36. Another speech by him.Copy !req
37. And I tell you, there's nothing in it.Copy !req
38. It's just to buck people up
about the air estimates.Copy !req
39. Now, why meet wars halfway?
Why not look on the bright side of things?Copy !req
40. You're all right.
Your business is going up.Copy !req
41. You've got a jolly wife, a pretty home.Copy !req
42. - All's right with the world, eh?
- Hmm.Copy !req
43. - All's right with the world.
- Certainly.Copy !req
44. Passworthy, you should have
been called Pippa Passworthy.Copy !req
45. Oh, and, Cabal,
you've been smoking too much.Copy !req
46. You're not - You're not eupeptic.Copy !req
47. Oh, come on. it's Christmas.Copy !req
48. ♪ Noel, noel ♪Copy !req
49. ♪ Noel, noel ♪Copy !req
50. ♪ Born is the King of Israel ♪Copy !req
51. No, don't push me about. No.Copy !req
52. Nice toys they have nowadays.
Nice toys.Copy !req
53. The toys we had were simpler,
ever so much simpler.Copy !req
54. Noah's arks and wooden soldiers.Copy !req
55. Nothing complex like these.Copy !req
56. You know, I wonder sometimes
if perhaps all these new toys...Copy !req
57. aren't a bit too much for them.Copy !req
58. Ýt teaches them to use their hands.Copy !req
59. And I suppose their grandchildren
will see even more wonderful things.Copy !req
60. Progress. Progress.Copy !req
61. I'd like to see the wonders they'll see.Copy !req
62. Don't be too sure of progress.Copy !req
63. Oh, listen to the incurable pessimist.Copy !req
64. What's to stop progress nowadays?Copy !req
65. War.Copy !req
66. Firstly, there isn't going to be a war,
and secondly, war doesn't stop progress.Copy !req
67. It stimulates progress.Copy !req
68. Yes. War can be a highly stimulating thing.Copy !req
69. But you can overdo a stimulant.Copy !req
70. Oh, well, after all, aren't we
exaggerating the horrors of war?Copy !req
71. Don't we rather overdo that song?Copy !req
72. After all, you know, the last war
wasn't as bad as some people make out.Copy !req
73. We didn't worry.Copy !req
74. Something - Something great
seemed to have got hold of us.Copy !req
75. Something greater still
may get hold of us next time.Copy !req
76. If we don't end war, war will end us.Copy !req
77. Well, what can you do?Copy !req
78. Yes.Copy !req
79. What can we do?Copy !req
80. Peace on earth, goodwill towards men.Copy !req
81. Real old-fashioned Christmas this year.Copy !req
82. Fresh little snow,
with a nip in the air, eh?Copy !req
83. What was that? Sounded like a gun.Copy !req
84. Oh, no guns here.
Merry Christmas, Cabal.Copy !req
85. Here's to another good year
for all of us.Copy !req
86. Another year of recovery, eh?Copy !req
87. What are the searchlights doing now?Copy !req
88. Yes.Copy !req
89. Well, it must be antiaircraft maneuvers.Copy !req
90. Maneuvers at Christmas? No.Copy !req
91. Listen. Guns again.Copy !req
92. Yes? Cabal speaking.Copy !req
93. The Hill Town aerodrome at 3:00.Copy !req
94. I'll be there.Copy !req
95. Mobilization.Copy !req
96. Oh, God!Copy !req
97. Perhaps it's only
precautionary mobilization.Copy !req
98. Let's hear the radio.Copy !req
99. The unknown aircraft
passed over Seabeach...Copy !req
100. and dropped bombs within
a few hundred yards of the waterworks.Copy !req
101. They then turned seaward again.Copy !req
102. By this time, they'd been picked up by
the searchlights of the battleship Dinosaur.Copy !req
103. Before they could mount out of range,
she had opened upon them...Copy !req
104. with her antiaircraft guns,
unfortunately, without result.Copy !req
105. Of course, everyone has said this time
they'll start without any declaration of war.Copy !req
106. Oh, listen.Copy !req
107. We do not yet know
the nationality of these aircraft...Copy !req
108. though, of course, there could be
little doubt of their place of origin.Copy !req
109. But before all things, it is necessary
for the country to keep calm.Copy !req
110. No doubt the losses suffered
by the fleet are serious.Copy !req
111. - What's that? Losses of the fleet?
- Listen. Listen.Copy !req
112. And it is imperative that the whole nation
should at once stand to arms.Copy !req
113. Orders for a general mobilization
have been issued...Copy !req
114. and the precautionary civilian
organization against gas...Copy !req
115. will at once be put into operation.Copy !req
116. Our instructions have just come to hand.Copy !req
117. We shall cut off for five minutes,
then read you the general instructions.Copy !req
118. Please call in all your friends.
Call in everyone you can.Copy !req
119. You've got your stimulant, Passworthy.Copy !req
120. Something great has got you.Copy !req
121. War has come.Copy !req
122. My God, if they've attacked without
a declaration of war, then it's vengeance.Copy !req
123. No quarter. Vengeance.Copy !req
124. Punishment, condign punishment...Copy !req
125. or else the end of civilization altogether.Copy !req
126. But it's just possible there's some mistake.Copy !req
127. You know, I cling to that.Copy !req
128. If not, then it's war to the knife.Copy !req
129. No, its - it's not a war.Copy !req
130. It's extermination of dangerous vermin.Copy !req
131. A vermin hunt without pause or pity.Copy !req
132. Well, good night.Copy !req
133. Please keep still and listen.Copy !req
134. War has broken out suddenly.Copy !req
135. There may be an air raid, but it is
not likely to be a very serious one.Copy !req
136. You must be prepared for it.
The danger will not be great.Copy !req
137. As soon as the danger is over,
bugles will sound all clear.Copy !req
138. The streets will be dangerous.
Do not assemble in crowds.Copy !req
139. Keep indoors. Go home.Copy !req
140. Those who are far from home can
take refuge in the underground railways.Copy !req
141. Go home. Go home. Go home.Copy !req
142. Get out of the square.
Get out of the streets.Copy !req
143. Go home and keep home.Copy !req
144. Put out your lights. Close the windows.Copy !req
145. Put a wet sheet or a wet blanket
over doors and windows.Copy !req
146. Get indoors. Get indoors.Copy !req
147. Get out of the streets.Copy !req
148. Go home and keep home.
Keep indoors. Go home.Copy !req
149. Go home.Copy !req
150. Do not assemble in crowds.Copy !req
151. My dear.Copy !req
152. Are you sorry we had these children?Copy !req
153. No.Copy !req
154. Life must carry on.Copy !req
155. Why should we surrender life
to the brutes and fools?Copy !req
156. I loved you.Copy !req
157. I wanted to serve you and -
and make life happy for you.Copy !req
158. But think of the things
that may happen to them.Copy !req
159. Were we selfish?Copy !req
160. You weren't afraid to bear them.Copy !req
161. We were children yesterday.Copy !req
162. We're anxious...Copy !req
163. but we're not afraid...Copy !req
164. really.Copy !req
165. Courage, my dear.Copy !req
166. And may that little heart have courage.Copy !req
167. Are you an officer, Daddy?Copy !req
168. Well, you've got to do your bit, you know,
Sonny. You've got to do your bit.Copy !req
169. - I'm an officer too, Daddy.
- That's the spirit.Copy !req
170. Carry on, sir! Carry on.Copy !req
171. Good-bye, Son.Copy !req
172. There.Copy !req
173. Now then. Quick march!Copy !req
174. An air raid is approaching Everytown.
An air raid is approaching Everytown.Copy !req
175. Gas masks are being distributed.Copy !req
176. See that they fit tightly behind the ears.Copy !req
177. Get to cover.
Get under cover at once.Copy !req
178. The enemy are not in any great force...Copy !req
179. and our antiaircraft gunners
will speedily dispose of them.Copy !req
180. Bad shape, eh?Copy !req
181. Why has it come to this?Copy !req
182. God, why do we
have to murder each other?Copy !req
183. Go, my friend.Copy !req
184. That is my gas, and it's a bad gas.Copy !req
185. Funny if I'm - if I'm killed
by my own poison.Copy !req
186. Quick, get this on.Copy !req
187. Here. Get this on, quickly.Copy !req
188. Give it to her.Copy !req
189. I've given plenty to others.
Why should I not have some myself?Copy !req
190. Give it to her! I'm done.Copy !req
191. That's it. Breathe through your mouth.Copy !req
192. I dropped the gas on her.Copy !req
193. Maybe I've killed
her father and mother.Copy !req
194. Maybe I've killed her whole family.Copy !req
195. And then I go and give up my mask
to save her.Copy !req
196. That's - That's funny.Copy !req
197. That's a joke.Copy !req
198. Look! He's carrying the infection.Copy !req
199. Iodine, please.Copy !req
200. Mary, iodine.Copy !req
201. There's no more left, Father.
This is the last drop.Copy !req
202. God.Copy !req
203. What is the use of trying to save
this mad world from these punishments?Copy !req
204. Oh, Father, if only
you could get some sleep.Copy !req
205. How can I sleep?Copy !req
206. See how they wander out to die?Copy !req
207. Why don't you shoot them?Copy !req
208. It's their lives or ours.Copy !req
209. Let's get guards and make a cordon.Copy !req
210. That's how they dealt with the pestilence
in the Dark Ages.Copy !req
211. Richard.Copy !req
212. My sister.Copy !req
213. Gordon, how do you know?Copy !req
214. Her heart beats fast,
and - and she feels faint.Copy !req
215. And she won't answer.Copy !req
216. What can I do for her?
I thought something might be known.Copy !req
217. Poor Janet.Copy !req
218. And you, you poor dear.Copy !req
219. - Richard.
- I might be infected.Copy !req
220. Is there nothing to make her comfortable?Copy !req
221. Nothing.Copy !req
222. There's nothing will make anyone
comfortable anymore.Copy !req
223. No! Don't shoot.Copy !req
224. Shoot, I tell you! Shoot.Copy !req
225. That's the way to do it. Shoot 'em.Copy !req
226. May Day, 1970.Copy !req
227. The pestilence has ceased.Copy !req
228. Thanks to the determined action
of our chief in shooting all wanderers...Copy !req
229. there have been no cases for two months.Copy !req
230. The pestilence has been conquered.Copy !req
231. The chief is preparing
to resume hostilities...Copy !req
232. against the hill people
with the utmost vigor.Copy !req
233. Soon we shall have victory and peace.Copy !req
234. All is well.Copy !req
235. God save the chief.Copy !req
236. God save our land.Copy !req
237. Have we any more insulated wire?Copy !req
238. We've got no rubbered wire at all, sir.Copy !req
239. Any rubber tape?Copy !req
240. There's not a scrap left in the place.
We used the last on the other motor.Copy !req
241. Oh, what's the use!
There's no petrol anyway.Copy !req
242. I don't believe there's three gallons of
petrol left in this accursed ruin of a town.Copy !req
243. What's the good
of setting me at a job like this?Copy !req
244. Nothing will ever fly again.
Flying's over. Everything's over.Copy !req
245. Civilization's dead.Copy !req
246. Hello.Copy !req
247. It's a Rolls, isn't it?Copy !req
248. Yes. it's a good pre-pestilence machine.Copy !req
249. I oil it and turn it over at times.Copy !req
250. Do you think it'll go fast someday still?Copy !req
251. Oh, I'm not one of your petrol hoarders.Copy !req
252. But all the same,
that engine turns over still.Copy !req
253. Why, I remember when I was a lad,
when it was new...Copy !req
254. we thought nothing
of going a hundred miles in it.Copy !req
255. A whole hundred miles.Copy !req
256. Less than three hours I've done it in.Copy !req
257. But that sort of thing's all gone now.Copy !req
258. - Gone forever, huh?
- Afraid so.Copy !req
259. Hyup! Hyup.Copy !req
260. - Richard.
- What is it?Copy !req
261. - You won't think me mad?
- Why, darling?Copy !req
262. I thought I heard an aeroplane
this morning at dawn.Copy !req
263. I thought it was a dream, but-Copy !req
264. Nonsense. I tell you flying's finished.Copy !req
265. We shall never get in the air again.
Never.Copy !req
266. Hey. Come on. The boss.Copy !req
267. Look! The boss.Copy !req
268. The boss is coming!Copy !req
269. Here's to the boss!Copy !req
270. ♪Copy !req
271. Hey!Copy !req
272. - Anything to report, Gordon?
- Nothing very hopeful, Chief.Copy !req
273. I must have those aeroplanes somehow.Copy !req
274. I'll do what I can,
but you can't fly without petrol.Copy !req
275. I'll get petrol for you, trust me.
You look after the machines.Copy !req
276. I know you haven't got the stuff,
but you can get round that.Copy !req
277. For example, transfer parts.
Use bits of one to mend another.Copy !req
278. Be resourceful.Copy !req
279. Give me only 10 machines in working order.
Give me only five.Copy !req
280. I don't want them all.
And we'll end this war of ours forever.Copy !req
281. I'll see you get your reward.Copy !req
282. This your wife, Gordon?Copy !req
283. You keep her well hidden.Copy !req
284. Salutation, lady.Copy !req
285. You must use your influence
with our master mechanic.Copy !req
286. The combatant state wants his service.Copy !req
287. I'm sure my husband does his best for you.Copy !req
288. That's hardly enough, lady.
The combatant state demands miracles.Copy !req
289. Not everyone can work miracles
as you do, Chief.Copy !req
290. Oh, I'm sure you could work miracles
if you tried, lady.Copy !req
291. Rudolf!Copy !req
292. Lady, lady, I showed it to you,
but you said you didn't want it.Copy !req
293. If Wadsky's been up to his tricks again,
he'll have to answer for them.Copy !req
294. But he's been keeping things
back from me again.Copy !req
295. Not only Wadsky keeps things back.Copy !req
296. What do you think
of our master mechanic here...Copy !req
297. that won't let me have those planes of mine
to end this war of ours with the hill men.Copy !req
298. Well, can't you make him?Copy !req
299. I thought you could
make everybody do everything.Copy !req
300. Some things you can't do, madam.
You can't fly without petrol.Copy !req
301. You can't mend machines
without tools or material.Copy !req
302. We've gone back too far.
Flying's become a lost skill in Everytown.Copy !req
303. - Are you really as stupid as that?
- I'm as hopeless as that.Copy !req
304. And now, Chief,
what are you going to do about it?Copy !req
305. He's going to let me have those machines,
and I'm going to let him have coal-Copy !req
306. stuff to make oil.Copy !req
307. It's a lost skill. It's a dream of the -Copy !req
308. There it is! You were right!
A plane once more!Copy !req
309. Look! There he is.Copy !req
310. He's shutting off.
He's coming down.Copy !req
311. What's the meaning of this?Copy !req
312. They've got aeroplanes before us?Copy !req
313. And you told me we couldn't fly anymore.Copy !req
314. While we've been fumbling,
they've been active.Copy !req
315. Here, some of you - you and you.Copy !req
316. Find out who this is and what it means.
There's only one man in it. Hold him.Copy !req
317. Somewhere they can
still make new machines.Copy !req
318. I didn't dream it was still possible.Copy !req
319. Yes, but who is this man?
How does he dare come here?Copy !req
320. Fetch him to the town hall. Guard
his machine and bring him to me there.Copy !req
321. Come along, Mary.
I must see that machine.Copy !req
322. Who's in control
of this part of the country?Copy !req
323. The chief. What we call the boss.Copy !req
324. Good. I want to see him.Copy !req
325. He sent me to arrest you.Copy !req
326. You can't do that.
But I'll come and see him.Copy !req
327. Well, you're under arrest
whether you'll admit it or not.Copy !req
328. The country's in a state of war.Copy !req
329. Well, come along. I know the way.Copy !req
330. I remember this place well.
I used to live over there for years.Copy !req
331. - Ever heard of a man named Passworthy?
- No.Copy !req
332. - Harding?
- Yes.Copy !req
333. Look! Here he comes now.Copy !req
334. So you're Harding?Copy !req
335. I seem to remember something about you.Copy !req
336. You were a young man.Copy !req
337. You're John Cabal.Copy !req
338. I remember you.Copy !req
339. I used to visit your house here...Copy !req
340. endless years ago, before the wars.Copy !req
341. You're still flying?Copy !req
342. Your hair is gray,
but you look young enough.Copy !req
343. How are things here?
Who's in control in this place?Copy !req
344. Well, we have a chief, a warlord.Copy !req
345. The usual thing.Copy !req
346. I want to look up your warlord.Copy !req
347. Where can we go and talk?Copy !req
348. My laboratory is the best thing.
It's just over here.Copy !req
349. Right.Copy !req
350. Here!Copy !req
351. You can't go in there!
You're under arrest.Copy !req
352. - You gotta go with me to the chief.
- All in good time.Copy !req
353. I must see this gentleman first.Copy !req
354. Well, you gotta go with me!
Orders are orders. The boss first!Copy !req
355. Where is this man?
Why isn't he brought here?Copy !req
356. He's gone off with Dr. Harding.Copy !req
357. He has to be brought here.
I must deal with him.Copy !req
358. Here, you can't go to him.
That's impossible. He must come to you.Copy !req
359. Send another man for him. Send three men.
He's got to be brought here.Copy !req
360. So that's the sort of man your boss is?
Not an unusual type.Copy !req
361. Everywhere we find these little
semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.Copy !req
362. That's what endless warfare
has led to - brigandage.Copy !req
363. What else could happen?Copy !req
364. But we, who are all that are left
of the old engineers and mechanics...Copy !req
365. have pledged ourselves
to salvage the world.Copy !req
366. We have the airways -
or what's left of them.Copy !req
367. We have the seas.
And we have ideas in common.Copy !req
368. The brotherhood of efficiency...Copy !req
369. the freemasonry of science.Copy !req
370. We're the last trustees of civilization
when everything else has failed.Copy !req
371. I've been waiting for this.Copy !req
372. - I'm yours to command.
- Not mine. Not mine.Copy !req
373. No more bosses.
Civilization's to command.Copy !req
374. Tell him he'll have to come.Copy !req
375. If he won't come on foot,
well, we'll have to carry him.Copy !req
376. I don't know what'll happen to me, sir,
if you don't come.Copy !req
377. Well, what do you want to see me about?Copy !req
378. Who are you?
Do you know this country's at war?Copy !req
379. At war?Copy !req
380. Still at it, eh?Copy !req
381. - We must clean that up.
- What do you mean we must clean that up?Copy !req
382. War's war.Copy !req
383. - Who are you, I say?
- The law.Copy !req
384. - Law and sanity.
- I am the law here!Copy !req
385. I said law and sanity.Copy !req
386. Where do you come from?
Who are you?Copy !req
387. Wings Over the World.Copy !req
388. Well, you know, you can't come
into a country like this in this fashion.Copy !req
389. I'm here.Copy !req
390. Do you mind if I sit down?Copy !req
391. And now, for the fourth time,
who are you?Copy !req
392. I tell you, Wings Over the World.Copy !req
393. - That's nothing. What government
are you under? - Common sense.Copy !req
394. I belong to World Communications.
We just run ourselves.Copy !req
395. Eh? You'll run into trouble
if you try and land here in wartime.Copy !req
396. - What's the game?
- Order and trade.Copy !req
397. Trade, eh?Copy !req
398. - Can you do anything in munitions?
- Not our line of business.Copy !req
399. Tools? Spare parts?
We've got planes. We've got planes.Copy !req
400. I've got boys that have trained a bit
on the ground.Copy !req
401. We've no fuel. It hampers us.
We might do a deal.Copy !req
402. We might.Copy !req
403. I know where I can get some fuel.
I've got my plans later.Copy !req
404. But if you can manage a temporary
accommodation, we'd do business.Copy !req
405. World Communications
helps no one to make war.Copy !req
406. End war. End war.Copy !req
407. I want to make victorious peace.Copy !req
408. I seem to have heard that phrase before...
when I was a young man.Copy !req
409. But it's made no end of war.Copy !req
410. Now look here, Mr. Aviator.
Let's see how we stand.Copy !req
411. Come down to actuality.Copy !req
412. The way you swagger, you don't seem
to realize you're under arrest.Copy !req
413. You and your machine.Copy !req
414. You'll find other planes looking for me
if I happen to be delayed.Copy !req
415. We'll deal with them later.Copy !req
416. Now, you can start
a trading agency here if you like.Copy !req
417. I have no objection.Copy !req
418. The first thing we shall want
is to get our planes in the air again.Copy !req
419. Quite a laudable ambition.Copy !req
420. But our new order has an objection
to private aeroplanes.Copy !req
421. The impudence!Copy !req
422. I'm not talking about private aeroplanes.Copy !req
423. Our aeroplanes are public aeroplanes.Copy !req
424. This is an independent
sovereign state at war.Copy !req
425. I know nothing about any old order.Copy !req
426. I'm the chief here...Copy !req
427. and I'm not taking any orders,
old or new, from you.Copy !req
428. I suppose I've walked into trouble.Copy !req
429. Yeah, you can take that as right.Copy !req
430. Where do you come from?Copy !req
431. I flew from our headquarters at Basra
this morning.Copy !req
432. We have some hundreds of new-type planes,
and we're building more fast.Copy !req
433. The factories are working again.Copy !req
434. We're gradually restoring order and trade
in the whole Mediterranean area.Copy !req
435. We're scouting this region now
to see how things are.Copy !req
436. You've found out.Copy !req
437. This is an independent sovereign state.Copy !req
438. Yes, we must talk about that.Copy !req
439. We don't discuss it.Copy !req
440. We don't approve
of independent sovereign states.Copy !req
441. You don't approve?Copy !req
442. - We mean to stop them.
- That's war.Copy !req
443. If you will.Copy !req
444. All right.
I think we know how we stand.Copy !req
445. Burton, take this man.Copy !req
446. If he gives you any trouble, club him.Copy !req
447. Do you hear that,
Mr. Wings Over Your Wits?Copy !req
448. My friends know my whereabouts.Copy !req
449. If I don't come back,
they'll send a force to find me.Copy !req
450. Perhaps they won't find you.Copy !req
451. - They'll find you.
- They'll find me ready.Copy !req
452. Take him to the detention room
downstairs.Copy !req
453. - Now, was that wise?
- Wise?Copy !req
454. - Yes, wise, to quarrel with at once.
- Quarrel with him?Copy !req
455. Confound him.
He began the quarrel with me.Copy !req
456. "We must clean that up. "Copy !req
457. Clean that up! My war.Copy !req
458. - There's things behind him.
- Things behind him?Copy !req
459. Some sort of aerial bus driver.Copy !req
460. Standing up to me, like an equal.Copy !req
461. So you lost your temper
and you bullied him.Copy !req
462. I don't bully. I just handled the man.Copy !req
463. He's the first real aviator
that has come this way for years.Copy !req
464. Think of what that means, my dear.Copy !req
465. You want aeroplanes, don't you?
You want your aeroplanes put in order?Copy !req
466. A really clever man could have had
some of those machines up long ago.Copy !req
467. I'm sure of it.Copy !req
468. Along comes this stranger
who's going to clean me up...Copy !req
469. and you expect me to hand my planes
over to him lock, stock and barrel.Copy !req
470. Why talk nonsense? You could have
persuaded him, under supervision.Copy !req
471. Supervision? The sort of oafs
I've got here to supervise him.Copy !req
472. He'd be too much for them.Copy !req
473. Oh, well, of course, if he's going to be
too much for you, why don't you hang him...Copy !req
474. and hide his machine
before the others are after you?Copy !req
475. I don't agree with you.
I don't agree with you.Copy !req
476. Now, this stranger
hasn't taken me by surprise.Copy !req
477. I knew he was coming.Copy !req
478. Yes, I knew he was coming.Copy !req
479. I felt this conspiracy of air bus drivers
brewing somewhere in the world.Copy !req
480. I felt they were getting ahead with
their aeroplanes down there somewhere.Copy !req
481. Very well. Now's our chance.Copy !req
482. We've got this fellow bottled up.
They won't even begin to miss him for days.Copy !req
483. I've got everything fixed now
for an attack straightaway...Copy !req
484. on the Floss Valley to the old coal
and shale pits, where there's oil too.Copy !req
485. Then up we buzz.Copy !req
486. Victory approaches!Copy !req
487. Your sacrifices have not been in vain.Copy !req
488. Our old struggle with the hill men
has come to its climax.Copy !req
489. Our new victory at the coal pits...Copy !req
490. has brought a great supply of oil
within our reach.Copy !req
491. Once more, we may hope to take the air...Copy !req
492. look our invaders in the face.Copy !req
493. We've 40 aeroplanes -Copy !req
494. as large a force, I venture to say,
as any in the world.Copy !req
495. This new oil can be adapted to our needs.Copy !req
496. That's quite a simple business.Copy !req
497. Nothing remains
but the conclusive bombing of the hills.Copy !req
498. Then for a time, we can hope
for a rich, rewarding peace.Copy !req
499. The peace of the strong man, armed,
who keepeth his house.Copy !req
500. And now, at this supreme crisis, you, Gordon,
our master mechanic, refuse your help.Copy !req
501. Where are my planes?Copy !req
502. The job's more difficult than you think.
Half your machines are hopelessly old.Copy !req
503. You haven't 20 sound ones -
to be exact, 19.Copy !req
504. You'll never get the others off the ground.Copy !req
505. The thing can't be done as you imagine it.
I want assistance.Copy !req
506. - What assistance?
- Your prisoner.Copy !req
507. What, you want that chap in black,
that Wings Over the World?Copy !req
508. - You want him released?
- He knows his business.Copy !req
509. I don't enough.
Make him my technical adviser.Copy !req
510. I don't trust you technical chaps.Copy !req
511. - Then you won't get an aeroplane up.
- I want those planes.Copy !req
512. Well, if you get him?Copy !req
513. - Then I want Dr. Harding out too.
- They're old associates.Copy !req
514. I can't help that.Copy !req
515. If anybody in Everytown can adapt to that
crude oil for our aeroplanes, it's Harding.Copy !req
516. If not, it can't be done.Copy !req
517. Oh, we've had a bit of an argument
with Harding lately.Copy !req
518. He's the only man
who can do this work for you.Copy !req
519. Get him.Copy !req
520. Undo his hands.Copy !req
521. Well?Copy !req
522. - Well what?
- The salute.Copy !req
523. Damn the salute!Copy !req
524. Ah, never mind the salute now.
We'll talk about that later.Copy !req
525. Now look here.
Let's see how we stand.Copy !req
526. You, Gordon, are to undertake
the reconstruction of our air force.Copy !req
527. The prisoner, Cabal,
is to be placed at your disposal.Copy !req
528. Everywhere he goes,
he's to be under guard and observation.Copy !req
529. No relaxing on that.Copy !req
530. Neither you nor he are to go within
a hundred yards of his aeroplane. Mind that.Copy !req
531. Now you, Harding, are to assist Gordon
with his fuel problem...Copy !req
532. and place your knowledge
of poison gas at our disposal.Copy !req
533. I'll have nothing to do with poison gas!Copy !req
534. You've got the knowledge
if I have to wring it out of you.Copy !req
535. The state's your mother, your father,
the totality of your interests!Copy !req
536. No discipline can be too severe for the man
that denies that by word or deed!Copy !req
537. Nonsense!
We have a duty to civilization.Copy !req
538. You and your sort are driving us
straight back to eternal barbarism.Copy !req
539. But this is pure treason!Copy !req
540. I protest against
being dragged away from my work!Copy !req
541. Confound your silly war and your
war material and all the rest of it.Copy !req
542. All my life has been interrupted
and wasted and spoilt by war.Copy !req
543. I'll not stand it any longer!Copy !req
544. - But this is treason, treason!
- No, no, no, no. Stop that.Copy !req
545. We've need of your service.Copy !req
546. - Well, what do you want?
- You're conscripted!Copy !req
547. You're under my orders now
and under no other orders in the world.Copy !req
548. I'm master here. I'm the state.Copy !req
549. I need fuel and gas!Copy !req
550. Neither fuel nor gas.Copy !req
551. - You refuse?
- Absolutely.Copy !req
552. I don't want to be forced
to extremities.Copy !req
553. May I have a word?Copy !req
554. I understand you want all of those
out-of-date crocks of yours -Copy !req
555. which you call your air force -
to fly again and fly well.Copy !req
556. They shall!Copy !req
557. With the help of that man, Cabal,
you have in the cells...Copy !req
558. and Dr. Harding here...Copy !req
559. you may even have a dozen
of your planes in the air again.Copy !req
560. You! You're a traitor to civilization.Copy !req
561. I won't touch it!Copy !req
562. If you will give me Cabal...Copy !req
563. and if you leave me free
to talk with Harding...Copy !req
564. I promise you
you'll see your air force -Copy !req
565. a third of it, at any rate -
in the sky again.Copy !req
566. You talk as if you're driving
a bargain with me.Copy !req
567. I'm sorry, Chief.
It's not I who makes these conditions.Copy !req
568. Ýt is the nature of things.Copy !req
569. You cannot have technical services,
you cannot have scientific help...Copy !req
570. without treating the men
who give it to you properly.Copy !req
571. That's what I've said all along.Copy !req
572. You're bullying too hard, my dear,
and there's a limit to bullying.Copy !req
573. Why? You can't make a dog hunt
by beating it.Copy !req
574. I want those planes!Copy !req
575. Chief and commanders, a health!Copy !req
576. Our war leader, our peace maker -
Rudolf the Victorious.Copy !req
577. - To Rudolf!
- Speech! Speech!Copy !req
578. Speech! Speech!Copy !req
579. Come on! Speech!Copy !req
580. My captains, my commanders,
I greet you.Copy !req
581. Could anything in life
be better than this moment?Copy !req
582. You've faced difficulties and dangers.Copy !req
583. But now,
at this bright moment of victory...Copy !req
584. we relax to gather strength
for the supreme effort...Copy !req
585. that will make this land forever ours.Copy !req
586. Hear! Hear!Copy !req
587. A man's land we're making -Copy !req
588. a land for strength and for courage.Copy !req
589. None but the brave deserve the land.Copy !req
590. None but the brave deserve the fair.Copy !req
591. Our dear old world.
Our dear old land.Copy !req
592. There are some among us
that dare to run down our land.Copy !req
593. Ýt isn't this. It isn't that.
It isn't what it used to be.Copy !req
594. "We haven't got chemists. "Copy !req
595. - Well, who wants chemists?
- We don't want 'em.Copy !req
596. "They don't print books anymore. "Copy !req
597. Who wants books to muddle
their thoughts and their ideas?Copy !req
598. "We can't travel anymore. "Copy !req
599. Well, isn't our land good enough for us?Copy !req
600. I wanted to look at you.Copy !req
601. I am at your service, madam.Copy !req
602. You're the most interesting thing
that has happened in Everytown for years.Copy !req
603. You honor me.Copy !req
604. You come from... outside.Copy !req
605. I'd begun to forget
there was anything outside.Copy !req
606. - I want to hear about it.
- May I offer you my only chair?Copy !req
607. - You know, I'm not a stupid woman.
- I'm sure.Copy !req
608. This life here is limited.Copy !req
609. War - always going on and never-ending.
Flags. Marching.Copy !req
610. Oh, I adore the chief.Copy !req
611. I've always adored him since he
took control in the pestilence days...Copy !req
612. when everyone else lost heart.Copy !req
613. He rules. He's firm.Copy !req
614. Everyone, every woman
finds him strong and attractive.Copy !req
615. I can't complain.Copy !req
616. I have everything that is to be had here.Copy !req
617. And yet...Copy !req
618. This is a small, limited world we live in.Copy !req
619. You bring in the breath
of something greater.Copy !req
620. When I saw you swooping down
out of the air -Copy !req
621. when I saw you marching
into the town hall-Copy !req
622. I felt, "This man lives in a greater world".Copy !req
623. You spoke of the Mediterranean and the East,
of your camps and factories.Copy !req
624. I've read about the Mediterranean
and Egypt and Greece and India.Copy !req
625. Oh, I can read - a lot of those old books.Copy !req
626. I'm not like
most of the younger people here.Copy !req
627. I learned a lot before education stopped
and schools closed down.Copy !req
628. I want to see that world -Copy !req
629. skies, snowy mountains,
blue seas, sunshine, palms.Copy !req
630. If I had my way, you could fly to all that
in a couple of hours.Copy !req
631. If you were free...Copy !req
632. and if I was free.Copy !req
633. I don't suppose any man
has ever understood any woman...Copy !req
634. since the beginning of things.Copy !req
635. You don't understand our imagination...Copy !req
636. how wild our imaginations can be.Copy !req
637. I wish I were a man.Copy !req
638. Oh! If I were a man!Copy !req
639. What are your people
trying to do to us?Copy !req
640. What are you going to do
to this boss of mine?Copy !req
641. The immediate question seems,
what does he mean to do to me?Copy !req
642. Something violent and foolish,
unless I prevent it.Copy !req
643. That's how I see things.Copy !req
644. And if he kills you?Copy !req
645. We shall come here and clean things up.Copy !req
646. But if you're killed,
how can you say We"?Copy !req
647. We go on.
That's how things are.Copy !req
648. We are taking hold of things.Copy !req
649. In science and government,
in the long run, no man is indispensable.Copy !req
650. The human things go on.Copy !req
651. We - forever.Copy !req
652. I see.Copy !req
653. And this warlike state of ours here?Copy !req
654. Ýt has to vanish - like the tyrannosaurus
and the saber-toothed tiger.Copy !req
655. Ah! So here you are.Copy !req
656. I said I should talk to him,
and I have.Copy !req
657. I told you to leave that fellow alone.Copy !req
658. Yes, and sat up there drinking and swaggering
and looking as proud as you could.Copy !req
659. Rudolf the Victorious.Copy !req
660. And here am I trying to find out
what this black invader means.Copy !req
661. You think I wanted to come and talk to him -
this gray, cold man?Copy !req
662. While you're swaggering here...Copy !req
663. there are more planes
away there at Basra getting ready.Copy !req
664. - Basra?
- His headquarters.Copy !req
665. Have you never heard of Basra?Copy !req
666. These are matters for us to talk about.Copy !req
667. This lady has been putting me through
a severe cross-examination.Copy !req
668. But the gist of it is that,
away there in Basra...Copy !req
669. new aeroplanes are rising night and day,
like hornets round a hornets' nest.Copy !req
670. What happens to me is a small affair.Copy !req
671. They'll finish you.Copy !req
672. The new world of united airmen
will finish you.Copy !req
673. Listen. You can almost
hear them coming now.Copy !req
674. Not a bit of it.Copy !req
675. - What he says is the truth.
- What he says is bluff.Copy !req
676. Make peace with the airmen
and let him go.Copy !req
677. That means surrender
of our sovereign independence.Copy !req
678. But more machines will be coming
and more and more.Copy !req
679. Yeah, and he's here,
hostage for their good behavior.Copy !req
680. Come, madam. Enough of this
little diplomatic mission of yours.Copy !req
681. You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.Copy !req
682. Here, I don't know
what she's been saying to you.Copy !req
683. I don't much care.Copy !req
684. But there's no making peace
between you and me.Copy !req
685. It's your world or mine,
and it's going to be mine.Copy !req
686. For all your threats of swarms of hornets
and so on, you're a hostage.Copy !req
687. Remember that.Copy !req
688. And don't be too sure you'll win.Copy !req
689. So just sit here and think that over,
Mr. Wings Over the World.Copy !req
690. Get round to the other side and look at
these engine bearer braces. Quickly.Copy !req
691. If I could get to my plane,
there's a wireless there.Copy !req
692. - It's hopeless. They won't even trust me.
- We shall have to make a job of this.Copy !req
693. I can manage to get your reserve petrol.Copy !req
694. - They'll let me have that for this plane.
- Good.Copy !req
695. It won't be easy to make a getaway.Copy !req
696. These oil pump connections aren't very good,
but we'll have to risk it.Copy !req
697. I think we'll manage it all right
now that Harding knows his part of the job.Copy !req
698. Good.Copy !req
699. Look! it's your Gordon.
He's flying at last.Copy !req
700. Look! An aeroplane out of the ark, boys.Copy !req
701. It's pre-war.Copy !req
702. - Where do you come from? - He comes
from the north, sir, from Everytown.Copy !req
703. He says Cabal is a prisoner there.Copy !req
704. They've got him, sir, and he's in danger.
I had great difficulty in getting here.Copy !req
705. - You say Cabal is in danger?
- In very great danger.Copy !req
706. - The boss there is a violent tough.
- Hmm. Job for our new squadron.Copy !req
707. Well, now we've got a chance to try
the new gas of peace on somebody.Copy !req
708. There's no time to lose, sir.
May I report to headquarters?Copy !req
709. Yes. Take him to the council.Copy !req
710. - At last, we have definite news.
- What is it?Copy !req
711. Gordon didn't fall into the sea.
He got away.Copy !req
712. A fishing boat saw him
making for the French coast.Copy !req
713. - Perhaps he reached his pals.
- Well?Copy !req
714. Well, he'll be coming back.
He'll be bringing the others with him.Copy !req
715. Curse these World Communications.Copy !req
716. Curse all airmen
and gas men and machine men!Copy !req
717. Why didn't we leave their machines
and their sciences alone?Copy !req
718. I might have known.
Why did I tamper with flying?Copy !req
719. Well, we needed aeroplanes -
against the hill state.Copy !req
720. Somebody else would have started in again with
aeroplanes and gas and bombs if we hadn't.Copy !req
721. These people would have come
interfering anyhow.Copy !req
722. Why was all this science ever allowed?
Why was it ever let begin?Copy !req
723. Science? it's an enemy of everything
that's natural in life.Copy !req
724. I dreamt of those fellows last night-
great ugly, black, inhuman chaps.Copy !req
725. Half like machines.Copy !req
726. Bombing and bombing.Copy !req
727. - Yes, I guess they'll come bombing,
all right. - Then we'll fight 'em!Copy !req
728. Since Gordon got away,
I've had those air boys up to see me.Copy !req
729. They've got guts.
They'll do something still.Copy !req
730. We'll fight 'em. We'll fight 'em.Copy !req
731. Ha! We've got hostages.Copy !req
732. I'm glad I didn't shoot them anyway.Copy !req
733. There's that chap Harding.Copy !req
734. Of course! He can tell us
what to do against this gas...Copy !req
735. if I have to pull his arm off
and knock his teeth down his throat.Copy !req
736. - Get him! Get him!
- Go get Dr. Harding.Copy !req
737. They have to come to earth sometime.Copy !req
738. What is this World Communications?Copy !req
739. A handful of men like ourselves.Copy !req
740. They're not magic.Copy !req
741. To you, I entrust these good,
tried, tested machines.Copy !req
742. You are not mechanics.
You are warriors.Copy !req
743. You have been trained not to think,
but to do...Copy !req
744. maybe to die.Copy !req
745. I salute you, I, your chief!Copy !req
746. What do you know about
these World Communications people?Copy !req
747. - Have they gas? What sort of gas?
- I know nothing about gas.Copy !req
748. Tell us about these masks anyway.Copy !req
749. Oh, they're rotten.
They're no good at all.Copy !req
750. What sort of gas have they got?Copy !req
751. I tell you, gas isn't my business.Copy !req
752. They can't gas us
when you're here anyway.Copy !req
753. Here they are.Copy !req
754. Listen. They're coming already!Copy !req
755. We're here.
Tell them to stand by.Copy !req
756. Clumsy great things!Copy !req
757. Our boys will have them down
in no time.Copy !req
758. They're too clumsy.Copy !req
759. What, only six of us up?
Where are the rest of our fellows?Copy !req
760. Go on! Up at him.Copy !req
761. - Poor boy! it's got him!
- They're both coming down. Cowards!Copy !req
762. But they can't use gas
if we have hostages.Copy !req
763. The hostages! I'm not done yet.
Go on. Fetch them.Copy !req
764. Bring them out here out in the open.
Tie 'em up where they can be seen.Copy !req
765. Where's the other fellow?
He's the prize hostage.Copy !req
766. He's the best of the lot.
They'll know him. Fetch him.Copy !req
767. Fetch him.Copy !req
768. Look! Is that gas?Copy !req
769. Anyway, you won't get out of this.Copy !req
770. - You?
- Don't you see? We're beaten.Copy !req
771. Shoot them!Copy !req
772. What are you all doing?
Why don't you move?Copy !req
773. I never did you any harm.Copy !req
774. I saved your father, and I saved you.Copy !req
775. Couldn't you call up to your man there
to stop this?Copy !req
776. I won't have it like this!Copy !req
777. What's happening?Copy !req
778. Everything's swimming.Copy !req
779. Shoot! Shoot!Copy !req
780. We never shot enough yet!Copy !req
781. We never shot enough.Copy !req
782. We spared them.
Now they've got us.Copy !req
783. Our world or theirs.Copy !req
784. Why should I be beaten like this?Copy !req
785. Shoot! Shoot!Copy !req
786. Shoot! Shoot!Copy !req
787. There they are.Copy !req
788. Mary!Copy !req
789. No, no. She's not hurt.
She's asleep like the others.Copy !req
790. Cabal's safe!Copy !req
791. - Cabal!
- Well done, Gordon!Copy !req
792. Well, they laughed at me
for sticking to my gas mask.Copy !req
793. But thanks to that,
I'm here and everyone else is sleeping.Copy !req
794. I wonder if they'll ever
use gas masks again.Copy !req
795. - Sir!
- What is it?Copy !req
796. This man's not sleeping.
He's dead.Copy !req
797. Dead. And his world dead with him.Copy !req
798. And a new world beginning.Copy !req
799. Poor old Boss here
and his flags and his follies.Copy !req
800. And now for the rule of the airmen
and a new life for mankind.Copy !req
801. Our job is only beginning.Copy !req
802. For now, we have to
put the world in order.Copy !req
803. It will be a long
and complicated struggle...Copy !req
804. but we have the unity of a common order
and a common knowledge.Copy !req
805. This is how I conceive
our plan of operations.Copy !req
806. First a roundup of brigands -Copy !req
807. that last dismal vestige
of ancient predatory soldiering...Copy !req
808. the last would-be conquerors.Copy !req
809. Then settle, organize, advance.Copy !req
810. This zone, then that.Copy !req
811. And at last, Wings Over the World...Copy !req
812. and the new world begins.Copy !req
813. Do you realize
the immense task we shall undertake...Copy !req
814. when we set ourselves
to an active and aggressive peace...Copy !req
815. when we direct our energies
to tear out the wealth of this planet...Copy !req
816. and exploit all these
giant possibilities of science...Copy !req
817. that have been squandered hitherto
upon war and senseless competition?Copy !req
818. We shall excavate the eternal hills.Copy !req
819. We shall make such use of the treasures
of sky and sea and earth...Copy !req
820. as men have never dreamt of hitherto.Copy !req
821. I would that I could see
our children's children...Copy !req
822. in this world we shall win for them.Copy !req
823. But in them and through them,
we shall live again.Copy !req
824. Is it any better world than it used to be?Copy !req
825. I rebel against this progress.Copy !req
826. What has this progress,
this world civilization, done for us?Copy !req
827. Machines and marvels.Copy !req
828. They've built these
great cities of theirs, yes.Copy !req
829. They've prolonged life, yes.Copy !req
830. They've conquered nature, they say,
and made a great white world.Copy !req
831. Is it any jollier than the world used to be
in the good old days...Copy !req
832. when life was short and hot and merry
and the devil took the hindmost?Copy !req
833. - All the same, what can we do about it?
- Rebel.Copy !req
834. - And rebel now. Now. Now is the time.
- Why now in particular?Copy !req
835. Why, because of this space gun business...Copy !req
836. because of this project to shoot
human beings at the stars.Copy !req
837. People don't like it, shooting humans away
into hard, frozen darkness.Copy !req
838. - They're murmuring. - They've murmured
before, and nothing came of it.Copy !req
839. Because they had no leader.Copy !req
840. But now...Copy !req
841. suppose someone cried, "Halt!Copy !req
842. Stop this progress!"Copy !req
843. Suppose I shouted to the world,
"Make an end to this progress!"Copy !req
844. I could talk, talk.
Radio is everywhere.Copy !req
845. This modern world is full of voices.Copy !req
846. I'm a master craftsman.
I have the right to talk.Copy !req
847. Yes, but will they listen to you?Copy !req
848. They'll listen, trust them...Copy !req
849. if I shout, "Arise! Awake!Copy !req
850. Stop this progress before it is too late!"Copy !req
851. - I like these history lessons.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
852. What a funny place New York was,
all sticking up and full of windows.Copy !req
853. They built houses like that
in the old days.Copy !req
854. Why?Copy !req
855. They had no light inside their cities
as we have.Copy !req
856. So they had to stick them up
into the daylight, what there was of it.Copy !req
857. They had no properly mixed
and conditioned air.Copy !req
858. Everybody lived half out of doors.Copy !req
859. They had windows of brittle glass.Copy !req
860. The age of windows lasted four centuries.Copy !req
861. They never seemed to realize that we could light the
interiors of our houses with sunshine of our own...Copy !req
862. so there was no need to stick them up
ever so high into the air.Copy !req
863. Weren't the people tired
going up and down those stairs?Copy !req
864. They were all tired,
and they had a disease called colds.Copy !req
865. Everybody had colds.Copy !req
866. And they coughed and sneezed
and ran at the eyes.Copy !req
867. Sneezed. What's "sneezed"?Copy !req
868. Oh, you know.Copy !req
869. Ah-tishoo!Copy !req
870. Ah-tishoo?
Everybody said "ah-tishoo"?Copy !req
871. That must have been funny.Copy !req
872. Not so funny as you think.Copy !req
873. And you remember all that,
Great-grandfather?Copy !req
874. Well, I remember some of it.Copy !req
875. The colds we had...Copy !req
876. and indigestion, too,
from the queer, bad foods we ate.Copy !req
877. Oh, it was a poor life -
never really well.Copy !req
878. Did people laugh at it?Copy !req
879. Well, they had a way
of grinning at it.Copy !req
880. They used to call it humor.Copy !req
881. We had to have a lot of humor.Copy !req
882. I've lived through
some horrid times, my dear.Copy !req
883. Oh, horrid.Copy !req
884. Horrid? I don't want
to hear about that.Copy !req
885. The wars, the wandering sickness...Copy !req
886. and all those dreadful years.Copy !req
887. None of that will come again,
Great-granddad, ever?Copy !req
888. Well, not if progress goes on.Copy !req
889. They keep on inventing
new things now, don't they...Copy !req
890. and making life lovelier and lovelier?Copy !req
891. Lovelier. Yes.Copy !req
892. And bolder.Copy !req
893. I suppose I'm an old man, my dear,
but some of it seems like going too far.Copy !req
894. This space gun of theirs
that they keep on shooting.Copy !req
895. What is this space gun,
Great-grandfather?Copy !req
896. Well, it's a gun
they discharge by electricity.Copy !req
897. It's a lot of guns inside one another...Copy !req
898. and each one discharges
the gun next inside.Copy !req
899. I don't properly understand it...Copy !req
900. but the cylinder it shoots out last goes -
swish - right away from the Earth.Copy !req
901. I wish I could fly round the moon.Copy !req
902. Well, that in time.Copy !req
903. Won't you come back
to your history pictures again?Copy !req
904. I'm glad I didn't live in the old world.Copy !req
905. I know that John Cabal and his airmen
tidied it all up.Copy !req
906. Did you see John Cabal,
Great-granddad?Copy !req
907. Well, you can see him in your pictures.Copy !req
908. But you saw him when he lived.
You really saw him?Copy !req
909. Yes. I saw the great John Cabal
with my own eyes when I was a little boy.Copy !req
910. He was a lean, brown old man
with hair as white as mine.Copy !req
911. He was the great-grandfather
of our Oswald Cabal...Copy !req
912. the president of our council.Copy !req
913. I take it the space gun's
passed all its preliminary trials...Copy !req
914. and there's nothing left now
but to choose the two who are to go.Copy !req
915. That's going to be the trouble.Copy !req
916. Thousands of young people
have been applying -Copy !req
917. young men and young women.Copy !req
918. I never dreamt the moon
was so attractive.Copy !req
919. Practically, the gun's perfect now.Copy !req
920. There are risks, but reasonable risks.Copy !req
921. And the position of the moon
in the next three or four months...Copy !req
922. gives us the best conditions
for getting there.Copy !req
923. It's only the choice of the two now
that matters.Copy !req
924. - Well?
- There are going to be difficulties.Copy !req
925. That man Theotocopulos
is talking on the radio about it.Copy !req
926. He's a fantastic fellow.Copy !req
927. Yes, but he's making trouble.Copy !req
928. It's not going to be easy
to choose these young people.Copy !req
929. With all these thousands
offering themselves?Copy !req
930. We've looked into thousands of cases.Copy !req
931. We've rejected everyone
of imperfect health...Copy !req
932. or anyone who had friends who objected.Copy !req
933. And the fact is,
we want you to talk to two people.Copy !req
934. There's Raymond Passworthy
of General Fabric. You know him?Copy !req
935. - Yes, I know him.
- And his son.Copy !req
936. We want you to see the son,
Maurice Passworthy.Copy !req
937. - Why?
- He asks to go.Copy !req
938. We think you ought to see him.
He's waiting here.Copy !req
939. - Is Maurice Passworthy there?
- He's on his way.Copy !req
940. Good.Copy !req
941. - You want to talk to me?
- Forgive me, sir. I came straight to you.Copy !req
942. - You're asking a favor?
- A very big favor.Copy !req
943. I want to be one of the first two
human beings to go round the moon.Copy !req
944. It means danger,
great hardship anyhow.Copy !req
945. You realize there's an even chance
of never corning back alive...Copy !req
946. a still greater chance
of coming back a cripple.Copy !req
947. - Give me credit for not minding that, sir.
- Mm-hmm.Copy !req
948. Yes, a lot of you young people
don't mind that.Copy !req
949. But why should I give you a favor?Copy !req
950. Well, I'm - I'm the son
of a friend of yours and -Copy !req
951. Well, people seem to feel you oughtn't
to send someone you don't know, sir.Copy !req
952. Go on.Copy !req
953. We've talked about this
over and over again.Copy !req
954. - We?
- Yes, both of us.Copy !req
955. It's her idea even more than it's mine.Copy !req
956. Her idea? Who is she?Copy !req
957. Someone much closer to you
than I am, sir.Copy !req
958. Go on.Copy !req
959. It's Catherine, your daughter.Copy !req
960. She says you can't possibly
send anybody's child but your own.Copy !req
961. I might have known.Copy !req
962. Today, I'm going
to put it to the world plainly.Copy !req
963. Is this thing to go on...Copy !req
964. or are we sane and normal human beings
to put an end to it...Copy !req
965. and an end to all such follies forever?Copy !req
966. What is this progress?Copy !req
967. What is the good of all this progress
onward and onward?Copy !req
968. We demand a halt.
We demand a rest.Copy !req
969. The object of life is happy living.Copy !req
970. We will not have human lives
sacrificed to experiment.Copy !req
971. Progress is not living. It should
only be the preparation for living.Copy !req
972. They stage the old Greek tragedy again...Copy !req
973. and a father offers up his daughter
to his evil gods.Copy !req
974. That voice is sounding to the whole world.Copy !req
975. I might suppress it. No.Copy !req
976. They'll have to hear him
and make what they can of him.Copy !req
977. What does this space gun portend?Copy !req
978. Make no mistake about it.Copy !req
979. The slaveries
they put upon themselves today...Copy !req
980. they will impose tomorrow
upon the whole world.Copy !req
981. Is man never to rest...Copy !req
982. never to be free?Copy !req
983. A time will come
when you in your turn...Copy !req
984. will be forced away to take your chance
upon strange planets...Copy !req
985. and in dreary,
abominable places beyond the stars.Copy !req
986. An end to progress.Copy !req
987. Make an end to this progress now.Copy !req
988. Let this be the last day
of the scientific age.Copy !req
989. Make the space gun the symbol
of all that drives us and destroy it!Copy !req
990. NOW!Copy !req
991. I wonder what they will make of him.Copy !req
992. It's all very well for you, Cabal.Copy !req
993. You're the great-grandson of John Cabal,
the air dictator...Copy !req
994. the man who changed
the whole course of the world.Copy !req
995. You've got experiment in your blood,
you and your daughter.Copy !req
996. But I'm - I'm more normal.Copy !req
997. I don't believe my boy
would have thought of it.Copy !req
998. - The two of them must have got together.
- They'll come back together.Copy !req
999. This time, there's no attempt
to land on the moon.Copy !req
1000. When - When is this great experiment
to be made?Copy !req
1001. How much longer have we got
before they go?Copy !req
1002. - When the space gun is ready.
- Some time this year you mean?Copy !req
1003. Soon.Copy !req
1004. Then is there no way of saving
our children from this madness?Copy !req
1005. But would it be saving our children?Copy !req
1006. Well, here they are.Copy !req
1007. - Father, we're to go?
- Yes, you're to go.Copy !req
1008. - It's announced?
- Two hours ago.Copy !req
1009. - Already?
- Why not?Copy !req
1010. - But... my son.
- He's of age. He's volunteered.Copy !req
1011. Yes, but I want to talk it over first.Copy !req
1012. I must talk it over.
Why have you announced this so soon?Copy !req
1013. There is still time to talk it over,
isn't there?Copy !req
1014. Not so very long now, Father.Copy !req
1015. We're got several months yet surely.Copy !req
1016. It's just one month and three days.
Everything's ready.Copy !req
1017. And the moon's coming into the right
position even while we're talking now.Copy !req
1018. They're leaving it a month longer
to make sure.Copy !req
1019. You mean you're going in four weeks?Copy !req
1020. Four weeks? I forbid it!Copy !req
1021. This man Theotocopulos is right.
This thing must not be.Copy !req
1022. It's human sacrifice!Copy !req
1023. Your speech has struck fire.Copy !req
1024. All the people are excited and angry.Copy !req
1025. Some of them are already going
out of the city towards the space gun.Copy !req
1026. Nothing is wanted now but leading!Copy !req
1027. We must go right on with this.Copy !req
1028. To the space gun!Copy !req
1029. And so we end an age.Copy !req
1030. Young people just beginning life...Copy !req
1031. and you want to go
into that outer horror.Copy !req
1032. Why don't you send somebody
who's sick of life?Copy !req
1033. They want fit young people -
alert and quick.Copy !req
1034. And we're fit young people.
We can observe and come back and tell.Copy !req
1035. Cabal, I just want to ask you
one plain question.Copy !req
1036. Why did you let your daughter dream
of going on this mad moon journey?Copy !req
1037. Because I love her,
and I want her to live to the best effect.Copy !req
1038. Dragging out life to the last possible
second is not living to the best effect.Copy !req
1039. The nearer the bone,
the sweeter the meat.Copy !req
1040. The best of life, Passworthy,
lies nearest to the edge of death.Copy !req
1041. I'm a broken man.Copy !req
1042. I don't know where honor lies.Copy !req
1043. You haven't got things right, Passworthy.Copy !req
1044. Our fathers and our fathers' fathers
cleaned up the old order of things...Copy !req
1045. because it killed children.Copy !req
1046. It killed those
who were unprepared for death.Copy !req
1047. Because it tormented people in vain.Copy !req
1048. Because it outraged
human pride and dignity.Copy !req
1049. Because it was an ugly spectacle of waste.Copy !req
1050. But that was only a beginning.Copy !req
1051. There's nothing wrong in suffering
if you suffer for a purpose.Copy !req
1052. Our revolution didn't abolish
danger or death.Copy !req
1053. It simply made danger
and death worthwhile.Copy !req
1054. Cabal!Copy !req
1055. Cabal, the gun's in urgent danger.
It's a race against time now to save it.Copy !req
1056. Theotocopulos is out
with a crowd of people already.Copy !req
1057. He's going to the space gun now.Copy !req
1058. They're gonna break it up.
They say it's the symbol of your tyranny.Copy !req
1059. - Have they weapons?
- Bars of metal.Copy !req
1060. They can smash delicate apparatus.
They can do endless mischief.Copy !req
1061. But you have a traffic control.
Can't they produce the police?Copy !req
1062. Very few. We've nothing
but the gas of peace, and it isn't ready.Copy !req
1063. It'll take hours yet.Copy !req
1064. We must hold this crowd back at any cost
for a time until the gas of peace is ready.Copy !req
1065. Listen.Copy !req
1066. Look!Copy !req
1067. Cabal, they're rioting!
It's barbarism come back.Copy !req
1068. - Who are you? - William Jeans
- Astronomical Department, Space Gun.Copy !req
1069. We've stopped the airways.
They'll have to go afoot.Copy !req
1070. And they'll take an hour or more to get
there, even those who've already started.Copy !req
1071. That gun mustn't be broken up after all
the final experiments have been made!Copy !req
1072. - When everything was ready!
- When everything was ready?Copy !req
1073. If they smash up that infernal gun,
then honor is satisfied and you needn't go.Copy !req
1074. - They won't smash the gun.
- Suppose the gun was fired now?Copy !req
1075. - Would the cylinder reach the moon?
- It would miss and fly into outer space.Copy !req
1076. It's 5:00 now.
If the gun were fired before 7:00.Copy !req
1077. - And it could be?
- Yes.Copy !req
1078. - Then — We go now.
- No, no, no!Copy !req
1079. I don't know what to say,
but don't go. Don't go.Copy !req
1080. But, Father, we must go now,
or we may never go.Copy !req
1081. Then for the rest of our lives,
we'll feel we've shirked and lived in vain.Copy !req
1082. We must go now.Copy !req
1083. Quickly. This way.Copy !req
1084. If you go up to the platform,
we'll guard this below.Copy !req
1085. Right.Copy !req
1086. Contract all your muscles
when the concussion comes.Copy !req
1087. In five minutes, you'll be able
to get loose and move about.Copy !req
1088. There's the man!Copy !req
1089. There's the man who would offer up
his daughter to the devil of science.Copy !req
1090. What do you want here?Copy !req
1091. We want to save these young people
from your experiments.Copy !req
1092. We want to put an end
to this inhuman foolery.Copy !req
1093. We mean to destroy that gun!Copy !req
1094. We have a right to do
what we like with our lives -Copy !req
1095. with our sort of lives.Copy !req
1096. We don't grudge you your artistic life.Copy !req
1097. You have safety, plenty - all you want.Copy !req
1098. We want to make the world safe for men.Copy !req
1099. No one prevents you.Copy !req
1100. How can we do that
when your science and inventions...Copy !req
1101. are perpetually changing life for us...Copy !req
1102. when you're everlastingly
contriving strange things...Copy !req
1103. when you make what we think great
seem small...Copy !req
1104. when you make what we think strong
seem feeble?Copy !req
1105. We don't want you
in the same world with us.Copy !req
1106. We don't want this expedition.Copy !req
1107. We don't want mankind to go
out to the moon and to the planets.Copy !req
1108. We shall hate you more if you succeed
than if you fail.Copy !req
1109. Destroy the gun!Copy !req
1110. Before you can even reach
the base of the gun, it will be fired.Copy !req
1111. Beware of the concussion.Copy !req
1112. Beware of the concussion!Copy !req
1113. Stand by, Control Room.Copy !req
1114. Clear all outside observers.Copy !req
1115. Stand by to fire.Copy !req
1116. There! There they go.Copy !req
1117. That faint gleam of light.Copy !req
1118. - I feel that what we've done is monstrous.
- What they've done is magnificent.Copy !req
1119. - Will they come back?
- Yes, and go again and again -Copy !req
1120. until the landing is made
and the moon is conquered.Copy !req
1121. This is only a beginning.Copy !req
1122. And if they don't come back -
my son and your daughter -Copy !req
1123. what of that, Cabal?Copy !req
1124. Then presently others will go.Copy !req
1125. Oh, God! Is there never to be
any age of happiness?Copy !req
1126. Is there never to be any rest?Copy !req
1127. Rest enough for the individual man.Copy !req
1128. Too much and too soon,
and we call it death.Copy !req
1129. But for man, no rest and no ending.Copy !req
1130. He must go on,
conquest beyond conquest.Copy !req
1131. First this little planet
and its winds and waves...Copy !req
1132. and then all the laws of mind and matter
that restrain him.Copy !req
1133. Then the planets about him...Copy !req
1134. and, at last, out across
immensity to the stars.Copy !req
1135. And when he has conquered
all the deeps of space...Copy !req
1136. and all the mysteries of time...Copy !req
1137. still he will be beginning.Copy !req
1138. But we're such little creatures.Copy !req
1139. Poor humanity - so fragile, so weak.Copy !req
1140. Little - Little animals.Copy !req
1141. Little animals.Copy !req
1142. And if we're no more than animals, we must
snatch each little scrap of happiness...Copy !req
1143. and live and suffer and pass...Copy !req
1144. mattering no more than all
the other animals do or have done.Copy !req
1145. It is this... or that.Copy !req
1146. All the universe or nothingness.Copy !req
1147. Which shall it be, Passworthy?Copy !req
1148. Which shall it be?Copy !req
1149. ♪ Which shall it be? ♪Copy !req
1150. ♪ Which shall it be?)Copy !req
1151. ♪ Which shall it be? ♪Copy !req