Journey Into the Unknown (1951)

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Journey Into the Unknown (1951) takes viewers on a thrilling journey into a mysterious world hidden beyond the limits of ordinary exploration. As a group of determined explorers ventures into the depths of the unknown, they face danger, uncertainty, and discoveries that challenge everything they thought they knew.   With its vintage science fiction atmosphere, adventurous story, and classic 1950s filmmaking style, this film offers a fascinating glimpse into the early era of cinematic sci-fi.   Watch Journey Into the Unknown (1951) and experience a classic adventure filled with mystery, exploration, and the endless possibilities of the unknown.

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00:00:28The End

00:08:37And so, last week, the Society to Save Civilization was itself extinct.

00:08:44And one of its leaders, of Professor Jeremiah Morley and his enthusiastic colleagues.

00:08:49Where were they headed after a year of devotion to a lost but spectacular cause?

00:08:55To newsreel reporters, Dr. Morley had only this to say.

00:08:59We have no plans. We have no hope.

00:09:13The Society to Save Civilization

00:09:14Better stand by, Frank. We may want to run that again.

00:09:17Well, gentlemen, what do you think?

00:09:19It's like asking a man what he thinks of his own obituary.

00:09:23I thought you'd like to see it, or its release, in case you had any objections.

00:09:27Now he thinks of our objections.

00:09:29You've been crucifying us for a year, Mr. Thompson.

00:09:32In the newspapers you edit, the magazines you publish, and the syndicates you control.

00:09:37And now this newsreel.

00:09:39Just a minute, gentlemen.

00:09:40You seem to have me confused with my father.

00:09:43He dictates the policies of our publications.

00:09:45Like father, like son.

00:09:47Nothing, Dr. Bauer, could be more unscientific.

00:09:50As a matter of fact, my father and I never see eye to eye on anything.

00:09:54So he's the villain of the piece, and you are the hero.

00:09:57Quite the contrary.

00:09:58My father has all the virtues of our society.

00:10:00He makes the money.

00:10:02I spend it.

00:10:04The large occupation.

00:10:05Oh, I have no occupation.

00:10:07I'm sure you wouldn't.

00:10:08That idea of yours, Dr. Morley, about exploring the inside of the earth.

00:10:12You know, I'd like to try that.

00:10:14Just for the kicks.

00:10:16I'm sure you wouldn't find it very exciting.

00:10:19Oh, I don't know.

00:10:21Gentlemen, I came here tonight with a proposition.

00:10:23I have some money of my own.

00:10:25I would like to finance your project.

00:10:27Are you serious?

00:10:28Sit down, my boy.

00:10:30There's one stipulation, however.

00:10:33I go with you.

00:10:37And what could you do?

00:10:39I'm afraid you don't realize what you'd be up against.

00:10:41Going a thousand miles inside the earth just to satisfy a whim?

00:10:46Gentlemen, you act as if the fate of humanity hung upon you granting me this whim.

00:11:05Plans for the expedition are being completed ahead of schedule.

00:11:10And Morley is pleased with our progress.

00:11:13The cycle tram nears completion.

00:11:14Adequate nutrition in concentrated form has been perfected.

00:11:18And for an auxiliary water supply, the Sloan H2O condenser will be used.

00:11:24By the study of our laboratory animals in a new environment,

00:11:28we expect to gather important scientific data.

00:11:32At last, the cycle tram is ready to be loaded aboard the SS Aurora.

00:11:42Our destination, the extinct volcano, Mount Nele,

00:11:46where the inside of the earth begins.

00:11:49This was our base, a lonely, desolate beach at the foot of the extinct volcano.

00:12:03Well, let's go.

00:12:07Let's go.

00:12:09Let's go.

00:12:18Let's go.

00:12:32Let's go.

00:12:36Let's go.

00:12:56what a place to spend our last night on earth you sound like we'll all be dead in the morning

00:13:01it's a possibility we stayed here

00:13:12Andy take the controls follow the ridge line keep out of the ravines the center angle of not more than

00:13:2333 degrees

00:13:38something's wrong

00:13:57not right

00:14:18sustain 2,000 rpm follow our chart plan powerful

00:14:25check

00:14:37what's our elevation now approaching 6,300 feet angle of ascent 19 degrees speed constant 2100 rpm

00:14:54I wonder how long this iron lung is gonna hold up still big out you can't get rid of me

00:14:59so easily

00:15:04give me a reading on the forward rotational unit we're up to 9,000 climbing at 24 mph angle 31

00:15:11degrees at that rate we'll make the summit in four hours

00:15:23dr. moyland we are meeting some unstabilized isotopes

00:15:29increased the lateral units in 12,000

00:15:45we're approaching position r4 our computation show an error of less than plus 0.14 good we'll reach the summit

00:15:55in 30 minutes

00:16:21five hours and twenty-seven minutes excellent

00:16:26thirty-three minutes ahead of our estimated schedule we'll make a final check of opposition before we enter the crater

00:16:53I'm sure glad the professor picked this volcano for our expedition maybe this one could come to life too

00:16:58but if you have

00:16:59nox

00:17:00nox

00:17:01nox

00:17:25though

00:17:35There's no reason for us to wait till dawn.

00:17:37We'll proceed into the crater now.

00:17:58Just one last look at the Earth.

00:18:00Yeah.

00:18:04What a way to remember it.

00:18:08Follow the downward spiral.

00:18:10Keep the inside ledges.

00:18:12Speed, 1200 RPM.

00:18:35Brother, it's really black out there.

00:19:00As we descend ever deeper into the volcano,

00:19:04I have observed no unusual physical symptoms.

00:19:07Paxton seems withdrawn, irritable,

00:19:10but with such an annoyance as, like Thompson present,

00:19:13the condition may not be considered abnormal.

00:19:19The descending ledges are getting awfully narrow.

00:19:22We must be at position R18.

00:19:26Yes, we are.

00:19:28Cut the switches.

00:19:35We'll be doing some hiking now.

00:19:38Better have some breakfast.

00:19:39Go into all the tables.

00:19:55Rise and shine.

00:19:57Good morning.

00:20:01how can you tell breakfast is served breakfast well I've always said nothing like starting off

00:20:09a hard day's work than with a good breakfast hey doc how would you know you don't like my kind

00:20:19of

00:20:19guy do you not very much but I'll make an exception to you you I don't like a lot

00:20:26home and take the controls we'll scout the way on foot for you follow on down along the widest level

00:20:46watch that it's loose what's the matter I don't like it what did you expect in here

00:20:53garden of Eden I'm not talking about volcanoes I mean Wright Thompson he doesn't belong here

00:20:59none of us belongs here we're doing what has to be done he doesn't feel that responsibility

00:21:04he's just a useless piece of excess baggage of a selfish girl seeker but without him there'd be

00:21:10no expedition pardon me kind of deep down there isn't it

00:21:31nice friendly bunch of those scientists

00:21:34oh what's your trouble oh nothing but don't they ever talk

00:21:38not unless they got something to say that's the way it is with smart people

00:21:42maybe they're not so smart maybe they don't know what they're doing down here

00:21:45listen buster each one of them has taught us more colleges than you've plunked out

00:21:50so what are you doing down here among all those brains

00:21:55I managed to make myself useful it might be well if you did the same thing

00:21:59doing what this

00:22:08you lead the way for a while

00:22:35we've reached the end of the channel establish our position

00:22:38our death below mean sea level 2.6 miles

00:22:54the yang strand underground geological expedition reached this point june 12 1938 and was unable to proceed further

00:23:02why anyone who follows us should want to go further we do not know

00:23:06but we assume that they have good reason for doing so

00:23:10good luck

00:23:12thanks gran for living today

00:23:14he'd know the reason

00:23:15the world has changed since 1938

00:23:18the world has changed since yesterday

00:23:21you better get to work

00:23:33look

00:23:36that's pressure from the other volcano

00:23:39we'll have to work this side

00:23:50yes dr morley

00:23:53start making density readings on that wall over there

00:23:56yes sir

00:24:05this is it

00:24:06the point of least resistance

00:24:08okay andy

00:24:12i'm ready

00:24:13we'll all go back to the cypher tram

00:24:39i wonder what we'll be running into

00:24:41there's only one way to find out

00:25:09there's only one way to find out

00:25:12there's only one way to find out

00:25:22We broke it through.

00:25:29Looks like a tunnel.

00:25:34So far, so good.

00:25:36Put on your gas mask, just in case.

00:25:39Coleman, we'll set the pace.

00:25:41You follow along with the cyclo train.

00:26:28The air is fresh and clear.

00:26:30You can take your masks off.

00:26:35The pressure seems normal.

00:26:44I wonder where it leads.

00:26:46That's exactly what we're going to find out.

00:26:49Lead the way, Andy.

00:26:59The air is fresh and clear.

00:27:02The air is fresh and clear.

00:27:46Oh, my God.

00:28:06how did it all happen long time ago the earth above was covered with water and

00:28:12when the sea vanished it left great limestone deposits behind was all this

00:28:18limestone yes and in the water gathered in underground streams and carved out the

00:28:23soft limestone drop by drop year by year the water dissolved the stone each drop

00:28:30carried a tiny particle of sediment that's what formed these columns about an

00:28:36inch every thousand years well how long did this whole process take about 200

00:28:42million years hello Coleman Coleman to bring up the tram we'll proceed from

00:28:49here

00:28:59we're down a hundred miles you better pull up

00:29:05cut the switches

00:29:11it's funny when we first got here I felt a sort of exaltation

00:29:17now I feel depressed I don't know why the oxygen content is adequate I know but

00:29:25I do feel suffocated maybe it's the unreality of this place you know once

00:29:36when I was working in the Holland Tunnel I got cut off my crew for 10 hours I felt

00:29:42this way then I think I know what it is

00:29:56it's loneliness it's a feeling of a person away from people I felt it on the top of a

00:30:03mountain in Tibet in the jungle and on the Arabian desert it's like the last cord tying you with humanity

00:30:11has been cut

00:30:13it's more than that people have dignity only in relation to many other people

00:30:19alone and man is as useless as any rock out there no you're both talking nonsense

00:30:24nature doesn't influence man man influences nature one man one strong man can change

00:30:32nature oh you're on dr. Paxton it isn't one man it's many men working together right

00:30:38teacher men together no more than sheep one man standing alone leads the way then the

00:30:44sheep follow please gentlemen I'm embarrassed for all of you call yourself

00:30:48scientist swayed by a self-indulgent young fool I'm going ahead I hope that by the time you catch

00:30:59up with me the atmosphere will have cleared the cobwebs from your brains

00:31:11I'd better go with him it isn't safe for man to be alone down here ah he's all right

00:31:16he's the leader time I'll go with them anyway there wouldn't be leaders there

00:31:22weren't sheep like me to be led

00:31:38I still don't say any sign of Paxton and Coleman I'll keep going

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00:32:11gas

00:32:15They're cold and packed them!

00:32:27There they are!

00:32:52Rage. Digging a grave. A hundred and ten miles under the earth.

00:33:38You must go on. It's too late to turn back to the rock.

00:33:41Right now.

00:34:05No, Andy.

00:34:24You know, right now, I'd give a thousand dollars for a good hamburger.

00:34:28And another thousand for onions on it.

00:34:45Dr. Morley, I want a supply of...

00:34:49Cut the switches.

00:34:56Polluted by the gas fumes.

00:34:59Yeah, somebody left it open.

00:35:00Back there just before Paxton and Coleman took off.

00:35:03I guess I forgot to close it.

00:35:05Andy!

00:35:07It was an accident.

00:35:08An accident?

00:35:09We may never find water again.

00:35:12Now I suppose you'd give a thousand dollars for a glass of that.

00:35:15Andy, there's a job to be done.

00:35:16We've got to find water fast.

00:35:18And in this area...

00:35:19Yeah, I know.

00:35:20We've got about a chance and a thousand of finding it.

00:35:50Look, there's Andy.

00:36:16Andy!

00:36:18Andy!

00:36:23Andy!

00:36:25Hello!

00:36:27You all right?

00:36:28So far so good.

00:37:16No water here!

00:37:38No water here!

00:38:12No water here!

00:38:15It's no use.

00:38:17Two hundred and forty miles inside the earth.

00:38:20Yeah, and no water.

00:38:31Here.

00:38:32I've been sending it to the animals.

00:38:58Go ahead.

00:39:00Enjoy yourself.

00:39:01It doesn't cost a cent.

00:39:07Stop it!

00:39:09Andy!

00:39:11This is ridiculous.

00:39:13We have something larger at stake than your personal petty feuding.

00:39:16Now you two can come with us or stay here and kill each other.

00:39:18I'm going out to the psyche train.

00:39:21Never mind.

00:39:22I'll go get it.

00:39:27I'll go get it.

00:39:42There!

00:39:55Oil.

00:39:59Listen.

00:40:02Sounds like running water.

00:40:05There!

00:40:07But where...

00:40:08Where is it coming from?

00:40:11It's...

00:40:11It's behind that wall!

00:40:23It is running water.

00:40:24Well, why don't we go through the wall with a cycle trap?

00:40:27No!

00:40:28There's just...

00:40:28There's still such a thing as just too much water.

00:40:31It could be an underground sea.

00:40:33Andy!

00:40:34Andy!

00:40:35Now bring a couple of heavy hammers.

00:40:54What's up, Professor?

00:40:55We think there's water behind that wall.

00:40:57Try breaking it in.

00:40:58Sure.

00:41:18I brought two hammers, you know.

00:41:19Now...

00:41:25There we go.

00:41:29Here...

00:41:30In...

00:41:31There we go.

00:41:32There...

00:41:34A...

00:41:34There...

00:41:37There...

00:41:38A...

00:41:47A...

00:41:57Come in here.

00:41:58Let's take care of that arm.

00:42:10The outside temperature is rising fast.

00:42:12It's up 280 degrees now.

00:42:14It was difficult to go on forever.

00:42:21Hold it out there.

00:42:32How's that temperature?

00:42:34It's dropping fast.

00:42:36The outside pressure's dropping too.

00:42:38Good.

00:42:39Condensation will soon take place.

00:42:44There.

00:42:45You're a pretty good doctor at that.

00:42:47You're a pretty good patient at that.

00:42:50Thanks.

00:42:51Here.

00:42:51Let's look this on.

00:43:01It's water.

00:43:02Look.

00:43:04Look at it.

00:43:05It's water.

00:43:16It's water.

00:43:22It's water.

00:43:28It's water.

00:43:33It's water.

00:43:35It's water.

00:43:37It's water.

00:43:39It's water.

00:43:40It's water.

00:43:41It's water.

00:43:42It's water.

00:43:43It's water.

00:43:44It's water.

00:43:45It's water.

00:44:12John, are you all right?

00:44:39Well, what shall we do now?

00:44:43All right, I'll say it.

00:44:45I'll say what's on all of our minds.

00:44:47Don't try to read our minds, Thompson.

00:44:49Just speak for yourself.

00:44:51Then I say, let's go back.

00:44:52And I say, go on.

00:44:54But look at John.

00:44:55We've gotten nowhere.

00:44:56Deeper and deeper.

00:44:58Into nowhere.

00:45:01We've failed.

00:45:02Would our failure be any less if we turned back now?

00:45:05Our chances of living would be greater.

00:45:08But if we go on, we're dead.

00:45:11As dead as Paxton and Coleman.

00:45:13That's a chance we have to take.

00:45:16The stakes are high.

00:45:17Higher than our lives.

00:45:19They involve the life and death of all mankind.

00:45:21That's a great speech.

00:45:23But I won't buy it.

00:45:25All right.

00:45:26Let's put it to a vote.

00:45:27Thompson?

00:45:28Go back.

00:45:30Andy?

00:45:30Go on.

00:45:31Bauer?

00:45:39Go back.

00:45:44Go on.

00:45:47Seems to be a deadlock.

00:45:50I suppose none of us would like to reconsider.

00:46:00Doesn't woman's suffrage count here?

00:46:03What do you say, John?

00:46:05I say, go on.

00:46:07And let's not waste any more time.

00:46:49How are those booms coming along?

00:46:51Good as new.

00:46:52How are you, Doc?

00:46:53Oh, I'll get by.

00:46:58Here.

00:47:00What's it for?

00:47:01Does it have to be for something?

00:47:03Does everything have to be functional?

00:47:06Good luck, Ring.

00:47:07Saved my life and to bet.

00:47:08Here, take it.

00:47:10Why give it to me?

00:47:12Haven't you ever been romanced before?

00:47:15Not 900 miles below sea level.

00:47:17Then it's about time.

00:47:19If there were any flowers around here, I'd pick them for you.

00:47:25There's a highly scientific theory which states that if any man and any woman are cast away anywhere for any

00:47:31length of time, sooner or later they think they're in love.

00:47:35Well, that's what's happened to you.

00:47:37Well, if that theory has any value, it should apply to you.

00:47:41Does it?

00:47:44No.

00:47:47Well, I guess I need a little more time.

00:47:49We'll talk about it later.

00:47:52No.

00:48:06Bye.aqu

00:48:07noticed. Bye.

00:48:08Bye.

00:48:09Bye.

00:48:11Bye.

00:48:29Say, how about pulling this jalopy ladle for a minute?

00:48:31Just long enough for us to get out of these strength jackets and stretch.

00:48:49How much longer is it gonna be like this?

00:48:51Oh, right. What difference does it make?

00:48:54Funny. Is it gonna be like this the rest of the way? Why go on? Why waste time?

00:48:59That shouldn't make any difference to you. You've never done anything but waste time.

00:49:03Now listen, you meathead. Just because you're a sand hog, they like to go grumbling around on the ground.

00:49:08And you're a mountain goat with his head in the clouds.

00:49:11Stop it, both of you.

00:49:12I've had enough of this.

00:49:14What happened?

00:49:20I don't know.

00:49:25It's not water.

00:49:33We are out of it.

00:49:39This might be what we're looking for.

00:49:42Let's make a landing and explore the area.

00:49:56It's got a high calcium content, but it's drinkable.

00:50:01Hey!

00:50:02Look what I found!

00:50:10They're cave pearls.

00:50:11Cave pearls?

00:50:12How much they worth?

00:50:14Calcium carbonate.

00:50:16Calcium carbonate?

00:50:18Well, how about this?

00:50:20Sulfid of lime.

00:50:22Plaster of Paris.

00:50:24Professor, you take the romance out of everything.

00:50:28Here you are, Doc.

00:50:29Two souvenirs from Hades.

00:50:31Vacation land of the underworld.

00:50:34Back home, I'll be the envy of every kid on the block.

00:50:36I'm not so sure, Joe.

00:50:38Take a cave pearl into the sunlight.

00:50:41Turns gray and ugly.

00:50:43And the flower?

00:50:45It'll crumble to dust.

00:50:48Hey, cousin.

00:50:49How about these fish?

00:50:51It's a rare species.

00:50:53They're edible, though.

00:50:56They have no eyes.

00:51:00I think I'll stick to pills.

00:51:02They lost their eyes ten million years ago.

00:51:10What kind of a place is this?

00:51:13Flowers that crumble the dust in your hands.

00:51:16Stones that look like pearls.

00:51:18Fish without eyes.

00:51:20Nature sure a practical joker.

00:51:22I suppose you could have done better.

00:51:24Ten million years?

00:51:26I couldn't have done worse.

00:51:30Morley believes this is the shelter we've been searching for.

00:51:33A valley of shadows, where light can be sustained.

00:51:37A shelter for humanity.

00:51:39And yet our morale is very low.

00:51:42What do we want?

00:51:43A ray or two of sunshine?

00:51:45The change of seasons?

00:51:48Starry nights?

00:51:49In this graveyard, Morley thinks...

00:51:52We can build a new life right here.

00:51:55You mean this is what we're looking for?

00:51:57You'll get used to it.

00:51:58Well, who wants to get used to it?

00:52:00Why don't we go on?

00:52:01A little further.

00:52:02But we've come 1,100 miles already.

00:52:05How can you measure what we've been through in miles?

00:52:08I say let's go back or go on.

00:52:10But this is no place.

00:52:15What is your wish?

00:52:17We've come so far.

00:52:19Let's go on.

00:52:42Well?

00:52:46Which way do we go?

00:52:53I suppose we'll have to explore both channels.

00:52:59I'll take the right one.

00:53:00Right?

00:53:01You take the other.

00:53:02Why me?

00:53:04I'll tell you why.

00:53:06I'm sick of taking your orders.

00:53:08That's the trouble with you, Thompson.

00:53:09That's all you do is take.

00:53:10You never give.

00:53:11Without me, there wouldn't have been any expedition.

00:53:13Well, that's not enough.

00:53:14It's time you gave something yourself and not your pocketbook.

00:53:17Andy.

00:53:19We might as well get started.

00:53:47We might as well get started.

00:53:51Good morning to check the plane and my cable試合.

00:53:56Our biggest engine because masters.

00:53:57No harm's tomorrow.

00:53:57It's time to cook the plane.ähringons

00:54:01and mutations. It's time

00:54:01time to

00:54:01yourself. It's time to

00:54:02pickruktur or seeif stay. It's time to

00:54:12see which Despair. So you can paint

00:54:38Help! Help! Help!

00:54:42Help! Help! Help!

00:54:48Help!

00:54:53Help!

00:55:21Watch out!

00:55:23Watch out!

00:55:49Watch out!

00:55:51I'll take it easy.

00:55:52I'll take it easy.

00:55:55I'll take it easy.

00:56:16Help!

00:56:20Andy!

00:56:22Andy!

00:56:30Andy!

00:56:38Andy!

00:56:39You're supposed to be taking it easy.

00:56:41Try to get some rest.

00:56:43Listen to me, Wright.

00:56:44You've been like this for days.

00:56:45How long can you keep it up?

00:56:47He didn't like me any more than I liked him.

00:56:49Yet he saved my life.

00:56:51It doesn't help brooding over it.

00:56:53But he died saving my life.

00:56:55He did what he believed was right.

00:57:02My trouble was, I never believed in anything.

00:57:09You can start now.

00:57:19Moly wants to go back to that valley of the shadows he liked so much.

00:57:23Well, it's better than this.

00:57:25But it isn't good enough.

00:57:27What do you want to do?

00:57:28I too want to go back.

00:57:31But all the way back.

00:57:33Now that Andy's dead...

00:57:35Now that Andy's dead, we've got to go on.

00:57:38We've got to, until we find what we're after.

00:57:40If we fail, then we can talk about going back.

00:57:50Over there.

00:57:54Good.

00:57:58Good.

00:58:15This must be a continuation of the other river.

00:58:20No, I think it's just a seepage promise.

00:58:24Listen.

00:58:26What's that?

00:58:31Look.

00:58:33Look.

00:58:33It's like daylight.

00:58:55It's like daylight.

00:59:01Alright.

00:59:01hebben we're making a shift.

00:59:02And we all know.

00:59:11We'll possibly go on a leaf.

00:59:11What else?

00:59:14We'll probably to find out.

00:59:15What else?

00:59:18What?

00:59:22Look.

00:59:23This can be impossible.

00:59:24I could not know he could achieve a futureなんて.

00:59:24All this has.

00:59:24Well, here we see.

00:59:24What's the point moved.

00:59:27It's like a dream after a terrible nightmare.

00:59:32I think we've found it.

00:59:42Promise me.

00:59:59We have discovered a vast and radiant cavern deep within the earth.

01:00:04Along the shores of this incredible cave lies a great underground sea, gathering up the waters of the earth.

01:00:12A strange sunless light is reflected from the phosphorescent dome.

01:00:18The glowing peaks are weathered and sharp, and the guise deep.

01:00:22The wind is soft, and the climate pleasant.

01:00:26Vapors rise up into the bright dome, forming luminous clouds.

01:00:51The area is rich in chemical resources. That means power and industry, according to Bauer.

01:00:57And Wright says, a real estate boom is on.

01:01:16Well, have you got a match?

01:01:17Sure, sure.

01:01:26How you coming, Professor?

01:01:28Uh-huh.

01:01:30Still feeding those rabbits? They eat like pigs.

01:01:34Small wonder. They're expecting in a couple of weeks.

01:01:38All of the rabbits?

01:01:40No, silly. Just the lady rabbits.

01:01:42Tell me more.

01:01:44Here. Make yourself useful. Get some more water.

01:01:52Explorations and surveys of the surrounding area continue.

01:01:56Morley and Thompson have set out toward the southeast to investigate the land and its potentialities.

01:02:09This is a strange kind of sand.

01:02:11That's not sand. That's volcanic ash.

01:02:14The ash will make good fertilizer for our crops.

01:02:17Crops?

01:02:18Let's face facts, Morley. This is a desert.

01:02:21The very word means deserted by life.

01:02:24And you talk about crops.

01:02:25It can be irrigated.

01:02:27This country has everything. Water, soil, air, heat.

01:02:30Yeah, you're forgetting one thing, though. No sunlight.

01:02:33Science can adjust that. Crops can thrive without sunlight.

01:02:37Perhaps. But can we?

01:02:53What sort of species is it?

01:02:56It's the fossil remains of a species of lungfish.

01:02:59He breathed by means of both lungs and gills.

01:03:02When he came out of the sea four hundred million years ago,

01:03:05he was the ruler of the animal kingdom.

01:03:08With his lungs, he was a pioneer.

01:03:12In a new way of life.

01:03:14How did they become extinct?

01:03:16Like some of us on Earth.

01:03:18They seem to hurry the process of extinction.

01:03:22Let's get out of here.

01:03:31What's the matter?

01:03:32You act like you swallowed a canary for breakfast.

01:03:35This is the day, right?

01:03:36This is what day?

01:03:37The day we're expecting the first litter of rabbits.

01:03:40Well, who's gonna pass the cigars around?

01:03:42You apparently don't realize the importance of it.

01:03:44I'm sorry.

01:03:45By observing the rabbits, we've already learned that they respond to nature basically as we do.

01:03:50As any mammal does.

01:03:51And from their young born today, we can predict how our own young will respond in the new world.

01:03:56Dr. Morley, follow.

01:03:58Come on.

01:03:59You go ahead.

01:04:00I'll get plenty of hot water.

01:04:07Well, how many boy rabbits and how many girl rabbits, huh?

01:04:13What's the matter?

01:04:25Joan, what's the matter?

01:04:29They're dead.

01:04:30They're all born dead.

01:04:39I can't understand it.

01:04:42Why?

01:04:44Why?

01:04:45There must be some cause, some biological reason.

01:04:52We've been searching for causes.

01:04:55Our investigations have been checked.

01:04:57Tests rechecked.

01:05:00Examination of genetic tissue proves that all experimental animals born here are sterile.

01:05:13You know what this means?

01:05:15This new world.

01:05:19A haven for the dead.

01:05:22This is the end of the line.

01:05:24Now we know that the human race cannot reproduce itself in this underworld region.

01:05:28It appears our mission is a failure.

01:05:31Then we can't stay here.

01:05:33At least one generation could.

01:05:35And after that, what?

01:05:37The end of humanity.

01:05:40That I won't accept.

01:05:41Neither can you run away from facts.

01:06:01I've always run away.

01:06:04Climbing mountains.

01:06:06Trying to prove something.

01:06:08I don't know what.

01:06:11I too ran away.

01:06:13Instead of fighting.

01:06:14And now, I've run away again.

01:06:18And I was always afraid I couldn't compete in a man's world.

01:06:22I think I want to go back and try again.

01:06:25Go back to what?

01:06:27To a world bent on self-destruction?

01:06:30We can live the rest of our lives here in peace.

01:06:32Morley, you're wrong.

01:06:34This isn't peace.

01:06:35This is a resting place for the living dead.

01:06:38I don't believe it's the end of the world.

01:06:40I don't believe it's the end of mankind.

01:06:42You're young. You don't know.

01:06:44I've lived through the terrors of two great wars.

01:06:47I've had enough.

01:06:48I've had enough.

01:07:03Take cover!

01:07:04Beside the tram!

01:07:20Look!

01:07:22Look out!

01:07:59Come on!

01:08:00Go start the trim!

01:08:13Secure the hatch!

01:08:14Look at the smoke!

01:08:15Water!

01:08:1620!

01:08:2320!

01:08:2420!

01:08:25Come back!

01:08:26Secure the hatch!

01:08:27We'll be trapped!

01:08:29Come back!

01:08:42Take over!

01:08:45Come back!

01:08:49Come back!

01:08:52Come back!

01:08:54Come back!

01:09:03Something's wrong!

01:09:06Something's pulling us down!

01:09:09Come back!

01:09:14Come back!

01:09:17Come back!

01:09:25Come back!

01:09:27Come back!

01:09:44Come back!

01:09:53Come back!

01:10:17Come back!

01:10:27Come back!

01:10:28Come back!

01:10:50Come back!

01:10:57Come back!

01:10:59Come back!

01:11:10Come back!

01:11:12Come back!

01:11:13Come back!

01:11:14Come back!

01:11:28Come back!

01:11:31Come back!

01:11:45Come back!

01:11:46Look!

01:11:47Look! Look! Look! Look!

01:12:01That's strange.

01:12:03How could it be?

01:12:18We're above the level of the underground sea.

01:12:24We found a chain to the upper ocean.

01:12:51Look!

01:13:32The universe is still in harmony.

01:13:38There's life on that island. People!

01:13:44I feel like I'll live forever.

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