The Thing from Another World (1951)

James Young: Lt. Eddie Dykes

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• Ned "Scotty" Scott : All right, fellas, here's your story: North Pole, November Third, Ned Scott reporting. One of the world's greatest battles was fought and won today by the human race. Here at the top of the world a handful of American soldiers and civilians met the first invasion from another planet. A man by the name of Noah once saved our world with an ark of wood. Here at the North Pole, a few men performed a similar service with an arc of electricity. The flying saucer which landed here and its pilot have been destroyed, but not without causalities among our own meager forces. I would like to bring to the microphone some of the men responsible for our success... but as Senior Air force officer Captain Hendry is attending to demands over and above the call of duty... Doctor Carrington, the leader of the scientific expedition, is recovering from wounds received in the battle.

  Eddie : [Softly]  Good for you, Scotty.

  Ned "Scotty" Scott : And now before giving you the details of the battle, I bring you a warning: Everyone of you listening to my voice, tell the world, tell this to everybody wherever they are. Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.

• Lt. Ken McPherson : What if he can read our minds?

  Eddie : He'll be real mad when he gets to me.

• Dr. Arthur Carrington : You're doing more than breaking army orders. You're robbing science of the greatest secrets that ever come to it.

  Hendry : You'd better go back, Doctor.

  Dr. Arthur Carrington : Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.

  Ned "Scotty" Scott : What can we learn from that thing except a quicker way to die?

  Dr. Arthur Carrington : It doesn't matter what happens to us. Nothing counts except for our thinking. We thought our way into nature. We split the atom.

  Eddie : Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?

• Eddie : [heard over P.A]  Come on, Mr. Martian and get some nice Scotch blood. One hundred proof. Nothing like it... for babies!

• Eddie : Hey Scotty, what's new?

  Ned "Scotty" Scott : What's new? What more do you want?