Gorgo (1961)
Joseph O'Conor: Prof. Hendricks
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Quotes
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Professor Flaherty : Captain Ryan. The creature that you have captured is not an adult specimen.
Sam Slade : You mean it isn't fully grown?
Professor Flaherty : No. In fact, we believe it is in rather early infancy.
Sam Slade : You're trying to say there may be a fully grown one of these things around somewhere?
Professor Hendricks : It's a fair assumption. Where there are offspring, there are generally parents.
Joe Ryan : How big would a full-grown one be?
Professor Flaherty : An approximate guess?
[He shows them two scale drawings of the creatures]
Professor Flaherty : The infant. The adult.
Joe Ryan : That would make it nearly two hundred feet tall!
Professor Flaherty : At the very least.
Professor Hendricks : Obviously, the proper authorities must be notified at once.
Joe Ryan : What are you trying to do? Stir up a whole hornet's nest because of a few calculations made on a piece of paper? Nuts to that!
Professor Flaherty : I'm afraid, Captain Ryan, the decision is no longer in your hands.
[Cut to Gorgo testing the limits of his enclosure and roaring when he finds an electrified fence. Cut to Gorgo's mother stomping from the sea onto Nara Island]
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Professor Hendricks : It's undoubtedly heading for Battersea Park, sir. That's the place to stop it.
Army Officer : How much voltage do you estimate would be required for electrocuting this animal?
Professor Flaherty : Two million, three million volts? That's only a guess. There's not much precedent to go on, sir.
Army Officer : Quite. Get me Battersea Power Station!
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Professor Hendricks : The tranquiliser seems to be working.
Professor Flaherty : So far...