Mars is dead, nothing there but a few scraps of lichen. Five million years ago it may have...
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Col. Breen:
Mars is dead, nothing there but a few scraps of lichen.
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
Five million years ago it may have been very different. Suppose at that time there were living beings on it with techniques that let them visit the Earth at a time when the most highly evolved creatures here, our own ancestors, were only a type of Pliocene ape.
Minister of Defense:
Go on.
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
They may have wanted to found another colony, when their own world was doomed, but couldn't endure our atmosphere, so they experimented.
Minister of Defense:
Oh, and the insects were responsible?
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
There is clearly some connection. My guess is that those were ape mutations being brought back for release on Earth.
Col. Breen:
And you really believe this was possible? That apes were systematically taken from this planet to another and...
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
Altered, by selective breeding, atomic surgery, methods we can't guess, and with new faculties instilled in them, high intelligence, perhaps something else.
Howell:
In effect, a colonization.
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
It would be a way of possessing the Earth. Only a colony by proxy, but better than leaving nothing at all behind.
Howell:
Surely it had to be carried out on a hugh scale.
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
Yes, if I'm right, if I'm right, we've come on a single instance, probably an accident, a landing that went wrong and they all died. The Thames valley was swamp then.
Minister of Defense:
You realize what you are implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects.
Professor Bernard Quatermass:
I suppose I am.
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Mars is dead
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Nothing there but a few scraps of lichen
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Five million years ago it may have been very different
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Suppose at that time there were living beings on it
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with techniques that enabled them to visit the Earth
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At a time when the most highly evolved creatures here
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our own ancestors
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were only a type of Pliocene ape
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Go on
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They may have wanted to found another colony
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when their own world was doomed
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but couldn't endure our atmosphere
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So they experimented Experimented
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The man apes found beside the missile were abnormal
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Oh and the insects were responsible
Clip duration: 54 seconds
Views: 88
Timestamp in movie: 00h 51m 26s
Uploaded: 22 November, 2022
Genres: horror, mystery, sci-fi
Summary: A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called into to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.
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00:13 Your imagination is running wild
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00:12 Are you insured
00:13 You realise what you're implying
00:54 Nothing there but a few scraps of lichen