The Lost Missile (1958) Movie Script
1
The world is one minute away
from the start of a hydrogen war.
At 12:01 North Europe time.
A blazing unidentified missile-like object
appears on a foreign sky-search TV screen.
Origin unknown.
Countdown on their
hunter-type rocket.
This rocket is designed
to track, find, destroy.
Strelia!
The terrible object has been
diverted into an orbit by the explosion.
It streaks across the northern curve of the
Earth at an altitude of only five miles.
A wild missile loose
on the surface of the
Earth, Burning a track
five miles wide below it.
It is morning in New York.
A busy spring morning.
In suburban New York is the Great
Havenbrook Atomic Laboratory.
Top military research
is conducted here.
A 5 billion-volt atom smasher
is the heart of Havenbrook.
This is Joe, a solid fuel
rocket built to carry a
hydrogen warhead,
mightiest weapon in the world.
Job is not yet completed.
Final detail on the
warhead is still to be done.
The man responsible for
the warhead, David Loring.
His assistant, Joan Wood,
this is their wedding day.
Oh, honey, Jove
is almost finished.
Wouldn't you rather wait?
I'd rather have a wedding
than lunch any day.
A lunch hour
isn't very romantic.
David, every time we set a
date, a new project comes along.
First, they were
the nuclear vectors.
Then we had to perfect the new
metal for the third stage of Joe.
Now a hydrogen warhead.
You know how important it is?
Yes, I have.
I know.
But so were we.
Oh, David.
Couldn't we stop thinking
about all this for just a little bit?
Beats me how a girl's so
used to facts and a work.
Can't get used to
them in a private life.
Look at us.
We fall in love over
coffee at midnight.
We work 12 hours a
day, seven days a week.
David.
I meant it when I said we
get married today or not at all.
Well, good thing we got machines
to do some work around here.
You got the figures in
the warhead ready, Dave?
They sure are.
Look, kids, I hate to do
this, but I can't get away now.
Oh.
How can we get married
without a best man?
We'll be back in an hour.
We're serving sandwiches
on the way back.
The big brass from the Pentagon
are in with the boss right now.
Where are the figures, David?
Well, here they are.
You'll have to
explain them yourself.
Joan hasn't had a chance
to make up a report yet.
They're just out
of the computer.
And we're getting
out of here right now.
Good luck, kids.
Thanks, Joe.
Oh, by the way, the third stage of
Joe was completed this morning.
I don't know how the way Joe
looks, doesn't he ever sleep?
He's working too hard.
Maybe when his child is
born, he'll take a vacation.
Come, let's hurry.
Command to fire
missiles is halted.
Computer's top urgency report indicates
object not from any American base,
but its origin is still unknown.
The wild missile boils across the Bering
Sea toward the North American continent.
Continental Air Defense
Command called Kornan.
This is the center of the
security and defense of
the United States against
attack from air or space.
The eyes of American
Continental Defense are radar eyes.
They search for a thousand miles or more
from Texas towers anchored far out in the
Atlantic, from radar planes on Pacific
Patrol, from picket ships on continuous duty.
The farthest outposts of Conad's watching
eyes are the North Canada radar stations
called Dew Line,
distant early warning line.
As cold as ever
outside, How's it going?
Oh, it's quiet.
Hey, what the heck is this?
Scandinavian Airlines
Flight 576, isn't it?
That's flight 576, he's
90 degrees off course.
I've ever called the
patrol plane in check.
This is Keyhole
Advance to SpyGlass 7.
Come in, Spyglass 7.
Spyglass 7 to Keyhole Advance.
Come in.
You've got a UFO at 90 degrees.
west on your course.
Investigate.
This is no Scandinavian
Airlines flight.
What do you mean?
This thing's traveling
at 4,000 miles an hour.
4,000!
Call Spyglass 7 to haven't
got all his television camera.
Keyhole advance to Spyglass 7.
Transmit UFO on your television.
camera over this is spy glass seven
transmitter ready get the still camera
connev want some
pictures of this i'm
online with a tv camera the sky's getting
bright he has it on interception course
get that picture now come
in spy glass seven come in
Buy that picture
to Conad and hurry.
Yes, sir.
Red ball to Conad.
UFO 400 miles from due line.
Keyhole advance.
Latitude, 64
degrees, 22 minutes.
Longitude, 148
degrees and 15 minutes.
Altitude, less than five miles.
Speed?
Over 4,000 miles per hour.
Repeat, over 4,000
miles per hour.
picture will be transmitted
to you immediately.
That's only six
minutes from here.
We can have it sized down
for you in less than two hours.
David, do you like it?
Very nice.
There was one
other here that I liked.
Honey, for Pete's sake,
just get one that fits.
It isn't very important.
It isn't very important.
Sweetheart, I didn't
mean that way it sounded.
David, I just don't
seem to understand you.
What's so important
at the lab that we can't?
and take a few extra minutes and go
to another store and find a ring that fits.
There's really nothing as important
to you as your work, is there?
Believe me, you are as
important to me as my work.
David, you win.
We're not getting married today.
All right, if you say so, but
we've also got to get back to work.
Don't you even care?
Of course I care.
And you're also a scientist.
Yes, and I'm a woman.
Are you misinterpreting
everything I say?
Well, am I?
We decide to miss lunch
and get married, fine.
But all you can think about
is a hydrogen warhead.
Well, I'm sick of it.
I guess I was expecting
you to insist to drag
me off to the church,
not back to the lap.
Well, marry your
hydrogen warhead.
But I'm quitting my job, David.
You'll have to find somebody
else for both marriages.
I'll take the ring.
She seemed a little upset.
Yeah, she sure was.
At Conad reports from Deuline
take precedence over all else.
So there's a confirmed report of a
UFO with the characteristics of a missile.
Check the Canadian
defense officer.
Give me the Canadian
defense officer.
We have confirmed report of the
UFO characteristics of a guided missile.
Royal Canadian Air Force jets
are ordered into the sky to intercept.
Fighters have not intercepted rockets since
the defense of London in World War II.
The missile is only
five miles up, but these
flyers do not know of
its million degree heat.
Got any more figures?
Yes, sir.
Speed 4078 miles per hour,
altitude 24 ,200, vector unchanged.
The photo is on its way, sir.
The UFO is definitely a missile.
Photo is on its way.
That's about all.
I hope you can stop it.
I figure we've got about...
Put me through the
keyhole advance.
Victor unchanged.
Speed remains static,
4078 miles per hour.
Keyhole advance
doesn't respond, sir.
Thank God there was a keyhole
advance doesn't respond, sir.
Predicted course over Great Slave
Lake, west shore of Hudson Bay, passed to
Ottawa, latitude, 38
degrees, longitude 75
degrees, directly over
metropolitan New York.
Conat to the Pentagon.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are
called to an emergency meeting.
The first responsibility of these
men is 175 million American lives.
They have a second responsibility
to advise the president.
in the event of war.
Pentagon puts all America forces on
yellow alert and get ready for red alert.
Dave.
Dave.
How about it, Joe?
Hotline, just opened
to the Pentagon.
Red hot, situation yellow.
Anybody know why?
Why?
Whoever knows why or what?
Your section is to keep an open
line to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Now, there are about 10
sections at the lab on that open line.
What's wrong?
Joan.
Oh, I forgot.
Congratulations.
Where is the Bronx?
She decided I was in love with a
hydrogen warhead, not a woman.
No wedding, no lunch.
Doesn't she understand?
Doesn't she know we're
in a boat headed for
Niagara Falls and
you're trying to stop us?
She knows.
But she doesn't want to believe.
Who does?
Joe, what happened?
The honeymoon
express got derailed, Joe.
I heard.
Practice drill again?
Maybe not.
That's the alert to
drown the atomic pile.
It must be practice drill.
I've got to get to my station.
Joe, let me say
something about David.
It's the job.
It gets all of us.
We have no weather life.
Maybe we want no other life.
I don't know.
Oh, look at me.
My wife is having a baby.
It's due today.
I should be at her side.
I think they can't do
without me here for a day.
Well, can't they?
It's crazy.
I don't know anymore whether I
should be with my wife or my job.
Go home, Joe.
Ellen needs you.
Listen to that bell.
And I don't think it's practice.
Joe's never seen
this bed jacket.
I wouldn't wear it
until after a room.
Where is Joe?
He should be here by now.
Oh, don't worry about Joe, Mama.
He's always on time.
He'll be here.
Drive me to the hospital
and... Oh, darling.
Sit down to you.
Five minutes apart.
I just hope he isn't
held up in traffic.
I'll call Havenbrook and
see what time he left.
I'm afraid there aren't
many minutes left.
David.
Is it war?
I don't know.
We're alerted to drown the
atomic pile on two minutes
notice and I've got to
disassemble the jove warhead.
There are two things at Havenbrook that
could wipe out 10 square miles of New York.
The atomic pile and the
warhead for this missile.
It's a safety precaution.
Safety precaution?
Against what?
Against being hit by something.
I'm going to...
the warhead room please stay by the phone
david i'm sorry i behaved the way i did i
don't know how much time there is and i
can't even phone her well joe you've got
to get to her she's waiting for me to
bring the car to take her to the hospital
she doesn't trust anyone else to take
her and the place is frozen who would have
thought a thing like this could
happen on a day like this nothing
comes in dinner goes out of
Havenbrook and no phone calls.
Let me try.
This is priority call Joan
Woods, X27 section.
David Lauren's assistant.
I tried that.
The general has called me
Mr. Freed, but I couldn't get through.
Dr. Freed's wife is due
to have her baby today.
She's waiting for her husband.
Anne.
Anne.
Look, I know it's a
violation, but, well,
Dr. Freed's wife is due
to have her baby today.
I explained that.
It didn't do any good.
Joe?
Good girl.
Okay.
Ella?
Uh-huh.
Oh, Ella?
Oh, darling, please hurry.
Tell your mother.
Ella.
Ella, can you hear me?
Joe!
Joe!
I was talking to...
Hello.
Yeah, this is Joffre.
Yes, sir.
Mother, we were cut off.
I thought you'd be with Ella.
The building's frozen.
I got a rush call
to get over here.
What is it?
I don't know.
I was called from the
hot lab, something big.
Gentlemen, these are
seconds of utter urgency.
This is Scrambler's circuit sage, Sage, an
object now over Canada headed for New York.
This photograph was
taken five minutes ago.
Speed, 4,200 miles an hour.
Altitude slightly
under five miles.
It would burn up.
It hasn't.
Looks like atomic,
a hydrogen drive.
We believe it to be hydrogen.
It would make a temperature
of over one million degrees.
That's impossible.
A high-order magnetic field
can be projected from such
a missile without any
damage to itself from the heat.
At this moment, groups
in every rocket and
atomic installation are
looking at this picture.
Out of this combined knowledge we
recommend to the president, our guess.
Our information is that the
Soviet designs are highly different.
I've never seen this
direction of design before.
It's nothing like ours.
Any contradictions?
Mr.
President, the Havenbrook's
staff cannot identify design.
You men will be
evacuated at once.
We cannot afford to lose you.
This rocket will pass over
New York in 63 minutes.
Destroying it.
War today means two things.
Immediate defense,
immediate retaliation.
A war may last only an hour.
In that hour, 30 million
people could be killed.
SAC, the Strategic Air Command.
The world's mightiest aircraft.
Based in England, Spain, North
Africa, Greenland, and the United States.
Seven minutes since
the first flash from Conad.
After Pearl Harbor, it took
us months to get ready for war.
Against attack by missiles,
we have only minutes.
There may be no tomorrow.
There may be no this afternoon.
Eight minutes now
since the first alarm.
Hundreds of radar stations
around the curve of the
earth are searching for
additional flying objects.
Contact is being made
with all foreign powers
to identify the source
of the wild missile.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Secretary of State's
press conference for
today has been canceled.
No, no questions, ladies.
I'm terribly sorry.
Thank you very much for
coming, but no questions.
John, I said no
questions, young.
In 15 minutes, I
go on the network.
30 million people watch me.
What do I tell them?
No comment.
I have requested the
president to wait 15 minutes until
replies from the other
nations have been received.
Any report on
additional missiles?
No, Mr. Secretary.
Any report from CIA on
sudden military activity
on the part of European
or Asian nations?
No, Mr. Secretary.
A missile over Alaska.
And I must give the President
the recommendation of
the State Department on
immediate retaliatory action.
What's the danger?
What?
That's what I want to know.
I said no comment.
I'm going to tell the whole country
that 10 million people are going to die.
If you use one word of
what you just said, just one
word, I can promise you
won't stay in Washington.
These are from London and
Peking, sir, received four minutes ago.
We're still decoding
Paris and Tokyo.
You should have them in three.
minutes.
Well, the foreign ministries
deny any hostile action.
All of them disclaim knowledge
of the UFO, now over Canada.
What about Russia?
Scramble secretary to
the ambassador at Moscow.
Yes?
Yes, Mr. President.
It's the president, sir.
Yes, Mr. President, sir.
Yes, Mr. President.
Mr. President, I'm waiting to hear from
our ambassador in Moscow, Mr. President.
I shall inform our
ambassador, Mr. President.
The Premier of the Soviet Union
has just phoned the President.
Origin of the giant
missile is unknown.
Are you all right?
I was just praying.
Praying that these
are honorable.
100,000 people go about
their everyday business.
100,000 people go about
their everyday business.
Our parliament is in
session, her children in school.
Ottawa is under a yellow alert.
Federal Civil Defense,
Washington, D.C.
Warning is sent out to Eastern
Seaboard civil defense agencies.
Repair for total disaster.
Eastern Seaboard
is on warning yellow.
New York is notified.
Plan A of Civil
Defense set in motion.
Air raid wardens are alerted.
Traffic goes under control.
Hospitals prepare.
The evacuation
of the city begins.
Joe, what are you doing, home?
There isn't much time.
and fill the bathtub, the sink, and
every pot you've got with water.
And if you hear a siren, turn the current
to the house off of the main switch.
Yeah, Millie.
Well, I don't know
what it's all about, but
maybe we'd better hurry
over at the supermarket.
Goodbye, Millie.
And keep off of the phone.
No calls, no loading
up at the supermarket.
Stay in the house and
keep the radio going.
Yes, Jimmy.
Why'd you have to
call me, you know?
No, I always sleep late.
What?
Yes!
Yes, dear.
Well, yes, right away.
What's going on?
Steven, go get Danny and hurry.
What for?
Don't ask her for.
Yeah, but... Don't
the air, but just go!
LaGuardia Airport stops all
commercial and private air activity.
LaGuardia Tower to all aircraft.
All incoming flights are
rerouted to Philadelphia.
LaGuardia Tower to all aircraft.
All flights are
temporarily canceled.
All flights are
temporarily canceled.
Civil defense measures
take priority all over the city.
These men started
an ordinary day's work.
They are no longer employees
of the wrecking company.
They are soldiers and
officers of civil defense.
Theirs is the most
important job of any right now.
Red Cross blood banks have been notified
that areas surrounding New York City will
need an estimated 4
million pints of blood.
I've never seen anything
like it on the scope before.
This is Greenline.
A UFO looking like the lost missile has
appeared on the radar scope at this station.
Canadian jets are within
250 miles of interception.
Don't forget to
take these, darling.
Number three cars ready, sir.
But there's no
priority for Miss Wood.
And there's no priority for me.
Come ahead, Dr. Loring.
I'm staying.
David, even Joe Freed on the day
his baby may be born, has no choice.
Joe Freed's baby.
Are you...
We can use Joe.
Joe's not ready.
Except for the
warhead, Job is ready.
That would take 10 days
we've got less than an hour.
I can put it together in 20 minutes
and get to the base and 20 more.
David, get in your car.
I can use a baby warhead.
A baby warhead?
Use just the
trigger atomic fuse.
Sir, it's the only missile we've got that
can get through that heat fast enough and
at least have a chance
with an atomic explosion.
David, there is a chance.
Take these I'm staying here.
You're right.
Joe can search it out with its own
guiding device at 5,000 miles and out.
Canadian jets are two
minutes from interception.
90 seconds to interception.
They are 30 miles apart.
It's burned them out of the sky.
Report negative.
There's no radar trace
of the Canadian jets.
Bandit missile continues
on previous vector.
What do the computers say?
Predicted course is vector.
Short on the map, please.
On the map.
It is followed a course across northern
Canada, past the Great Slave Lake,
the Copper Mine River, along
the southern shore of Hudson's Bay.
Its course lies directly through Ottawa,
the Adirondacks, and into New York City.
All I can give you, David,
is command support.
Let's go, let me get no one.
Found this man trying to hide.
He belongs in car number five.
I won't be any good
anymore anyway, General.
My wife's having a baby today.
All right, Gart, pass
this man outside.
I'll start the countdown
and clear you through.
Yes, sir.
Ottawa is on a red alert.
police and civil
defense officers.
Take shelter.
All persons will proceed to
evacuation areas wherever possible.
Take shelter.
I repeat, take shelter.
Obey your civil defense warden.
Obey your civil defense ward.
Ottawa is on a red alert.
As of now, I'm putting
the East Coast on red alert.
Issue the orders.
Air Force Command.
A lot as soon as
possible, it flies.
Red alert.
Scramble interceptors for
attack on enemy missile.
Instruct pilots, stay a
minimum of five miles distance.
Utilize full firepower.
Sage is notified.
From here go the orders
to the fighter squadrons that
will take to the air against
the missile from hell.
Give me the radio room.
This city is in the path
of a runaway missile.
In two minutes, the
governor of the state will be on
every TV and radio station
to declare martial law.
You men know what
to do in Situation Red.
This is Situation Red.
Eight million people
go underground.
New Yorkers have been
conditioned by practice alerts.
They know what to do.
Turn off your electricity and
gas, fill pots and pans with water.
Obey your civil defense portals.
This is Conoran.
Stay tuned to this station.
Is the report true, Governor?
Yes, the missile will be
over Ottawa in 51 minutes.
Over New York,
six minutes later.
Can we intercept it?
Two flights of Canadian rocket fighters
have already been burned out of the air.
If everything else
fails, I don't know.
How can we evacuate
10 million people?
Well, I don't know, but we can
at least try to get the children out.
Are you going to
declare martial law?
I must.
And right now.
That when my cousin says go,
go, go, she really means no, no.
Excuse me.
I've just been informed that we're
about to switch to a special bulletin.
Please, keep this in mind.
So long as you have your
faith, you'll be alive and well.
So keep your faith.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the governor of your state.
please listen carefully to ensure your
safety I have declared martial law now
there is no war nor any danger of war
there is however some danger from a flying
object which may approach New York City
you will obey all police and civil defense
orders for your own safety as an
additional precautionary measure children
will be taken from schools to protected
erics i got ordered to get over as quick
as i could irving i got to be back by four
to what we'll talk about it later jerry
jerry i won't let them take you away don't
cry darling don't cry please let jerry
come with us no no i'm afraid i'll never
see him again please don't scare the
children i'll let him come
along The bus is a ball.
We're going out to the country.
Buses like this one are picking
up school children all over the city.
Each driver prays that someone
is doing the same for his children.
Save the young.
Walk, do not run to
your nearest shelter.
It increases the danger.
At Havenbrook Laboratory, David
Loring is preparing the baby warhead.
These metal fingers reach for
the man-made element plutonium.
Its radiation is the
deadliest known.
This warhead will be equal in
destructive power to 100,000 tons of TNT.
Not so fast, Ella.
Be careful, darling.
Mrs. Freed, we thought you'd
gone to the hospital already.
Her husband was
supposed to come.
Come, what happened with
the husband, Mrs. Freed?
On such a day, forgive me for
saying, but nothing should happen.
What does it matter
when he gets here?
How do we know we'll
be here to greet him?
Harold, you shouldn't
be so pessimistic?
Pessimistic.
I am being optimistic.
I believe this whole pile of
bricks is going to be wiped out.
That's the only optimistic
thought I've had since I got this job.
Did you hear anything new?
The last bulletin only repeated.
Get off the streets
and go to a shelter.
For my radio, I forgot.
Now, we'll be snug
as a bug in a rug here.
Why do we have to be snug
as a bug here in the basement?
Mama?
Oh, Mama, the pain.
What's the matter
with the lady, Mama?
She's going to have a baby.
I mean, here right now?
I think so, darling.
You stay here, and I'll
go and see if I can help.
Dave!
It's all right, sir.
Keep going.
I'll catch up with you.
It's all right, Joe.
The warhead is ready.
You can't use it.
What's the matter?
I know where that
thing came from.
It's more important
than my wife and baby.
It's more important
than the whole city.
What do you mean you
know where it came from?
It's not a missile.
You saw the picture.
a fined hydrogen powered
into continental missile.
Not intercontinental, Dave.
Enter planetary.
A lost missile.
That's not impossible, Joe.
But right now we've got to
destroy it before it destroys us.
You can't destroy it.
It may have people in it.
It's from another planet.
We could make
contact with them talk to.
Think how important
that would be to science.
How important it would be to us.
I know how important
it is to us right now.
I've got to stop you, Dave.
I've got to...
This is Joe base.
The countdown is
30 minutes to zero.
Now.
New York, quiet, waiting.
Minutes left.
Last line of defense, Nike missiles around
New York are raised into firing position.
The computer could be wrong
about the missile hitting New York.
This is one fact
you've got to face.
You've got to believe it.
Millions of people, David.
I can't.
It's too terrible.
It's hard to know that maybe
you're going to die within the hour.
Hard to understand.
It's got to be faced without
panic, possibly with some hope.
It would have been
better not to tell them.
Much, much kinder.
Let them go on just
enjoying a beautiful morning in
New York and at least they'd
never know what hit them.
Could Joe be right,
a lost spaceship?
Certainly not impossible.
No nation on earth
with fire such a missile.
It would have to be a
nation of homicidal maniacs.
We built Joe with a hydrogen warhead that
can rip 500 square miles out of the earth.
The job Job was built
to do, it will do today.
Our wedding day.
Joe will reach maximum
velocity one minute
after firing, and the
shell will begin to burn.
Contact with the lost missile
somewhere over Lake Champlain.
I hope.
This is Joe Base.
Countdown is 25 minutes to zero.
Now.
Phase one.
Phase 1, negative.
Phase 2.
Phase 2.
The missile continues
on its way to Ottawa.
Counter-attack by
hunter-type missile.
1.0.
Phase two, negative,
course and speed unchanged.
Wait, was this sudden,
just when the wolf
was going to eat up a
little red riding hood?
I'm getting 30 children to safety, and I
don't even know what's happening to my own.
Sydney, Lixandra alone Miss Chalso,
I'm holding up my hand When you think it's
safe to stop Safe Who knows where
it's safe I don't even know what's going on
Except New York has had it Must be at
least two million children in New York I
wonder how many will get out alive
Everything we've passed has been loaded
with children It's martial law No cars
leaving Manhattan unless it's carrying
children Must have planned it
that way Please let Joe do its job.
Oh,
hot fraud jeeps.
That one had a big boxing.
They're maniac.
There are no
children in that car.
I thought only
cars was children.
That's why he's
burning up the road.
Self is crazy coward.
Look at him go.
Go ahead, Dave!
Go ahead!
And
now we'll give him a face.
An eye, Deuseue,
whoop, a ne, and a boche.
And now he can smoke.
My man can smoke.
Oh, yes, he can.
Look, papa, look.
Jacques, what is it?
I don't know.
It's a very strong boy.
Oh, she'll be able to
play with him, Mama.
Soon, my darling, very soon.
Joe will be so proud.
He always wanted a boy.
Mother, how does
my bed jacket look?
Oh, it looks fine, Ella.
Just fine.
How is she?
She's all right, Joe.
A boy, Joe.
Our little boy.
To give a child minutes of life.
Mr. Freed, do you know...
A spaceship.
A lost spaceship.
Can we stop it?
Can you stop the
heat from the sun?
Can you stop the tide?
Or life?
The monster will not fall.
It will go on and on
until the entire planet of
Earth is burned off like
an apple being peeled.
It'll be over Great Britain
on its 14th revolution.
That means in three days,
London will be in ashes.
Stockholm one day.
Paris, one day.
Rome, two days.
Moscow, four days.
The wild missile is now
400 miles from Ottawa.
Give me a conad.
Sir, that was Ottawa.
In seven minutes to Paso.
The city, New York
City seven minutes later.
People have been
sent to shelters.
Many find their shelter in God.
This junker's through.
Yeah, well, I ain't
about to try walks, Bill.
We take whatever comes along.
David, be careful.
Got to go as fast as I can.
That thing in back.
It's built to take shock.
Enough plutonium to
blow up all of New York.
For about four miles
from the missile base.
A jeep, no less.
Come on.
The countdown is...
The army announced that an intercepting
missile carrying an atomic warhead and
capable of approaching the lost
missile will shortly be launched.
Stay tuned to this station.
Deadly radiation.
The lead shield of the
box has been opened.
Stop!
Stop!
Please stop!
Please give us a lift.
It's urgent.
I'm from Havenbrook
Atomic Research.
Our car was stolen.
Always room for
a couple of more.
Thank you very much.
This is Joe Face.
The countdown is
eight minutes to zero.
There's the Jeep.
Stop the car.
They've opened the box.
David.
Look, go near there.
There's radioactive material.
David, what are you doing?
What's your idea?
protects his eyes, but he has
condemned himself to death.
Stay away!
Get back!
David!
David!
Please!
David, please!
Oh David!
I'm back!
Joan Wood knows what
plutonium radiation means.
David Loring will
die in minutes.
Ottawa waits.
A city ready to die.
Nothing more can be done.
Some may live, only to
remember for the rest of their lives
the most horrible moments of
destruction man has ever known.
Ottawa
is gone, boiling cauldrons of steam,
molten lava, twisted girders, desolation.
New York has five minutes.
Hello, hero!
I figured you'd stay.
Got to keep the
Jews going, Hamax.
Most of the guys are
staying for the finish.
This is Joe Base.
The countdown is
four minutes to zero.
Now.
Dr. Lowing is through the gate.
Joe Face.
The countdown is
three minutes to zero.
Now.
This is Joe Face.
The countdown is
two minutes to zero.
Now.
You'll never make it in time.
Not much radiation, you
may not even live to try.
seconds to zero.
Now, 29, 28, 28, 27, 26.
25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 19,
18, 17, 17, 15, 15, 14, 13, 13,
12, 11, 11, 10, 10, 9,
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0,
6, 5, 6, 6, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven.
The world is one minute away
from the start of a hydrogen war.
At 12:01 North Europe time.
A blazing unidentified missile-like object
appears on a foreign sky-search TV screen.
Origin unknown.
Countdown on their
hunter-type rocket.
This rocket is designed
to track, find, destroy.
Strelia!
The terrible object has been
diverted into an orbit by the explosion.
It streaks across the northern curve of the
Earth at an altitude of only five miles.
A wild missile loose
on the surface of the
Earth, Burning a track
five miles wide below it.
It is morning in New York.
A busy spring morning.
In suburban New York is the Great
Havenbrook Atomic Laboratory.
Top military research
is conducted here.
A 5 billion-volt atom smasher
is the heart of Havenbrook.
This is Joe, a solid fuel
rocket built to carry a
hydrogen warhead,
mightiest weapon in the world.
Job is not yet completed.
Final detail on the
warhead is still to be done.
The man responsible for
the warhead, David Loring.
His assistant, Joan Wood,
this is their wedding day.
Oh, honey, Jove
is almost finished.
Wouldn't you rather wait?
I'd rather have a wedding
than lunch any day.
A lunch hour
isn't very romantic.
David, every time we set a
date, a new project comes along.
First, they were
the nuclear vectors.
Then we had to perfect the new
metal for the third stage of Joe.
Now a hydrogen warhead.
You know how important it is?
Yes, I have.
I know.
But so were we.
Oh, David.
Couldn't we stop thinking
about all this for just a little bit?
Beats me how a girl's so
used to facts and a work.
Can't get used to
them in a private life.
Look at us.
We fall in love over
coffee at midnight.
We work 12 hours a
day, seven days a week.
David.
I meant it when I said we
get married today or not at all.
Well, good thing we got machines
to do some work around here.
You got the figures in
the warhead ready, Dave?
They sure are.
Look, kids, I hate to do
this, but I can't get away now.
Oh.
How can we get married
without a best man?
We'll be back in an hour.
We're serving sandwiches
on the way back.
The big brass from the Pentagon
are in with the boss right now.
Where are the figures, David?
Well, here they are.
You'll have to
explain them yourself.
Joan hasn't had a chance
to make up a report yet.
They're just out
of the computer.
And we're getting
out of here right now.
Good luck, kids.
Thanks, Joe.
Oh, by the way, the third stage of
Joe was completed this morning.
I don't know how the way Joe
looks, doesn't he ever sleep?
He's working too hard.
Maybe when his child is
born, he'll take a vacation.
Come, let's hurry.
Command to fire
missiles is halted.
Computer's top urgency report indicates
object not from any American base,
but its origin is still unknown.
The wild missile boils across the Bering
Sea toward the North American continent.
Continental Air Defense
Command called Kornan.
This is the center of the
security and defense of
the United States against
attack from air or space.
The eyes of American
Continental Defense are radar eyes.
They search for a thousand miles or more
from Texas towers anchored far out in the
Atlantic, from radar planes on Pacific
Patrol, from picket ships on continuous duty.
The farthest outposts of Conad's watching
eyes are the North Canada radar stations
called Dew Line,
distant early warning line.
As cold as ever
outside, How's it going?
Oh, it's quiet.
Hey, what the heck is this?
Scandinavian Airlines
Flight 576, isn't it?
That's flight 576, he's
90 degrees off course.
I've ever called the
patrol plane in check.
This is Keyhole
Advance to SpyGlass 7.
Come in, Spyglass 7.
Spyglass 7 to Keyhole Advance.
Come in.
You've got a UFO at 90 degrees.
west on your course.
Investigate.
This is no Scandinavian
Airlines flight.
What do you mean?
This thing's traveling
at 4,000 miles an hour.
4,000!
Call Spyglass 7 to haven't
got all his television camera.
Keyhole advance to Spyglass 7.
Transmit UFO on your television.
camera over this is spy glass seven
transmitter ready get the still camera
connev want some
pictures of this i'm
online with a tv camera the sky's getting
bright he has it on interception course
get that picture now come
in spy glass seven come in
Buy that picture
to Conad and hurry.
Yes, sir.
Red ball to Conad.
UFO 400 miles from due line.
Keyhole advance.
Latitude, 64
degrees, 22 minutes.
Longitude, 148
degrees and 15 minutes.
Altitude, less than five miles.
Speed?
Over 4,000 miles per hour.
Repeat, over 4,000
miles per hour.
picture will be transmitted
to you immediately.
That's only six
minutes from here.
We can have it sized down
for you in less than two hours.
David, do you like it?
Very nice.
There was one
other here that I liked.
Honey, for Pete's sake,
just get one that fits.
It isn't very important.
It isn't very important.
Sweetheart, I didn't
mean that way it sounded.
David, I just don't
seem to understand you.
What's so important
at the lab that we can't?
and take a few extra minutes and go
to another store and find a ring that fits.
There's really nothing as important
to you as your work, is there?
Believe me, you are as
important to me as my work.
David, you win.
We're not getting married today.
All right, if you say so, but
we've also got to get back to work.
Don't you even care?
Of course I care.
And you're also a scientist.
Yes, and I'm a woman.
Are you misinterpreting
everything I say?
Well, am I?
We decide to miss lunch
and get married, fine.
But all you can think about
is a hydrogen warhead.
Well, I'm sick of it.
I guess I was expecting
you to insist to drag
me off to the church,
not back to the lap.
Well, marry your
hydrogen warhead.
But I'm quitting my job, David.
You'll have to find somebody
else for both marriages.
I'll take the ring.
She seemed a little upset.
Yeah, she sure was.
At Conad reports from Deuline
take precedence over all else.
So there's a confirmed report of a
UFO with the characteristics of a missile.
Check the Canadian
defense officer.
Give me the Canadian
defense officer.
We have confirmed report of the
UFO characteristics of a guided missile.
Royal Canadian Air Force jets
are ordered into the sky to intercept.
Fighters have not intercepted rockets since
the defense of London in World War II.
The missile is only
five miles up, but these
flyers do not know of
its million degree heat.
Got any more figures?
Yes, sir.
Speed 4078 miles per hour,
altitude 24 ,200, vector unchanged.
The photo is on its way, sir.
The UFO is definitely a missile.
Photo is on its way.
That's about all.
I hope you can stop it.
I figure we've got about...
Put me through the
keyhole advance.
Victor unchanged.
Speed remains static,
4078 miles per hour.
Keyhole advance
doesn't respond, sir.
Thank God there was a keyhole
advance doesn't respond, sir.
Predicted course over Great Slave
Lake, west shore of Hudson Bay, passed to
Ottawa, latitude, 38
degrees, longitude 75
degrees, directly over
metropolitan New York.
Conat to the Pentagon.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are
called to an emergency meeting.
The first responsibility of these
men is 175 million American lives.
They have a second responsibility
to advise the president.
in the event of war.
Pentagon puts all America forces on
yellow alert and get ready for red alert.
Dave.
Dave.
How about it, Joe?
Hotline, just opened
to the Pentagon.
Red hot, situation yellow.
Anybody know why?
Why?
Whoever knows why or what?
Your section is to keep an open
line to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Now, there are about 10
sections at the lab on that open line.
What's wrong?
Joan.
Oh, I forgot.
Congratulations.
Where is the Bronx?
She decided I was in love with a
hydrogen warhead, not a woman.
No wedding, no lunch.
Doesn't she understand?
Doesn't she know we're
in a boat headed for
Niagara Falls and
you're trying to stop us?
She knows.
But she doesn't want to believe.
Who does?
Joe, what happened?
The honeymoon
express got derailed, Joe.
I heard.
Practice drill again?
Maybe not.
That's the alert to
drown the atomic pile.
It must be practice drill.
I've got to get to my station.
Joe, let me say
something about David.
It's the job.
It gets all of us.
We have no weather life.
Maybe we want no other life.
I don't know.
Oh, look at me.
My wife is having a baby.
It's due today.
I should be at her side.
I think they can't do
without me here for a day.
Well, can't they?
It's crazy.
I don't know anymore whether I
should be with my wife or my job.
Go home, Joe.
Ellen needs you.
Listen to that bell.
And I don't think it's practice.
Joe's never seen
this bed jacket.
I wouldn't wear it
until after a room.
Where is Joe?
He should be here by now.
Oh, don't worry about Joe, Mama.
He's always on time.
He'll be here.
Drive me to the hospital
and... Oh, darling.
Sit down to you.
Five minutes apart.
I just hope he isn't
held up in traffic.
I'll call Havenbrook and
see what time he left.
I'm afraid there aren't
many minutes left.
David.
Is it war?
I don't know.
We're alerted to drown the
atomic pile on two minutes
notice and I've got to
disassemble the jove warhead.
There are two things at Havenbrook that
could wipe out 10 square miles of New York.
The atomic pile and the
warhead for this missile.
It's a safety precaution.
Safety precaution?
Against what?
Against being hit by something.
I'm going to...
the warhead room please stay by the phone
david i'm sorry i behaved the way i did i
don't know how much time there is and i
can't even phone her well joe you've got
to get to her she's waiting for me to
bring the car to take her to the hospital
she doesn't trust anyone else to take
her and the place is frozen who would have
thought a thing like this could
happen on a day like this nothing
comes in dinner goes out of
Havenbrook and no phone calls.
Let me try.
This is priority call Joan
Woods, X27 section.
David Lauren's assistant.
I tried that.
The general has called me
Mr. Freed, but I couldn't get through.
Dr. Freed's wife is due
to have her baby today.
She's waiting for her husband.
Anne.
Anne.
Look, I know it's a
violation, but, well,
Dr. Freed's wife is due
to have her baby today.
I explained that.
It didn't do any good.
Joe?
Good girl.
Okay.
Ella?
Uh-huh.
Oh, Ella?
Oh, darling, please hurry.
Tell your mother.
Ella.
Ella, can you hear me?
Joe!
Joe!
I was talking to...
Hello.
Yeah, this is Joffre.
Yes, sir.
Mother, we were cut off.
I thought you'd be with Ella.
The building's frozen.
I got a rush call
to get over here.
What is it?
I don't know.
I was called from the
hot lab, something big.
Gentlemen, these are
seconds of utter urgency.
This is Scrambler's circuit sage, Sage, an
object now over Canada headed for New York.
This photograph was
taken five minutes ago.
Speed, 4,200 miles an hour.
Altitude slightly
under five miles.
It would burn up.
It hasn't.
Looks like atomic,
a hydrogen drive.
We believe it to be hydrogen.
It would make a temperature
of over one million degrees.
That's impossible.
A high-order magnetic field
can be projected from such
a missile without any
damage to itself from the heat.
At this moment, groups
in every rocket and
atomic installation are
looking at this picture.
Out of this combined knowledge we
recommend to the president, our guess.
Our information is that the
Soviet designs are highly different.
I've never seen this
direction of design before.
It's nothing like ours.
Any contradictions?
Mr.
President, the Havenbrook's
staff cannot identify design.
You men will be
evacuated at once.
We cannot afford to lose you.
This rocket will pass over
New York in 63 minutes.
Destroying it.
War today means two things.
Immediate defense,
immediate retaliation.
A war may last only an hour.
In that hour, 30 million
people could be killed.
SAC, the Strategic Air Command.
The world's mightiest aircraft.
Based in England, Spain, North
Africa, Greenland, and the United States.
Seven minutes since
the first flash from Conad.
After Pearl Harbor, it took
us months to get ready for war.
Against attack by missiles,
we have only minutes.
There may be no tomorrow.
There may be no this afternoon.
Eight minutes now
since the first alarm.
Hundreds of radar stations
around the curve of the
earth are searching for
additional flying objects.
Contact is being made
with all foreign powers
to identify the source
of the wild missile.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Secretary of State's
press conference for
today has been canceled.
No, no questions, ladies.
I'm terribly sorry.
Thank you very much for
coming, but no questions.
John, I said no
questions, young.
In 15 minutes, I
go on the network.
30 million people watch me.
What do I tell them?
No comment.
I have requested the
president to wait 15 minutes until
replies from the other
nations have been received.
Any report on
additional missiles?
No, Mr. Secretary.
Any report from CIA on
sudden military activity
on the part of European
or Asian nations?
No, Mr. Secretary.
A missile over Alaska.
And I must give the President
the recommendation of
the State Department on
immediate retaliatory action.
What's the danger?
What?
That's what I want to know.
I said no comment.
I'm going to tell the whole country
that 10 million people are going to die.
If you use one word of
what you just said, just one
word, I can promise you
won't stay in Washington.
These are from London and
Peking, sir, received four minutes ago.
We're still decoding
Paris and Tokyo.
You should have them in three.
minutes.
Well, the foreign ministries
deny any hostile action.
All of them disclaim knowledge
of the UFO, now over Canada.
What about Russia?
Scramble secretary to
the ambassador at Moscow.
Yes?
Yes, Mr. President.
It's the president, sir.
Yes, Mr. President, sir.
Yes, Mr. President.
Mr. President, I'm waiting to hear from
our ambassador in Moscow, Mr. President.
I shall inform our
ambassador, Mr. President.
The Premier of the Soviet Union
has just phoned the President.
Origin of the giant
missile is unknown.
Are you all right?
I was just praying.
Praying that these
are honorable.
100,000 people go about
their everyday business.
100,000 people go about
their everyday business.
Our parliament is in
session, her children in school.
Ottawa is under a yellow alert.
Federal Civil Defense,
Washington, D.C.
Warning is sent out to Eastern
Seaboard civil defense agencies.
Repair for total disaster.
Eastern Seaboard
is on warning yellow.
New York is notified.
Plan A of Civil
Defense set in motion.
Air raid wardens are alerted.
Traffic goes under control.
Hospitals prepare.
The evacuation
of the city begins.
Joe, what are you doing, home?
There isn't much time.
and fill the bathtub, the sink, and
every pot you've got with water.
And if you hear a siren, turn the current
to the house off of the main switch.
Yeah, Millie.
Well, I don't know
what it's all about, but
maybe we'd better hurry
over at the supermarket.
Goodbye, Millie.
And keep off of the phone.
No calls, no loading
up at the supermarket.
Stay in the house and
keep the radio going.
Yes, Jimmy.
Why'd you have to
call me, you know?
No, I always sleep late.
What?
Yes!
Yes, dear.
Well, yes, right away.
What's going on?
Steven, go get Danny and hurry.
What for?
Don't ask her for.
Yeah, but... Don't
the air, but just go!
LaGuardia Airport stops all
commercial and private air activity.
LaGuardia Tower to all aircraft.
All incoming flights are
rerouted to Philadelphia.
LaGuardia Tower to all aircraft.
All flights are
temporarily canceled.
All flights are
temporarily canceled.
Civil defense measures
take priority all over the city.
These men started
an ordinary day's work.
They are no longer employees
of the wrecking company.
They are soldiers and
officers of civil defense.
Theirs is the most
important job of any right now.
Red Cross blood banks have been notified
that areas surrounding New York City will
need an estimated 4
million pints of blood.
I've never seen anything
like it on the scope before.
This is Greenline.
A UFO looking like the lost missile has
appeared on the radar scope at this station.
Canadian jets are within
250 miles of interception.
Don't forget to
take these, darling.
Number three cars ready, sir.
But there's no
priority for Miss Wood.
And there's no priority for me.
Come ahead, Dr. Loring.
I'm staying.
David, even Joe Freed on the day
his baby may be born, has no choice.
Joe Freed's baby.
Are you...
We can use Joe.
Joe's not ready.
Except for the
warhead, Job is ready.
That would take 10 days
we've got less than an hour.
I can put it together in 20 minutes
and get to the base and 20 more.
David, get in your car.
I can use a baby warhead.
A baby warhead?
Use just the
trigger atomic fuse.
Sir, it's the only missile we've got that
can get through that heat fast enough and
at least have a chance
with an atomic explosion.
David, there is a chance.
Take these I'm staying here.
You're right.
Joe can search it out with its own
guiding device at 5,000 miles and out.
Canadian jets are two
minutes from interception.
90 seconds to interception.
They are 30 miles apart.
It's burned them out of the sky.
Report negative.
There's no radar trace
of the Canadian jets.
Bandit missile continues
on previous vector.
What do the computers say?
Predicted course is vector.
Short on the map, please.
On the map.
It is followed a course across northern
Canada, past the Great Slave Lake,
the Copper Mine River, along
the southern shore of Hudson's Bay.
Its course lies directly through Ottawa,
the Adirondacks, and into New York City.
All I can give you, David,
is command support.
Let's go, let me get no one.
Found this man trying to hide.
He belongs in car number five.
I won't be any good
anymore anyway, General.
My wife's having a baby today.
All right, Gart, pass
this man outside.
I'll start the countdown
and clear you through.
Yes, sir.
Ottawa is on a red alert.
police and civil
defense officers.
Take shelter.
All persons will proceed to
evacuation areas wherever possible.
Take shelter.
I repeat, take shelter.
Obey your civil defense warden.
Obey your civil defense ward.
Ottawa is on a red alert.
As of now, I'm putting
the East Coast on red alert.
Issue the orders.
Air Force Command.
A lot as soon as
possible, it flies.
Red alert.
Scramble interceptors for
attack on enemy missile.
Instruct pilots, stay a
minimum of five miles distance.
Utilize full firepower.
Sage is notified.
From here go the orders
to the fighter squadrons that
will take to the air against
the missile from hell.
Give me the radio room.
This city is in the path
of a runaway missile.
In two minutes, the
governor of the state will be on
every TV and radio station
to declare martial law.
You men know what
to do in Situation Red.
This is Situation Red.
Eight million people
go underground.
New Yorkers have been
conditioned by practice alerts.
They know what to do.
Turn off your electricity and
gas, fill pots and pans with water.
Obey your civil defense portals.
This is Conoran.
Stay tuned to this station.
Is the report true, Governor?
Yes, the missile will be
over Ottawa in 51 minutes.
Over New York,
six minutes later.
Can we intercept it?
Two flights of Canadian rocket fighters
have already been burned out of the air.
If everything else
fails, I don't know.
How can we evacuate
10 million people?
Well, I don't know, but we can
at least try to get the children out.
Are you going to
declare martial law?
I must.
And right now.
That when my cousin says go,
go, go, she really means no, no.
Excuse me.
I've just been informed that we're
about to switch to a special bulletin.
Please, keep this in mind.
So long as you have your
faith, you'll be alive and well.
So keep your faith.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the governor of your state.
please listen carefully to ensure your
safety I have declared martial law now
there is no war nor any danger of war
there is however some danger from a flying
object which may approach New York City
you will obey all police and civil defense
orders for your own safety as an
additional precautionary measure children
will be taken from schools to protected
erics i got ordered to get over as quick
as i could irving i got to be back by four
to what we'll talk about it later jerry
jerry i won't let them take you away don't
cry darling don't cry please let jerry
come with us no no i'm afraid i'll never
see him again please don't scare the
children i'll let him come
along The bus is a ball.
We're going out to the country.
Buses like this one are picking
up school children all over the city.
Each driver prays that someone
is doing the same for his children.
Save the young.
Walk, do not run to
your nearest shelter.
It increases the danger.
At Havenbrook Laboratory, David
Loring is preparing the baby warhead.
These metal fingers reach for
the man-made element plutonium.
Its radiation is the
deadliest known.
This warhead will be equal in
destructive power to 100,000 tons of TNT.
Not so fast, Ella.
Be careful, darling.
Mrs. Freed, we thought you'd
gone to the hospital already.
Her husband was
supposed to come.
Come, what happened with
the husband, Mrs. Freed?
On such a day, forgive me for
saying, but nothing should happen.
What does it matter
when he gets here?
How do we know we'll
be here to greet him?
Harold, you shouldn't
be so pessimistic?
Pessimistic.
I am being optimistic.
I believe this whole pile of
bricks is going to be wiped out.
That's the only optimistic
thought I've had since I got this job.
Did you hear anything new?
The last bulletin only repeated.
Get off the streets
and go to a shelter.
For my radio, I forgot.
Now, we'll be snug
as a bug in a rug here.
Why do we have to be snug
as a bug here in the basement?
Mama?
Oh, Mama, the pain.
What's the matter
with the lady, Mama?
She's going to have a baby.
I mean, here right now?
I think so, darling.
You stay here, and I'll
go and see if I can help.
Dave!
It's all right, sir.
Keep going.
I'll catch up with you.
It's all right, Joe.
The warhead is ready.
You can't use it.
What's the matter?
I know where that
thing came from.
It's more important
than my wife and baby.
It's more important
than the whole city.
What do you mean you
know where it came from?
It's not a missile.
You saw the picture.
a fined hydrogen powered
into continental missile.
Not intercontinental, Dave.
Enter planetary.
A lost missile.
That's not impossible, Joe.
But right now we've got to
destroy it before it destroys us.
You can't destroy it.
It may have people in it.
It's from another planet.
We could make
contact with them talk to.
Think how important
that would be to science.
How important it would be to us.
I know how important
it is to us right now.
I've got to stop you, Dave.
I've got to...
This is Joe base.
The countdown is
30 minutes to zero.
Now.
New York, quiet, waiting.
Minutes left.
Last line of defense, Nike missiles around
New York are raised into firing position.
The computer could be wrong
about the missile hitting New York.
This is one fact
you've got to face.
You've got to believe it.
Millions of people, David.
I can't.
It's too terrible.
It's hard to know that maybe
you're going to die within the hour.
Hard to understand.
It's got to be faced without
panic, possibly with some hope.
It would have been
better not to tell them.
Much, much kinder.
Let them go on just
enjoying a beautiful morning in
New York and at least they'd
never know what hit them.
Could Joe be right,
a lost spaceship?
Certainly not impossible.
No nation on earth
with fire such a missile.
It would have to be a
nation of homicidal maniacs.
We built Joe with a hydrogen warhead that
can rip 500 square miles out of the earth.
The job Job was built
to do, it will do today.
Our wedding day.
Joe will reach maximum
velocity one minute
after firing, and the
shell will begin to burn.
Contact with the lost missile
somewhere over Lake Champlain.
I hope.
This is Joe Base.
Countdown is 25 minutes to zero.
Now.
Phase one.
Phase 1, negative.
Phase 2.
Phase 2.
The missile continues
on its way to Ottawa.
Counter-attack by
hunter-type missile.
1.0.
Phase two, negative,
course and speed unchanged.
Wait, was this sudden,
just when the wolf
was going to eat up a
little red riding hood?
I'm getting 30 children to safety, and I
don't even know what's happening to my own.
Sydney, Lixandra alone Miss Chalso,
I'm holding up my hand When you think it's
safe to stop Safe Who knows where
it's safe I don't even know what's going on
Except New York has had it Must be at
least two million children in New York I
wonder how many will get out alive
Everything we've passed has been loaded
with children It's martial law No cars
leaving Manhattan unless it's carrying
children Must have planned it
that way Please let Joe do its job.
Oh,
hot fraud jeeps.
That one had a big boxing.
They're maniac.
There are no
children in that car.
I thought only
cars was children.
That's why he's
burning up the road.
Self is crazy coward.
Look at him go.
Go ahead, Dave!
Go ahead!
And
now we'll give him a face.
An eye, Deuseue,
whoop, a ne, and a boche.
And now he can smoke.
My man can smoke.
Oh, yes, he can.
Look, papa, look.
Jacques, what is it?
I don't know.
It's a very strong boy.
Oh, she'll be able to
play with him, Mama.
Soon, my darling, very soon.
Joe will be so proud.
He always wanted a boy.
Mother, how does
my bed jacket look?
Oh, it looks fine, Ella.
Just fine.
How is she?
She's all right, Joe.
A boy, Joe.
Our little boy.
To give a child minutes of life.
Mr. Freed, do you know...
A spaceship.
A lost spaceship.
Can we stop it?
Can you stop the
heat from the sun?
Can you stop the tide?
Or life?
The monster will not fall.
It will go on and on
until the entire planet of
Earth is burned off like
an apple being peeled.
It'll be over Great Britain
on its 14th revolution.
That means in three days,
London will be in ashes.
Stockholm one day.
Paris, one day.
Rome, two days.
Moscow, four days.
The wild missile is now
400 miles from Ottawa.
Give me a conad.
Sir, that was Ottawa.
In seven minutes to Paso.
The city, New York
City seven minutes later.
People have been
sent to shelters.
Many find their shelter in God.
This junker's through.
Yeah, well, I ain't
about to try walks, Bill.
We take whatever comes along.
David, be careful.
Got to go as fast as I can.
That thing in back.
It's built to take shock.
Enough plutonium to
blow up all of New York.
For about four miles
from the missile base.
A jeep, no less.
Come on.
The countdown is...
The army announced that an intercepting
missile carrying an atomic warhead and
capable of approaching the lost
missile will shortly be launched.
Stay tuned to this station.
Deadly radiation.
The lead shield of the
box has been opened.
Stop!
Stop!
Please stop!
Please give us a lift.
It's urgent.
I'm from Havenbrook
Atomic Research.
Our car was stolen.
Always room for
a couple of more.
Thank you very much.
This is Joe Face.
The countdown is
eight minutes to zero.
There's the Jeep.
Stop the car.
They've opened the box.
David.
Look, go near there.
There's radioactive material.
David, what are you doing?
What's your idea?
protects his eyes, but he has
condemned himself to death.
Stay away!
Get back!
David!
David!
Please!
David, please!
Oh David!
I'm back!
Joan Wood knows what
plutonium radiation means.
David Loring will
die in minutes.
Ottawa waits.
A city ready to die.
Nothing more can be done.
Some may live, only to
remember for the rest of their lives
the most horrible moments of
destruction man has ever known.
Ottawa
is gone, boiling cauldrons of steam,
molten lava, twisted girders, desolation.
New York has five minutes.
Hello, hero!
I figured you'd stay.
Got to keep the
Jews going, Hamax.
Most of the guys are
staying for the finish.
This is Joe Base.
The countdown is
four minutes to zero.
Now.
Dr. Lowing is through the gate.
Joe Face.
The countdown is
three minutes to zero.
Now.
This is Joe Face.
The countdown is
two minutes to zero.
Now.
You'll never make it in time.
Not much radiation, you
may not even live to try.
seconds to zero.
Now, 29, 28, 28, 27, 26.
25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 19,
18, 17, 17, 15, 15, 14, 13, 13,
12, 11, 11, 10, 10, 9,
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0,
6, 5, 6, 6, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven.