In the 1st world war, and for the first time in the history of man,
nations combined to fight agents nations,
using the crude weapons of those days.
The second world war involved every continent on the globe
and men turned to science for new devices of warfare
which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction.
And now, fraught with the terrible weapons of super-science,
menacing all mankind and every creature on earth, comes...
Subtitles and SubFX By: MightyMike77020.
Special thanks to the Square Dance Guru: Stewart Kramer
for his help with the square dance calls.
No one would have believed that in the middle of the twenty century
that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely
by intelligences greater than mans.
Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars,
intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our earth with enviously, eyes
slowly and surely drawing their plans against us.
Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun.
And for centuries it has been in the last stages of exhaustion.
At night, temperatures drop far below zero, even at its equator.
The inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with
instruments and intelligences of which we have scarcely dreamed,
searching for another world to which they could migrate.
They could not go to Pluto, outer-most of all planets
so cold that its atmosphere lies frozen on its surface.
They couldn't go to Neptune or Uranus,
twin worlds in eternal night, and perpetual cold.
Both surrounded by an unbreathable
atmosphere of methane gas and ammonia vapor.
The martians considered Saturn, an attractive world,
with its many moons and beautiful ring's of cosmic dust
but its temperature is close to 270 degrees below zero,
and ice lies 15,000 miles deep on its surface.
Their nearest world was giant Jupiter,
where there are titanic cliffs of lava and ice,
with hydrogen flaming at the tops,
where the atmospheric pressure is terrible.
Thousands of pounds to the square inch.
They couldn't go there.
Nor could they go to Mercury, nearest planet to the sun.
It has no air, and the temperature at its equator is that of molten lead.
Of all the worlds that the intelligences on Mars could see and study,
only our own warm earth was green with vegetation, bright with water,
and possessed a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility.
It did not occur to mankind that a swift fate might be hanging over us.
Or that from the blackness of outer space
we were being scrutinized and studied.
Until the time of our nearest approach to the
orbit of Mars during a pleasant summer season...
- Is that a fireball or something? - Boy, that's big.
Maybe it's a comet.
Oh!
Boy, that had me scared.
- I wonder where it lit? - Miles away I bet you.
- Hey, let's go find it. - Probably dropped halfway to Pomona.
Oh, it's nearer than that.
I'm gonna see. Who's coming?
This is Pine Summit. I got a smoke.
- 160, 30. - Azimuth: 160 degrees, 30 minutes.
Big? I bet it's as big as anything that ever lit in California.
Better get something over there. It's started a blaze already.
Over here.
Spray it this way.
You there, with a shovel.
Come over here with the shovel.
Get in there or we're going to have a brush fire.
Somebody get some water over here.
C'mon, c'mon.
Let me get in there.
Out of the way.
Start spraying water.
Bring that hose over here.
Get this quick fellas. Keep that it.
Hey, grab this.
Lend a hand over here.
Number three to D.O., number three to D.O.
≡⌁ D.O. To number three, come in. ⌁≡.
We're getting this under control.
We won't need any more help. Over.
≡⌁ Okay, send the tanker in, but you stand by until that thing cools off. Over. ⌁≡
I think someone ought to check on it. Over.
≡⌁ Well there some fellas fishing at Pines Summit, I think their scientist. ⌁≡
≡⌁ They probably saw it come down. I'll let them know. ⌁≡
≡⌁ What's it look like? ⌁≡.
Can't get near enough to see it very well. It's too hot. But it's a whale of a size.
I got a message for you.
You're the guys from Pacific Tech, ain't you?
Right.
- Looks like the fishing was good. - Have some?
Well, I might just do that.
It's about that meteor.
They say it's a whopper.
The district officer phoned us at the lookout, up on the summit.
I thought you might be interested.
It's about ten or twelve miles from here here. Over by Linda Rosa.
Are they sure it's a meteor? It didn't come down like one.
That's right. It came down kinda' in spurts, didn't it?
Well, you fellows figure it out. You're scientists.
All I know, they say it's as big as a house and practically red hot.
I'd like to borrow your car and take a look at it in the morning.
We ought to get back.
- I can fly Bilder back down in your plane. - Okay, the insurance is paid up.
- Light? - No, I'll smoke it later.
Don't go to close.
Did you watch it come down?
I seen it from my window.
Harold, Carroll come here a minute.
Step over a little. Just a little and hold. Smile.
It must have hit way up there, and then skidded along the gully.
After it stopped, all that loose earth and stuff shook down over it.
Excuse me.
I guess most of it's buried.
That's twelve feet thick, easy. Maybe more.
Meteors always run heavy.
They won't be able to haul this one away to no museum!
It'll be a real good attraction for Sunday drivers.
Better than a lion farm or snake pit. We won't have to feed it.
Sure, we can sell the tamales and enchiladas and hot dogs too!
Yeah. Ice cream, cold drinks, souvenirs!
I think we should put up a few picnic tables.
Naw, naw, then they'd bring their own lunches!
What's the idea, Buck? Gonna dig for gold?
You think you're kidding?
This is gonna be like having a gold mine in our own back yard!
I'm gonna get a closer look at it.
Lucky it didn't come down in the middle of town.
I wonder who owns this property?
That's it over there.
It's still pretty darned hot.
- Be careful, Buck. - Yeah, watch it Buck.
Hot for ya' down there?
It's pretty hot their.
Did you see it come down?
Yes, I was fishing up in the hills.
You must have caught plenty with all that tackle!
Oh, there were three of us. The others flew back in my plane.
I don't understand why a meteor that size didn't make a bigger crater.
It hit sideways and skidded in.
At least, that's what I think. I don't really know.
But the ranger says a scientist is coming from Pacific Tech. He'll tell us.
Clayton Forester. Ever hear of him?
What's that fellow trying to do over there, dig it out?
He's top man in astro and nuclear physics.
He knows all about meteors!
You seem to know all about him.
I did a thesis on modern scientists
working for my masters degree.
- Did it do you any good? - Why, sure, I got it!
- Say, do you have a match? - No, I'm sorry. I don't smoke.
Forester's the man behind the new atomic engines.
They had him on the cover of 'Time'.
You've got to rate to get that!
Na, he isn't that good.
Well now how can you say that when you don't even know him!
I do know him... slightly.
Oh, what's he like?
Well, he's like eh...
Like eh...
Oh, well you certainly don't look like yourself in that get-up Dr. Forster!
But I am happy to meet you anyway.
I'm Sylvia Van Buren. I teach library science over at USC.
I didn't know how to stop you.
I might have recognized you without the beard
and you didn't wear glasses on the 'Time' cover!
They're really for long distance.
When I want to look at something close I take them off.
Boy you could fry eggs on that thing!
All that sand will keep the heat in for a long time.
Oh, Uncle Matthew, this is Dr. Clayton Forester.
My Uncle, Dr. Matthew Collins, Pastor of the Community Church.
Well-l... how do you do, Dr. Forester!
How d' you do, sir?
Hey, you!
What you got in here, feller?... It's ticking like a bomb!
This is a Geiger counter for detecting radioactivity.
We did a little bit of surveying while we were up in the hills.
- It's that meteor. - It's radioactive?
Yes. It's difficult to account for a reaction like that.
Look at it. It's going crazy!
Maybe we ought to keep people away from it, huh?
It might be a good idea.
I'll post two-three deputies. They can make sure it don't start any more fires.
You know, that meteor's either very light,
which is unheard of or else it's hollow somehow.
If it were heavy and solid it would have made a tremendous crater when it landed.
I think I'll wait around until it cools off.
If you could tell me of a place in town, I'd like to clean up.
I'd be delighted if you'd stay at my house, Doctor Forester.
Thank you.
It probably won't be cool for another twenty-four hours.
What do people do around here on a Saturday?
They don't do much of anything!
There's a square dance at the social hall this evening.
♪ Allemande left and the lady star. ♪
♪ Gents walk around but not too far. ♪
♪ Allemande left and the gentleman star ♪
♪ ladies walk around but not too far. ♪
♪ First and Third, you balance and swing. ♪
♪ Promenade the outside ring. ♪
♪ Three quarter round the outside ring. ♪
♪ Thru that couple and not too far. ♪
♪ Meet in the center with a right-hand star. ♪
♪ Swing your corner with with a left hand around ♪
♪ Once and a half like a merry-go-round ♪
Well, let's take another look at it.
Almost cold now, ain't it?
That won't start no more fires. We might's well go home.
Yeah. No sense stayin' out here.
Let's go.
Hey, it's moving!
- It's a bomb! - It don't go off last night...
- Maybe it's gonna go off now, eh. - It's an enemy sneak attack.
Let's get outta here!
Wait a minute! Wait a minute.
Bombs don't unscrew.
It's no meteor. That's for sure.
Darnedest thing I ever saw, the way that's unscrewing.
Thank you, Doctor Forester. You having fun?
Yup. And you know what I was thinking?
If we could gather all the energy expended in just one square dance,
we could send that meteor back to where it came from.
Must be somebody in there.
Who? Where d' you think they come from!
How would I know.
I read someplace, Mars is near the earth right now.
Happens every eighteen, twenty years, they say.
Men from Mars...
- What do you think? - Maybe these are not men,
not like us.
Everything human doesn't have to look like you and me.
If it's men from Mars, we ought to let them know we're friendly.
Don't fool around with something when you don't know what it is!
We'd be the first to make contact with 'em, see?
We'd be in all the papers.
How about that!
We could show 'em we're friendly, huh?
Walk out there with a white flag!
Hay I-I-I got an old sugar sack in my car.
What are we going to say to them?
"Welcome to California."
Come on.
- We're friends! - Yeah!
Hay there. Open up!
- How will they understand us? - We're talkin' sign language.
- They'll understand us, all right! - Sure.
Sure!
Everybody understands when you wave the white flag, you wanna be friends.
- Hey there, open up! - Come on out! We're friends!
That's right! We welcome you.
We're friends!
♪
Hay!
No smooching in the dark, folks.
Any candles around?
Hay, look, look. All the lights in town have gone out.
Somebody found some candles.
I like it in the dark.
Call the electric company and see what happened.
Okay.
Hey, the phone's gone dead.
That's funny, the phone not on the same circuit as the lights.
What are they saying honey? Something's wrong with my hearing aid.
Well, we always play 'Goodnight, Ladies' at twelve o'clock, anyway.
It must be nearly that now.
- My watch has stopped. - I've got the time.
- Huh? Mine's stopped, too. - So's mine!
Jeepers, mine ain't workin'! What is this?
They've all stopped at the same time.
There's only one explanation for a thing like this.
Do you have a pin?
ᴼʰ ˡᵒᵒᵏ.
ᴸᵒᵒᵏ
Cᵃⁿ ʸᵒᵘ ᵇᵉᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵃᵗ
See that? My watch is magnetized.
That's what knocked the phones out, too.
How could it happen to everybody's watch altogether?
- Have you have a pocket compass? - Yup.
Hay, that needle isn't pointing north!
It's pointing out to the gully
where that meteor came down.
Alright folks, let me through! Let me through!
What's going on?
I don't know any more than you do, Joe.
Look at the fire out there!
The power lines are down. That explains why the lights went out.
Look...
Hey, look at the cars!
Where are the three men you left out here?
Look there!
People in town started to follow us. Don't let them come near here.
Jump! Get under cover!!
What is that gizmo?
I think that "gizmo," is a machine from another planet.
We'd better get word to the authorities.
Look!
Sheriff, you'd better get word to the military.
You're going to need them out here!
Get moving. On the double.
Take cover along the riverbed. Get those 30's over here.
The area is under control of the marines from El Toro base,
and the gully is surrounded.
Oh, and here is Professor McPherson from the
Canadian Meteorological Research Council!
Is it true professor, you've had reports of landings in other places?
In Canada?
Not in Canada yet, but in Bordeaux, France. Some in Spain...
There's supposed to be one down near the Gulf of Tarantino, Italy
we're trying to locate the second meteor that
landed in this vicinity just about midnight.
Do you think they come from Mars?
What do you think, Doctor Forester?
Oh, it's possible. At least, it seems certain
they're from some planet other than our own.
≡⌁ Suppose they are martians, professor. What would they look like? ⌁≡
≡⌁ Bigger than us? Smaller? ⌁≡
≡⌁ Well, as to martians, our gravitational pull would weigh them down. ⌁≡
≡⌁ Our heavier air would oppress them. ⌁≡
≡⌁ But d' you think they'd be breathing creatures like us? ⌁≡
≡⌁ What about hearts and blood and all that? ⌁≡
≡⌁ But if they are martians, and if they do have hearts, ⌁≡
≡⌁ they'd almost certainly beat at a slower rate. ⌁≡
≡⌁ Their veins might be distended. Their senses could be quite different. ⌁≡
≡⌁ They may, for instance, be able to smell colors. ⌁≡
≡⌁ Precedent in our own evolution to make it possible ⌁≡
≡⌁ that they have more than one brain. ⌁≡
≡⌁ You mean two? Three? Just think of that folks! ⌁≡
≡⌁ It's only speculation. ⌁≡
≡⌁ Now, Doctor Forester, what about these meteor machines? ⌁≡
≡⌁ They're probably controlled by jets after they enter our atmosphere. ⌁≡
≡⌁ And navigated by some form of gyroscopic mechanism. ⌁≡.
Thank you, Doctor Forester.
Oh, colonel. Can you tell us anything about this plane that's coming over.
It'll drop a flare, that's the only way we dare put a light on them.
Then Air Force cameramen will get pictures.
That was marine colonel Ralph Hefner.
There's been a lot of mysterious activity around the machine.
Lights and dust, as if they are digging themselves out.
There it comes again!
If this keeps up, it'll be a guide for the plane when it comes over.
- Is that the plane now? - That's the signal.
The pilot has just blipped his motor. That means he's dropped the flare.
He's flying high, so it'll take a few seconds for it to come down.
When it does burst, we shall be the first men on earth
to get a real look at these invaders from space.
They're after the plane with their rays!
Get out of here!
Jump for it!
We are taking...
Hey, they turned me off! They got my truck!
It looks like they're going to come out of that gully pretty soon.
We'll have to rush our defenses and be ready when they do.
You're going to need plenty of reinforcements.
We'll get 'em.
They got the fire road blocked.
Truck turned over.
The troops are certainly moving in here!
I know you sent word to the sixth army command!
I just told them the local situation.
Colonel Hefner's in charge.
You never know where you'll wind up when you go to a square dance, do you?
Runner? Wheres the runner?
- That's D-24. - Right.
Now locate your observation post on this hill.
Position your recoilless 75's back here. Carbon Canyon.
Yes sir.
- I want your battery here. - All right.
You may find at daylight that you're to expose, so
keep your prime movers ready to pull you out fast.
But you'll get first crack at 'em.
- That'll suit me! That all, sir? - Colonel Hefner.
Yes. Report when you're set up.
Heffner... half-tracks? Okay.
Get in back of hill thuh-ree.
Repeat: Hill 3.
If it's a moving target, follow up from there.
- Right. - Number 7
do you hear me?
Anybody get a look at the martians yet?
They've located that second meteor.
Weapons truck turned over on the road.
Take action and report.
Company tactical net out of action.
No radio.
Range 1... 8... 0...
there's one, there's the other. Here we are right between them.
So is the town, I notice!
I warned them to be ready if they have to evacuate.
I just came to tell you, everyone has been alerted.
Hup!
As you were.
General Mann, I was told to expect you sir.
I'm Colonel Heffner.
I'm here to make up a report,
not to interfere with the operations you've set up.
You're still in command.
Clayton Forester, I haven't seen you since Oak Ridge.
Good to see you, General.
This is Pastor Collins, Sheriff Bogany, head of local control.
- Miss Van Buren. - Miss Van Buren.
How do you do General. Would you care for some coffee?
Thank you.
General Mann's in charge of intelligence for the pacific area.
That's their position?
You've certainly got them surrounded.
I suppose they've neutralized all communications here.
Not all sir. Radio is out. But our field phones are okay so far.
And they'll go out the minute there's another heat ray.
A cylinder reported down by Huntington Beach.
That's a job for the Navy.
Any news from abroad?
Washington is in constant touch with the military of other nations.
Apparently they're coming down all over.
South America, Santiago has two cylinders.
They're outside London.
They're in Naples.
We've got them between here and Fresno.
Outside Sacramento.
Two on long island.
They're just coming down at random.
No.
According to information from foreign sources,
their working at some kind of plan.
What it may be isn't clear yet,
simply because once they begin to move,
no more news comes out of that area.
We've had reports of destruction, massacre.
Here's an instance!
"Town of St. Julian, south of Bordeaux,"
wiped out by ray of undetermined nature.
"Local reports say nothing remains."
"Nothing remains." What do you make of that?
All we've seen is the heat ray they use.
Some of our newest weapons are in here.
- We want to be sure to stop them. - We will sir.
From the data and from that picture the Air Force took earlier tonight
what we've got out there this is the original pilot ship.
From the basis of its observations the others were guided down.
Pattern wise, one lands, then two, making groups of three joined magnetically.
- Is that possible? - If they do it, it is.
My orders are not to go into action unless they move out of the shelter of that gully.
Meanwhile we'll have a chance to observe them.
This is the only place we've had time to
surround them with sufficient force to contain them.
What happens here will be a guide to other operations.
When it actually begins and a pattern of defense develops,
I'll get my report to Washington.
You've deployed your forces well.
Thank you sir.
If they start anything, we can blast them right off the earth!
They'll probably move at dawn.
There's something moving in the gully.
Look at it, will you.
Beings from another world.
- Is that some kind of a flying machine? - No-no.
It's supported from the ground by rays. Probably some form of magnetic flux.
Like invisible legs.
This is amazing.
They must keep the opposing poles in balance and lift the machine.
Stand by to fire.
All command posts, stand by to fire.
But colonel, shooting's no good.
It's always been a good persuader.
Shouldn't you try communicating with them first, then shoot later, if you have to?
Target as indicated.
Repeat target as indicated.
I think we should try to make them understand we mean them no harm.
There's another machine coming out.
They are living creatures out there.
But they're not human!
Dr. Forester says they're some kind of an advanced civilization,
if they're more advanced than us,
they should be nearer the creator for that reason.
No real attempt has been made to communicate with them, you know.
Let's go back inside, Uncle Matthew.
I've done all I can in there. You go back.
Sylvia...
I like that Dr. Forester. He's a good man.
Attention all batteries! Prepare for volley fire! Repeat, prepare for volley fire!
Who's that?
What's he think he's doing?
- UNCLE! UNCLE MATTHEW! STOP HIM! - It's too late. He's too far away.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
Stop him! Stop him!
It's seen him.
Thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over.
And I will dwell in the house of the lord forever...
Ahhh!
- Let 'em have it! - Fire!
Those shells can't get through them!
They've put up some sort of electromagnetic covering.
A protective blister.
Augh!
That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French city.
It neutralize mesons somehow.
They're the atomic glue that holds matter together.
Cut across their lines of magnetic force and any object will cease to exist.
Take my word for it, General.
This type of defense is useless agents that kind of power.
You'd better let Washington know. Fast.
- Hold them as long as you can! - Right sir.
Ahhh!
Order all command posts! Everything pull back north of highway sixty tunnel bunker!
Right.
Ahh!
Everybody out of here! Everybody out!
The Air Force will take care of these babies now.
Dr. Forester, get out of here.
Everybody out of here.
Everybody out-ahh!
You'll hit something!
Can't you go higher?
No. The air will be full of jets in a minute.
And there they are!
Ohhh!
Read all about the martian invasion. They're in New York and Miami.
Fighting outside Los Angeles. Read all about it.
Hold it right there, General. Please.
You're the gentlemen I asked to come here.
General Mann, what d'you think of this situation,
is it your opinion the army can hold 'em?
You had guns and equipment going out there all night! Weren't they enough to...
C'mon break it up.
The way he's hedging, maybe the army didn't hold 'em!
I've seen news off the pacific cable.
Sydney Australia, Penang, Rangoon India..
Whats coming through, nobody's stopped them yet.
I wanna' know, if the city must be evacuated...
Were ready. Lots of people have already moved out.
We've mobilized emergency cars and busses in the yard.
The Red Cross is standing by.
For your in-formation, the enemy is twenty-five
or thirty miles outside Los Angeles.
They're not down in force yet, but developing. It can happen at any minute.
The crisis will come if they move toward the metropolitan area...
- Washington is on the line, sir. - General Mann.
I'd say our effective losses were 60% men, 90% material.
The jets went in, but not one of them came out.
I watched high-level bombers drop everything they carried.
They were knocked out of the sky and the bombs did nothing.
Nothing was effective against them!
Yes, they have some sort of electronic umbrella.
It's quite impenetrable.
Doctor Forester believes they generate atomic force
without the heavy screening we use,
that's where they get the power for their rays!
Very well, sir.
Call Victorville. Tell them I want the fastest plane they've got!
You'll get all further instructions from Sixth Army Command.
Now I'll make a statement to those reporters.
All right fellas, the General will see you now.
General, we heard Doctor Clayton Forester was out there with you.
What's he think about this?
Ask him. He's back at Pacific Tech.
No, he's not! We tried to get him there. He hasn't shown up.
Wake up.
Let's get moving, huh?
Are you all right?
- It's that machine! - It's gone.
- Where are we? - Southwest of Corona, somewhere.
There must have been another cylinder down here.
They've been through this whole area and cleared everybody out.
There's a farmhouse out there.
Let's see if we can find something to eat.
We're doing all right. You know I almost forgot when I ate last.
Hay, that looks good.
You know, mostly I get my meals in coffee shops and restaurants.
Don't you live at home?
No, on campus. I haven't any family.
I come from a big one. There's nine of us,
all in Minnesota. Except me.
I have no close folks. My parents died when I was a kid.
A big family must be fun. I imagine...
I imagine it makes you feel you belong to something.
It does. Maybe that's why I feel lost right now.
We'll get out of here safely, don't worry.
But they seem to murder everything that moves.
If they're mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses.
They'll be stopped, somehow!
I've been as close to them as anyone. But not close enough for real observation.
I feel like I did one time when I was small.
Awful scared and lonesome.
I'd wandered off... I've forgotten why
but the family and whole crowds of neighbors were hunting for me.
They found me in a church. I was afraid to go in any place else.
I stayed right by the door, praying for the one who loved me best to come and find me.
It was Uncle Matthew who found me.
I liked him.
He liked you.
Oh, I could bawl my head off.
But you're not going to. You're not the kind.
Look, you're tired. You've been up all night.
You cracked up in a plane. Slept in a ditch.
But you want to know something?
It doesn't show on you at all.
Get down!
- How long was I out? - Hours.
I've been so scared!
They're right outside. Several of them came down together.
There's a machine standing right alongside of us.
An electronic eye.
Like a television camera.
It's looking for us.
Maybe they're not too sure we're here.
They could be as curious about us as we are about them.
Maybe.
Maybe they want to take us alive.
It's pulling out.
Can't we get out of here?
Ohh!
Something moved out there!
- There's nothing there now. - It was...
One of them!
What was it like?
I couldn't see much in the dark but it was one!
We're right in a nest of 'em! I've got to get a look at them.
They've blocked it!
It's blocked here, too.
They've pushed earth all around the outside.
Here, this is the way. The stairway up to the attic.
Look out!
Eeee-aaaaa-ee!
Your scarf.
It's wet.
Blood...
No.
No. No!
No! No! No! No!
- Stop it. Stop it! - No! It's not right!
We've got to make a run for it. Come on!
The martians had calculated their descent on
our earth with amazing perfection and subtly.
As more of their cylinders came from the mysterious depths of space,
their war machines, awesome in their power and complexity,
created a wave of fear which swept into all corners of the world.
In every country, governments officials met in desperate conclave
seeking ways to coordinate their defenses with those of other nations.
The government of India driven from new Delhi met in a rail road coach,
while massive Hindu population streamed for the
imagined safety of the far away Himalayas.
The Finnish and Turkish armies, Chinese battalions
and Bolivians worked and fought furiously.
Every effort against the tremendous power of their
other-world antagonists ended in the same tragic route.
As the martians burned fields and forests, and great cities fell before them,
huge populations were driven from their homes.
The stream of flight rose swiftly to a torrent.
It became a giant stampede, without order and without goal.
It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of humanity.
A great silence fell over half of Europe, as all communication was disrupted.
When the last wire photo out of Paris reached
the French cabinet, exiled in Strasbourg
they hit upon the idea of using super-speed jets as couriers.
Stripped of armament and loaded with extra fuel,
these planes maintained connections with Scandinavian countries.
North Africa, the United States and especially with England.
It was plain the martians appreciated the
strategic significance of the British isles.
The people of Britain met the invaders magnificently, but it was unavailing.
As the martians swept northward toward London,
the British cabinet stayed in session,
coordinating every item of information that could be gathered,
passing it on to the United Nations in New York,
from there the news was forwarded to Washington,
because here was the only remaining unassailed strategic point.
48° North due west
31 East.
Anchored out of Kirov.
Dover blanked out.
Major Bently Dauton.
Report to General Mann.
Teléfono para El Coronel José Martínez.
Teléfono número once.
80 west by 38 north.
Contact civil authorities.
Capitaine...
And this much is certain.
It's vital to prevent the martian machines from linking up.
Once they do, they adopt an extraordinary military tactic.
They form a Crescent, anchor it at one end
and sweep on until they've cleared a quadrant.
Then they anchor the opposite end and reverse direction.
They slash across country like scythes,
wiping out everything that's trying to get away from them.
That's explains why communications is cut the moment their machines begin moving.
Montreal's blacked out. Nothing more has come through.
The same thing that happened on our pacific coast.
Anything from them yet?
No, Mr. secretary. We've had nothing from San Francisco for over five hours.
Excuse me gentlemen,
here's that Los Angeles picture, sir.
This is a Sonic radar picture taken from extreme altitude.
It shows full details of the martian nest outside Los Angeles.
Their machines appear as round blobs.
Newly fallen cylinders are elongated.
We know there are three cylinders to each group, three machines to each cylinder.
All right, I've seen enough.
Theirs only one thing will stop the martians!
We've held back because of the danger of radiation to civilians.
Now there's no choice. The white house will confirm an order to use the atom bomb.
Then our first target will be the initial landing place outside Los Angeles.
First thing you get there, arrange for the Pacific Tech scientist to monitor the drop.
I'll send wire orders ahead of you and have the area cleared all around.
We've still time to hit them before dark.
Then we'll blast them all over the world.
Forester, everybody's been looking for you!
I know. We've walked halfway from Corona!
Finally found an abandoned truck.
This is Miss Van Buren. Dr. Grotzman, Dr. Pryor, James, Bilderbeck.
What's this I hear about the A-bomb?
We've been assigned a special detail we're going in right after it.
- Study its effect. - We leave in half an hour.
- What's that? - A king-size fish eye?
This is an electronic eye.
The martians modeled it after their own eye.
They use it the way we use a periscope.
It'll tell us a lot about their metals and alloys.
If this is actually a lens, we can find out about their optics.
- Interesting, very interesting. - And this...
The blood of a martian.
I don't remember ever seeing blood crystals as anemic as these.
They may be mental giants,
but by our standards, physically, they must be very primitive.
Isn't it curious how everything about them seems to be in threes?
Their eyes have three lenses and three distinct pupils, strong light shocks them.
They're not accustomed to it!
Sunlight on Mars is approximately half as strong as we get it.
Add their clouds and dust, it amounts to no more than our twilight.
Now, if you'll step over here please.
We've rigged the epidiascope to reflect whatever the martian lens picks up.
Move in a little. Thank you.
There's how the martians see us.
Evidently there's a shift in their spectrum.
Their color absorption must be different from ours.
Let's see why they were so curious about you, Miss Van Buren.
Time we got started, gentlemen.
Let's go.
That's martian blood. Let's make a quick analysis and see what we've got!
- It might give us something. - Something we could use.
Oh, let it go. If you're interested in martian blood,
you'll get all you want right after the plane drops the bomb!
The Flying Wing is going to carry it.
Hello tower, this is Air Force Flying Wing, ready for take-off. Over.
Flying Wing, this is the tower. Clear for take-off. Over.
Wish us luck. Roger.
The target for the A-bomb is this nest of martian machines in the Puente Hills
where more of these meteors cylinders came down early last evening.
A plane will pinpoint the target for the drop from six miles up.
We have been warned that this bomb is ten times
more powerful than anything previously used.
It's the latest thing in nuclear fission.
Nothing like this has ever been exploded before.
And we're going to be pretty darn close,
but there are observers down in the valley in a forward bunker
and they'll be a lot nearer than us!
The whole world is waiting. For this will decide the fate of civilization.
All humanity...
Whether we live or die may depend on what happens here.
Attention, please, four minutes to bomb time!
There must be a couple of million people back of
us in the shelter of the San Gabriel hills. Waiting...
Waiting to find out whether they can go home again.
Everywhere all around the world, people have been driven from their homes.
Direct cable communication is being maintained with Washington,
but there's no radio at all.
Not even with the bombing plane that's coming over.
All radio is dead,
which means that these tape recordings I'm making
are for the sake of future history, if any.
"Future history," he said.
Yes, "if any."
Bilderbeck has calculated how long we have got
until martians take over the entire world.
If the A-bomb fails, that is.
The martians can conquer the earth in six days.
The same number of days it took to create it.
Attention, please... two minutes to bomb time!
Prepare to take shelter.
If you have no goggles, turn away.
Remember, the heat flash and concussion that follow are dangerous.
50 seconds.
- There's the plane. - Right.
40 seconds.
- We've sighted the plane, sir. - Right.
30 seconds.
Look. Look!
They're using those protective blisters again.
Twenty seconds.
Attention! Stand by.
15 seconds.
10 seconds.
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Hello!
Hello! Hello, there! What can you see?
There's something moving!
They haven't even been touched!
It didn't stop them.
Guns, tanks, bombs, they're like toys against them!
It'll end only one way. We're beaten.
No... not yet.
Washington issued orders:
In event the A-bomb failed, evacuate all cities in danger of attack
they'll be moving on Los Angeles now!
We'll establish a line and fight them all the way back to the mountains.
Our best hope lies in what you people can develop to help us.
Alright, on the double. Get me back to...
"Six days," you said. Six days...
They'll stamp the city flat.
We'll take all our instruments and establish
a base laboratory in the rocky mountains.
It'll give us time to search out some weakness in the martians.
A forlorn hope, but there is a chance.
We may get a lead from the anemic blood.
You mean by some biological approach?
We know now that we can't beat their machines,
we've got to beat them!
Everybody listen carefully!
The martians are coming this way. We must evacuate the city.
Take food, water and extra clothing with you.
All major highways have been marked
to lead you to shelter and welfare centers in the hills.
Come on. Come on.
Keep going.
Keep them going there.
Keep going.
Come on!
- Gratzman, did you get those biotics? - No, I thought you had them.
Never mind, I'll get them. You get in the school bus. Sylvia will drive you.
Let me up!
Get off buster!
I'll give you $500 for your place.
I'll make it $1,000.
Money's no good anymore, Mack!
Here comes another truck!
Throw that guy off there!
Stop, you fools!
You fools!
- Quick, help me we've got to stop them! - You can't stop them!
The law's no good here now.
There thieves robbers worse they wouldn't leave with the rest.
It's like this all over.
They gotta be stopped! Those instruments!
Hold it!
Hold it a minute!
We've got to get those instruments. They're our only chance!
Did that mob grab the trucks ahead of me?
There were a lot of Pacific Tech people in those trucks, did you see them?
I don't know anything about other trucks. There's been fighting all over.
A school bus. A girl was driving? Did they get that?
If they saw it, they took it. They'll grab anything on wheels.
You can't buy a ride for love of money!
Gratzman! Bilderbeck!
Sylvia!
Hey you, better get out of here!
I'm looking for some Pacific Tech professors!
There's nobody left around here now.
We had a chance. We could have stopped them!
The mob stole the trucks and smashed everything up.
The fools! They cut their own throats!
He's nuts... come on, jump in.
Hurry up. Jump in!
There was a girl with them. If I could find her...
Come on, jump in, will you?
- She's kind of lost. - You look kind of lost yourself.
But I think I know where she'll be.
C'm on, c'm on! It's your last chance to get outta here!
♪ Amen ♪
We humbly beseech thy divine guidance, O Lord.
Deliver us from the fear which has come upon us.
From the evil that grows ever nearer.
From the terror that soon will knock
upon the very door of this, thy house.
O Lord, we pray thee.
Grant us the miracle of thy divine intervention.
Don't go, son. Stay with us.
No, I'm looking for someone. She'll be in a church, near the door.
- Forester! - Duprey, Bilderbeck! Are you?
Where are the others?
The mob attacked us.
We don't know what happened to the rest.
I got knocked under our truck.
Duprey pulled me out.
What happened to Sylvia?
We never did see her again.
In our peril we plead. Succour and comfort us in this hour.
Please, God.
Sylvia!
Ahh!
Sylvia!
Ahh!
Sylvia!
- Here! Here! - Sylvia!
Let me through! Please!
Maybe they've gone.
You alright?
Something's happening to them!
It's dead.
We were all praying for a miracle.
The martians had no resistance to bacteria in our atmosphere
to which we have long since become immune.
Once they had briefed our air
germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them.
The end came swiftly.
All over the world their machines began to stop and fall
after all that man could do had failed,
the martians were destroyed and humanity was saved
by the littlest thing.
Which god in his wisdom had put upon this earth.
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