This Island Earth (1955)
Robert Nichols: Joe Wilson
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Quotes
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[a mysterious catalog is delivered]
Dr. Cal Meacham : This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal!
[reads]
Dr. Cal Meacham : "Interociter incorporating planetary generator". "Interocitor with voltarator". "With astroscope".
Joe Wilson : Here's something my wife could use in the house. An "interocitor incorporating an electron sorter."
Dr. Cal Meacham : Oh, she'd probably gain 20 pounds while it did all the work for her. You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do. Laying a 4-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.
Joe Wilson : Cal... maybe we've been working too hard.
Dr. Cal Meacham : "Complete line of interocitor parts, incorporating greater advances than hitherto known in the field of electronics." What exactly is an interocitor?
Joe Wilson : I don't know, and I don't want to know.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Well, I do. I want to know what it is and what it does. Order the list of parts on these pages.
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Joe Wilson : Cal, I - I know everybody's seeing flying saucers and screwy lights up in the sky. Well, you can put me in the booby hatch too, because, so help me, I saw this ship turn a bright green up there.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Are you sure, Joe?
Joe Wilson : Positive.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Did you hear anything?
Joe Wilson : Yes. A high-frequency howl, very high, all the time your ship was...
Dr. Cal Meacham : Green. Did Webb see it?
Joe Wilson : Unless he's blind.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Check him.
Joe Wilson : Right.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Oh, and Joe... until we find out what happened, all three of us were blind.
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Joe Wilson : There isn't any reason around here.
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Joe Wilson : Half an hour late. That's my boss - the only guy in the world who can travel by jet and still be late.
