The Land Unknown (1957)
Jock Mahoney: Commander Alan Roberts
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Quotes
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : Climactic change, one of the main causes of evolution, doesn't exist here.
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : A few things, I can be quite romantic about.
Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway : Name one.
Cmdr. Harold Roberts : Well, women.
Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway : Oh?
Cmdr. Harold Roberts : For example: Although I know, basically, women consist mostly of water, with a few pinches of salt, and metals thrown in, you have a very unsaltlike and non-metallic effect.
Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway : I give in.
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : [Viewing a dead pterodactyl] A dead animal is food. I don't want to be here to meet its consumers.
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : We'll find the wreck without your help.
Dr. Carl Hunter : Maybe you will if you aren't trampled to death first or eaten alive or die of starvation. Wait till the Antarctic night comes and for nine months the black air hangs round you like a rotten rag and your eyes are blinded from the dark and from your own sweat, and you lose each other - and you're alone - alone. Do you hear me? ...Always alone!
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[last lines]
Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway : Well, who'd stay home with the baby?
Cmdr. Harold Roberts : Sure, who'd stay... What baby?
Margaret 'Maggie' Hathaway : Ours, silly. Why by this time next year...
[the two share a passionate kiss]
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : We're not going to dig our way out of here through human flesh. Not Maggie's, Hunter's, not even yours.
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : We're not gonna dig our way out of here through human flesh.
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts : It is true that you can't live among beasts without becoming one. It is just as true that you can't live among human beings without becoming affected by their humanity.
