Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

Gregory Walcott: Jeff Trent

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• Colonel Tom Edwards : ...Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.

  Eros : Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can *explode* one. A ray of sunlight is made up of *many* atoms!

  Jeff Trent : So what if we *do* develop this Solanite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.

  Eros : [with disgust]  Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!

  Jeff Trent : That's all I'm taking from you!

  [pistol-whips Eros upside the head] 

• Jeff Trent : I saw a flying saucer.

  Paula Trent : A saucer? You mean the kind from up there?

  Jeff Trent : Yeah, or its counterpart. It was shaped like a human cigar. Dan and Edith saw it too. When it passed over, the whole compartment lighted up with a blinding glare. Then, there was a tremendous wind that practically knocked us off our course.

• Colonel Tom Edwards : This is the most fantastic story I've ever heard.

  Jeff Trent : And every word of it's true, too.

  Colonel Tom Edwards : That's the fantastic part of it.

• Paula Trent : Now, off to your wild blue yonders.

  Jeff Trent : You promise you'll lock the doors immediately?

  Paula Trent : I promise. Besides, I'll be in bed before a half hour's gone... with your pillow beside me.

  Jeff Trent : My pillow?

  Paula Trent : Well, I have to have something to keep me company while you're away. Sometimes in the night, when it does get a little lonely, I reach over and touch it. Then it doesn't seem so lonely anymore.

• Colonel Tom Edwards : Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our Earth?

  Eros : Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots!

  Jeff Trent : Now you just hold on, Buster.

  Eros : No, you hold on! First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite.

  Colonel Tom Edwards : Why, there's no such thing.

• Paula Trent : Don't worry about me.

  Jeff Trent : You're the only thing I do worry about. Oh, forget about the flying saucers, they're up there! But there's something in that cemetery... and that's too close for comfort.

  Paula Trent : The saucers are up there...

  [she looks up to the sky] 

  Paula Trent : and the cemetery's out there...

  [she looks to the right] 

  Paula Trent : but I'll be locked up in there.

  [she looks left to the house] 

• Paula Trent : I've never seen you in this mood before.

  Jeff Trent : [in a funky mood because he's muzzled by Army brass]  I guess that's because I've never been in this mood before.

• Jeff Trent : You fiend.

  Eros : I, a fiend? I am a soldier of our planet. I, a fiend? We did not come here as enemies.

• Jeff Trent : Ah, what's the use of makin' a fuss. Last night I saw a flyin' object that couldn't a possibly been from this planet, but I can't talk about it. I'm muzzled by Army Brass. I can't even admit I saw the thing!

• Eros : Shall we talk now, or wait? Your friends will be here shortly.

  Jeff Trent : What friends?

  Eros : Those you left at the vehicle.

• Jeff Trent : I'm muzzled by army brass!

• Lieutenant John Harper : Got your guns ready?

  Jeff Trent : I'll tell you one thing, if a little green man pops out at me, I'm shooting first and asking questions later.

• Jeff Trent : Oh, it burns me up! These things have been seen for years! They're here, it's a fact! And the public oughta know about it.