The Man from Planet X (1951)

Robert Clarke: John Lawrence

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• [last lines] 

  Enid Elliot : You know, I think that creature was friendly. I wonder what would have happened if... if Dr. Mears hadn't frightened him.

  John Lawrence : Who knows? Perhaps the greatest curse ever to befall the world, or perhaps the greatest blessing.

• John Lawrence : [Looking at space ship]  You know what that looks like to me - a big diving bell1

  Professor Elliot : Well, the only difference between water and space is a matter of density.

• John Lawrence : [desperately]  If the men don't buckle down to the job, this is going to be a village of zombies!

• John Lawrence : If I only were not so helpless before the voiceless threat of the unknown.

• John Lawrence : What'd you do to him back there in the dungeon?

  Dr. Mears : Do to him? Why I didn't do anything. Nothing at all.

  John Lawrence : He showed a definite disposition for friendliness when I left.

  Dr. Mears : Well how can you talk of him as if her were a human being? How do we know what thought processes run through his head? How can we even assume that he thinks like we do? How can you anticipate what a fantastic organism like that might do or might no do?

  John Lawrence : Alright! Alright!

• Enid Elliot : Is it true that no one will ever know what happened here?

  John Lawrence : Knowledge would only bring more fear in a world already filled with it.

  Enid Elliot : Can such a thing be kept a secret?

  John Lawrence : No. No, but it can be reduced to gossip.