Gorgo (1961)

Joseph O'Conor: Prof. Hendricks

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Quotes 

• Professor Flaherty : Captain Ryan. The creature that you have captured is not an adult specimen.

  Sam Slade : You mean it isn't fully grown?

  Professor Flaherty : No. In fact, we believe it is in rather early infancy.

  Sam Slade : You're trying to say there may be a fully grown one of these things around somewhere?

  Professor Hendricks : It's a fair assumption. Where there are offspring, there are generally parents.

  Joe Ryan : How big would a full-grown one be?

  Professor Flaherty : An approximate guess?

  [He shows them two scale drawings of the creatures] 

  Professor Flaherty : The infant. The adult.

  Joe Ryan : That would make it nearly two hundred feet tall!

  Professor Flaherty : At the very least.

  Professor Hendricks : Obviously, the proper authorities must be notified at once.

  Joe Ryan : What are you trying to do? Stir up a whole hornet's nest because of a few calculations made on a piece of paper? Nuts to that!

  Professor Flaherty : I'm afraid, Captain Ryan, the decision is no longer in your hands.

  [Cut to Gorgo testing the limits of his enclosure and roaring when he finds an electrified fence. Cut to Gorgo's mother stomping from the sea onto Nara Island] 

• Professor Hendricks : It's undoubtedly heading for Battersea Park, sir. That's the place to stop it.

  Army Officer : How much voltage do you estimate would be required for electrocuting this animal?

  Professor Flaherty : Two million, three million volts? That's only a guess. There's not much precedent to go on, sir.

  Army Officer : Quite. Get me Battersea Power Station!

• Professor Hendricks : The tranquiliser seems to be working.

  Professor Flaherty : So far...