When Worlds Collide (1951)

Larry Keating: Dr. Cole Hendron

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• Sydney Stanton : Without me you would have been wiped out with the rest of them.

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : Before you opened your pocketbook, you tried to make this a personal enterprise, a private rocket ship for your own personal use. This project was started by real humanitarians, by Marsden and Spiro. They gave me their money with no strings attached. You're not here under any special license. You're always shouting for facts, not theories. Well, remember these facts: our chance of reaching the new world is as thin as your chance of ever becoming a humanitarian.

• Sydney Stanton : Get me on board.

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : [the boarding ramp fence comes under attack]  You were right, Mr. Stanton. You're a better judge of people than I am.

  Sydney Stanton : Get me on board!

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : [Wheels Stanton away from the ramp] 

  Sydney Stanton : No! Hendron... what are you doing? Stop him! Hendron, what are you doing? No! Wait! Help!

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : [Uncovers and pulls a secret lever that closes the ark's hatch] 

  Eddie Garson : Dr. Hendron! Get on board... hurry! Get on board! Hold the gangplank! Dr. Hendron! Hold the ramp! Wait!

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : We're the extra fuel they might need, Stanton. The new world isn't for us. It's for the young.

• Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : [Presumably he wrote this line on a banner hanging over the Space Ark camp]  Waste anything except TIME. Time is our shortest material.

• Sydney Stanton : What provisions have you made to protect us when the panic starts?

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : I haven't thought about it.

  Sydney Stanton : I have. I don't deal in theories. I deal in realities. Ferris... Ferris!

  Harold Ferris : Yes, sir.

  Sydney Stanton : Bring in those boxes. I've brought enough rifles to stop a small army.

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : There won't be any panic in this camp.

  Sydney Stanton : Oh, stop theorizing! Once the havoc is over, every mother's son remaining alive will try to get here and climb aboard our ship!

  Dr. Cole Hendron, Astronomer at Cosmos Observatory : People are more civilized than that. They know only a handful can make the flight.

  Sydney Stanton : You've spent too much time in the stars. You don't know anything about living. The law of the jungle... the human jungle. I do... I've spent my life at it! You don't know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do because I know I'd cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you. We're the lucky ones... the handful with the chance to reach another world. And we'll use those guns... YOU'LL use them, Doctor, to keep your only chance to stay alive!