Journey to the Center of the Earth Page #2
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- Year:
- 1959
- 132 min
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Melting lava takes
maybe two hours,
maybe four hours.
Two hours?
Four hours?
Maybe
the whole night.
Who cares?
Jenny.
Are you all right?
That was entirely
my fault.
I don't know how it
could have happened.
Mr. Paisley, by your slip
you've rendered
an inestimable service
to science.
Alec!
See this?
What would
you call it?
As you said,
it's a manmade object.
It looks like a top,
a surveyor's instrument,
a plumb bob.
It is
a plumb bob.
There are letters
on it.
It's an inscription,
a message, perhaps.
Can you make out
what it says, Professor?
It's in some
Nordic tongue.
The hand that
wrote this trembled.
Perhaps it was
a dying hand.
Was it written
in paint? Ink?
Perhaps blood.
Possibly.
Look at this side, sir!
A signature!
Arne Saknussemm.
Arne Saknussemm!
Will you take me
home now, Uncle Oliver,
or do I have to
go alone?
Alone.
Alone!
It's unthinkable,
but it must be true.
A man took tools
has ever set foot...
alone into the interior
of the earth. Alone.
Who? What is he
talking about?
Arne Saknussemm,
the Icelandic scientist.
The greatest
of his day.
He was laughed at
when he claimed
there was a world
down below.
The laughter stopped
when he disappeared,
never to be
heard from...
until tonight.
Get out of here,
woman!
I don't want any tea!
I only want my post.
Don't shout at me!
I can shout
just as loud as you!
For two weeks,
you haven't eaten or slept.
Out, woman!
Here's your post,
Uncle Oliver.
Another day,
and still nothing!
Can you believe that?
No answer.
And where is Alec McEwen?
At the university.
How long does it take
to get a letter from
Stockholm to England?
Answer the bell.
We have to speak
to Sir Oliver.
Don't tell us
he's busy.
Callers? That's
all I need.
Oliver, we all know your
reputation for rudeness.
You're also
a conscientious man.
But you've skipped
every lecture for two weeks.
I'm involved in
something important.
More important
than our university?
Something any university
would envy us.
Ah, yes!
Ha ha!
You laugh!
What does the name
Arne Saknussemm mean to you?
Saknussemm, Saknussemm.
Didn't he write about
the lost city of Atlantis?
That was
his early career.
He's famous for
his study of volcanoes.
Out of a volcano
came this message from him.
It lay unnoticed
for 100 years
until picked up
by some peasant,
gathered dust in a curiosity shop
until it came to me.
Here is a translation
of the words.
"I'm dying, but my life's work
must not be lost.
"Whoever descends into the crater
of Sneffels Yocul
"can reach the center
of the earth.
I did it.
Arne Saknussemm."
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