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At night, temperatures drop far below zero, even at its equator.

7 seconds sound clip from the The War of the Worlds (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:07 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction.

- And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on Earth, comes... The War of the Worlds.

- No one would have believed in the middle of the 20th century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's.

- Yet across the gulf of space, on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us.

- Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries it has been in the last stages of exhaustion.

- At night, temperatures drop far below zero, even at its equator.

- The inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences of which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate.

- They could not go to Pluto, outermost of all planets, and so cold that its atmosphere lies frozen on its surface.

- They couldn't go to Neptune or Uranus, twin worlds in eternal night and perpetual cold, both surrounded by an unbreathable atmosphere of methane gas and ammonia vapor.

- The Martians considered Saturn, an attractive world, with its many moons and beautiful rings of cosmic dust.

- But its temperature is close to 270 degrees below zero, and ice lies 15000 miles deep on its surface.

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Actors: Gene Barry (Dr. Clayton Forrester), Ann Robinson (Sylvia van Buren), Les Tremayne (General Mann)

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