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.

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:33 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- 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.

- Their nearest world was giant Jupiter, where there are titanic cliffs of lava and ice with hydrogen flaming at the tops, where the atmospheric pressure is terrible, thousands of pounds to the square-inch.

- They couldn't go there. Nor could they go to Mercury, nearest planet to the sun. It has no air, and the temperature at its equator is that of molten lead.

- Of all the worlds that the intelligences on Mars could see and study, only our own warm Earth was green with vegetation, bright with water and possessed a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility.

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

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