Fascinating. Horrible, but fascinating.

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4 seconds sound clip from the 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:30:26.601 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Man's first interplanetary voyage. On the return trip, the spaceship was crippled by a meteor. Except for colonel Calder here, the entire crew perished.

- I am grieved.

- The problem that confronts us is this, signor. The atmosphere on Venus is such that a human being cannot breathe and survive for long, even after using what we considered foolproof respiratory equipment.

- Several members of the expedition died there before the others realized the danger.

- And Doctor Sharman, the chief scientist, also became fatally ill.

- He died here after the ship crashed.

- Fascinating. Horrible, but fascinating.

- Now, on that ship was a particular sealed metal container.

- In it is an unborn specimen of the animal life on the planet. We've got to find it.

- Our task is to discover in what physiological way life is able to survive and to flourish there.

- Not until that secret is learned can another expedition expect to return.

- And return we must. For on Venus important minerals were discovered that would be a vast benefit to our own civilization.

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