From Hell It Came (1957)

Tod Andrews: Dr. William Arnold

Quotes 

• Dr. Arnold : Terry, will you stop being a doctor first and a woman second? Let your emotions rule you, not your intellect.

• [after drinking] 

  Dr. Arnold : You better lay off that stuff, Professor. You'll wake up in the morning with a hangover, but the drums will still be here.

  Prof. Clark : The drums don't bother me, Doc. As a matter of fact, they have a nice anthropological beat.

  Dr. Arnold : Well, maybe we ought to record it, get it on the hit parade!

• [Talking about a witch doctor] 

  Prof. Clark : He's afraid of losing his patients to modern medicine. He wants to keep them steeped in their centuries-old superstitions. They worship him like some kind of high priest!

  Dr. Arnold : Back in the States they don't regard doctors that way. Sometimes they don't even pay their bills!

• Dr. Arnold : If you didn't want me to kiss you, why did you kiss me back?

  Dr. Terry Mason : I don't know. Maybe it's my metabolism

• Prof. Clark : I know what's on your mind, it's written all over you. You'd like to go back home, wouldn't you?

  Dr. Arnold : Is it that evident? Sure, I'd go back tomorrow, only...

  Prof. Clark : Only you'd like to take a bride with you and the girl says "no". Terry Mason's doing a great job on Baku island and I don't think the Foundation would want to lose her.

  Dr. Arnold : Why did I have to fall in love with a dedicated female scientist? She considers marriage some kind of prison.

  Prof. Clark : What do you expect from a pretty girl two years out of med college? She wants excitement, adventure. She thinks of routine as a middle age thing.

  Dr. Arnold : There are sometimes I could kick her beautiful teeth in. Here I offer her the earth, the moon, the stars...

  Prof. Clark : ...and she prefers test tubes and a tiny Pacific atoll. Forget her! Find somebody else.

  Dr. Arnold : I've tried! Dozens of times.

• Dr. Arnold : How come the travel posters never mention the drums? Islands of romance. Islands of beauty. How come they never talk about the malaria and the jungle rot, the fever and the heat, the stupid blind ignorance, and those drums?

  Prof. Clark : Yes, that propaganda they feed the innocent tourist is enough to drive a man to drink.

• Dr. Arnold : I know what. Why don't we psychoanalyze the monster? Maybe it's mother was scared by an oak tree.

• [first lines] 

  Eddie : Professor, this is the reply from your message to Washington.

  Prof. Clark : [paraphrasing the written message]  Request we remove growth. Make thorough laboratory analysis. Have Arnold and Mason determine influence of radiation if any. Radio detailed report. Mail photos as soon as possible. Faulkner.

  Dr. Terry Mason : Well, that's that.

  Prof. Clark : Better get busy. Thank you, Eddie.

  Dr. Terry Mason : Well, the first thing to do is go out and dig up the monster and bring it back to the lab.

  Prof. Clark : That won't be easy. The roots probably go quite deep.

  Dr. Terry Mason : Yeah, we'll probably have to sever each root at soil level and heal it up with stitches.

  Prof. Clark : I imagine the natives are in an uproar. Like Norgu, they probably feel the monster's another Tabanga.

  Dr. Arnold : If moving that monster violates another tribal law, we'll be in for it. You know we're greatly outnumbered here. They could easily overpower us. And don't forget what Norgu said about it being taboo for strangers to go near the... Tabanga.

  Dr. Terry Mason : Well, I say let's get started.

  Dr. Arnold : And I say let's throw it in the quicksand and forget about it. Well, they blame us for everything as it is. This could be the final straw.

  Prof. Clark : Where's your scientific curiosity, doctor? Anyway, Washington wants us to investigate. So, let's take a risk and see what happens.

  Dr. Terry Mason : Professor. Bill is worried about me. Now look, Bill. I can handle a gun if the occasion arises. Remember, we're both working for the foundation.

  Dr. Arnold : Well, I see I'm outvoted. Alright, if you people feel like chopping wood, I don't mind a little exercise. Let's get chopping.

• Dr. Arnold : Maybe we ought to ship it back to the States. It would make a great scarecrow.

• Dr. Terry Mason : Couldn't we try to energize the adrenal with an electrode resistor?

  Dr. Arnold : How much energy would you need?

  Dr. Terry Mason : I've read of experiments where they used 750 amps and a thousand volts.

  Dr. Arnold : Our generators can't give us that much power.