The Monolith Monsters (1957)

Grant Williams: Dave Miller

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• Dave Miller : Professor, can you figure how long it'll take the water to reach the wash after it's released?

  Prof. Arthur Flanders : I'll have to know how far away it is.

  Martin Cochrane : Two and seven tenths miles from dam to city limits. If it's dull or statistical, I've written about it.

• Dave Miller : I made a breakdown of the rock we found here in the lab. With the exception of a trace of iron-phosphate - not enough to mention - they're all silicates. Chert, feldspar, pyroxene, almost all the olivine group, flint - almost solid silica, little bits of it slapped together in such a way that it shouldn't even exist.

• Prof. Arthur Flanders : No telling what went on inside of it. It's been gathering the secrets of time and space for billions of years.

  Dave Miller : Billions of years. And how long have we got to unlock its most important secrets - three hours or three minutes?

• [Prof. Flanders puts on his coat] 

  Dave Miller : When can you leave?

  Prof. Arthur Flanders : [putting on his hat and smiling]  I'm all packed.

• Chief Dan Corey : Evacuate? The entire town?

  Dave Miller : Chief, those rocks are gonna come crashing through here like an avalanche over an anthill. There won't be a living thing left. You won't even be able to tell where San Angelo was.

  Prof. Arthur Flanders : When they're no longer confined within the walls of the canyon, when they break out onto the open valley floor, their rate of multiplication is going to be frightening.

  Chief Dan Corey : You mean they'll grow even faster?

  Dave Miller : Each one that shatters will make a hundred more.

  Prof. Arthur Flanders : When that hundred shatters, there'll be ten thousand of them. The third cycle will create a million. Unless we can stop them, they'll spread over the whole countryside.

  Dave Miller : With enough rain, there's no boundary they can't cross.