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Sharpey's dead.
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He killed himself.
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The human mind is the most powerful implement in our world.
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The human mind, twisted, can be the most terrifying instrument imaginable.
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These two are blessed with a potency of passion, few ever experience.
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These three are scientists dedicated to discovery at any cost.
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I thought there was a wife.
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Quite frankly, she's almost a tart.
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The Mind Benders puncture the protective facade of the subconscious,
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taking you deeper into the intimacy of terror than anything you've ever before experienced.
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In Amsterdam, the uh... prostitutes sit in kind of...
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…in..
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...shop windows.
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Longman bought
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one one night...
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...the window...
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…for his wife…
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...to put me in it.
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Imagine a sky full of birds about to attack you.
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Or a man's mind...
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...bent into horrifying distortions.
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You did something to him.
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It wasn't just the tank.
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It didn't work.
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You twisted him somewhere.
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We're not talking about actors.
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We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back.
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She'll live and I'll get her another body.
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I know they’re gonna catch me, but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, Doctor! Help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's a primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that's for sure!
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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And we want to get loaded.
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You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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Welcome to the American International Podcast with Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And Jeff Markin.
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We're so glad to have you here.
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In this episode, we explore the darkest recesses of the human psyche
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and find out how easy it is to bend a person's will and change their entire personality,
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not necessarily for the better, in The Mind Benders from 1963.
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The Mind Benders was directed by Basil Deardin, written by James Kennaway.
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Based on the novel, The Mind Benders by James Kennaway .
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It was produced by Michael Relph for Novus Films Limited and released in Britain by Anglo-Magamated
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and in America by American International Pictures.
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The Mind Benders stars Dirk Bogarde as Dr. Harry Longman, Mary Ure as Oonahg Longman .
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John Clements as Major Hall, Michael Bryant as Dr. Tate, Wendy Craig as Annabella,
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Harold Goldblatt as Professor Sharpie, Geoffrey Keen as Calder, TTerry Palmer as Norman.
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Also appearing but uncredited, are Grace Arnold as Train Passenger .
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Timothy Baton as Paul Longman, Georgina Moon as Persephone Longman ,
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Teresa Van Hoorn as Penny Longman, Christopher Ellis as Piers Longman, Elizabeth Counsell as Girl Student in Station,
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Roger Delgado as Dr. Jean Bonvoulois, Terence Edmond as the first student at party, Edward Fox as Stewart and David Weston as another student at the party.
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The Mind Benders opens with a Warner Pathé logo with a rooster in the center.
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Yeah, the AIP version of this film is not available and doesn't appear to have been for many many years.
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It's never had a home video release of any kind so we had to go with the British version.
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And that was from Anglo-Magamated and we see their logo too and we start hearing some ominous music.
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And then a white dot bounces punk style across the screen as the credits roll.
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An on-screen legend tells us that the story was suggested by actual experiments in the reduction of sensation that of various universities.
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No, he finds ourselves at the Royal Institute of London and a bearded man is rubbing his head while staring at a pile of money in front of him.
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He places the money in his briefcase, grabs his coat and heads out.
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Another man is watching him and follows him as he goes.
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He goes down the stairs and out the front of the building where Adornman Hales in my cab. He's going to Paddington Station.
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The person following him takes the cab as well.
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Now we're at the train station and the bearded man is going to catch his train.
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As his boarding is associated Dr. Kenny Tay season and calls out Professor Sharpie and he tells Professor Sharpie that he's managed to get them a couple of seats.
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Sharpie looks less than thrilled about this but he lets the tape lead him away.
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Tate As of Sharpie is okay and Dr. Sharpie claims to be fine.
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It's just that London is very tiring.
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They're headed back to Oxford on this train.
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Now we see that the man who was trailing Professor Sharpie has followed him all the way to the station and he boards the train in an joining car.
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The train rolls on into the night.
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Sharpie and Tate are sharing a compartment with four other people.
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And the professor seems to have a lot on his mind.
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He has a despondent expression on his face.
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The man standing across from Sharpie tells what he thinks is an amusing anecdote about Einstein writing this very train and asking,
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"Does Oxford stop at this train?"
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Everyone tolerates this story except for Sharpie.
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He opens the door and jumps out of the train.
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I can't blame him.
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He does go on and on about this Einstein incident.
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And he thinks it's a lot more interesting than we do.
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After Sharpie hurls himself off the train, Tate jumps up and pulls the emergency chain, saying that something has gone wrong.
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And shortly after that, the train stops.
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Tate and the other men from the car all jump out of the train, as does the conductor and the man who had been trailing Sharpie as well,
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and they all run to where Sharpie has fallen.
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The conductor rolls over the body and finances him dead.
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Looking at Tate, he says, "Did you know him?"
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Tate says, "That's Professor Sharpie."
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The boring anecdote guy tells anyone who will listen.
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It really was the most extraordinary thing.
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He just opened the door and jumped.
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Tate grabs Sharpie's briefcase as the man who had been trailing Sharpie looks on.
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Inside, Tate finds that money that Sharpie had stuffed in
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Someone has the man trailing Sharpie if he's a police officer.
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And he says, "Sort of.
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This man, who will find out later, is Major Hall.
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Also, Dr. All, tell us Tate, and you better give that bag to the guard."
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Now what Oxford University, as chimed ring, Major Hall steps on a hotel.
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He dons his hat and walks down the street.
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He walks to the university, where many students are writing up on their bicycles.
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He enters a building where a student is waiting to take Hall to see the director.
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This is Norman, and we'll see a lot more of him.
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In his office, director Calder tells Paul that their work on the labs is classified.
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So we can't stop him from coming here, but it can't help the atmosphere of the place to have a security man
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asking questions of everyone.
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Hall tells Calder that he has evidence that Sharpie has committed treason.
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Calder isn't surprised by this, which does come as a surprise to Hall.
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Calder explains that despite his left-leaning beliefs, Sharpie was as politically naive as a child of seven.
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Calder tells Hall that Sharpie had been working in America, and the Americans knew that his naive Tate was dangerous,
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and that's why they kicked him out of their space physiology program.
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Hall says that nothing was proven there.
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Calder says as soon as Sharpie started working here, he started getting visits from strange men with central European names and snow on their boots.
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So Hall would like to speak with some of Professor Sharpie's colleagues.
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Calder says that Hall is missing the point.
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There's no reason to talk to anyone here about that.
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I'll ask about Dr. Longman, who worked with Sharpie in the United States.
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Were the two of them working on space physiology here?
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Calder confirms that Longman had continued working with Sharpie, but he's been out for the past six weeks.
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But before that, they were working on an aspect of space physiology that they called isolation.
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Hall thinks that's a good starting point.
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He asks to speak to someone who knows anything about that.
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Is Dr. Longman available?
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He's not, so instead Calder takes Hall to meet Dr. Tate, who is standing in for Dr. Longman.
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When they go to the classroom, they see Dr. Tate being grilled by some of the students about Professor Sharpie's demise.
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One suggest Tate might have had the opportunity to stop Sharpie from jumping off the train.
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Calder says he will not tolerate that sort of talk.
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As a student's leave, Tate tells Calder they're just naturally curious, like they've trained them to be.
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Calder goes to introduce Major Hall, but Hall says they've already met.
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Tate tells Hall that he's standing in for Longman, who's been ill.
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Calder says he can keep standing in for the next class too.
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We see Norman again, he's coming in to set up a film.
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Hall says that he is or was a scientist.
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And he wants to learn more about isolation.
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Tate says that he isn't as well versed in the subject as Professor Sharpie was.
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So Calder suggests they run Sharpie's film explaining it all.
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Norman is already threatening the projector.
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Calder has things to do, so he's not staying for the film.
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He's probably seen it before anyway.
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Tate goes to shut the blinds to dark in the room.
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Hall asked Tate about Longman's studies in America with Sharpie, but Tate shuts that down too.
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And then Norman rolls the film, which starts in the Arctic Circle, where a Dr. Jean Bonne-Voilat has spent four months alone in a cabin in the darkest part of the year.
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As the film continues, Professor Sharpie and Dr. Tate interview him.
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He determined that Dr. Bonne-Voilat knows who he is and that things were bad, and an angel came to him.
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Then he falls asleep.
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They want to know how long he thinks she was alone out there, but he won't answer that.
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And then in the film, Dr. Sharpie tells us that for the next few months, they tried to replicate the experience focusing on the low temperature aspect of Dr. Bonne-Voilat's experience.
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So he intake, put volunteers into cold, dark storage containers, essentially.
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Lab subjects would become disoriented after the tests.
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But Longman hypothesizes it wasn't the temperature that had
adversely affected Dr. Bonne-Voilat.
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It was the isolation.
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So they changed the name of the laboratory to isolation.
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They want to study what happens to a man who is deprived of all sensation and experience you might find in spaceflight.
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So they say, and to do so, they designed a tank to provide the environment.
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A person would be harnessed and submerged in body temperature water.
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This experience could leave men bewildered and lonely, setting that behavior led them to a new and frightening world.
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Professor Sharpie suggests that the work they are doing is dealing with the physics of the soul, and with that, real one comes to an end.
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Paul asked that there's a real two, but Tate tells them the experiments they were doing over the summer hadn't brought them to a conclusion worthy of a real two just yet.
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Paul asked Tate if he continued to work on the isolation project.
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Tate says he worked for a while, but then it was just Longman and Sharpie.
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And after six weeks ago, it was only Sharpie.
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Paul says he'd like to speak with Dr. Longman and ask that Tate had Longman call him.
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Egos and Norman gives Tate a tape to take to Mrs. Longman since he's headed out there anyway.
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It's a bootleg recording of Sir Malcolm Sargent in Helsinki recorded off BBC radio.
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Norman says that Mrs. Longman has been shouting for it for weeks. Tate tries to give the Tate back to Norman, but Norman smiles smuggling.
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He knows Tate wants to see Una Longman.
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So Tate bicycles over to the Longmans where their four children have built the Kahn Tiki in their front yard.
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They're going to sail around the world.
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He has to the house where yet another kid is circling on a tricycle in the front.
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Tate rings the bell and enters the house. He calls out Una, factor Longman's wife and mother of his mini children, greets him from the top of the stairs and invites Tate to come out.
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He's wearing a bathrobe. They sit down in what I think is the sitting room. She says she'd offer him a cigarette, but they smoked them all last night.
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Tate hands her one in an express of surprise that she smokes now.
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Then he tells her that Calder has been trying to reach Longman.
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She explains that Longman had left the phone off the hooks since last week.
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They're deeply uncommitted to the world right now.
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Then she describes the old car Longman had recently bought and how he would take the children for a ride and get strangers on the street.
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But at night it was just the two of them. Tate wonders what's up with her and she tells him that she's in love.
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Tate rolls his eyes a little bit and Una says that like pain, love is incommunicable.
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Tate says that that's nothing new. She asks how old he is. He says he's older than she is. And Una says that Tate is just like Sharpie, forever suspended between a man and a boy.
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Tate starts to tell Una about Professor Sharpie, but Una abruptly leaves the room to go make some coffee.
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She returns after a moment and tells Tate that Longman is out on the balcony and he should go and see him.
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Tate marvels that Una calls her husband Longman and says that she used to call him something much ruder when he was a lodger there. She says that the problem is that she's lost her sense of humor and she goes back to make that coffee.
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Tate goes out on the balcony with Longman and Longman asked Tate what's bottom here. Tate explains he brought over a tape for Una.
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Any asked Longman if he's seen the paper, but Longman hasn't. He's been doing his best to cut himself off from the outside world.
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He didn't get a new car though. Tate tells Longman that there's a man at the university interested in isolation and Professor Sharpie.
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Longman wants to know why Tate hands him the newspaper and tells him to read it over while he goes to help with the coffee. Longman puts on his glasses and opens up the newspaper.
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Later we see Tate downstairs carrying a tray full of coffee mugs, etc. standing next to Una and then Longman comes downstairs looking quite grim.
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He really has told you something says Una Sharpie's dead says Longman. He killed himself says Una who is a very perceptive woman.
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Longman suggests to bring the tray upstairs then they could play the tape that he's brought over.
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Back in that sitting room, Longman is in an armchair with Una kneeling next to him hugging your husband's legs. Tate sits by himself on the sofa.
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They're listening to the symphony play on the tape. Una mentions that by doing this they're avoiding talking about how what happened to Sharpie had something to do with the experiment.
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But nobody takes her up on that conversation opening.
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The song on the tape ends and it's replaced by the sound of someone screaming and agony. Longman rushes to turn the tape off.
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It was you, wasn't it accuses Una? Longman says it wasn't him and take neither confirmed nor deny this. But Una is sure it was Longman's voice on the tape. Longman holds her.
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It wasn't my voice you heard. He says it was Sharpies.
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Una says she was sure that it would end. Not sure she's referring to you, but Longman knows and says no. It didn't.
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I know Una is ready to go out and she runs out of the room. I would put some clothes on. But Longman remains behind to talk to Tate.
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Tate asks about the screams on the tape. Longman says that they must have been recorded about five hours into the experiment.
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And that he wasn't there when it happened. Longman says now do you see why I couldn't go on? Why I had to get away to Una? Tate asks. Longman says love is important.
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More than just the physicality of it. It's important for survival. Tate asks if that attitude is fair to Una.
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Air asks Longman. Longman says that after 12 years together things between them are better than ever.
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He says love is always better when you're afraid.
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Then he changes the subject and asks Tate about the investigation into Sharpie. And Tate says that a brief case full of money was all it took to have him accused of treason. Longman thinks this is ridiculous.
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Sharpie was more of a patriot than he was a pacifist. Surely Tate doesn't believe Sharpie could have committed treason.
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Tate is non-committal and Longman tries to convince him. Tate says that he should take his theories to major hall and then grabs the tape saying that it needs wiping.
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And then we hear Una hunking the horn in the car from outside. Longman and Una are driving out to the country.
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It's not that far. I guess it's a mile from the house and they park by a lake. This is kind of their make-out spot.
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But they're only cuddling right now. Una asks Longman if he's going back to the university. I guess I must, he says.
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He wants to find out what happened with Sharpie. Una isn't sure this is a good idea. She asked if he thinks that the experiment had anything to do with Sharpie's death.
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That's what I'm going to find out so long. And then he kisses her to stop her going on about Sharpie's horrible screams that they heard on that tape.
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And now we're in the lab where major hall is poking around the tank when Tate returns from the Longman's house.
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I'll ass Tate if the tank is an extension of the cabin and the freezer compartment experiments and take calls that a refinement. And then he explains how it all works.
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He says he may not be up to date, but he does tell hall what he knows. The tank is filled with water and the subject wears a rubber suit and mask.
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This allows the subject to breathe while a visor shuts down all light. The room is soundproof and everything is recorded on Tate.
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And they use ropes to keep the subject centered in the tank so they won't inadvertently touch the bottom where the size of the tank and spoil the effect.
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Major hall thinks this doesn't seem too difficult, like taking a warm bath in a dark room. Well, too many have tried to, says Tate, one died and the other one ran away.
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And now we see that Longman is in bed with Una. He looks very distressed. When Una reaches her arm out to him, he throws himself on her body. She holds him tightly.
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And then the camera pans away so they can make love. Afterwards we see Una is crying. Longman asks why and she says, you know why love can be violent too. He says that had more to do with fear. She says the next morning, Una is sending the kids off to school, making sure Paul drinks his milk before he goes.
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Well, pure spins around the room on his tricycle. He's not going to school. He's too young. His daughter Penny asked her dad if girls need logarithms and Longman says that they're essential for girls.
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The doorbell rings and Longman answers it. It's Major hall. Major hall asked if Longman could spare five minutes to speak with him. As you know, says Longman, I've already spared five weeks. You'd better come in. He takes hall into the other room, bringing peers in with them as a witness.
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Or he even shield. Hall asked Longman if he considered Sharpie a friend and Longman says he did. Then he asked Longman if he worked with Sharpie on the isolation experiments. Longman says he did for a limited period. What limited it asked Hall, Longman admits to panicking and running away.
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Also says that Sharpie had some dealings with undesirable people and he has proof that Sharpie was a traitor. Longman asked Hall, so Sharpie's in the rug's gallery as a traitor. Do this in your patriot. Do that in your traitor. Obviously says the Major. He asks if Major's fighting their duties to stick their noses into things of which they have no understanding. A Major's duties are well defined says Hall, when bewildered, a Major reports to his colonel.
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It seems to loosen up Longman
enough that he starts to describe the tank, but one of his daughters, Penny, appears in the window. She asks for her little brother. So Longman has to stop his conversation to pass peers through the window to his sister. But he tells the Major that some pretty frightening things happen during these experiments. You could dissolve a man mentally, reduce him to a soulless, mindless, willless thing, more sea and eminion man.
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Longman tells Major Hall he should look into what happens to a man in the tank and to take that under consideration before filing Sharpie under T for a traitor.
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Also says that he's seen the tank and that he believes that Longman is only guessing at the results of these experiments.
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Longman asked for the opportunity to prove that the tank can change a man. Maybe in such a way that he might not be as possible for his own actions.
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All reminds Longman that he has a file on Sharpie and it's full of evidence. Be that as it may, the file should have been closed a month ago when a man decided to put himself in the tank for way too long.
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Says Longman. Hall says that's a good story, but he can't prove it. I might says Longman. How asked the Major by putting someone in the tank? This time, I'm not running away.
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And now Major Hall is in the lab looking at all the recording equipment. He asked Longman about it who tells him that they record everything possible, including the subjects of vitals to make sure that the subject doesn't die during the course of the experiment.
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Longman comes in with Tate and Longman starts sniping at the Major by telling him their objective and methods. Take one Longman and dissolve them. If he behaves in a new and dutty way, hand them over to the Major.
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Then Longman tells Tate that he isn't to be left alone during the experiment or afterwards until he is himself again, and then he is to be returned to his wife and family. Longman leaves the room. Where's he gone? Ask Major Hall to be sick. I expect to take it isn't pleasant in the tank Major.
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But when we see him next, he's shooting up to go in the tank. So what suit looks like a scuba diver. Tate and Norman help him with the gear and to climb down into the tank. Longman stares at Hall and then closes his visor and sinks down into the water where we see him suspended surrounded by light.
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Tate switches off the lights and he joins Hall and Norman on the observation deck. Almost immediately Longman starts seeing to himself, oh my darlin clementine and then he begins monologuing.
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He's narrating his own life to himself and we can hear him growing more and more anxious. And then Major Hall starts talking
to us via a voiceover and he's made a record of this whole experiment for the Colonel. And that it tallied with a similar American experiment on the reduction of sensation.
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That report Longman had referred to as the report for Colonel Bogey. All the voiceover continues and says that Longman seemed to go through four distinct stages during the experiment.
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The first was irritation after the first hour of relative quiet even boredom. He became childlessly irritable, abusive and even comic.
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The next stage was melancholy. His skin grew extra sensitive and he began calling for his wife. Let me see her naked body superimposed over his and he pretends to touch her.
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But then Hall tells us that after that all sensation vanished and he started losing confidence as a man.
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We hear Longman begging to be taken out of the tank saying it's not fair and to please let him out. And the third stage was panic. The voice of the trapped monkey, the wasp beating against the glass.
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The man on the rack, Longman is screaming as if he's being tortured indeed but the experiment goes on.
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All says that after five hours without sensation, Longman was in a state of complete nervous collapse.
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I guess that's the fourth one in the control room. Tate is pacing and even Hall looks a little concerned as Longman gibbers in the tank.
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Hall tells us that now Longman is being comforted by the hallucinations.
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After seven hours in the tank, Longman vanished into a world of his own. He's hallucinating and talking to Dr. Jean-Voilan-Volva saying he's a great admirer of his work.
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It's very very lonely here in the tank.
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At this point, a light bulb goes off over Hall's head. He recognizes this stage. He would usually only reach it after months of solitary confinement in the non-tank world.
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But they have managed this in under eight hours. Now wonder the Russians were interested in Sharpie.
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They may not realize what they assemble onto here. But Major Hall does. They've created the perfect circumstances for brainwashing and indoctrination.
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Hall is reasonably sure that this is what happened to Sharpie. He was manipulated while in this suggestive state. But they'll still have to prove it.
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He's positive that they could convince Longman of anything right now. They could change his most fundamental beliefs. But what beliefs are there to change?
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Hall asks if Longman is a Catholic and Tate says that he has no religion.
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He's a scientist offers Norman. Tate tells Norman they don't need to know what he is, but rather what it is he believes.
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Willie loves his wife. Norman suggests. Tate and Hall shook Norman a dirty look. Well, it's kind of a belief, isn't it?
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Tate and Hall look at each other. After several seconds, Tate says no. But Hall says it's perfect and they both know it.
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Tate refuses, but Hall says that Longman went in the tank to clear Sharpie. So they must do this final aspect of the experiment.
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Tate doesn't like this. But Hall says that if they can convince Longman that he doesn't love his wife, that could prove that Sharpie was a traitor.
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Somehow. I guess Tate asks how they can get Longman back to himself if they're successful.
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Hall says that the way to unwashed brain is to show him how he was manipulated in the first place.
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Everything they say to him will be recorded. So they just play back the tape and Longman will be as good as new.
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Tate hates this idea. And Hall says he does too, but they absolutely must do it. So now the experiment is over.
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And Norman starts to get Longman out of the tank. Tate still doesn't want to lie to Longman about Una.
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But Hall says that Tate is the only one who can convince Longman of this. But he will provide the cue that he needs.
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And if it doesn't work, no harm, no foul. If it does, Longman will have been proven right.
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And you won't have gone through all that for nothing. Hall sets up an indoctrination station, a chair or a table, a lamp as Tate helps Norman with Longman.
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They don't even get him out of the suit. They just sit him right down.
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Tate says Norman for coffee. Norman turns and Hall tells Norman to go and lock the door behind him.
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Then Tate asks Longman if he remembers him. Longman says he does. That's good, says Tate. And be insulted if he'd forgotten my name.
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"Is his name?" asks Hall. Longman is quiet. Tate says it's okay. He knows my name. He doesn't, says Hall. "I do," says Longman.
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Hall says it's obviously no use cross-examining him now. They pulled him out of the tank too early. They should put him back in.
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Longman begs Tate not to put him back into the tank. Tate tells Hall they shouldn't. He's got four children to take care of.
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Hall asks Tate. "Does Longman have a wife?" and Tate sees us on this cue to assassinate Una's character. Tate says that she's immature. She's jealous of her own children.
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Yes, Longman to confirm this. And Longman says yes. Unenthusiastically.
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He also says that from the information he was given, it would appear that the opposite was true. This is Longman is spoken of as a most sympathetic woman.
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Tate denies this and says that Longman really has to look after her and that she's a great liability. And he has Longman to confirm this.
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And then Tate continues to slag Una. She's a tart. And Longman finds her physically repulsive. And he's standing right next to Longman, putting all this in his ear.
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He asks Longman, "Isn't it true that you never loved her at all?" Longman starts to answer and collapses to the glory and exhaustion.
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Tate yells out to Norman to call an ambulance and turns to Hall, "What the hell have you made me do?"
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And now we're outside, we see birds flocking in the sky. And Longman comes too, as he's about to be packed into an ambulance.
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A bunch of students are on the sidewalk and one recognizes him as Longman who's been in the tank.
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Longman wants to know what's going on. Tate explains that the ambulance is here for him.
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Calder's there and he tells him to lie back down. Longman says he's never felt better in his life and the female student's giggle. Longman tells Calder to tell all the vultures to go away and Calder sends them back to their colleges.
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Norman tells Longman that he's glad Longman's okay.
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Longman throws the blanket up himself and exposes himself to the crowd.
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"Good God," says Longman.
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And the female students gobble at a topless Longman, trying to stand up.
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Longman tells Longman to get the medics to haul him back inside. Now Una is pulling up to the university in that new old car of theirs.
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A student asked if she's there to see Dr. Longman. She says she is and the student tells her that he refused to get an ambulance and he sends her to the lab.
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Inside the lab, Longman is declaring his perfect health and state of mind.
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Calder tells him that he needs a long and relaxing holiday and then he tells Tate and the major that he's shocked by all of this.
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Dr. Tate says they still have a few loose ends to tie up with the experiment.
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But Calder says not tonight they don't. All whispers to Tate that they can't do anything about it now. Calder turns and says he won't have them whispering behind
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He wishes them good night. Good morning, Longman corrects him. But it's 9 p.m. Major Hall confirms this. But Longman doesn't believe him. Calder confirms it's 9 o'clock at night then he leads.
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Longman starts giggling. This is terrible. He could have sworn it was the next morning. After that whole cabaret, all he wants are eggs and bacon and coffee and he keeps laughing.
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Tate and Hall want to keep him under observation for a few days. But Longman says no way. He tells him that whoever's idea this little experiment was, it didn't work. The tank wasn't such an ogre.
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Una enters the lab and Longman greets her with her nickname otter. He went to her and kisses her neck and she tells him that she perceived the phone call and had a terrible premonition. It was bad news. Longman assures her all as well. And he asks Tate and Hall if he's clear to leave. No for the question says Tate. Enjoy your eggs and bacon. Hall adds.
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After Una and Longman leave, Hall asked Norman about Sharpie's last time in the tank. Norman says that Sharpie was in there for four hours. But he recovered quickly and then he asked to be taken to the station so that he could go to a lecture in London.
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That same day, Asshole, he seems to have taken it better than Dr. Longman did. Well says Norman. He didn't get the third degree treatment.
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Now we see Longman and Una walking back to their car, Armin Arm. He offers to drive but she says she'll do it. She felt terrible before but now she feels marvelous. She drives away and then we see Tate and Hall exiting the lab.
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Hall says that he's off to grab a large gin and Tate asks if he's planning to celebrate. Hall says that for their experiment to have failed was the greatest success they could have hoped for. Not for Sharpie says Tate. Sharpie's dead Hall reminds him. As Longman said, it's just a matter of closing the file. T for Trader. That's almost all. The major just has to figure out what information Sharpie sold. How, S Tate wouldn't be Wildard. Major report back to their kernels says Major Hall.
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And now we're with Una who drives Longman to their secluded make-out spot after they park. Longman looks visibly irritated at this. Una says that Calder was right. They need a vacation. Maybe fishing on a deserted island. And then she asks if he loves her.
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Yep, he says she tells him to kiss her. She has something to tell him. He doesn't kiss her but he does look at her midsection. Una reveals that she's pregnant.
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Longman says that's not bad. Is it when I asked if he remembers the first time they drove out here but now she's second guessing whether coming out here today was
a good idea. She feels something is off and asked him to just love her. Love you. He says patting her on the cheek. But his eyes are saying something different.
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This face is fully hidden in shadow now and he looks terrifying. But God's sake. She says where are you? Shall we go? He says starting the car for her and she drives off.
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Once I've gone by and now it's fall. Tate is riding his bicycle past the park on his way to Longman's house. We can see that the leaves are being raked and wood and such as being piled up as if for a bonfire.
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Tate asks if their father is in. He's always in, says Paul. Tate goes to the house and rings the bell and a very pregnant Una answers the door. She seems guardantly happy to see Tate. She asks if this is a summons from Calder but Tate says it's not an official visit. She points him in the direction of the den and then starts to walk upstairs.
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Aren't you coming in? He asks. She stops for a second but then keeps plotting upstairs saying nothing. Answer the gentleman says Longman who has just appeared in the doorway of his study. He says it's amazing the effects of pregnancy on a woman. She's been shuffling up and down those stairs for weeks. How do you think she looks? Very well, stammer's Tate. Una says Longman. You're being complimented. Come down. As Una descends the stairs. Longman recalls how he used to call her otter. But that was in the days of Amur Amur Amur.
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A visibly cowed Una asked Tate if he wants some coffee. Tate says no. He just came by to ask and Longman interrupts when I'll be back to start teaching again. Longman says he should. It is no I a hasn't. Life here hasn't been a bed of roses. He starts tidying up a table saying that yes to set the house in order because of someone's bohemian ways. Meaning Una.
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Tate says he invited them to a party but they never RSVP'd. No, really? Says Longman. Una says she showed him the invitation. You're so dishonest says Longman. All of them are dishonest. Aren't they Tate?
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Tate tells Una that the party's tonight and asks if she's coming. Una begs off. But Longman declares that he will be there. And he finds out that the party's on the barge at 8 o'clock. And there'll be fireworks. Tate says he has a lot of drinks to buy. So he heads for the door.
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Longman orders Una to see Tate to the door or even to the garden gate if she prefer.
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Then he calls her otter and tells her that's a term of endearmate. He's behind her. She's not looking at him. And we see that she looks stunned.
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Longman tells her that she should talk to him. Tell him all about it with Spur in his ear. Yacke dee, Yacke dee, Yacke. And Una follows Tate to the door. Tate starts
with a sympathetic Una. Bye bye, snaps Una. Slamming the door in his face.
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Looking confused and concerned. Tate returns to his bicycle. Now we're at the party. There's a couple of houseboats and fireworks are going off and people are running around the sparklers. A taxi pulls up and major hall steps out of all people.
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He pays the driver then turns to join the fray. He goes to one of the barges where outside Norman is serving everyone enhanced punch. Norman greets the major and has to be there on official business. But no, the major is here socially. Tate must have invited him.
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Apparently they grew close after spending less eight hours together listening to Laman nearly being driven insane.
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Anybody would bond over that. I'll ask where Tate is. And Norman points him at the barge next door. I'll walk in that direction. And then sees Longman with a younger woman. He's kissing her. He has another student who she is.
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Oh, that's Annabelle from the barge next door. She said to be part of a gentleman's education. Eden Oxford and Annabelle.
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Now we're with Longman and Annabelle. He's teasing her threatening to push her overboard unless she says yes to something. So she does say yes. And then they have a mock fight.
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She says she's mad at him. She's been waiting a week for him. I've never met you before. I said Longman downing his drink. That's why I mad says Annabelle. She looks into the window of the boat. They can't go in there. There's already a couple in there.
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Longman looks and it's Tate and Una. That's no company says that's my wife. Then he makes another drunken. That's my wife joke. It's even less funny.
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Major Hall is observing all this from a distance. She's practically a tart Longman continues as they move on.
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Inside the barge Tate is trying to comfort Una, telling her what Annabelle won't do. But Una says she's not worried about Annabelle.
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All barges in and take greets him and asks if he's enjoying himself. I wish I was, says Hall. He's only just arrived and he's already seen more than he bargained for. It's just a party major, says Una.
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It's just the booze, just one of those nights. But Hall isn't so sure. He asked her how long her husband has been like this.
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She says since that night six months ago, when he asked her for breakfast and you two happily disappeared.
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Hall pulls up a chair and sits directly in front of Una. I don't know how much you know of the isolation experiment. It was clear the experiment didn't work, says Tate. But Hall shushes him with a Tate, please.
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And then realization dawns on Una. She's very perceptive.
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Exactly. You did something to him. You twisted him somewhere. It didn't work, says Tate. But Hall admits that that is exactly what they did.
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And he asked Tate while he never contacted Una. She says don't blame him. She's British, stiff up or lippen all. And she kept it all to herself. And then she tells them what Longman was like after the experiment.
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Una starts to tell the sorted tale of the events of the past few months. It started off with just minor incidents.
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Longman started to tease her in a malicious way. Then came the holiday. It was intended to be a fishing trip, but that was a bust. So they started traveling instead. She says they had a ghastly scene in every capital in Europe. I'll ask for an example. I could give you 100. She says, Madrid, Paris.
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But Hall just needs one example. The worst was Amsterdam. She tells him that Longman saw the prostitute set up in shop windows. Nothing knew about that. But then Longman decided to buy one.
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Hall asked if he brought a woman in front of her. When it says no, that would be too easy. Now he brought the room and put her pregnant as she was in the window. Imagine that she says turning her face to the wall.
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Tate looks sickened by this story. Meanwhile Longman is taking Annabelle to his car. All comes out and shouts at him. But Longman either doesn't hear him or ignores him and he and Annabelle speed off.
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Some students joke about a little hut and hall deduces that they mean the lab. Hall asked Norman if Longman might be headed to the lab. He's got keys, says Norman. So Hall sends Norman off to find them a car.
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Tate comes out and asks confused when Hall tells him that they need to go get Longman. The experiment worked.
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Tate says that they can't take Una's attrippitation of events seriously. She is pregnant after all. Hall is a guest. Can't you believe what you see with your own eyes? He asks.
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Then Hall goes back into the brief Una of the situation. He says they're going after Longman. But he wants her to know the whole story before he brings Longman back to her. Una isn't sure she wants to see him. But Hall believes she wants to see him very much. Only the man she married. Not the person he's been in the past six months.
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It's true. All explains how he will play back the tape that we reversed the process of the interrogation. Una would like to come with. But Hall says she shouldn't.
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It would be wrong of her to hear the deliberate lies that they told him. She says that she has to
know what they said about her. So she follows him out. And now we're at the lab where Longman is showing off his tank to his new girlfriend. But she's a little freaked out as he regales her with the amenities.
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What are we supposed to do here? The mind boggles, she says. Iying the rubber suit hanging on a hook. Longman tells her that this is the ultimate twisting place.
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He runs up to put on a tape and the sounds of long and screaming echo throughout the lab. You're not really weird. Are you assentable?
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As we hear Longman jibbering in the background. She's hoping this is just a joke. I'll be it not a very funny one.
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She begs him to switch it off. But Longman says of course it's a joke. All that that yelling does is give you a healthy appetite for breakfast, bacon and eggs. Nothing else.
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Annabelle looks like she should report to her colonel.
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And he tells her that she'd better humor him. But fortunately for her right now, Hall, Tate and Una arrive. Hall makes sure that Annabelle is okay.
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Upon hearing the scream, Una grabs her head and Hall tells Tate to go up and turn the tape off and put the other one in.
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Hall again warns Una about what's on the tape. And tells Longman that this is the part of the experiment that he knows nothing about as we listen to the aftermath of the tank experiment.
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Longman listens but seems unfazed. Una looks hurt when she hears her alleged friends saying these things about her and Tate just looks guilty.
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After the tape ends, Longman starts slow clapping. Hall asks if he even listened to it. Doesn't he recognize the technique of indoctrination?
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Longman says yes, but as he said, the major is breaking up the wrong tree. Hall asks if he even remembers why he went into the tank in the first place to prove that when he comes out, a man comes down as a different creature. A soulless willess thing susceptible to persuasion.
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Longman starts pounding his head and saying that he's sorry, but then he stands up and starts shouting, "Abracadabra! Spend galley didn't pull it off." Longman says that he sees what they were doing. Does he think that Hall has the monopoly on mind bending and whitehall? You know exactly what they were doing.
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What they didn't know is that they were converting the converted. All the stuff they told them, as his wife was immature, bad with the kids, etc.
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He was already well aware of that. All counters that the record shows that he and his wife had a good relationship prior to the experiment.
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Could find twenty witnesses to their marital bliss. Longman says they faked it. I didn't with Prasunah. Longman says he's been faking it for so long. He'd even fooled himself into thinking he wasn't lobe of this wife. Don't you see we made you into a different person as Hall? Longman says all they did was make him live a lifetime in a single afternoon so that he could come to this realization sooner.
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He goes to where Una is standing with her back to him to brag about bluffing his way through the Amur, Amur, Amur, her twelve years. Also as they made him a different person, Bunk says Longman.
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Una turns around and tells Longman that she loves him. Their love had a firm base that had lasted for fourteen years.
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At this long-winded silent, an animal takes this opportunity to try to sneak out, but Longman goes out after her. Let them go, says Una. He won't hurt her. He wasn't drives this hall chasing after Longman.
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He opens up the windows so she can look outside. Take comes over to her and says that he's at a loss for words. He's so ashamed of himself. But then he starts rubbing his face against her arm.
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She walks away from him and calls him a baby from across the room. He didn't know last summer or he'd never have agreed to the experiment.
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It was only when he saw her on the barge or maybe earlier at her house. He knew how much she missed her. He says no one could be blamed for falling in love and that he'd do anything for her.
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Una is not amused. She calls on the baby again and she steps down side. Major Hall is there and he promises that even if he has to get Longman to listen to that tape a hundred times, he will get her husband back to her.
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You can't order him to listen to it Major, she says. Hall doesn't think she should go home tonight, but Una says Longman has been near enough to murder her a hundred times.
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Why should she worry about tonight? Besides, there isn't really a risk because she'd rather be killed by him than live without him.
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She tells Hall that Longman has some instincts that are indestructible no matter what they did to him and then she leaves and then Hall goes to tape to demand some answers. Why didn't tape check on them?
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There only a half mile up the road and Tate just says that he couldn't and Hall gathers that Tate's in love with Una and probably has been for ages.
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Not that I'd done anything about it says Tate except murder her husband also that whatever they did was his responsibility not Tate's.
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Whatever Tate's motives may have been, I'll never really gave him an option so he's in the clear.
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Hall doesn't think that Tate meant to do harm out of his love for Una, but I'm not so sure. Now we see Longman dropping off Annabelle at her barge and he's begging her to let him stay with her, but I think she's had enough of him by now.
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He's just another person who has bashed and bruised her life and she's not feeling charitable enough to entertain him any longer.
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She says that she has every limb and organ that a girl should have except one. She no longer has a shoulder to weep on, a Polish gentleman wore it away with his tears.
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Annabelle gives Longman a pack on the cheek and tells him goodnight little boy as she heads inside a dog was up to her. Oh you dreadful big sad dog you remind me of a man go away.
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In the last few minutes men have been babies little boys and dogs. Longman leaves and the dog follows him he also sit under a tree.
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Longman tells the dog not to look at him so trustingly he's nothing but a series of conditioned reflexes. He says he could lock him up and train him. He'd ring a bell and the dog's mouth would water.
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Ring another one and he'd bark he's just a machine and free clothing that's all and he tells him that you also found out that men are just as susceptible to the Pavlovian response.
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Just then Una arrives and asked if she can sit down next to him. He says that's between her and the TEMS Conservancy Board so she parks herself next to him.
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She tells him that she loves him and he starts to laugh. How nose where you are she says.
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Longman gets disgusted with her and jumps up if you want to kill me you only have to push his Una. Longman starts to surm off and she asks him to wait. He asks why because of slippery she says.
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So he grabs her hand and starts pulling her away off we go back to the love nest. He says he angst her arm and she falls to the ground.
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"God it's yours too," she says of the child. He asks if the baby's coming and Una says she doesn't know. Longman looks lost.
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"You must know," he says and Una cries that she doesn't care. Longman picks her up and carries her to Annabelle's houseboat. The dog follows. Longman pounds on Annabelle's door and calls her name. Annabelle lets them in and asks what happened.
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She fell down as long as Longman. Then he corrects himself. I pushed her. I forgot about the baby. Longman plops Una on the bed and Annabelle asks if the baby is coming and Una responds by slipping her dress over her head.
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Yep. Longman asks Alnavela she has a phone and Annabelle says no and there's not one on the next barge either but
there's a phone box a half mile away. Longman asks if Annabelle can drive and Annabelle says she can't. So Longman starts to go. But Una says that he must stay or else she'll die and clamps onto him.
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Annabelle says she's willing to make the walk. Longman says there are things that have to be prepared first. Longman takes charge and starts rubbing Una's back while talking to her and she smiles for the first time in a long time.
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She regales her with a story about a handsy doctor as Annabelle gives Longman the supplies he asks for. Then he tells her to go off and call the witch doctor and she leaves with a dog tailing behind her. Longman starts purping his supplies in between contractions and then suddenly it's time and Longman gets in position between Una's legs, telling her to shove shove.
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The child is born and Longman cuts the ambillical cord. He wraps the baby in a towel, places him in a basket. Longman says that they ought to name a Pedro the Fisherman.
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Annabelle returns having missed the exciting part and Longman tells her to gather every blade blanket she can find or else they'll be accused of murder.
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Una asks if he was just acting as a doctor and he says no and we can see that something in Longman has changed.
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Elie is over his wife and she reaches up and touches his face. That is an off sweat. Is it she asks no darling, not all. Then he collapses into her. He's exhausted. He has had quite a nice.
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Brithing children is exhausting. Any man would know that I know it's the next day sometime later, stay time and a rowing crew is coming down the river. Their coach on a bicycle shouting commands at them.
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He crashes into Longman's car before he writes himself and bikes away. Annabelle and Major Holler walking towards the houseboat. The Major shakes Longman's hand. I don't know why we're shaking hands says Longman.
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He's congratulating you says Annabelle and she asks if there's anything she should do for her and the baby. Give her anything she wants as Longman. Give her caviar if she asks for it. But don't give any to the baby.
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Annabelle says that this is so wonderful she could cry for a week and goes inside her houseboat where someone else is using her bed. Longman tells Holler that he knows what he's thinking but he says he's come through okay and that what Holler did was right.
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Holler agrees and they now know what that tank did to Sharpie. So it's Z for zombie and not T for Trader says Longman.
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I'll refile it with pleasure says Major Holl. He says Longman must be tired. I am he says he's tired of the stupidity which makes a crime out of discovery.
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He started off with honest scientific inquiry and you ended up with a poor innocent old man lying dead on a cinder track on a dark night by a dirty train.
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Now when says he wants breakfast is Holler want to join him bacon and eggs as the Major saying that he can assure Longman that this time it is morning and they drive away and that's the end.
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Welcome back to the American International podcast where we're talking about the mine vendors from 1963.
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The mine vendors was a co-production between a IP and Anglo-Amalgamated and according to an article published in Los Angeles Times in late August of 1962.
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It's most known under the title the pit.
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Production for the mine vendors took place in July of 1962 at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
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Other scenes were shot in Oxford at Slau College and at Paddington Station in London.
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An article published in the Slau and South Buck subserver noted that Dirk Bogard, Mary Eur and John Clemens were on location filming at the College of Further Education in late July of 1962.
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Bogard began his career as an odd job boy at the Q Theatre in London in 1939 and got his big break when a cast member was ill and he stood in for the actor.
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He was signed by the rank organization and acted for a couple years and then joined the Army to fight for Britain World War II, attaining the rank of Major before his 1946 discharge.
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He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role as a barrister being Blackmailed for his homosexual past in Victim, which was also directed by Basil Dearden and produced by Michael Rolf.
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Bogard told columnist Hed Hopper, quote, "I took a chance playing the part and according to people in the know this piece of casting has ruined my chance for a knighthood."
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That's a pity, but who wants to be known as Sir Yesman?
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And quote, "Ellery did go on to win two BAFTA Awards for acting and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1992."
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This was Mary Ears' first film shot in Great Britain since her role in 1957's Windom's Way. She went to America for a few years in 1960, then returned to play the role of Una in the Mindbenders.
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She received an nomination for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1960 for her role in Suns and Lovers. In 1972, she appeared in a London stage adaptation of the Exorcist.
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Hours after a well-regarded opening night, she was found dead of an overdose of barbituettes and alcohol by her husband, actor Robert Shaw. She was 42.
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James Kenaway adapted his novel of the same name to write the screenplay for the Mindbenders. In an article published in January of 1963 in the London Daily Sketch, Kenaway told Arthur Pottersman that he had decided to leave the film business to go back to books.
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Quote, "Hollywood is a splendid way of life in a way," he said. "The people are quite sophisticated, not as simple minded as they sound, and yet it is a devilish place.
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I have never felt so seriously unhappy as when I was there. He said I got an offer to write Hitchcock's The Birds, but was, quote, "wary enough to say no." They say if you work in films once, that's experience. Twice is indulgence. I would rather go back to being a publisher."
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According to the AIP Press book, almost exactly the same experiment undergone by Dr. Bogard in the film thriller was tried a few years ago by Dr. John C. Lilly of the National Institute of Mental Health.
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The following served as his own guinea pig and had himself suspended face down in a tank just as in the movie. However, the press book says that a leak in Dr. Lilly's mass preventative from fully experiencing the negative effects shown in the movie, but the experiment and others like it, nonetheless proved how isolation experiments could lead to brainwashing.
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I think it was a light leak and not a water leak. Probably shouldn't mention that. The Mindbenders was released in Great Britain on February 28, 1963. It was rated X, presumably for the birth sequence at the end of the film.
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It was released in the United States on May 1, 1963. According to Gary Smith and American International Pictures, the Golden Years, AIP originally planned a wider release for the Mindbenders, but it was actually relegated to appearing as a co-feature.
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AIP's press book suggested theater owners suspend a mannequin below the marquee to imitate the key art featuring Dr. Bogard in the isolation tank, posting messages like, "What is this thing? And dare you defy the Mindbenders? You're by."
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They also recommended setting up a replica of the isolation tank in a window. Finally, it said they could have attractive girls and brief costumes pass out aspirin tablets or canning to people well in advance of opening day.
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Telling the recipients they should take the pill one hour before seeing the show to protect themselves from having their minds captured by the Mindbenders.
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Such a weird concept to imagine people handing out pills of unknown origin to strangers and telling them to just take it.
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I mean, some people are allergic to aspirin and are diabetic and that's just crazy. Nobody would do that now.
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A blurb in a syndicated column published in May of 1965 reported that the Mindbenders was the first motion picture with a dog named Saggy in the cast. A cinema historian has noted.
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Taglines for the Mindbenders include, in Great Britain, don't go alone to the Mindbenders.
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It's the new Bogard everyone's talking about.
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At the touch of a button, they transformed his love into violent hate. In the US taglines include, "On the black pit of the hate machine came a thing."
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Not a man.
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The voice of the trapped monkey, the wasp beating against the glass, eight hours of hell in the tank and his memory of her warm loving body turned to repulsive clay.
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From the black hell of the hate machine came a thing, not a man.
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A dangerously different motion picture.
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Perverted, soulless, a love affair destroyed by an experiment so terrifying it destroys humanity.
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According to an article published in Variety of November of 1963, the box office results for the Mindbenders were quote, "disappointing."
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New York Times critic Howard Thompson called the film an experiment that doesn't hold water and wrote, "credits the deared and wealth unit for a smoothly machine drama, not entirely convincing but at least original."
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The film slides downhill toward the conclusion that love conquers all, even science.
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The finale is a highly strict, substantial childbirth. Mr. Bogard, whose coiled jittery behavior has no place in a top-secret laboratory, also remembers something about experimental freedom.
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Box office magazine's review said the Mindbenders was a well-made British import that was better suited to class or art spots, but it has enough science-fact action for the teenagers, even if a harrowing childbirth scene is not for the kiddies.
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Mary York gives a moving portrayal of a neglected wife, and as always, Bogard gives a fine portrayal and is believable in both his scientific and romantic chores.
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Dorothy Masters of the New York Daily News gave the Mindbenders three and a half stars, calling it a fascinating drama concerned with the human element in man's quest for knowledge, much as implied rather than given wordage, and the dialogue is not for lagers.
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It is a notch above the traditional box office norm, arresting rather than sensational. Like most British productions, this one is staffed by secondary players of commendable talent.
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In his review in the London evening standard,
Alexander Walker wrote, "The Mindbenders has such a stunning idea that it infuriates me to see the producer/director team of Michael Ralph and Basil Dearden treating it in so split-minded away.
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To see how easily Bogard can be indoctrinated to do something against his will, they suggest that he does not love his wife.
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At this point, my belief in the film collapsed, such a suggestion would never occur, except in the kind of melodrama this film dwindles into.
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He also said the childbirth scene so shook the film technicians who helped shoot the scene that I am told they put in for embarrassment money."
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The reviewer in the Surrey comment wrote, "What could have been a science-picture puzzle of greater stature than the Manchurian candidate turns out to be a domestic wrangle with Bogard entering into the Mr. Hyde part of his dual personality.
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It takes good old mother nature to bring the airing scientists back to the paths of virtue and good behavior, long drawn out agonies of the birth of a baby toward the end of the film rather undermine any tension that has been built up.
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In fact, it can all be rather embarrassing." Dick Richards in the London Daily Mirror said of the Mind Benders, "Bogard's return to normality is too glibly and swiftly contrived, as some of the scientific dialogue is tricky to absorb, but both Dirk and his wife, tensely played by Mary Eur, act their edgy roles with confidence."
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Arthur Steele and the Birmingham evening mail wrote that, "The Mind Benders begins as if it knows where it's going, but isn't going to tell. The best sort of suspense.
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The real horror is that this kind of experiment isn't science fiction. It is fact."
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The London Guardian Review said, "Much is promised by the Mind Benders. It's fall from grace is all the sadder. When the preliminaries are over and we are made to witness a scientific or pseudo-scientific experiment about which we believe only one thing that it is bound to have a happy ending.
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And that is very damaging to a film which depends for its success on its efforts to maintain suspense and to suspend the audience in credulity.
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It also contains one spectacle that is as disagreeable as it is surprising. That of Dirk Bogard acting as midwife at the birth of his screenwifes baby."
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Raymond Anchor in the London Daily Post called the Mind Benders a "good, billar-gone soft, saying, sci-fi horror or domestic drama.
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Michael Rolf and Basil Dearden have it made up their minds. It wobbles between both, loses power, and grinds to a slow and rather ludicrous stop."
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Elizabeth Grant in the London Tatler and bystander wrote of the brainwashing scene, "A more hideous and a moral experiment in the interest of science, it would be hard to imagine.
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The alarming scene of having to act as midwife shocks Bogard into the realization that he loves his wife deeply. The implication then forced midwifery is the antidote for brainwashing is not one that I can easily swallow."
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Roy Lutherland in the Bolton News, instead of the film's ending, "How convenient, how incredible.
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But he added, despite the incredible ability of the piece, I must say that it is well acted throughout.
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Well enough indeed to make one believe that it is all perfectly possible, which sounds as much of a mix up as Mr. Bogard's mind."
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Bert Bacterack, who somehow had a syndicated column that was called "Now see here, full of various tips and opinions, such as Galician where those masculine hats," in the one I read, wrote, "Girl Watchers.
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Be sure to see Mary Eure in the Mind Benders. She's full of Al Eure. She's full of Allure. It's hard to get that pun across just saying it allure."
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And finally, Jay Feral of Hope, England, wrote a letter to the editor of the Brighton Argus, that read, "It's time we had a long rest from terrible X films like The Mind Benders.
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Old age pensioners seek the refuge of the cinema, having nowhere else to go in the cold weather. Must they feel nauseated by seeing such performances?
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There are travel, animal, and even agatha Christie stories which could delight an interest as all."
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Yeah, what gives?
471
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:48,000
So, would you have rather watched an agatha Christie story or an animal tale than this one, Joe?
472
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,000
It depends, maybe. But I can have a problem watching the mind-bedders.
473
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,000
What genre would you classify this movie as?
474
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:59,000
I guess it's kind of science fiction, even though it's based very strongly on science fact.
475
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:05,000
Yeah, there's just the one element that's science fiction, all I think. And then the rest kind of plays out like a drama.
476
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:11,000
It could be considered horror, I guess, because the idea of having your mind twisted by someone else isn't pleasant.
477
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:20,000
When reviewer mentioned, it's a literal Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation that they engineered with no forethought and no warning for the subject, or the subject's wife,
478
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,000
who was also part of the experiment.
479
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:26,000
Well, if they handled things a little bit
differently, there probably wouldn't have been a movie here.
480
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,000
Obviously, so I'm just dealing with the ethics of the experiment itself.
481
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:34,000
Well, their intention wasn't to let this go on for months. They were going to let it go on for a couple of minutes and bring them back.
482
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:40,000
They got interrupted first by Longman passing out and calling in the ambulance. Maybe if they hadn't called the ambulance and just revived them themselves,
483
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:47,000
they could have continued and everything would have been fine. And then Calder comes and shuts everything down before they have a chance to play the tape.
484
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,000
Yeah, true.
485
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,000
So it wasn't their intention to let it go on like that. Plus, I don't think they actually expected it to work.
486
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:59,000
I think they took long as assurance that it didn't work at face value and being scientists, they should never take anything at face value.
487
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:07,000
So Hallow gives Tade a hard time for not checking on Una and Longman later, but also he didn't either. And this was his idea. He let six months go by.
488
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:12,000
Truth be told, I think Major Hall already expressed more concern than he should have.
489
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:18,000
I think that in real life, he would have been very content to label Sharpie a traitor and go on to his whatever his next case may be.
490
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,000
Oh, yeah. We spent way too much time on this.
491
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,000
And that's true. You're right about that.
492
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:29,000
I'm going to say this is a really long movie. It clocks in an hour and 49 minutes and the AIP cut, which was unavailable to us, monthly 99.
493
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:34,000
So there's 10 minutes that were cut from this. And I wonder what might have been cut from the AIP version.
494
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:42,000
There's one scene that's kind of repetitive where we hear the tape played of what Tate and Hall told Longman about Una. We didn't have to hear that again.
495
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:47,000
But I guess we had to watch Una hearing it for the first time. So I guess it was important to put that scene in.
496
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:54,000
Well, it's probably not an entire scene. It's probably bits of scenes that were cut that equal out to 10 minutes. I don't think any one sequence is missing.
497
00:50:54,000 --> 00:51:01,000
That's a lot though. Maybe they cut out all the parts of the kids. It's weird. They have four children and they leave them to their own devices quite a bit.
498
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:09,000
And I realize this is 1962 and not 2026 where we have helicopter parents, but it's just funny that they go out driving at night, leave the kids alone.
499
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,000
Or the kids doing when Una was coming
into town to pick up Longman. There's no nanny.
500
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:19,000
Now we know of maybe for 70 years old enough to take care of verse siblings, but they pre-rentify the eldest daughter classic.
501
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,000
Well, I was babysitting my younger siblings when I was 11. So that's probably true.
502
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:37,000
The AIP version wasn't available to us, but it did appear in two television packages back in the day and the amazing 66 and sci-fi 65. So it's likely that there are examples of the AIP version encirculation somewhere on 16 millimeter.
503
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,000
But would somebody even go to the trouble of trying to resurrect the AIP version that's shorter?
504
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:49,000
I would, but I don't have it. So if Aavianc there has it and wants to pay $3,000 for a tele-scene for a movie, don't have the rights to.
505
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:50,000
And that we've already talked about.
506
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:57,000
No, I still wouldn't mind comparing them, because I'm very curious as to what they cut. And one of the things they seem to be cut is a character called Aubrey played by Norman Bird.
507
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,000
He appears in the credits, but he's not really seen in the film.
508
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:07,000
No, we had to watch it for what the fourth time scan it slowly to try and even pick out someone who looks like him.
509
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,000
Right. And he's another doctor who's on the film that they show to Hall in the classroom.
510
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:16,000
Or the experiments inspired by Dr. Bun Boulas experience in the Arctic.
511
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,000
Yeah, there's another doctor who's never given a name and never referred to.
512
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:20,000
No lines.
513
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:27,000
And that appears to be the part played by Norman Bird. So I wonder if he did have a larger part that was cut, but he was cut from the English version too.
514
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:33,000
So despite getting a credit, which is more than you can say for a lot of people who did have lines and names in this movie.
515
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:39,000
And there were a lot of people not credited here. One of the students is played by David Weston who had a much larger credited part in masculine red death.
516
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:40,000
He was genome in that film.
517
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:45,000
And we saw Edward Fox as an argumentative student interrogating Tate about Dr. Sharpie's death.
518
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,000
And he turned up in 410 from Navarone many, many years later.
519
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:53,000
Yep, he was Miller, the explosives expert in that film. And Grace Arnold appears on the train.
520
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:59,000
And I think maybe two shots. She smiles as the other passenger starts telling his anecdote about Albert Einstein.
521
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,000
It's more of philosophers Chessna if you ask
me.
522
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:08,000
She appeared in Konga as the Dean secretary who gets grilled after his murder by the Tishlor Kanga.
523
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:12,000
And then we have Roger Delgado as Dr. Jean Bun Boulas.
524
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:19,000
I don't know about his AIP history, but he played the master in early Dr. Who episodes, hearing from like 1970 to 1973.
525
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,000
And if you look at his IMDB picture and you happen to have watched Dr. Who back then, you will know him instantly.
526
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:29,000
And we have a cover them yet, but Dirk Bogard and Terry Palmer both appear in King and Country.
527
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,000
A film will be coming up in a later episode of American International podcast.
528
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:37,000
Andrew Bogard and Wendy Craig both appeared in the Servant yet another one for a future episode.
529
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:46,000
There was a scene where Longman takes the NFL to the lab and it really reminded me of Conan Briggs the fly when Jeff Goldberg picks up that girl of the bar and takes her back to his lab.
530
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,000
Do you think Conan Berg was a fan of this movie? Or is that just coincidence?
531
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,000
I don't know if it has coincidence, but it plays almost the same.
532
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,000
Something that guy scientists do to impress women from back to the lab. See what's on this lab.
533
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,000
That might be it, but the similarities are very noticeable to me.
534
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:06,000
While we were watching this the second time, taking notes, well, I was wondering what secret specters Sharpie would have been paid that thousand times.
535
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:14,000
What could he have done for the Russians and you know, that's what Major Hall's investigation was about, but he never comes up with anything.
536
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:20,000
If he does, he doesn't tell us no fact at the end. He says that everything's done except he has to figure out what it was that Sharpie sold.
537
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:27,000
So the question is never answered. I would think that would be very necessary evidence before you label somebody a traitor.
538
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:31,000
What Hall tells Longman is that what the tank did to Longman, it also did to Sharpie.
539
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,000
And that's what his friends found out. They told him what to do and he did it.
540
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:40,000
That's what he tells him at the end. So it's not that he didn't find anything out. That's his conclusion.
541
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,000
But what did his friends tell him to do? No one ever says.
542
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:49,000
The only supposed evidence they have against Sharpie is he accepted money from these people, but they have nothing about what he may have given them in return.
543
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:57,000
We were trying to figure it out and we thought maybe that either he was teaching them how to create sleeper agents or he was offering to create sleeper agents for them.
544
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:06,000
Putting a volunteer in the tank, give them suggestions like go kill somebody, go blow something up, you could train an army of spies from the inside out.
545
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:12,000
That's the only thing that made any sense to me and that would actually be worth more than a thousand pounds because he would have to use university resources.
546
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Unless you brainwash somebody to think that a thousand pounds was plenty.
547
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:21,000
But then I also started wonder later if maybe they told him to kill himself. And that's why he did that.
548
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,000
I mean, it seems like he was so upset with himself. I think it was a story.
549
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:33,000
I think it was the Albert Einstein story. I had to watch that six or seven times and I was ready to throw myself off a moving train to not ever hear it again.
550
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:41,000
This poor guy thinks it's so amusing and he just goes on and on and on about one line from Einstein. That's basically a spoonerism.
551
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,000
But man, did he like that?
552
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:48,000
And Sharpie throwing himself from the train is really the climax of the story. It doesn't go anywhere without that ending.
553
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,000
And it is pretty much the funniest part in this movie. This movie is not a comedy.
554
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:57,000
It's not even left right at all. No, no, it is really any opportunities to laugh. But that made me crack up.
555
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,000
And this movie is actually pretty intense.
556
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,000
It is. That's really down to the performances.
557
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:08,000
Dirk Bogart obviously playing the Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde version of Henry Longman.
558
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:14,000
I think that he is the one that carries all that intensity. But I think his equal is Mary Eur as his wife Una.
559
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,000
She is so good in this.
560
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,000
We listen to the commentary on the keynote Lord were version of the Blu-ray.
561
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:24,000
And doing that with the subtitles on it gave me a chance to really look at the composition of the film
562
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:29,000
and not being distracted by the plot and the dialogue. And this is really well shot.
563
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,000
They compared it to a Hitchcock movie. The framing, the use of shadows and light.
564
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:42,000
That's some of the beauty you can do with black and white that I think people forget about with color film is that you can use the shadows in a better way than you can in the composition of color.
565
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,000
You can still do it. It's just a lot harder.
566
00:56:44,000 -->
00:56:49,000
So I think people took advantage of it being easier in black and white. And so it looks artier.
567
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:56,000
We first noticed that I think when we see Longman in the car after he's gotten through the experiment, Mary drives him out to their secluded spot.
568
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:02,000
This is after he finds out she's pregnant. We see his face and the way the shadows fall on his face and the intensity of his stare.
569
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,000
It gives you goosebumps. He's so frightening looking there.
570
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:11,000
The lights are shining on his eyes. So they're almost glowing in this dark face. And it's very eerie looking.
571
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,000
The music comes to a crescendo and you know this ain't right.
572
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,000
No, she knows it too. And she has to go home with him.
573
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,000
Well, that's because she's very perceptive.
574
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,000
Well, she's a woman. You know how women are?
575
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,000
Like when they're pregnant?
576
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,000
Well, when you're pregnant, your perception is off. Everybody knows that.
577
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:32,000
When this movie first starts, it's hard to tell who the main character is because we start with the doctor and then we go to major hall and tape.
578
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:37,000
And then finally we settle on Longman and his wife. And that's the part of the movie where I got really interested in it.
579
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:48,000
And I know that some of the critics knocked it for being a drama or a melodrama. But to me, that was the most interesting part of the movie is the interaction between the two of them and how this monstrous experiment is able to change that.
580
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:55,000
Yeah, we definitely see the change in their relationship early in the film. Longman is very affectionate towards his wife. He calls her otter all the time.
581
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:00,000
And then after the experiment, he mocks himself for having once called her otter.
582
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:05,000
He did go through the experiment before. And it had a really bad effect on them. And we see that in the scene where they are in bed together.
583
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:12,000
And he clings to her like she's saving him from drowning. But once he's experimented on again, he doesn't have that anymore.
584
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:17,000
He's lost without her and just becomes the darkest version of himself post experiment.
585
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:23,000
And the flip side of that is after the experiment, you see him just disregarding his wife totally.
586
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:29,000
She has no idea this happened. If they had warned her that he might be a little different afterwards, we try this thing with him.
587
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:35,000
It didn't work. Ha ha. We told him that he doesn't love you. If they had mentioned that to
her and given her some warning, but they didn't.
588
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:46,000
And she has no idea what happened. Seeing as how perceptive she is, she catches on to everything. But she doesn't notice that when her husband left that morning and when she picks them up that evening, he's totally different.
589
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:51,000
When she notices it, she doesn't calculate why what might have changed and when when it's pretty obvious.
590
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Maybe she should have contacted Tate and said, hey, you guys, was there anything weird about afterwards?
591
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:01,000
Well, she does say that she's British, kept a stiff upper lip and just went with it.
592
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:07,000
But she also said that he almost killed her a hundred times and he tried to prostitute her in Amsterdam or he did prostitute her in Amsterdam.
593
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:12,000
The movie doesn't say either way. I think at a certain point she might have called out for help.
594
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,000
Again, British, this upper lip.
595
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,000
Well, to her own detriment. She was just holding everything in and I guess hoping things would get better.
596
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:21,000
And she did say she'd rather be killed by him than live without him. Don't do that people.
597
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:25,000
She does seem very sad as she's shuffling up and down the stairs.
598
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,000
She's living with a monster and she still loves him regardless.
599
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:36,000
I think the theme of the movie, the moral that we're supposed to take away is what Dirk Bogard says at the end of it on a scientific inquiry turned into a crime.
600
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:42,000
But I think the real theme of this movie is that love conquers all as simplistic as that is. That's what happens here.
601
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:49,000
She clings to him long enough that she's able to bring him back or maybe that playing that tape for him unbrained washed him and it just took a while to kick in.
602
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,000
The way the brainwashing did. What do you think? How was he rescued?
603
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:57,000
I think the tape loosened up something because he's pounding his head after he listens to it.
604
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:02,000
Then he shakes it off and says, nah, you guys failed. He wants to really double down on being a dick.
605
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:06,000
Yeah. And it's when he realizes that he heard her and the baby's coming. That's what makes him step out of it.
606
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:12,000
You think it's permanent? He really stepped out of it for good or could he ping pong back and forth between the two personalities?
607
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:18,000
It's probably a work in progress. He's probably going to bounce back to it. Probably not as intense as it was.
608
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:25,000
It's going to take some time, I think, to be totally himself again. It's really lucky that she went into premature labor then.
609
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:31,000
Had she been at home and gone to the hospital, he wouldn't have been there. He probably would have just made her life even more miserable when she got home.
610
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,000
Might have worked better for Tate though.
611
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,000
Oh man. What a spineless weasel that guy was.
612
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:44,000
And you don't know until the very end. The last scene he's in is when you find out that he had feelings for her because he doesn't really show it.
613
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:51,000
When Tate tried to get out of taking the tape over, he's like, oh, you want to see her. And probably everybody saw him moaning over her when they were in college.
614
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:59,000
But she married Longman. And so well, the way it's presented in the film, they're friendly and during the depression, they've just known each other for years and they're good friends.
615
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:07,000
But you don't see that there is feelings for her that's not really projected until he actually says it and becomes the winy baby that she calls it.
616
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:17,000
He's a weird guy because he's really enjoying the process of denigrating her to Longman. I think he's taking it further than he had to because Hall was supposed to give him cues.
617
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:26,000
He runs with it. Yeah. Tate's got it all covered. He knows just what to say. And so that's the moment I thought, is he thinking that he's going to get with her after he destroys their marriage?
618
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,000
You're more perceptive than I am because I didn't go there.
619
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,000
I'm a woman just seems like something somebody would do.
620
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:38,000
I'm going to jump back to the composition of some of these shots again every time we go to a location, it starts with a wide shot of exterior.
621
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:45,000
And then often people walk out of the building and then the camera will zoom in on them as the conversation starts and it happens constantly.
622
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:51,000
And I just thought that it took a lot of foresight to shoot it that way, rather than just have a shot of the doorway, people walking out.
623
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:58,000
They actually take the time to make it look good when they establish its fall and they have Tate riding his bike toward the camera.
624
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:06,000
As he does, believe start falling from the trees just for that moment. So I picture some guy standing up there with a pile of leaves and just drops on his take by his buy.
625
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:15,000
And it's all stuff that I wouldn't have noticed if I just watched the movie because it's there and as you see it, but you're paying attention to the plot and the dialogue and you don't see everything.
626
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:23,000
Deerden
is a really good job establishing time in place. I also see them raking the leaves, the winds blowing, everyone's dressed in their winter garb, they're building a bonfire.
627
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:33,000
Yep, you know, time has passed. The birthing scene was kind of wild because the reviewer seemed to think it was very gross, especially the fact that a man was helping his wife have a baby.
628
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:37,000
But for me, this was one of the tammest birthings I've ever seen on this podcast.
629
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:44,000
There were details inserted here that I wouldn't have expected to see little things like he asks her to move up on the bed a little bit.
630
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,000
Yeah, that happens all the time when you're at the gyno.
631
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,000
Right, but you don't see that in the movie. They skip that part.
632
01:02:50,000 --> 01:03:00,000
And like a man wrote this. So wow, the umbilical cord, she told him to tie it off twice before he cut it and the baby that they show actually has a tied off umbilical cord on its belly.
633
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:07,000
You heard they ever see that in movies, unless they're really trying to be realistic or it is an actual birthing, but she doesn't ever take off her pantyos.
634
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:19,000
So that was not realistic. But anyway, it happens really fast. Good for us. The movie was already like really pushing the links of our endurance at that point, but it probably takes about four minutes for this baby to come out.
635
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,000
Do you want to talk about how messed up this experiment is?
636
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:26,000
This is not something that real scientists would ever do. You don't think so?
637
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:32,000
Not on the fly. They just pulled this experiment out of their asses at the end of the one that they intended to do.
638
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:40,000
And they didn't get consent from the subject. And I know that that would have ruined the experiment. But the fact that they chose to do what they did without telling anybody.
639
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,000
This is the most evil thing that I can imagine.
640
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,000
Well, it's really dormant. The lab boys fault.
641
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:53,000
Because he's the one who suggested that Longman loves his wife. They were trying to think of something they could do, something they could tell him to break his convictions.
642
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:57,000
And Norman's like, well, Monarch, you tell me he doesn't love his wife. And they're like, hey, that might work.
643
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:02,000
I could have told him to withdraw a hundred pounds from his bank account and give it to Norman.
644
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They could have told him any minor armless thing. But instead they see on this completely monstrous idea that doesn't just affect Longman.
645
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It would affect his whole family if
it worked. How would they know that it worked if they didn't see it in action?
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Well, they thought they did see it in action. I guess that was good enough for them because it had delayed effect on him.
647
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And they didn't account for that either.
648
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Well, I wouldn't have either, but I'm not a scientist.
649
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How was a scientist? What if he had gone home and murdered his wife and children? That happens like every five days here.
650
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Well, the children were safe because they told him that he loved his children.
651
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Someone who wants to punish his wife might do so via her children. They unleashed this, not knowing what the results could be.
652
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And all this to prove the motives of a dead man.
653
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Well, the thing to do would be to insist that no, this experiment isn't over. We need to finish this.
654
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To tell Calder what they did.
655
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Yeah, Calder pulling rank away. He didn't really help things at all.
656
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No, but this was malfeasance from the get go.
657
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I thought it was kind of interesting that Una refers to her husband by his last name.
658
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That's what you do in college and they met in college and she's just always called him by his last name.
659
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He probably called her by her last name before he changed it by marrying her.
660
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Maybe her last name was Otter. Maybe Una Otter. It's probably going to wait to get married.
661
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I mean, it's easier for us to be able to refer to everybody by their last name.
662
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So I guess I didn't have a problem with it. I just thought it was an interesting choice.
663
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What if he called her by her last name? That would be very confusing.
664
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I can't believe Longman said that she's done this before when she was giving birth and she'll do it again.
665
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This is five kids lady. You guys should take a break. You have enough on your hands.
666
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All right, Jeff. So let's put a grade on this. Give me your rating for the mind vendors using our AIP scale where A is awesome.
667
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I as intermediate and P is pathetic.
668
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Well, this is a pretty good movie and it doesn't necessarily go where you expected to.
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As I said, it's a pretty intense film and it's a very interesting film to watch.
670
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It's an intriguing story and the idea of sensory deprivation at the time was fairly new.
671
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But now we're 60 years past that and it's something that's being done on occasion.
672
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Not under these circumstances, not more control circumstances, but people are still looking into this and the effects on the mind and makes it a little scary.
673
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I guess it does cross over into horror when you see it in action.
674
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,000
But I'm going to recommend this movie. I do hope the AIP version comes out.
675
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I'd love to compare them, even though it's shorter and probably not as good.
676
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The longer version is probably the version you want to watch.
677
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But I still would like to see what was cut just for my own knowledge.
678
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But I want to get this one in A for sure. This is an awesome movie. How are you going to rate it?
679
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I really love this movie. It's one that even now, and we'll be watching it for the first time over a week ago, and from that moment on,
680
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:38,000
it's just been hanging around in my brain because of the implications of these experiments are the fact that isolation is something that a lot of people are experiencing right now.
681
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They're not in a tank. They live by themselves. They don't have a lot of friends.
682
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This is true of a lot of people. It can be even true of us sometimes, where you don't talk to people for a long time in real life.
683
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:54,000
You may have online friendships, but a lot of us don't interact with people all the time.
684
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,000
And that's a big change from the way things used to be.
685
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,000
The experiments that they're doing kind of prove that that really can warp your mind.
686
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,000
And what happened in this movie was an extreme example of that.
687
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:10,000
It was not just used for positing how space travel could go, but for indoctrination and brainwashing.
688
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And it's very possible that that is something that is happening as we speak as well.
689
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People are online chronically, and they are lonely, and they get these messages telling them who the enemies are.
690
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Maybe that's doing something.
691
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So this is really resonated with me.
692
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And the performances in this movie are so good.
693
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,000
Mary, I want to see more movies with her in it.
694
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:36,000
She died tragically young, unfortunately, but I just found her so compelling in this movie that I want to go find her in other films.
695
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:42,000
John Clements is major haul. I mean, yeah, he's kind of evil, but he's really good in this as well.
696
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,000
And of course, Dirk Bogard is highly regarded actor.
697
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:48,000
And the whole ensemble is so good that I just can't forget it.
698
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:50,000
And so it's an A for awesome for me too.
699
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714
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