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[Whistle blowing]

[Crowd cheering]

Slowly does it, Mr. Evans!

When I give the word!

Now, are you ready with your cork, sir?

A great big smile! Beautiful!

Ready?

Oh, dear, oh dear, oh...

oh, oh, oh... this is awful.

�[Marching band plays]

Oh, David, take us with you.

Sorry, maisie.

No passengers allowed.

Tell you what, innes. I'll bet you 50 guineas

my coach and four'll beat you to the other side.

Good idea! While you're galloping over the top

we'll be drilling through the middle.

That'll do. Stop there.

[Whistle blows]

Thank you.

Doc?

Oh, David, my dear fellow,

what a proud moment this is.

I hope your faith in me will be fully justified.

I just made a wager.

A little champagne to success?

Oh, yes, I'll... I'll drink to that.

Oh, no. I'd better not.

I-I'm at the controls

and you must keep a clear head, too, David.

Winterbottom... Mr. innes, sir.

Dowsett, of the times.

How do you do, sir? How do you do?

This is Dr. Abner Perry.

How do you do? How do you do, sir?

Dr. Perry was kind enough

to nominate me as his worst student.

It took me longer to graduate

from geological engineering

than any other man alive.

Oh, but you had many fine qualities, David.

But you were rather slow.

And that is rather surprising

because his father was so clever.

One of the best we ever had

in, uh, '58, I think it was.

Oh, yes, yes, '58.

Dear old dad.

He should've been here to see the mole.

Ah, that is what you call it?

The... the "iron mole"?

That's what I call it.

Dr. Perry here, calls it

a high-calibration digging machine.

It'll bore through solid rock

at a rate of 78 feet per minute.

And this is your design, Dr. Perry?

The finance has been provided

by Mr. innes, I gather.

Oh, pardon me.

David, gyroscopes.

I know that today is just

a test-run through our welsh hills...

good day. David, come along. Good day, sir.

But can you tell me,

is it really your intention to eventually explore

deep into the bowels of the earth?

Sir, we've been on top of the earth long enough.

It's about time we found out what's underneath.

[Cheering]

[Whistle blowing]

Great crowd, huh, doc?

Concentrate, David. Close doors.

Locks on.

All secure.

Ahh!

How are we?

Ready to go, doc?

Oh, yes! Yes, my dear fellow.

I'll just check the gyroscopes.

[Gyroscopes whirling]

Ahh!

Very nice.

Well, would you like to move off, my boy?

Ready and willing, doc.

Good luck, and happy landings.

[Sniffing]

Oh, dear.

Where is that smoke coming from?

Ah, yes. Well, you'd better put that out

until we're underway.

Procedure check.

Vision ports.

Opening vision ports.

Control.

Begin lift,

steady up to 10 degrees.

Check the inclinometer as we go, David.

[Heavy creaking]

Milford, get the horses ready,

otherwise I shall lose 50 guineas.

No cheating, Archie.

You can't start until they're off.

14,

15... right. Hold at that and lock off.

Locked off. Thank you, control.

Vision lights, aft.

Vision lights, forward.

Nose-cutters.

[Nose-cutters roaring]

Right!

Bring in the crawler banks.

[Crawler banks clanking]

Firing engines, now.

[Engines blasting]

Here we go.

10, 9, 8, 7...

4, 3,

2, 1.

Release.

Up a little on the throttles, David.

I have her at 1800.

Oh! Back up, David!

Going in again.

Gripping now.

Cut in the tail pan.

Tail pan at 300.

Come on, girls. Off we go.

Come on, milford.

Steady the throttles.

We're in.

Slow her down, David.

On the throttles. Don't cut the engines.

Whew!

By gad! That cannot be possible.

Quick. What does the distance meter read?

Confounded contraption!

It should be 700 feet deep

by the time we get it back to horizontal.

She's going too fast.

I can't change her course,

most extraordinary thing!

The mole is burning up inside, doc.

[Panting]

Can you... can you just take over, David?

I-I must...

Don't give up, sir I can't, I...

ah, oh, ah...

doc! Doc Perry!

Ohh! Don't...

[David grunting]

[Engines roaring]

Perry! Doc?

Oh, doc! Huh?

Doc! Oh!

You all right? Where wh-where was I?

It's c-c-c-old.

The temperature... Hmmm?

Look at it.

I can't see a thing.

Oh!

Ice.

Ice. It can't be possible.

Fascinating. Just make a note of the...

oh!

Just make a note of the temperature, will you?

She's going up!

A little more throttle, David.

Temperature's rising, doc.

We're on our way home.

Not quite.

We appear to be, uh, in the middle

of a... an underground lake at the moment.

Ohh!

Excellent!

Excellent!

Lifting nicely. Knew she'd do it.

Lifting nicely?

� Bom bom bom bom bom de de bom �

� bom bom bom bom bom de de bom �

[crashing]

Hold on, doc!

Hold on.

Ohh!

[Panting]

Total power failure?

Oh, how very disappointing.

It must've been the water.

I didn't allow for that contingency.

Well, doc,

shall we see where we are?

Yes.

Oh.

I'll, uh, just get my umbrella.

The weather seems so changeable.

Ah!

Ah, where did I put it amongst all this lot?

Ah! There it is.

[Grunts]

Doc?

Doc!

[Doc] Yes... Yes. What?

Come on. Come here, quick.

I really must check the reason

for that power failure.

I don't like being...

What an unbelievable sight.

Oop!

Steady, doc.

David!

This can't be

the other side of the hill, surely.

Unless it's changed dramatically.

Well, where are we?

Look at this mesozoic moss.

Or is it a cycad?

I'm not sure, I...

I've only seen it before in fossilized form.

I would dearly love to

take a frond back with me.

Great, doc. Just great.

But where on earth can we be?

[Buzzing]

Doc?

Oh, I say.

Steady, they may be stingers.

Onward, dear boy.

[Eerie chirping]

What an extraordinary sky.

What a strange color, doc.

This cannot be the rhondda valley.

I've never seen anything like it.

Like nothing on earth.

David?

We are not on earth.

We're not...

well, if we're not on earth, doc,

then where the hell are we?

From my observations, dear friend,

I can positively state that we are under it.

Under?

At the earth's core.

[Screeching]

By jove!

How very interesting.

[Screeching]

Uh, d-doc...

Mmm?

I-I don't think you

want to get too close to that.

Yes.

It is a somewhat aggressive looking... creature.

David!

Oh, dear!

David, don't lose contact.

Doc!

Shoo! Shoo!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh, oh dear!

Oh!

Ohh! No, doc. This way.

Oh, dear. Oh!

Here. Oh, dear.

Take care of yourself, David.

Oh! Hang on, doc.

[Screeching]

David?

Hang on, doc.

Oh!

[Whistles]

Ugh!

Take that!

[Grunting]

[Whistles]

Come on!

[Whistles]

You ugly...

[Whooshing]

[Screeches]

[Strange language]

Oh, dear.

Oh, oh, I say!

I say, do be careful.

[Yelling in strange language]

But we came in peace!

Ugh!

Oh, oh, David,

how good to see that you're safe.

Ohh!

[David] Did you ever see anything like this before?

No.

Those prisoners look human.

Yes.

And they appear to be

intellectually superior to our captors.

I do find that interesting.

They seem a pretty subhuman species,

yet the master race.

Isn't that always the way?

Yes, the power of aggression, dear boy.

Brawn before brains.

No! Don't hit him!

I'll remember him, doc, but they all look the same.

Yes.

[Growls]

Ugh!

David,

don't you think it's about time we introduced

ourselves to our fellow sufferers?

Dr. abner Perry at your service, ma'am.

David.

Dia.

Dia?

You can call him doc.

Ghak. Oh, ghak.

Oh!

Dia?

Who's that man up in front

who keeps looking at me?

He is hoojah the sly one.

Do not trust him.

[Growls]

[Grunt]

[Grunt]

[Eerie chirping]

Perry?

Doesn't it ever get dark here?

According to my watch,

we've been traveling for 2 days.

No, here there can be no night.

Just perpetual daylight.

We are in a cave, you understand,

a gigantic cave.

And the sky is the underside

of the earth's crust...

the magma,

probably something like 20 Miles above us.

Oh.

[Yelling in strange language]

Conserve your energy, dear boy.

We're both going to need it.

That was my father's watch.

Unpleasant character.

Oh, dear!

Dia?

Who are they?

Sagoths,

soldiers of the mahars.

Oh, and... and pardon me,

what are mahars?

Mahars rule pellucidar,

and sagoths take us to be slaves in their city.

What a charming prospect. [Hoojah]Dia.

[Sagoths yelling]

Aghh!

Agh!

[Ghak] Dia!

Your act of chivalry

didn't seem very popular, David.

[Sagoths yelling]

Ahhh!

[Screaming]

[Growling]

[Roaring]

[Sagoths yelling]

Pardon me.

Doc!

David!

That must be the city of the mahars.

Oh! Do watch that thing!

Ohh!

Uhh!

[Sagoth yelling]

Oh, they're so excitable,

like all foreigners.

Dia.

Dia!

I just wanted to ask her

how much farther.

They're giving us the cold shoulder, David.

We certainly seem to have

blotted our copybook somehow.

Ohh!

[Sagoth yelling]

Ugh!

[Sagoth yelling]

David, I-I...

I'm sorry to be a burden, but I...

I don't think I can go on much longer.

Come on, doc.

It can't be much farther.

Oh!

[Sagoths yelling]

[Doc] Noisy lot, aren't they, David?

[Sighs]

Ah.

[David] Doc?

Mmm?

Dia...

Dia, she's gone.

Uh? She's not here?

Ghak,

what happened to dia?

[Chains rattling]

Hoojah the sly one.

He escaped with the girl you refused.

I what? You insulted dia.

Do you not know what you have done?

No.

When a man from pellucidar fights

with another man for a woman,

she belongs to he who wins.

Well, you should've claimed her

or released her.

But you showed contempt

for her by doing nothing.

Now no man can take her as mate

until he's overcome you in combat.

I didn't know.

I-I thought I was protecting her.

Forgive me,

for you could not have known.

Dia was in hiding

from jubal,

the ugly one.

He is a man with

the strength of many men.

And he has made it known that

he wants dia for his mate.

There is no one

who can defend her against him,

and so dia fled to the hills.

Only to be captured by a sagoth raiding party.

[Sagoths speaking]

There is something you should know, my friend.

Dia is a princess,

the daughter of kings.

She is proud

and she will never forgive you,

even if you did find her again,

which you will not.

We are all doomed to slavery...

And death.

[Sagoths speaking]

[Sighing and groaning]

[Doc] They are no respecters of age, are they?

David!

What a phenomenal sight...

A fire curtain!

Ooh!

[Sagoths yelling]

[Chains rattling]

Ugh!

[Distant screeching]

[Squawks]

David! What?

A rhamphorhynchus

of the middle Jurassic period.

My goodness, how enormous.

Why, the largest remains we ever discovered

have never indicated a size much greater

than that attained by an ordinary crow.

[Squawking]

[High-pitched squealing]

[High-pitched squealing]

Oh! Hey!

What are you doing?

Oh, oh!

Doc!

[High-pitched squealing]

[Squawks]

Oh!

Perry!

Take care of yourself.

I will, and you.

You are beginning to annoy me.

Ghak, one at a time.

You've got a long day.

Ahh!

Ah, there you are, my friend.

Another one for the shelves.

Thank you.

Now, what have we got?

Hmm.

Fascinating.

"The mahar...

"Is limited...

"Vocally...

"But has been...

"Endowed...

"With...

"Mesmeric powers...

"And a high degree of telepathy."

Hmm.

That's quite a combination,

for a bird.

I don't know what it is

they're giving us to eat.

Perhaps it's just as well.

Doc? Mm-hmm?

How do we get out of here?

I really haven't been

able to find out anything

definite about the mahar's secret yet,

except that,

in some way,

it is connected with the lava,

with the heat.

Well, I'm certainly getting

to know about that.

Ahh, but that is the point, David.

Slaves are used

to constantly repair

and divert the lava channels.

You see, although the lava

is of vital importance,

it is also eating away at the very

foundations of the mahar city.

And so its flow has to be

continually checked and rechanneled.

In fact, the whole safety of the city

is dependant upon the slaves.

And, uh, we are

among their number now.

[Sagoths yelling]

Oh, there's cheerful Annie again.

Watch yourself, doc.

Doc!

Ohh!

Aah!

Ugh!

Aaah!

[Sagoths yelling]

[Panting]

[Sagoths speaking]

[Eerie chirping]

Ugh!

[Squawking]

[Grunts]

[Grunting]

Ah!

[Eerie moaning]

[Screeching]

[Gasping]

[Coughs]

Yeah.

[Chuckles]

Oh.

[Panting]

[Laughs]

David.

D-David.

Ra. Ra?

Hu-rrah.

Oh, uh...

I don't come from pellucidar.

I come from another world.

I escaped

from the mahar city.

No one can escape from the mahar city.

The mahars

are all-seeing,

all lethal.

Ra,

why haven't you risen up

and fought the mahars?

You do not know the mahar.

You have not

really seen their

power.

They're evil!

Hmm.

Ra,

if your tribe and the others

joined together,

you could defeat the mahars.

It's good thought.

But come with me.

I'll show you.

Then you'll understand.

Ra?

Where are you taking me?

We are now within the outer walls

of the mahar grotto.

We climb.

Ugh!

What are these prisoners doing here?

Wait, and you shall see.

You may be thankful that you're not

on the same side of the wall as they.

The mahars.

Are you looking for someone?

Yes.

Dia.

[Squawking]

[High-pitched squealing]

Thank God she's not here.

[Squealing]

[Screeching]

Vile cr...

[screaming]

They've got to be destroyed.

They've got to be.

Come.

We go.

Ugh!

Ugh!

[Growling quietly]

[Snorts]

[Chirping and hooting]

David.

I'm going back.

After what you've just seen?

Especially after what I've seen.

They've got to be destroyed.

David,

you're one man...

strong, it's true.

How can you win?

I've got to find

the secret of the mahars

and destroy them.

I'll bring ghak back.

Ghak?

He will not trust me.

No tribe trusts each other.

I know.

You go back to your village, ra,

till the sagoths come again.

Do you think I'll let

you go back alone?

You're a friend, ra.

Yes,

but foolish friend.

The mahars will make a meal of us.

We've just doubled our strength.

[Sighing and grunting]

[Sagoth yelling]

It's...

[sagoth yelling]

[Snarls]

[High-pitched squealing]

[Roaring]

[Roaring]

[Gasping]

David!

The ear.

Get it behind the ear.

Ahh!

[Grunting]

The ear!

Ugh!

Aagh!

[Screaming]

Agh.

Oh, no!

[Screaming]

Ugh.

[High-pitched squealing]

[Groaning]

You got him!

[Gasping]

[David panting]

[High-pitched squealing]

Bravo!

[Screeching]

David, above you!

[Squealing]

[Choking]

[Gasping]

[Ra] Freedom!

[Cheering]

Freedom!

[All] Freedom! Freedom!

[Yelling]

Come on, doc.

Get a tight hold, doc.

I have a firm grip

upon your trousers, David.

David! What?

I found it! I found the mahar secret!

Come with me. Not now, doc!

But it's just through this hidey-hole.

Come on, me boy, I'll show you.

It's not far now, David.

Be careful of the edge.

It was the most amazing piece of luck.

I practically stumbled on it.

And after pondering over all those

heavy slabs in the library

and learning very little from them,

I got so dispirited.

I kept thinking,

"whatever will I tell David

"when he gets back?"

You knew I'd come back for you, did you?

Of course I did.

What would I do without you?

There...

There it is.

The very origin

of every mahar that's born.

Look, David.

Do you see that winch?

That is what controls

the fire curtain.

This is where

we're going to finish them.

[Sagoth yelling]

It's a dead end, David.

Doc, in here.

Down there?

But I'm not a rabbit, you know.

Come on, doc.

Fascinating rock structure, David.

Would you please, doc... come on!

Oh.

Oh, I-I'll just sit for a moment.

Alright. Catch your breath.

I can't find my marks.

David?

Have you ever thought of going to the moon?

Hmm?

Come on, doc.

Oh, uh, wh-which way now?

[David] I'm afraid we're lost, doc.

Be careful

not to graze yourself on these

formidable-looking rocks here.

Oh!

I say,

there's that...

Peculiar pellucid light ahead.

Shall we explore?

Whoops-a-Daisy.

Here, doc. Come on.

Watch yourself.

Come on.

[Sighs]

[Chirping and hooting]

Oh!

Fresh air at last.

[Inhaling]

David?

Ahhh! Oh.

I'm so sorry, dear fellow.

This place is apt

to make one a little jumpy.

Here, sit down.

[Dia screams]

Ahh!

Dia!

Come, and I kill her.

[Roaring]

[Dia] Ahh!

Ahh!

Dia!

Ahh! David!

Ahh!

[Squeals]

[Squealing]

Bull's-eye!

Dia?

No.

Dia, I thought I'd never see you again.

Dia?

Be masterful, David.

Dia?

Sit down!

Sit down!

Now, you listen to me...

no, it's too late now.

When we were near my village,

I managed to escape

from hoojah the sly one.

And now I fear that hoojah the sly one

will lead jubal the ugly one back here.

I heard about him.

David, he will kill you.

He is the strongest warrior

in all of pellucidar.

Agh!

What, David?

The sooner I meet up

with jubal, the better.

Come on.

Come on!

[David] Watch your step, doc.

Oh, yes.

My word,

what a fiery beastie.

Oh, ah!

Ohh!

Oh, your royal highness,

how very nice to see you again.

Remarkably efficient,

these primitive weapons.

I've never had occasion

to use them before.

Ha! The cord from my spectacles.

[Chuckles]

Oh, y-your tomahawk

came in very useful, too, David.

Brains before brawn, huh, doc?

Oh, a combination

of both, dear boy.

We must hurry.

Yeah, I've got to find the ugly one.

Wouldn't exactly call

him very pretty, would you?

Hey, David! Wait for me!

Hiyahh!

It's jubal

the ugly one!

Hiyahh!

You can say that again.

Come, we must hide.

No, no, dia, no! Come!

Hiyahh!

I'm gonna have to fight

jubal once and for all.

Stand aside, David.

Doc, I said this is my fight.

Hiyahh!

Arghh!

[Grunting]

[Gasping]

Ohh! David!

David...

Ugh!

Watch him, David!

Ohh!

Ugh!

That's right, David.

Dia.

Ahh!

No! No!

Unhand her, you coward.

Aha!

Never mind the queensberry rules.

Aghh!

[Groaning]

Well done, David!

Now...

You scoundrel.

Missed.

Well, at least we

put him to his heels. Hmph!

Well done, David!

Such courage, my boy!

Such great courage!

David!

Jubal!

You have defeated jubal.

Dia is yours.

Dia will not be mine

until we destroy the mahars

and free pellucidar.

[High-pitched squeal]

Raise bows.

Take aim.

Fire!

[Cheering]

Robin hood and his

merry men, what, David?

Hear me,

leaders of the tribes of pellucidar.

These strangers

came to our world...

A world ruled by the mahars

who have enslaved

and tortured us.

For as long as we can recall...

Our tribes have been divided.

Now,

with the help

of our new-found friends

we are united.

And we have the strength

and the power

to destroy once and for all

those who have enslaved us.

Death

to the mahars!

[Cheering and chanting]

Well, David, would you like

to summarize our deployment?

I will lead the main attack.

Ghak, and his men

will cover the rear.

Ra and Dr. Perry

will go ahead of us

through the lava channel

to the inner sanctum

and cut off

the main fire supply.

I hate to ask you to do this, doc,

but you know where the controls are.

I'm delighted to be

of some active service, my boy.

Don't you worry, David.

I will take good care of him.

Oh, most kind.

Well,

meeting adjourned, gentlemen.

I go with you, yes?

No, dia. No.

Why not, David?

Dia,

the mahar city is no place for you.

David... dia.

Ah!

This is it.

I must warn you,

it gets very hot in there.

[Inhales deeply]

[Sagoths yelling]

[Grunting]

[Doc] Ooh! Ooh!

Deuced hot!

Oof!

You could roast an ox in here.

Shhh!

Got you, you bounder!

Mmmph! Oh, oh!

Oh, I do beg your pardon,

your royal highness.

I-I thought you were the enemy.

No. Dia,

what are you doing here?

It's hoojah...

he has been captured by the sagoths.

[Sighs]

He might betray us.

The traitorous blighter!

What a pity my arrow missed him.

Oh, well. Quickly, fall in.

Right. Follow me.

Single file.

[High-pitched squeal]

[Sagoths yelling]

[Doc] Retreat!

Ohh!

Ahh!

Aah!

Ooh!

Ra, the inner sanctum!

[High-pitched squealing]

[Yells]

Aah!

Ugh!

[Yelling]

Ugh!

Aah!

Ugh!

[Gasping]

[Distant roaring]

[Roaring]

Ugh!

You cannot mesmerize me!

I'm British!

[High-pitched squealing]

[Screeching]

[Sagoths yelling]

Dia!

Dia! Perry!

[Snarling]

Dia!

[High-pitched squealing]

Aagh!

[Screeching]

Dia!

Doc!

[Screeching]

Dia!

Aaah!

[Screeching]

David!

David!

Ahh!

[Dia] Ahh, David!

[Dia] David!

Doc, you're limping!

Oh, it's my brolly!

Come on, doc, hurry up!

Ooh!

[Ra] Ahh!

[Grunting]

[David] Come on, doc!

Here, David, here!

Come on!

Keep going, doc.

[Dia] Ahh!

[David] Dia.

Perry, this way.

[Dia] Aah!

Ahh! Ooh!

[Doc] Wh-why have you stopped?

We must wait for ra!

Oh, yes!

[David] Ra!

Ra! It's too late.

Aahh!

Come on!

[Dia] Aah!

Dia.

Doc.

Doc...

Ra!

Ahh!

[Explosion]

Poor ra.

Yes, indeed.

A brave man.

Come on, doc.

[Cheering and chanting]

Ah, here's David

and his lovely lady.

Good-bye!

People of pellucidar,

according to your custom,

I take

dia

to be my bride.

[Cheering]

No, David.

It's not to be.

I must stay here.

This is my world.

I would be lost in yours.

No.

No, you wouldn't. I want to show you

the wonders of my world.

I know,

and I love you.

Come along, David.

We must be on our way.

Good-bye, dia.

God bless you.

[Cheering and chanting]

[Gyroscopes whirling]

David?

[Nose-cutters drilling]