Crack in the World Quotes

Crack in the World is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Crack in the World ended its run in 1970.

It features Bernard Glasser, and Lester A. Sansom as producer, Johnny Douglas (conductor) in charge of musical score, and Manuel Berenguer as head of cinematography.

Each episode of Crack in the World is 96 minutes long. Crack in the World is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Dana Andrews as Steele, Kieron Moore as Dr. Ted Rampion, Alexander Knox as Sir Charles Eggerston, Dana Andrews as Dr. Stephen Sorenson, and Janette Scott as Dr. Maggie Sorenson.

Crack in the World Quotes

Dana Andrews as Dr. Stephen Sorenson

• (Dana Andrews) "How many men have the opportunity to turn the page of history? Newton, Pasteur, Einstein --"

• (Dana Andrews) "Get me section 3ection 31, the district below Point Albert."
• (Unnamed) "There's been no activity in that section, none whatsoever."
• (Dana Andrews) "There will be, in about half an hour. There are two fissures now, rather, two ends of the same crack. One of them has changed direction, and if the other one does --"
• (Unnamed) "If they're extended, where would they intersect?"
• (Dana Andrews) "At the bore hole, where it all started."
• (Unnamed) "A circle cut out of the Earth's crust?"
• (Dana Andrews) "Yes. And it will break away, acting as a safety valve of immense proportion. Twenty-thousand square miles of the Eearth's surface thrown out into space"
• (Unnamed) "The effect on the Earth's rotation?"
• (Unnamed) "Do you think the Earth can survive?"
• (Dana Andrews) "No one has ever observed the birth of a moon, Masefield."

Janette Scott as Dr. Maggie Sorenson

• (Janette Scott) "But Sir Charles, the project entrance is half a mile further on."
• (Alexander Knox) "I know Mrs. Sorenson. I wanted to stop here to take a better look at that. That's your drill tower, isn't it?"
• (Janette Scott) "Yes it is."
• (Alexander Knox) "What's that missile doing up there? I thought that we came here to discuss with your husband the possibility of using an atomic warhead."
• (Janette Scott) "Half a missile, Sir Charles. If you look closely, you'll see it's not armed."

• (Unnamed) "IT'S ANOTHER CRACK."
• (Janette Scott) "They seem to be converging."

Kieron Moore as Dr. Ted Rampion

• (Kieron Moore) "If we can start Tucamoa erupting before the crack gets there, we stand a chance of stopping it."
• (Unknown) "Yeah, but how do you start up a volcano?"
• (Kieron Moore) "With a nuclear bomb."
• (Unnamed) "He never learns."

• (Unnamed) "How do you feel?"
• (Kieron Moore) "Medium rare."

• (Kieron Moore) "Suppose the Macedo trench splits open under the ocean? A crack a thousand miles long, bringing superheated magma in contact with the ocean -- Earthquakes, tidal waves, mass destruction on an apocalyptic scale."

Alexander Knox as Sir Charles Eggerston

• (Alexander Knox) "The question now is not who is to blame, but how we can stop the catastrophe."
• (Kieron Moore) "At present we don't know any way we can stop it. First, we have to learn to understand the natural forces involved, and if possible, find some way to control them in the time that is permitted to us."
• (Alexander Knox) "What is being done? Now?"
• (Kieron Moore) "Every university, every scientist, every thinking military leader is helping us."
• (Alexander Knox) "Is there anything that we can do?"
• (Kieron Moore) "Pray."

• (Alexander Knox) "A crack in the world?"
• (Alexander Knox) "Gentlemen. Gentlemen. Dont let this fall apart. We have work to do. We must hear Dr Rampion complete his report. You were saying that the crack is extending to the east."
• (Kieron Moore) "Along the Macedo Trench. It's following a geological flaw in the Earth's crust, known as the Macedo Fault. That runs from here, to the tip of India, veers off towards Indonesia, and terminates off the Australian continental shelf."
• (Alexander Knox) "How do you know that the crack will stop there?"
• (Kieron Moore) "We don't."
• (Alexander Knox) "What if the crack keeps going? Right around the world? What happens then?"
• (Kieron Moore) "Where the land masses split, the oceans will be sucked in, and the colossal pressure generated by the steam will rip the Earth apart, and destroy it."
• (Unnamed) "You mean, the world will come to an end?"
• (Kieron Moore) "The world as we know it, yes."

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