Complete Narrators dialog

AND ODE.... TO PROGRESS

Narration of "Beast of Yucca Flats" (1961)
Directed by Coleman Francis
Produced by Anthony Cardoza

Narration Compiled by Brint Corb , copyright Sept. 2, 2007
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Joseph Javorsky, noted Scientist. recently escaped from behind the iron curtain, wife and children killed in hungary.

His aide carries a briefcase. Secret data on the russian moon shot.

Joseph Javorsky's destination, Yucca flats. And a meeting with the top brass at the A bomb testing ground.

These men are also from behind the iron curtain. Two of the kremlins most ruthless agents.

Their orders: get the briefcase. Kill Javorsky.

Flag on the moon. How did it get there.

Secret data. Pictures of the moon.

Secret data. never before outside the kremlin. mans first rocket to the moon

yucca flats. the A bomb.

vacation time. man and wife. unaware of scientific progress.

joseph javorsky. noted scientist. dedicated his life to betterment of mankind.

young joe dobson. desert patrolman.

Joe dobson. caught in the wheels of progress.

a man choked to death. a womans purse. and footprints on the wasteland.

touch a button. things happen. a scientist becomes a beast.

jim archer. Joes partner. another man caught in the frantic race for the betterment of mankind. Progress.
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jim archer. wounded parachuting on korea. jim and joe try to keep the desert roads safe for travelers. seven days a week.

Shockwaves of an A bomb. A once powerful and humble man. reduced to .... nothing.

joseph javorsky. respected scientist. now a fiend. prowling he wastelands. a prehistoric beast in the nuclear age. kill, kill just to be killing.

the mouth the cave over 1000 ft. up. over jaged cliffs. a man murdered. a womans purse.

jim and joe, pick their way up to the mouth of the cave. one slip, and a thousand feet to nowhere.

vacation time. people travel east. west, north or south. the radcliffes travel east, with two small boys. adventurous boys,. nothing bothers some people. not even flying saucers.

boys fromt the city. not yet caught in the whirlwind of progress. feed soda pop to the thirsty pigs.

coyotes. once a menance to travelers. missile bases run them off their hunting grounds.

110 in the shade. and no shade. jim and joe try to make their way up to the plateau. to reach the top a man needs an airplane. a jump from the plane. could land you on top.

but the killers. not on the plateau.

hours in the broiling hot sun. no trace of the killer. to put jim archers paratroop training to good use, is the only answer. a trip up into the skies. and jump. and if the killer is on the plateau, kill him.

always on the prowl. looking for someone or somebody to kill. quench the killers thirst.

shoot first, ask questions later.

a man runs. somebody shoots at him

the pilot drops his man. joe dobson moves north. hankel to be caught in the middle.

jim archer. ex paratrooper. trained to hunt down his man. and destroy him.

the hunter and the hunted. with only a few hundred yards between him and the enemy. jim archer closes in for the kill.

joe dobson headed north and met jim.

20 hours without rest and still no enemy. in the blistering desert heat, jim and joe plan another attack. find the beast, and kill him. kill or be killed. mans inhumanity.... to man.

the beast finding his victim gone, unleashes his fury.

with some help from neighbors. the search narrows.

joseph javorsky. noted scientist.

Sigh... to think this could be gone soon. People should be reading and re reading this fifty years from now. (copy/paste)