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The Andromeda Strain
# TheAndromedaStrain
CastArthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne
Year released1971
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One soldier tells another, "That's crazy..." (0:04)
By telephone, Lt. Comroe tells Major Arthur Manchek, "... this may sound crazy, but..." (0:07)
By telephone, Manchek tells someone, "... Assign gunner Wilson, if he’s not crocked someplace." (0:07)
His wife Claire tells Dr. Charles Dutton, "You talk like you’ve been brainwashed."
Dutton’s daughter tells her son, ”Honey, you’ve been dreaming.” (0:13)
Surgeon Dr. Mark Hall tells an official, "I’ve got a patient all ready." (0:15)
Helicopter pilot Dempsey: "Let’s give it a double dose." (0:20)
Hall tells Stone, referring to a woman who appears to have hanged herself, "Senile." (0:24)
Dr. Jeremy Stone tells Hall, “Senile.”
"I wouldn’t believe you could commit suicide that way."
Hall: ”... a few had time to go quietly nuts.” (0:24)
Stone tells Hall, referring to the doctor, "The damn fool opened it." (0:27)
Senator McKenzie asks General Sparks, "Weren’t you worried the infection might spread to them?" (0:34)
Dr. Ruth Leavitt tells Dutton, "It’s a great place to grow pot." (0:35)
Stone tells Hall, "Each level is a different color, based on a Navy study of the psychological effects of color..."
Hall: ”Where are the patients?”
Stone: ”The patients are the yellow Xs.” (0:44)
A voice tells Leavitt, "Do not be nervous."
Leavitt: ”I’m not nervous.”
Voice: ”There’s no need to be nervous, Dr. Leavitt.” (0:49)
A voice tells Hall, "You have received pneumatic injections of booster immunizations." (0:50)
Stone: "So far it’s only been used by NASA to diagnose astronauts in space." (0:51)
Computer voice: "Pharmacology to maintenance L.B." (0:52)
Scientist Rudolph Karp tells Leavitt, "Fools... What do I have to do, hit them over the head?" (0:54)
Dutton: "... intelligent life on a distant planet may be no larger than a flea..." (0:54)
Dutton tells Stone, "... we might destroy a highly intelligent form of life."
Hall: ”... I’ve go two patients down there.” (0:58)
Dutton tells Hall, "Your patients are here..." (0:59)
Hall asks Dutton, "Hey, if the patients are sealed off, how do I get to them?" (0:59)
Hall asks nurse Karen Anson, "Your therapy?"
Anson: ”It’s a medical data analyzer that can diagnose as well as prescribe...” (1:05)
Hall tells Dutton, "I hoped maybe one crucial clot might form in the brain, which was what made them go insane..." (1:17)
Stone tells Leavitt, "We’ll take a caffeine break in a minute..." (1:21)
Anson tells Hall, "Ask the patient." (1:25)
Computer screen: "SQUEEZE... STERNO... ETHANOL AND METHANOL" (1:26)
Hall tells Dutton, "Sounds like you’re getting a little paranoid in this fun house." (1:30)
Hall tells Stone, "Let me get back to my patients..." (1:35)
Hall tells Jackson, "... First the town went crazy and then was destroyed."
Jackson: ”You’re crazy.”
Hall: ”If he missed his treatment...” (1:39)
Hall tells the others, "If the old soldier missed his insulin treatment, he’d go into acidosis..."
Stone: ”Idiots.” (1:41)
Stone asks Robertson, referring to the pilot, "Like he was crazy?"
Robertson: ”He was mighty confused.” (1:45)
Leavitt tells Grimes, referring to the President, "Congratulate him on his scientific insight." (1:50)
Hall, by intercom: "Someone bring 100 milligrams of phenobarb in a syringe, fast."
Hall tells Anson, ”Give her the injection...” (1:55)
By intercom, Stone tells Hall, "It’s mostly shock." (2:05)
Senator Phillips asks Stone, "Then we can feel confident your so-called biological crisis is over?"
Stone: ”... there’s no guarantee that another so-called biological crisis won’t occur again.” (2:08)