“On the twenty-third day of the month of September, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence.”

Stan Jones - Narrator

“- Major Rama Safti: The world's not as bad as you think, Tom.
- Thomas Ransome: No? Only trying to commit suicide as fast as it knows how.”
Tyrone Power - Major Rama Safti
George Brent - Tom Ransome

“In this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“I don't know what's going to happen to this world in the next hundred years or so, but I can guarantee you life isn't going to get any simpler. Worry and doubt bring on a bellyache. Mankind's building up the biggest psychic bellyache in history.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“Mr. Stalin, I believe history will record you as a great builder for the benefit of mankind.”
Walter Huston - Ambassador Joseph E. Davies