"Aaah!" "[MAN] :" "Carol!" "Hey, Carol, wait." "Hi." " Hi, Mike." "Hey, wake up." "This is Mike, remember?" "The boy with the golden heart, and the memory of an elephant." "Look, I remembered, see?" "Happy birthday, Carol." "Thanks." "Well, aren't you going to open it?" "Not now." "What's wrong?" "It's Dad." "He-- he didn't come home last night." "So what?" "You know it doesn't mean a thing." "I mean, you know how he is." "What do you mean I 'know how he is'?" "Nothing." "I..." "[HONKING]" "Now, where didn't he come home from last night?" "Well, he went to Springdale yesterday to buy me a present." "He said he'd be back before dinner last night, but he still hasn't come back yet." "Well, that doesn't mean a thing, Carol." "I mean, it isn't the first time." "You're mean, Mike." "And I don't want your silly present either." "Here!" "[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]" "[ELECTRIC ARCING]" "The electrons jump from one electrode to the other because of the difference in the electrical potential between the 2 poles." "Now, this one is the negative pole, from which electricity flows to the positive pole." "We call the positive pole what?" "[ALL] :" "Anode." "Correct." "The negative pole?" "[ALL] :" "Cathode." "Good." "If the voltage applied to these electrodes is increased to a greater amplitude, the electrical arc, in turn, will be greater." "the larger the arc becomes, the more dangerous it is to anything that may be placed in its path." "And one thing to remember is that the flow of electrons is always from the negative to the positive." "The reason for this is that the positive pole has higher electrical potential." "Now, in a simple voltaic cell, the positive electrode is made of copper." "The negative, of zinc." "A similar experiment to the one we've conducted here was recently carried out at Wisconsin tech, using a voltage many thousands of times greater, which produced a spark closely simulating actual lightning." "It isn't the voltage that creates the hazard, it's the amount of current flow." "If a man were to come in contact with a high voltage without a direct path to ground, it's probable that he wouldn't be harmed." "However, if the circuit's complete at the ground, the current will flow unhampered and cause him to be electrocuted." "Now, for our next experiments... if Mike, Carol, and Joe have finished their business." "I can't blame people for what they think." "Even mother says he must have run into some of his old cronies and stayed in town." "He had his paycheck with him." "I know it isn't true." "Not this time." "He promised he'd be back." "I know something's happened to him." "Sure it did." "Maybe he ran out of gas." "He'd never meet anybody on this road." "Hold everything." "What do you call that?" "Rubbery stuff." "I don't get it." "Stuck to the tree up there and... it's pitched across the highway and..." "just between two trees." "Who would do a thing like that?" "I don't know." "I don't even know what this stuff is." "You know, it looks like there's been an accident around here or something." "This figures..." "A guy driving along last night hits this thing stretched across the highway and... cracks it up." "See the glass?" "Wouldn't do too good for Joe's tires, would it?" "You know, maybe that's what happened to your old man." "Where is he now?" "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that, Carol." "He's probably hanging around some garage waiting for a busted fender to get fixed." ""To Carol with--with love, Dad."" "Ok, so he dropped it when the accident happened." "What of it?" "If he was all right, he wouldn't leave it laying here." "And if he was in a garage, he'd call Mother and let her know." "What's that down there?" "Just an old pickup truck." "That's what Dad was driving." "It's Dad's!" "Good thing he got out of it in time." "Well, what if he didn't?" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Now, what good will that do?" "Well, if he's hurt, he could still be around somewhere." "That's right, he could be, but he isn't." "Unless he went in the cave" "Oh, he wouldn't go in there." "I never believed those stories about the cave." "Maybe he doesn't either." "You know, it got pretty cold last night." "Suppose he couldn't walk far and wanted to well, keep warm until help came." "Come on, let's go take a look." "Come on." "[WIND WHISTLING]" "Find anything, Mike?" " Oh... no." "Do you really think he could be in there?" "Well, I--I don't know." "Wait a minute!" "Maybe I better go in." "You--you wait here, will you?" "Oh, be careful." "Mike." " What?" "You won't go very far, will you?" "People have gone in there and never come out again." "Mike!" "Mike!" "I thought I told you to stay outside." "Now, what's the idea of following me?" "Mike, I'm scared of being alone." "Do you see any sign of him?" "Well, now, he wouldn't be right here under the opening, if he wanted to keep warm." "I'm going to go a little further in." "I'm going with you." "Ok." "It's no use." "He doesn't seem to be in here either." "Oh, let's not give up yet, please, Mike." "Who said anything about giving up?" "We're just getting started." "This cave is supposed to go way back under that mountain forever." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "[ECHOING] Dad!" "[ECHOING]..." "Dad!" "[ECHOING]" "Dad!" "[ECHOING]..." "Dad!" "[ECHOING]" "Gads." "How will we ever find him in a place this big?" "Mike, lets go this way." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "Dad!" "[ECHOING]" "Dad." "[CAROL SCREAMS]" "Oh, Mike!" "Mike, ah, I think we better go back." "I think you're right." "But I--I can't go without" "All right." "We might as well look a little further, I guess." "Mike, I can't see." "Aah!" "Are you ok, Carol?" "I think so." "What is this thing we fell in?" "I don't know." "It's sticky, though." "How do we get loose?" "I know." "I can't." "It's just like glue!" "You know..." "It's like that ropey stuff we--we found up on the road." "[SCREECHING]" "What's that noise?" "I don't know." "It's a regular net we're on, you know that?" "[SCREECHING]" "There it is again." "Mike!" "What is it?" "[CAROL SCREAMS]" "[CAROL SCREAMS AGAIN]" "Come here!" "Hurry, please!" "[SCREECHING]" "I can't say for sure without having it analyzed, but... it does look like a large piece of natural silk." "What did we tell you?" "But that doesn't necessarily prove that there's a giant spider." "That part's pretty hard to swallow." "But we saw it!" "Believe me, my son is not in the habit of lying, Mrs. Kingman." "That isn't what Helen meant." "Whether we believe their story, or not, the man to see about it is the Sheriff." "Yeah, sure, see the Sheriff." "We did." " He didn't believe them." "[TELEPHONE RINGS]" "[SHERIFF LAUGHS] [RING]" "Sheriff's office." "Oh, yes, Mr. Kingman." "What can I do for you?" "[CAR HONKS] Oh, don't go yet." "It's only a high school teacher." "[HONKS AGAIN]" "Well, you know these teenagers as well as I do, Mr. Kingman." "Yeah, what will they pull next, huh?" "Ha ha ha!" "Spiders!" "I told them to bring me one, and I'd believe it." "I can't say I blame you, sheriff." "Naturally, I didn't call you up to get you to investigate abnormal insect life." "But, Flynn's still missing, I believe." "The youngsters found traces of him out there." "You may be doing yourself a favor if you looked into that." "You took the words right out of my mouth, Mr. Kingman." "The fact of the matter is," "I've got my Deputy Sanders out rounding-up a search party right now." "Get half a dozen men..." "Spencer, Haskell, maybe Old Jake, anyone else that isn't busy... bring them here, and I'll swear them in." "Yeah, well, I'll need those two kids with us to point things out." "And, uh, if you want to come along, too, that's fine." "Oh, don't you worry, we'll bring rifles in case we..." "run into that spider!" "[LAUGHS]" "Anything else on your mind?" "Well, speaking of spiders, are you sure rifles are just the thing?" "Insects have a pretty simple nervous system, Sheriff." "You could plug holes in one all day, and never hit a vital spot." "If you want to be on the safe side, call the pest control people in Springdale." "Have them send out all the DDT they can find." "Good." "Ha ha ha!" "A giant spider!" "What next?" "[STRAINING ENGINE]" "Well, bring your bug juice and let's go." "Say, what are we using it on?" "Does it make any difference?" "Well, I've got to mix the DDT according to what you want killed." "What do I tell him, Professor?" "Uh, spiders?" "A 2 to 4% solution is the usual dose." "Make it 50%." "[WIND WHISTLING]" "Which way, kids?" " Straight ahead." "Some place!" "Make a nice elk's hall, you know that?" "You think we'll find that girl's pa in here alive?" "We might." "Spiders have a habit of stunning their prey with venom and storing them in a silk bag until they're ready to feed on them." "And they eat them up, I suppose." "Not quite." "They drain the liquid from their bodies, leaving only the skin and bones." "Man, what a mind you've got!" "All right, let's look for Flynn." "And don't lose sight of the man next to you." "No sense in anyone getting lost." "Just a minute!" "This is a waste of time!" "You know something?" "I haven't seen a spider yet, and I don't think we will." "You will if he's still there!" "It'd be just our luck, if he'd moved into the next county." "I don't think you'll be disappointed." "There's something in here, all right." "You naturally expect to find a certain amount of wildlife in a cave:" "rats, mice, bats, and so on." "But you don't." "They've been frightened out." "Ah!" "[WINGS FLAPPING]" "[REPEATEDLY COCKS AND SHOOTS RIFLE]" "No wildlife, eh, Kingman?" "That's about as big as they come, I'd say." "I wouldn't handle it if I were you, it might have rabies." "[THEREMIN MUSIC...]" "There." "It's buried." "Want to say a few words over it, Sheriff?" "[ALL LAUGH]" "[CAROL SCREAMS]" "[SOBBING]" "It's her father." "Uh, when you get back to town, make out a coroner's report." "Just put down Jack Flynn as the name, and the cause of death, uh... it was the spider." "Drained all the liquid out of his body." "Uh, just put down cause unknown." "And let the coroner worry about the rest." "That's the trouble with you eggheads." "You jump to conclusions." "I know what I see, and I see a dead man." "But, uh, I don't see any spider." "We can do something about that." "Mike..." "Where was the web?" "Right through there." "Wait a minute!" "You don't know what you're doing!" "You--you can't just walk in there." "Why not?" "Ha ha ha!" "Find any giant spiders, Sheriff?" "Oh, shut up!" "Get that DDT in here, quick!" "Come on!" "Here, you better put these on." "I suggest you spray that whole cavern, so it will get him when it comes back." "[SCREECHING]" "[MULTIPLE SHOTS]" "Don't leave!" "Help me!" "Help me!" "[SCREAMING]" "[SHOTS]" "[SCREECHING]" "[THEREMIN MUSIC...]" "Carol." "You think it'd be better If I talked to your mother first?" "No thanks." "I can do it." "I really believe you can." "The box with the bracelet," "Are you sure you had it?" "It was in this pocket." "Maybe I dropped it in there." "You can't go back there now." "The place is full of gas." "We'll come back some other time, together." "Ok?" "Hey, Haskell:" "When you get back to town, tell Old Warren to get right out here and board this entrance up." "Right, Sheriff." "Well, if you do, I'd suggest you put a big, wide door in it." "The whole world is gonna want to come here and take a look at that thing down there." "Well, what's your idea?" "That the town should charge admission?" "That isn't what I was thinking of." "You know what we eggheads are like, Sheriff." "We wanna know why this, how come that, what about the other." "That's a matter of scientific interest to find out what made that creature tick." "Well, it's too late now..." "it's dead, the spider is." "But not the principle that caused it to grow." "That's still for us to discover." "Well, why bother?" "We have to put an end to it." "Otherwise, there may be more giant spiders coming into the world." "They may even be hatching from their eggs in some remote spot, right now." "You realize how easy it would be for them to overcome us humans?" "Then instead of being the hunters, we'd become the hunted." "They'd be our masters." "They'd live on us." "Well, what would you suggest the sheriff's office of River Falls do about it, Mr. Kingman?" "Bring that spider up into the daylight, where it can be studied properly." "Well, if you want to do it, go ahead, but leave me out." "It's not my job, and I don't want any part of it." "Ok, Sheriff." "Ugly creature, isn't it?" "I can think of more suitable subjects for my camera club to take pictures of." "What are you gonna do with 'em?" "Send 'em to the papers?" "No, just the opposite." "One big advantage of living in an isolated mountain community like River Falls, is not having reporters crawling all over the place." "Yet, I'm going to send these photographs along with a complete report to Dr. Bergin at the State U." "Nancy... would you get me some close-ups, please?" "Oh, sure." "Good old Bergin." "I had him for biology, my junior year." "You know, I know exactly what he's going to say:" "' Gentlemen, this is a perfect specimen...exquisite." "Exquisite!" "'" "I can't quite appreciate the humor in it myself." "I saw it when it was still alive." "I expect the university is going to want it for experiment and dissection." "Frankly,I'll feel relieved when they come and take it off my hands." "I can't say I blame you." "It is a little unhandy." "It took a house mover from Riverdale to get it here." "Cost me half my savings." "Besides wanting my money back, I'd like to get the High School Board off my neck." "Suppose the university doesn't go for it?" "They'd better." "You think I'm going to all this bother merely because I've come across a scientific wonder?" "Not a bit." "Somewhere in that hideous carcass are the genes that control organic growth." "Man had better find out what made this creature so big, and find out fast, or we're all going to be in pretty serious trouble." "Usually, if nature produces a freak, it dies immediately, because it can't adapt itself to life." "It's what we ordinarily call a 'Bird Spider.'" "But the wonder of it is, it's perfect, Fraser, perfect in every detail." "Fraser, you hurt?" "Are you sure that thing is dead?" "Sure, it's dead!" "How come it kicked me?" "It's just a muscular contraction." "'Galvani's Reaction', it's called." "It often happens." "Not to me, it doesn't." "If it can do that when it's dead," "I'd sure hate to meet it somewhere alive." "Heh heh heh." "[CAROL SOFTLY CRYING]" "Don't, Carol." "I can't help it, Mother." "I know." "I loved him, too." "I keep thinking it was my fault." "How could it be?" "It never would have happened if he hadn't gone to get me that present." "Now, I've lost it." "You mustn't think of it that way, Carol." "Why did I have to drop it in that cave?" "I wanted so much to keep it, Mother." "Forget about it now, dear." "You have your homework to get ready for tomorrow." "Oh, and I forgot," "Mike called you twice before you got home from school, and said he would be at his father's theater." "Oh, thanks, Mother." "Hello, Mr. Simpson." "Can I talk to Mike?" "Mike..." "Hmm?" "You're wanted on the phone." "Oh, ok, thanks." "Hello." "Hi, Mike, this is Carol." "You said you'd take me out to the cave to find the bracelet." "You don't mean right now, do you?" "If you can get away." "Please, Mike." "Carol, not today." "My dad just got in a new picture, and I haven't even seen it yet." "Something about puppet people." "It sounds pretty wild." "Please!" "Ok, Carol, I think I can borrow Joe's car again." "Only, don't come by the house for me." "I don't want Mother to know I'm going out there." "All right, I'll be down at the corner in 15 minutes." "I'll be waiting." "I'll see ya, Dad." "I got a date now." "Where will you be?" "I said, where will you be if I want you?" "Ohh." "Hey, Joe." "Hi." "Hey, um," "You remember that five bucks I loaned you?" "Sure, it was last Christmas, and, I paid it back." "All I mean is, I'm your friend." "You know that, don't you?" "You want to borrow five bucks?" "Oh, no." "No." "Could Carol and I use your wagon for a couple of hours?" "Again?" "What's the big deal?" "Well, what do you care?" "Look, we're friends, Joe." "Just remember that." "Well, aren't you comin' to the rehearsal?" "Look, my mouth is getting tired," "Are we friends or aren't we?" "Ok, ok." "The car's in the driveway," "You'll find the keys in the..." "Glove compartment, where else?" "Why do I have so many friends?" "Thanks, Joe." "Sure." "Come on, Joe, we got problems." "It's off-limits." "I told ya." "But we gotta get in, the dance is tomorrow night." "Oh, the cats'll have a blast if we don't swing solid." "[BELL RINGS]" "Hey, let's get the janitor, maybe he'll open the pad." "Not with Mr. Eight-Legs still in there." "Well, they can't hang us for trying, can they?" "Hugo?" "Hugo?" "Hey, Hugo." "Hugo!" "Who's callin' Hugo?" "Well, now, what's the matter here?" "We want in." "Gotta develop our talents." "Ah, you'll have to use the auditorium till further notice." "Principal's orders." "No can do." "Drama class is there." "I can't help that." "Kingman was just here checkin' up." "Told me particular not to let nobody in." "Well, Kingman didn't mean us." "He meant squares." "We're the coolest zoologists in town." "No, siree." "The moving' people are comin' here tonight to move that thing to the university." "You can rehearse all you want to afterwards." "In the dead of night?" "Hugo, we're only little kids." "Mommy wouldn't let us." "Well, all right, you monsters." "Now, I want you to behave yourselves." "Don't muck with that thing." "Dig that?" "Or the first guy who steps on Daddy Long Legs is gonna hear from Hugo." "Yeah." "[GUY] :" "Crazy." "[JOE WHISTLES]" "It's big, all right!" "Hey, maybe the drama class is through with the auditorium," "Let's blow this place." "It gives me the creeps." "What is it, Superman?" "Chickening out?" "Well, certainly not." "Well, then let's stop goofing' off, huh?" "Now, guys, let's start with the opening number, and don't go to sleep on it." "Play with everything you got." "Loud enough to wake the dead, huh?" "Play good and loud." "Ok." "[SCREAMING]" "Hey, what goes on here?" "That's the drama class, what else?" "All right, either you come in or get out." "But don't stand there and scream." "We're rehearsing'." "One," "Two," "Three," "Four..." "[ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC PLAYING]" "Well, ok, let's go." "Aaah!" "Aah!" "[SCREAMING]" "Hey, what's got into you kids?" "Beat it, it's alive!" "[SCREECHING]" "[POUNDING]" "[TELEPHONE RINGS]" "Hello?" "Hello!" "[SCREECHES]" "[RING]" "[RING]" "Hello." "[POUNDING]" "It's escaping, the spider!" "The spider!" "[SCREECHING]" "[SCREAMING]" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Anyone comes for me," "I'll be at Sanders' funeral." "[CAR HORN HONKS] [TELEPHONE RINGS]" "I'll get it." "Great guy, Pete Sanders was." "You've got plenty to live up to." "Sheriff's office, Cagle speaking." "What?" "All right, Mr. Kingman." "I'll meet you at the school." "You stay here and answer the phone." "Helen?" "What is it, Art?" "It'd be a good idea if you stayed inside the house for a while." "Oh, and I was just going to take the baby for his check-up, and do some shopping for dinner." "Stay in the house, Helen, no matter what." "I'll be back as soon as I can." "[SCREAMS AND FOOTSTEPS]" "[SCREECHING THEN GUNSHOTS]" "[SCREECHING]" "[ENGINE STALLS]" "[SCREECHING]" "[ENGINE STARTS]" "[SCREECHING]" "[SIREN WAILING]" "[SIREN CONTINUES]" "[MAN] :" "Maybe somebody held up the bank." "[SECOND MAN] :" "I don't see anything." "Where are they running?" "[CRASH]" "[SIREN AND CHATTERING]" "[SCREECHING]" "[ALL SCREAMING]" "[SCREAMS]" "Get inside!" "Take cover!" "This is Sheriff Cagle speaking." "How's that call to the Capital coming?" "Well, hurry it up!" "We want action here." "Get off the streets!" "Hello?" "Hello." "Sheriff Cagle, River Falls." "Hello?" "Get off the streets!" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Operator, I've been cut off." "Ok, sister." "Well, that's that." "The long distance lines are down." "I've got my motorcycle out back." "How long would it take you to get to Springdale on it?" "Maybe an hour." "Maybe less." "Go ahead. and get the Governor on the phone." "Tell him we've got to have troops from Fort Brown." "also, flame throwers and artillery." "Tell him we need—DDT?" "No good." "That stuff just stunned it." "All right, Dave, on your way." "[SCREECHING]" " Wait, Dave!" "[SCREECHING]" "All right, Dave, go ahead." "[BABY CRYING]" "Yeah, it's still too soon for the troops to be here." "I know." "I thought they might fly a few men in with 'whirly birds.'" "I'll give them time." "Hey, isn't that Jake?" "Wait a minute, Jake!" "Where to, Jake?" "I'm evacuating." "That darn monster run me out of house and home!" "Which way was it heading?" "Towards Maple Street." "I've had it!" "Maple Street?" "Helen!" "I think that's just right now." "[THEREMIN MUSIC...]" "Come on, just a little bit." "[CRYING]" "[SCREAMING]" "[SCREECHING]" "[SCREAMS]" "[SCREAMING AND SCREECHING]" "[DRAMATIC MUSIC...]" "[HELEN CRYING]" "Helen!" "Helen!" "Oh, darling!" "You'll be all right, Helen." "It's gone away." "Help should be here soon." "Now, take it easy." "Just take it easy." "[BABY CRYING]" "Sheriff?" "Any news from Springdale yet?" "Not a word." "Good." "Kingman says the spider's" "Headed south, along the old Higgins Road." "At least the town's safe." "Mike, will you help me look for it?" "Yeah, ok." "This isn't getting us anywhere." "Why don't I buy you another bracelet?" "It wouldn't be the same at all." "Besides, I'm broke." "Well, when was the last time you remember having it?" "Well, it was just before I fell in the web." "I was up there, and then I stumbled." "If I dropped it then, it should be around here somewhere." "Mike!" " Find it?" "No, but there's an opening down here." "Do you think it could have fallen through?" "Hey, it looks like there's another cave down there." "Maybe we can get into it through this opening over here." "Come on." "Wow, there must be hundreds of these caves down here." "Hello!" "[ECHOING]" "Look for my bracelet." " Oh, I am looking." "Here it is!" "I guess you're happy now, huh?" "Oh, I am." "No kidding!" "Good, then I guess we can go home." "Let's see, which way?" "That way." "Ok, only this time, let me keep this thing for you 'till we get out, ok?" "Come on." "[SCREECHY GROWLING]" "[SPLAT]" "We've got enough spiders around here." "Well, help ought to be here soon now." "Sheriff Cagle again, sister." "How soon before those long distance lines to Springdale are gonna get fixed?" "Another 2 hours, maybe." "Ok, sister, keep working on it." "[KNOCK ON DOOR]" "Open the door, will you, Simpson?" "It's Dave." "Where did you find him?" "At the corner of Maple and Horton." "He never got to Springdale for help." "That puts us right back where we started." "And all we've got to do is sit right here and wait for that thing to come back and finish us all off." "I was all in favor of sealing off that cave some time ago, while the monster was still in it." "Wasn't I, Kingman?" "You can do it right now." "It went back to the cave." "Yes, sir, I seen it!" "The thing to do is to get lumber out there and board that entrance up tight." "Boards won't hold it." "Any better ideas?" "You're the road foreman, aren't you, Mr. Haskell?" "I am." "Do you have enough dynamite to blow up the cave entrance?" "I can blow up half that hill if you want me to." "Ok, Sam, go ahead and get the stuff." "We'll meet you at your place." "Right." "Simpson, you've been sworn in." "Take care of the office for me, 'till I get back." "And call the coroner." "The rest of you boys, come with us." "[TELEPHONE RINGS]" "Sheriff's office, Simpson speaking." "Oh, hello, Mr. Simpson." "This is Joe, Mike's friend." "Remember me?" "Oh, yes, Joe." "What's the trouble?" "I--I better tell the sheriff." "Well, he's not here now." "Maybe you'd better tell me." "What is it, Joe?" "Well, it's about my heap." "Somebody mooched it off of me today to go for a ride, an--and it isn't back yet." "After what that spider did this afternoon," "Well--well, I was just wondering if" "Well, it's a good idea to check." "Now, what's the boy's name?" "Well, it was Mike and Carol Flynn." "Did they get back yet?" "No." "At least I haven't seen them." "Did they say where they might be heading?" "No, sir." "Thank you, Joe." "I'll look into it." "[MRS. FLYNN] :" "Hello?" "Mrs. Flynn, this is Mike Simpson's father." "Didn't take us this long to come in, did it?" "Sure it did, you just forget." "What time is it?" "I don't know." "I haven't got a watch." "I got a feeling it's late." "It's still light." "Don't kid me, that's luminous algae!" "It grows on cave walls and it shines." "Don't you remember, Mr. Kingman told our science class?" "All right, but from the next cavern, you'll see daylight outside." "You want to bet?" "I don't see any daylight." "I goofed." "Never been in this cave before, either." "We're lost!" "I know." "Well, let's hurry-up and find our way out!" "That's what I'm doing." "I figure if we just go straight ahead, we'll come to the part we know." "Come on, let's go this way." "Mike?" "Mike, we can't go any further!" "Dead end!" "There's gotta be another way out." "All I'm trying to do is find it." "Mike, look!" "There's something written on the wall." "What did I tell you?" "There have been people through here before!" ""George Weston," "Lost April 9, 1902."" "Mike!" "He must have starved to death!" "I'm getting awfully worried, Mike." "Me, too, Carol." "Why did I ever have to bring you down here?" "It's all my fault!" "Forget it." "What do you suppose your mother's thinking?" "Well, they wouldn't tell her." "She's in the hospital having a baby." "What about your dad?" "Ah, he's a pretty good Joe, I think he can take it." "My mother can't." "Not after what happened to my father." "Don't make yourself feel bad, Carol." "Don't you either, then." "You know, all of a sudden, I feel hungry." "Me, too." "I just remembered!" "I've got a candy bar with me." "[SCREECHING]" "[SCREECHING CONTINUES]" "All right, you men make it snappy." "Let's get that gear off that truck." "Carol always lets me know when she isn't coming home." "Always." "But today, I don't know, she just wasn't herself." "She attached too much importance to that bracelet." "Oh, I hope she and Mike haven't gone back to that cave." "Carol, do you see, this is the place" "Where we got lost!" "Now I know the way, it's through there." "But the spider, Mike!" "If we stay here, it'll find us." "Come on, let's run." "There's the hole we fell through." "We haven't got far to go now." "Come on, climb through the web." "Come on!" "[CAROL GRUNTS]" "I'm stuck!" "Ok, give me your hand, give me your hand!" "Come on." "[SCREECHING]" "It's coming!" "Phil, Pete, let's get that extra dynamite out of here." "Well, that'll be the end of our spider's nest, eh, Kingman?" "End of spider." "That's what you said last time." "Well, this time it's for sure." "It's gotta die." "No living organism can survive for long once its food supply is cut off." "We'll be ready to blow her up in a couple seconds." "Let her blow when you're ready." "[SCREECHING]" "Step wide back, all you men." "I don't want anyone hurt." "Isn't that Joe's car over there?" " Well, yes, it is." "[SCREECHING]" "[CAROL SCREAMS]" "[EXPLOSION]" "Please do something." " You sealed them up!" "You're going to have to open that cave and get them out." "Now, don't get excited." "We're going to do everything for them we can." "How do we go about it, Haskell?" "Open up the cave again?" "That's easy to say, Sheriff, but it's going to take some doing." "We blew up tons of earth and rock over that opening, brought half the hillside down." "Well, we better start clearing it away." "It'll take days." "Maybe a week, even." "There isn't that much time." "If the spider doesn't get them, the bad air will." "Well, we better get going." "The sooner the better." "You've got a car." "Go into town and get them to send out a bulldozer." "Wait, there may be a quicker way than that." "See that flat shelf a little higher up the mountain?" "Suppose we dug straight down from there?" "How about it, Haskell?" "Looks good to me." "Let's get those ropes, picks, and shovels out of that truck." "Here's where we go to work." "[CRYING]" "You don't want to look at it like that, Mrs. Flynn." "You've got to remember that cave is a big place and those kids have a lot of sense." "They'll find places where the spider can't get at them." "If we do dig our way in, what's to keep it from getting at us?" "I don't know." "What do you say, Kingman?" "We gotta have some kind of an effective weapon against it," "That's obvious." "That power line across the hills-- if we could bring a cable over from there" "What for?" "Let's see if we can electrocute the beast." "Know where we can find a quarter mile of insulated copper cable this side of Springdale?" "You might try the Express office;" "Seems to me I saw a lot of that stuff in there." "You wanna go for it in the truck, Simpson?" "Yeah." "I'm sure you wouldn't waste any time getting it back." "How's it coming?" "Not bad, but we have plenty to go." "Carol?" "Carol!" "Carol!" "Carol!" "Where is it?" "Let's go." "Can you make it?" " I'll be all right." "[HAMMERING AT ROCK]" "We struck granite." "Come on up and let me get down there." "Is this the place we came in?" " I'm sure it was." "Well, where's the opening?" " Oh, what do we do?" "[EXPLOSION]" "What was that?" "Sounds like blasting." "I bet they know we're in here!" "I bet they're trying to get us out!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "[ECHOING...]" "Help!" "Help!" "[ECHOING...]" "They can't hear us." "Maybe if we get closer to where they're working." "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "We're down here!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help, we're down here!" "[MUFFLED YELLING]" "Mike, Carol, we hear you!" "We're coming!" "It's Kingman, they heard us!" "[SCREECHING]" "[SCREAMS]" "This is the power line foreman, Kingman." "He's going to help us when the cable gets here." "I thought you'd be the one to brief him on what we're doing." "Well, my idea is to tie into that power line, take a couple electrodes into the cave, get the spider between them, and turn on the juice." "We want to create an electric arc, you see, so it jumps through its body like a bolt of lightning." "Think it'll work?" "It could." "How about electrodes?" "Simpson's bringing them." "Have you got tools and rubber gloves?" "In my jeep." "All we need is the cable and I'm ready to go." "That could be Simpson now." "[SCREECHING]" "[CAROL GASPS]" "The ledge, if we can get out far enough on it, the spider can't follow us." "Don't be scared, just hold on to me." "[CAROL SCREAMS]" "Mike?" " Yeah, what?" "There's nothing to walk on over here." "Ok." "We can't get back!" "[HAMMERING ON STONE]" "Give me that thing!" "Does that sound hollow, or am I crazy?" "We broke through." "Do you hear me?" "We broke through!" "[THEREMIN BUILDING TO CRESCENDO]" "How are they doing down there?" "Is Carol all right?" "We're going down there for now, Mrs. Flynn." "It may take a little while before we find them, but we'll send up news as fast as we can." "As soon as I get down there, pass along the cable and electrodes." "Keep it coming, see that I have plenty of slack." "No telling how much I'll need once I'm below." "Well, don't go down yet." "Wait for the equipment." "You wait for the equipment." "See you below." "The rest of you men follow that equipment." "Carol!" "[ECHOING]" "Mike!" "[ECHOING]" "Carol!" "[ECHOING] Mike!" "[ECHOING]" "[ECHOING:" "CAROL!" "MIKE!" "]" " Hey, Carol, it's them!" "They're coming for us." "What did I tell you?" "Hey, we're in here!" "[ECHOING]" "Help!" " Help!" "Help!" "Help!" "[ECHOING] Help!" "Why don't we split up?" "All right, you men stay here." "Sheriff, better go armed." "Yeah. let's have my rifle." "Mike!" "Mike!" "[ECHOING]" "Carol, look!" "[SCREECHING]" "[CAROL SCREAMS]" "Sheriff, this way!" "[SCREECHING]" "The line is caught." "Catch, mike!" "I got it." "Now what?" "There's a rubber glove." "Put it on." "Here we go." "Tell him to hook us up." "Ok!" "Ok!" "Ok!" "[ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE] [SCREECHING]" "Out of the way!" "[SCREECHING]" "Tell him to turn off the juice." "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Hold it!" "Let's get the kids off the ledge." "Oh, Sheriff, where's Carol?" "Where is she?" "She's all right, Mrs. Flynn." "We had a little trouble getting the kids off a narrow ledge they were trapped on." "Excuse me." "Oh, Carol!" "Mom." "I'm awfully sorry." "I didn't mean to scare you this way." "Honestly, I couldn't help it." "Mike, you're all right?" "I'm ok." "Guess I was a lot of trouble to you," "Wasn't I, Dad?" "Come on, Son." "Go on up." "That's all right." "Everything's out of the cavern, I checked." "Yeah, thanks, Jake." "Good night, Sheriff." "Good night, Haskell." "Thanks for everything." "Sure took you long enough down there." "I was checking up." "Anything left behind?" "Nothing but a dead spider." "Well, this time he's going to stay dead." "Dead and buried." "Let's say at least until some egghead comes along and digs it up again." "[EXPLOSION]"