The Andromeda Strain (film) Quotes

The Andromeda Strain (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Andromeda Strain completed its run in 1970.

It features Robert Wise as producer, Gil Mellé in charge of musical score, and Richard H. Kline as head of cinematography.

The Andromeda Strain (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Andromeda Strain (film) is 130 minutes long. The Andromeda Strain (film) is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: James Olson as Dr. Mark Hall, Paula Kelly as Karen Anson, George Mitchell as Jackson, John Carter as Capt. Morton, Arthur Hill as Dr. Jeremy Stone, Kate Reid as Dr. Ruth Leavitt, David Wayne as Dr. Charles Dutton, James W. Gavin as Dempsey, Peter Helm as Sgt. Crane, John Carter as Mic-T, and Carl Reindel as Control.

The Andromeda Strain (film) Quotes

James Olson as Dr. Mark Hall

• (Unnamed) "This is the Answering Service Supervisor. We wish you would adopt a more serious attitude, Dr. Hall."
• (James Olson) "Sorry -- Her voice is quite luscious."
• (Unnamed) "Well, the voice belongs to Miss Gladys Stevens, who is 63 years old. She lives in Omaha and makes her living taping messages for voice-reminder systems."
• (James Olson) "Much obliged."

• (James Olson) "That body analyzer. I'd like to be there when the AMA gets wind of it."
• (Arthur Hill) "So far it's only been used to treat astronauts in space."
• (Kate Reid) "You doctors better start making house calls again."

• (James Olson) ""The day of judgment is at hand. Have mercy on my soul, and to hell with all the others. Amen.""
• (Arthur Hill) "Senile --"
• (James Olson) "This took time. Regardless of what made her do it, it took time. There's a chance someone's still alive."

• (James Olson) "Tell us what happened, Mr. Jackson."
• (George Mitchell) "I don't wanna think about it."
• (James Olson) "You know what people will say: "Piedmont was bad. That's why it was punished." First the town went crazy and then was destroyed --"
• (George Mitchell) "YOU'RE crazy. Folks at Piedmont was good, decent, normal folks."
• (James Olson) "The man we found all dressed up in his doughboy's uniform, you call that normal?"
• (George Mitchell) "Pete Arnold, who worked at the store. It was the disease."
• (James Olson) "How do you know?"
• (George Mitchell) "'Cause the only thing wrong with him before that night was sugar."
• (James Olson) "Diabetes? Did he take insulin?"
• (George Mitchell) "Couple of times a day. Hated the needle. I tried to talk him into usin' squeeze."

• (James Olson) "Do you know the baby's name?"
• (George Mitchell) "Give us a butt, first."
• (James Olson) "Smoking isn't allowed here."
• (George Mitchell) "Then, go fish."

• (James Olson) "Air doesn't matter. Blood does. That's the answer."

• (James Olson) "Have a look at his buttocks."
• (Arthur Hill) "That's not funny."
• (James Olson) "Not meant to be. Normally, blood in a dead person goes to the lowest points. There should be marks of lividity, right? Do you see any purplish marks on his butt?"
• (Arthur Hill) "No."
• (Arthur Hill) "Careful you don't puncture your suit."
• (James Olson) "Clotted blood. Powdered."
• (Arthur Hill) "I'll be -- damned."
• (James Olson) "No wonder they didn't bleed. It's clotted throughout the entire system; five quarts of blood turned to powder."
• (Arthur Hill) "In theory, I suppose a single organism could do it."
• (James Olson) "But, in fact, there isn't an organism on Earth --"
• (Arthur Hill) "You mean there didn't used to be."

• (James Olson) "Most of them died instantly, but a few had time to go quietly nuts."

• (James Olson) "Why did you pick me?"
• (Arthur Hill) "You're an MD, a talented surgeon who knows blood chemistries -- and you're single. The Odd Man Hypothesis."
• (James Olson) "What the hell is that?"
• (Arthur Hill) "Didn't you read the Wildfire material I've been sending you?"
• (James Olson) "Very little. I never went in much for science fiction."
• (Arthur Hill) "Nor do I."

• (James Olson) "Poor devil. Look at how he's breathing. He's scared to death."
• (Arthur Hill) "We'll increase his oxygen. It'll slow down his breathing."
• (James Olson) "No, we want him to breathe fast. In Piedmont the old man survived drinking Sterno -- Sterno, acidosis. Acidosis, rapid breathing."
• (Arthur Hill) "What the hell are you doing?"
• (James Olson) "I'm turning off the oxygen."
• (Arthur Hill) "But the baby. He's normal."
• (James Olson) "He's crying. He's not leaving it in his lungs long enough to do anything."
• (Arthur Hill) "Rapid breathing? It just can't be that simple."
• (James Olson) "It isn't."

• (James Olson) "I'll have the answer when I know why a sixty-nine-year-old sterno drinker with an ulcer is like a normal six-month-old baby."

Carl Reindel as Control

• (Unnamed) "Albuquerque Center, Albuquerque Center, this is Air Force 561"
• (Carl Reindel) "Go ahead, 561."
• (Unnamed) "My air hose is coming apart like it's dissolving."
• (Carl Reindel) "561, can you --"
• (Unnamed) "Everything made of rubber -- is coming apart."
• (Unnamed) "I -- I feel funny."

Kate Reid as Dr. Ruth Leavitt

• (Assistant to Cabinet Secretary) "Dr. Leavitt, I told you there's a fire."
• (Kate Reid) "My experiment's at the critical stage, I can't just leave now."
• (Kate Reid) "I want that plate as soon as it's developed."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, ma'am."
• (Assistant to Cabinet Secretary) "My orders come from Dr. Robertson, the president's science advisor."
• (Kate Reid) "There's a phone, pick it up. Call Robbie. Tell him I've burnt my draft card."

• (Kate Reid) "I never liked red lights. They remind me of my years in a bordello."

• (Grimes) "The boss'll be pleased to know that he made the right decision on 7-12 in the first place."
• (Kate Reid) "Congratulate him on his scientific insight."

Arthur Hill as Dr. Jeremy Stone

• (Arthur Hill) "Umm -- stop by your rooms and insert these before taking the elevator."
• (Kate Reid) "I have risked drowning in that foul bath. I have been par-boiled, irradiated and xenon-flashed, and now you suggest I --"
• (Arthur Hill) "I HAVE to. We haven't done a thing about the G.I. tract yet. On level five we must be as nearly germ-free as possible."
• (Kate Reid) "Anyone care to join me for a "smoke"?"

• (Arthur Hill) "No, Ruth. Use only one microscanner."
• (Kate Reid) "You being paid by the hour? We could cover the capsule in one-half the time."
• (Kate Reid) "There's less chance of missing something when we both concentrate on the screen"
• (Kate Reid) "Let's go directly to the inside. We can assume they put the scoop on the thing to scoop something into it. Brother, they sure got what they were looking for."
• (Arthur Hill) "We're not here to make accusations. We have a job to do, purely as scientists"
• (Kate Reid) "Maybe not so pure."
• (Arthur Hill) "Continue the scan, Ruth. On the outside."

• (Arthur Hill) "If anything happens to us, you have your orders."
• (James W. Gavin) "Yes sir. Proceed directly to Wildfire, and then, uh --"
• (James W. Gavin) "-- zzZZTT."
• (Arthur Hill) "If we're eliminated, the aircraft and pilot'll have to be sterilized."
• (James W. Gavin) "Uh, wait a minute. That's not what they told me -- just "incinerated.""

• (Arthur Hill) "The defense system is perfect, Mark. It'll even bury our mistakes."

• (Arthur Hill) "According to this, there'll be a super-colony of Andromeda over the entire southwest in --"
• (David Wayne) "Jeremy. These are biological warfare maps."
• (Arthur Hill) "Why, yes -- so they are -- uh -- but -- simulations, Charlie. Defensive -- it's just a scenario."
• (Kate Reid) "That's not the POINT, for God's sake. Wildfire was built for germ warfare. Wildfire AND Scoop. And you knew, Stone. YOU KNEW IT."
• (Arthur Hill) "That's not true, Ruth. I learned about Scoop the same time you did."
• (David Wayne) "They already have Andromeda programmed. The purpose of Scoop was to find new biological weapons in outer space, and then use Wildfire to develop them."
• (Kate Reid) "It STINKS, Stone."
• (Arthur Hill) "You're blowing your tops. We have no proof --"
• (David Wayne) "The MAP."
• (Arthur Hill) "DON'T BE AN ASS. That map only shows what Andromeda could do in the hands of an enemy."
• (David Wayne) "Enemy? We did it to OURSELVES."

• (Senator from Vermont) "This cloud-seeding business, Stone -- you absolutely sure it worked? You better be."
• (Arthur Hill) "All reports continue to indicate that the experiment was successful, Senator."
• (Senator from Vermont) "Then we can feel confident your so-called "biological crisis" is over?"
• (Arthur Hill) "As far as Andromeda is concerned, yes. We have the organism at Wildfire, and we continue to study it. We know now beyond a doubt that other forms of life exist in the universe."
• (Senator from Vermont) "Thanks to Scoop?"
• (Arthur Hill) "Yes."
• (Arthur Hill) "However, with this new knowledge, there is no guarantee that another so-called "biological crisis" won't occur again."
• (Senator from Vermont) "Hmm. What do we do about that?"
• (Arthur Hill) "Precisely, Senator. What do we do?"

• (Arthur Hill) "Where's the next substation, Hall?"
• (James Olson) "Left of elevator on Level 2."
• (Arthur Hill) "Right. Across the corridor from Body Analysis, our next port of call."
• (Kate Reid) "Not for my alabaster body. I mean it, Stone, you can take your Body Analyzer and you can st --"

• (Arthur Hill) "Where have you been?"
• (James Olson) "Leavitt had a seizure."
• (Arthur Hill) "What?"
• (James Olson) "Epilepsy. The red light flashing at three-per-second brought on a fit. Why the hell didn't she tell us about it?"
• (Arthur Hill) "Probably no top lab would have her if they knew. Insurance, prejudice, all that crap."
• (James Olson) "From the Middle Ages."

• (Arthur Hill) "Stick to established procedures."
• (Kate Reid) "Establishment gonna fall down and go boom."

Peter Helm as Sgt. Crane

• (Peter Helm) "Dr. Stone, sir, I have one thing to do. Just one. Everything else is fully automatic, computerized and self-regulating. I, uh, I listen for a little bell, in here. Ding-a-ling. That means a message coming in is for the Wildfire team."
• (Arthur Hill) "Precisely. An M.C.N. communication. I'm expecting one."
• (Peter Helm) "Yes, sir. Top priority. Ding-a-ling. I push a button and all five level control centers are notified the same time you are. The bell hasn't rung, sir."

David Wayne as Dr. Charles Dutton

• (David Wayne) "The whole thing. What a world we're making -- I can see why the kids are dropping out; we should've."
• (Kate Reid) "It's an emergency, Dutton. We got tagged, period. 'Til I saw those photos from Vanderburg, I --"
• (David Wayne) "They brought it on themselves."
• (Kate Reid) "Who? The people in Piedmont?"

John Carter as Mic-T

• (John Carter) "There's a fire, sir."

• (John Carter) "A.A. analysis results are ready, Dr. Dutton."
• (David Wayne) "Something's wrong. It's not registering."
• (John Carter) "Yes, it is, sir. It's just registering double-zero, double-zero."

George Mitchell as Jackson

• (George Mitchell) "Hey, Doc. Ya ain't leavin' us here, are ya?"

• (George Mitchell) "Hell of a way to run a hospital."

Paula Kelly as Karen Anson

• (Paula Kelly) "Feeling "better" aren't you, Mr. Jackson?"
• (George Mitchell) "ee-YEP."
• (George Mitchell) "You always have to wear that "iron suit"?"
• (Paula Kelly) "ee-YEP."

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