Professor Hendricks Quotes in Gorgo (1961)

Professor Flaherty: Captain Ryan. The creature that you have captured is not an adult specimen.

Sam Slade: You mean it isn't fully grown?

Professor Flaherty: No. In fact, we believe it is in rather early infancy.

Sam Slade: You're trying to say there may be a fully grown one of these things around somewhere?

Professor Hendricks: It's a fair assumption. Where there are offspring, there are generally parents.

Joe Ryan: How big would a full-grown one be?

Professor Flaherty: An approximate guess?

[He shows them two scale drawings of the creatures]

Professor Flaherty: The infant. The adult.

Joe Ryan: That would make it nearly two hundred feet tall!

Professor Flaherty: At the very least.

Professor Hendricks: Obviously, the proper authorities must be notified at once.

Joe Ryan: What are you trying to do? Stir up a whole hornet's nest because of a few calculations made on a piece of paper? Nuts to that!

Professor Flaherty: I'm afraid, Captain Ryan, the decision is no longer in your hands.

[Cut to Gorgo testing the limits of his enclosure and roaring when he finds an electrified fence. Cut to Gorgo's mother stomping from the sea onto Nara Island]

Professor Hendricks: It's undoubtedly heading for Battersea Park, sir. That's the place to stop it.

Army Officer: How much voltage do you estimate would be required for electrocuting this animal?

Professor Flaherty: Two million, three million volts? That's only a guess. There's not much precedent to go on, sir.

Army Officer: Quite. Get me Battersea Power Station!

Professor Hendricks: Are we keeping you awake, Mr. Elliot?

Steve Elliot: Barely.