Original subtitles

According to legend, extraterrestrials,

spacemen from other planets, visited Earth

in prehistoric times.

Primitive people called them gods.

It was said that these ancient time travellers

left behind them evidence of their visits.

Strange archaeological wonders,

scattered about our planet Earth.

Stonehenge in Great Britain, perhaps an ancient calendar.

The great pyramids of Egypt, said to be a vast storehouse

of secret mathematical and scientific information

as old as time itself.

From prehistoric times,

the forces of both good and evil have been working

to unlock these secrets left as a legacy by the gods.

Centuries ago, a sacred stone tablet was hidden

in a subterranean cavern and guarded

by a chosen race of people.

Within this stone tablet, lay the key

to all earthly power and knowledge.

- It's a stone.

This tablet was broken into three pieces,

which was stolen by grave robbers.

- Oh, dammit!

It was August, 1945,

just before the end of World War II.

All I knew was what I'd been told,

report to a secret air base and fly

an American plane to Washington.

- Identification.

Flight Lieutenant Harris.

I'm sorry, sir.

- Okay, Corporal.

- Flight Lieutenant Harris.

- Appleton.

How's the arm? - Fine, thanks, sir.

- Good, keep smiling.

- Thank you, sir.

- So that was Harris.

I thought he was dead.

- No, he's not dead.

If it wasn't for him, I would be.

- Sir, I'll put your bag on the plane.

- Come here.

Good boy.

- Well, Harris.

- Savage.

- Squadron leader Savage now, Harris.

I'm in charge of this mission,

and this time you'll do as I say.

- Yes, sir. - Welcome aboard.

- Savage. - General.

- So this is your famous flight, Lieutenant Harris.

I'm Hackett. - General.

- Heard a lot of nice things about you, Harris.

Of course, my government would never have cleared you

to fly one of our machines if you weren't known

as one of the best pilots in the business.

I hope you know

the Pacific as, ah, well as your reputation says you do.

- Spoils of war, General.

- That's Kentucky whiskey.

Just part of our precious cargo, Harris.

That part of our precious cargo?

Thank you.

- Yeah. After you.

- Harris.

Glad you could make it, Reverend.

- Squadron Leader.

- Flight Lieutenant Harris. This is Reverend Mitchell.

He's with the Australian Institute of Theology.

He'll be coming with us. - Reverend.

- How do you do?

I'd like you to meet my assistant, Melanie,

who is also my daughter.

- Welcome aboard.

Now I'm looking forward to this flight.

- Unfortunately, not this time.

- That is unfortunate.

- Let's get going.

- Reverend.

- Carry on.

- Bye, Dad. Take care.

- Yeah, right. Over here.

- Sullivan.

I think we left the best piece behind.

Flight 109,

you are clear to taxi along flightpath two.

- Roger, tower.

- Guardian Angel to flight 109er.

We have to leave you here.

Have a safe trip home, over.

- Flight 109er to Guardian Angel, thank you.

See you later. Out.

- Spencer, can you give me a course projection?

- Yes sir.

We're currently on heading zero four niner.

- That's a crazy course for Washington.

Who plotted that?

- I did.

- Ah.

Oh well, I hear French Polynesia's

very nice this time of year.

- Our orders, flight lieutenant,

are to go Bora Bora on route to Washington.

We have to collect an associate of the Reverend Mitchell's

who's involved in the same line of research.

- What kind of research is that?

- Classified.

- Ah, that kind.

Can you take over for a while? I wanna stretch my legs.

- Next refilling stop is in two hours, sir.

- Thank you, Spencer.

- Logan, would you get me some of my medicine?

- Enjoying the flight, General?

- Nah.

- Not too crazy about flying, Reverend?

- I usually try to avoid it at all costs.

This trip is necessary, unfortunately.

- I love flying.

Heights I'm not too fond of.

This your work?

- This is my life.

- What's in that cargo, Reverend?

- Oh, just a few old bits and pieces, flight lieutenant.

And part of an ancient jigsaw puzzle.

- You all right? What is going on back there?

Get up here and fly this plane.' On the double!

- Case this crate! Steady, Savage!

- 109er to require escort.

- What the hell's happening?

- We're under attack. - I'm taking over.

Where's that escort?

- Sir, I'm not getting any response from Valentine.

- Harris, take evasive action'.

Sullivan, contact the escort!

We're under attack!

Order them to open up and fly in blind!

- Fly in blind? What at?

- The enemy!

- Come in flight, 109er! We're under enemy attack!

Respond immediately, over!

- Anyone see the enemy?

- Flight 109, we've lost visual contact.

- Tanker flight 109er to fighter escort.

Do you read, over? Come in, dammit!

Where the hell are you, Valentine?

Nothing, nothing in sight, sir.

- Some escort you've given me.

- Samota, this is special flight 109. Do you read, over?

- Come in 109. We read you loud and clear.

- Do you have our Dakota on your radar scope, over?

- Negative. We have two blips only, you and your partner,

The Dakota disappeared from our scope a few moments ago.

- Thank you, Samota, out.

Abbott, we've only got two hours of fuel left.

Let's circle back.

- I'll take the left flank.

- What is it, Harris? - I don't believe it, sir.

What have you done?

- "SOS, Titanic, collided with iceberg off Newfoundland."

This follows their position.

- Impossible, the Titanic sank over 30 years ago.

Come on.

- Harris!

Holy hell.

- We understand there has been a shooting.

The presidential car coming up now.

We know it's the presidential car.

I can see Mrs. Kennedy.

Tranquillity base here.

The eagle has landed.

- That's one small step for man, one giant leap...

- Sullivan, send down a mayday'.

The thing is hot!

- They're blaming us'. - They're crooks!

The bastard.'

- Christ, look...

Back up'.

- We're going in, Savage. Tell the others.

Get the life jackets ready. Savage?

Brace yourselves'.

- Great. Great.

What do we do now? Sink?

- Uh!

Jump to it, Savage.

We've got 30 seconds to get outta here

before this crate sinks.

Hackett, take this dingy, get it out.

- Right.

- Squadron leader, help me with this box.

- You're not putting that thing in the dinghy, Savage.

- We're delivering this cargo. And that's an order.

- I lost five good men up there.

I'm not risking any more lives for this.

You can't!

- Too late. Okay, General, move it.

- I'm gonna have you court martialed.

- See you in court. - You're my witness to this,

General Hackett.

- No, I'll have to go back from Mr. Logan.

- Reverend, in you get. I'll look after him.

- Savage, wait! You can't leave him!

- We have to.

We'll be pulled under by the suction if we stay here.

That Harris is a irresponsible bastard!

No you don't, Logan.

You're not gonna be number six, if I can help it. Ow!

Come on, Savage. Get him in there.

Be careful. I think he's drifting back.

- Easy. - That's it, take it easy.

- Easy, Logan.

- Thanks, mate. Ah.

- What the hell happened up there, Harris?

- I wish I knew, General.

- What is this place?

- El mar de los barcos perdidos.

- What?

- The sea of lost ships.

- My God.

- Incredible.

A ghost ship searching the secret oceans

of the dead for its lost crew.

- I see it and I still don't believe it.

According to all official reports,

the USS Idaho, the ship we see before us now,

disappeared years ago.

- Savage, you stay here with Logan.

- I'm still in command of this mission, Harris.

- I said, look after Logan.

- Here's the log.

- "19th of September, 1943.

At 2:20, the crew is...

Crew is readied, signal Eldridge has been received.

Devices on, green fire everywhere, orange light.

Eldridge vanished, 0300,

skies purple, compass wild, strange light.

Sense of motion, ship groaning as if about to break up.

0610, sky now black, the sea vanished.

0820, we are lost.

The ship has hit a storm of mammoth proportions.

The compass is behaving erratically.

0930, the ankle line breaks.

1200, the USS Idaho fails to respond to the helm.

The sky is changing colours. We lost land.

Birds cited to the west.

Storm has subsided. The sea is calm.

1600, cited some giant stone heads on a distant island.

1606, the captain and crew going ashore."

That's where the ship's log ends.

Well, Reverend, what do you think happened?

- Two years ago, the US Navy conducted secret tests

with two ships, the Idaho and the Eldridge.

So-called Philadelphia Experiment.

It was a progression of Einstein's Unified Field Theory.

- What are you talking about?

- Anti-matter.

Using an ancient device,

they made the ships invisible

and then brought them back again.

Huh. Only the Idaho never came back.

- Find the radio room. See if it works.

- The radio's out. - Yes, so is the engine.

All right, Reverend, let's go.

- No, no, we stay here till someone rescues us.

- Out here? And how many years?

What was that?

- An apparition.

They don't exist.

- Well, I saw something up there and it was no apparition

that dragged us down here.

- Take a look.

- Savage, I think we're better offgoing ashore.

- I'm with you, Commander.

August, 1945.

I commenced a log of my own.

We'd been drifting for days.

We lost Logan and Hackett.

There were three of us.

- I thought so.

The Isla de Pascua.

- The what?

- I know of only three such places on this globe.

The Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea,

and el mar de los barcos perdidos

off the coast of Easter Island.

I believe that's where we are.

- Rubbish.

- This is our last known position.

The edge of this circle was as far

as we could have flown in any direction.

We didn't have any more fuel on board.

So if that's Easter Island,

we're 5,000 miles off course.

- Then how did we get here?

- We were brought here.

- It's gone.

We should have stayed on board the Idaho.

- Oh yeah? Don't fancy taking my chances on a mirage.

- Don't waste it on him. - Shut up.

- Flight 109 became obscured by cloud.

I lost radio contact. So did Abbott.

I contacted Samota but they'd lost him

on their radar scope.

We searched until our fuel reserves ran low and turned back.

- The Flight Lieutenant Harris says he ditched

his plane near Easter Island.

What do you say to that?

- Well, I'd say that such a plane

with such a range hasn't been invented yet.

- Where you picked up the survivors, Captain,

was it anywhere near Easter Island?

- No, sir.

- Get Mitchell. He knows what happened.

He'll tell the truth.

- Squadron Leader Savage has supplied us

with a sworn affidavit from the Reverend Mitchell.

It more than substantiates the evidence

we have heard here today.

Bring in Squadron Leader Savage.

- I swear by almighty God that the evidence

which I shall give before this court shall be the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

- Were there any signs of an enemy attack?

- No, sir.

Harris disobeyed my orders.

He was behaving irrationally.

He... - No, please continue,

Squadron Leader. - Look, sir,

I don't want to,

I don't wanna crucify the man.

- Just tell us what happened.

- He claimed we were thousands of miles off course,

well beyond the limit of our fuel.

But he was cracking up, hallucinating.

I think he just got us lost.

And when we ran out of fuel,

he ditched the plane in the sea.

- You lying bastard.

What are you doing?

Tell them what really happened.

Tell them what happened!

- You will be charged with attempting to strike

a superior officer. - He's lying'.

- Take him away. - Why are you lying, Savage?

- Flight Lieutenant Harris.

You have served your country well.

I think everybody in this room is aware of the tragedy

which now confronts us.

The decision of this tribunal is that you shall be

taken from here and placed in a military prison.

- Harris, you must help me to find my father.

He said I could trust you.

- Keep moving. - Please.

- Is there any word from my father?

- Ah, no, Miss Mitchell.

Ah, will you ring the bell when you leave and lock up?

Save my old legs a walk to the east wing.

- Yes, of course. - Thank you.

He's getting away!

Further on! Go!

- I wanna see Colonel Brien.

- Well can I see your authority?

- This is my authority. Take me to him.

Come on, move.

Ah.'

- Working late, Brien?

Tell me about Mitchell.

Tell me about my cargo.

- That's classified. - Unclassify it.

- You lost your way, Harris.

It all came out in the inquiry.

What the hell are you doing here, anyway?

You're meant to be in prison.

- They let me out for good behaviour.

I want that affidavit.

Colonel Brien, sir?

Flight Lieutenant Harris'. - He attacked me!

- Corporal!

Corporal, fire!

Gus?

Gus is that you?

Gus?

Ah!

Ah!

Oh!

Come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Oh.

- Shouldn't hang around in places like this.

- Someone's trying to kill me.

- I knew there'd be some simple explanation.

- Why won't you help me to find my father?

- Why won't you tell me what was in our cargo?

- Look, I've told you.

I don't know.

- Lies. Everybody's lying.

You're not levelling with me, Miss Mitchell.

Someone's trying to kill you, Miss Mitchell.

Someone's taken your father. I think it's Savage.

Now unless you start providing me with some answers,

I can't help you, I can't prove I'm not mad.

You've gotta trust me.

What would Savage want from your father?

- Hmm.

A piece of stone.

- A piece of stone?

Part of an ancient jigsaw puzzle?

- Yes, Harris.

Part of a stone tablet.

There are three pieces.

One is on Easter Island somewhere,

and one is with my father's colleague,

Professor Esquith on Bora Bora.

- And the third was in that box on my plane.

- Dad believes that the ancient people of Easter Island

had mystical powers, could move mountains,

levitate stone structures.

- And drag planes from the sky.

Phew.

And when you put these three pieces together...

- You have a source of unlimited power for good or evil.

- Why would Savage wanna go to Ayers Rock?

- It's another monolith, Harris.

Another source of power.

Dad has a research station there.

- Ah, so that's where they are.

That's where we go now.

- I haven't told you everything.

There's a curse.

He who disturbs the sacred moai will meet death.

- Oh, come on, Mitch.

I don't believe in curses.

- Harris got hold of the affidavit,

but it won't do him any good.

He died trying to save your daughter.

- What have you done to her?

- She's dead too.

So now there's no one to stop us

putting the three pieces together.

I mean, we wouldn't want all that power

to fall into the wrong hands, would we?

- You're gonna steal that plane?

- No. Just gonna borrow it for a while.

Get back!

- You don't have to shove so hard.

Come on.

Don't move.

Wanna book two tickets on the next flight.

Now, turn around slowly.

Appleton.

We meet again.

- Sir. What are you doing here.

- Lady and me are gonna borrow this crate.

- Huh, sorry, sir. I can't lend it to you.

- Then we'll have to steal it.

- Whatever you say, sir.

Sir, to show I've done my duty.

- Oh, I can't do that, Appleton.

- Huh.

- Why'd you hit him so hard? He's a friend of mine.

- Come on.

Sorry, pal.

- Higgins Tower to Dakota. Identify yourself immediately.

Do you read? Over.

- Higgins Tower, I don't read you.

You're breaking up.

- If Savage has taken my father,

wouldn't he go after Professor Esquith too?

- Well, if they're not at Ayers Rock,

next stop, Bora Bora.

Take over.

- No. - Come on, it's easy.

Just let it fly itself. - Harris!

- Gentle. Be gentle with her.

That's more like it.

- I've had enough.

Get down, Mitch!

- Thought the war was over.

- Maybe the Air Force want their plane back.

Hang on tight, Mitch. - What are you gonna do?

- We can't shoot back. So we're gonna try and shake 'em off.

- What the hell are you doing?

Harris. - Hang on.

- Where have they gone?

Harris, look!

- Savage can't fly like that.

Who the hell is it?

Harris.

We're on fire. - Oh!

- What are you gonna do? Can't we just fly away?

What are you doing?

- We'll have to feather the engine.

- What's that?

Damn! - What?

- Well none of that worked. Take over.

- Where are you going?

- Going out on the wing.

Harris!

Come back here! Don't leave me!

Oh.'

- Somebody's gotta go out there

and put that fire out, Mitch.

You or me.

- I'll toss you for it.

Heads you win, tails I lose.

What do you say?

- I say I'm going out through that hatch.

- Do you really think it's possible

to go out there on the wing?

- Possible but difficult.

Especially if you're scared of heights.

- Well I'm not scared of heights.

- I am.

You'll find a parachute back there if you need it.

- You mean we're going through all this

and there's a parachute back there?

- Only one.

Oh.

- Oh! Ah'.

Oh.'

- Ah! Oh'.

Come on. Oh!

Ow!

Oh, shit.

Ow!

Oh.'

- She's all yours.

- You got the makings of a pilot.

- Thanks, but no thanks.

Woo'.

- The lady a drink.

- I'll have a Nazi fizz.

- Beer for me.

We're looking for the Reverend Mitchell,

the research station.

You seen him?

- Well now, you go and ask O'Reilly there.

He saw them.

- Thanks

- O'Reilly?

- What's it to you?

- I want some information. - Huh.

It'll cost ya.

- I'm willing to pay.

- I'll play you for it.

- I play for high stakes.

- Sit down.

- Forget the cards.

Let's play a man's game.

You know Russian roulette?

- Oh yeah.

- Each click of the trigger, I get an answer.

Each of your clicks, you get my stake.

Harris, you're crazy.

You first, Harris.

- Two men in here recently from the research station.

Who were they?

- Pull the trigger first.

There were three. One was savage.

He left town.

- The other two?

- Where's your stake?

That piece of junk ain't worth nothing.

- Other two?

- Had a young bloke in tow, Valentine and a person.

- Okay, O'Reilly, let's see what you're really made of.

Where did they go?

- Stake

- Gimme your necklace.

- Oh, come on Harris. Quit it.

That's all we need to know.

- Can't stop now. I'll lose my amulet.

Where did they go, O'Reilly?

- No idea.

- Not good enough.

You gonna pull the trigger?

How many clicks have there been, O'Reilly?

Do you know?

I'm not sure. I lost count in all the excitement.

Well, O'Reilly, you feel lucky?

- Thanks, you bastard!

- You lost, O'Reilly.

- I don't think they like us.

Just do what I do.

Oh.'

- You're pretty good. - You're not bad yourself.

Let's do a bit more.

- Harris, duck!

Oh!

Glad I ducked.

- Hey, that was fun.

You always fight like that?

- Sometimes I fight dirty.

Oh.'

- Let go of me, you cruddy. Oh!

Oh, let go!

Leave me alone.'

- Get into it. - Yeah.

- Hey.

- Excuse me, fella. That's my Jeep you're leaning on.

If you don't mind. Thank you very much.

Oh.'

- Oh! - Wait.

- Ah.'

- Oh no. - Careful.

Come on. - Oh!

Ah!

- Woof, woof!

Oh, ah!

Ah!

Oh.'

Ow!

- The lady's with me, Clyde!

- Oh! Oh!

- What kept you?

- I didn't know you were into bondage.

- Harris!

- Go!

- You really do fight dirty.

- Only sometimes.

- You certainly heal quickly.

- Just flesh words.

- Mm. So I see.

- I only did it to get your undivided attention.

- I only wore this to get yours.

- It worked.

- Just do what I do.

- Mm-hmm.

What's that?

- Go to sleep.

- Making it hard.

- Sleep on it, Harris.

- Hayes! Where are you hiding?

There is the old perv.

I knew you'd be either stinking drunk or fishing.

- Yeah, you're right on both counts.

Oh, you're looking good.

- Ah, I don't wanna talk to you, Harris.

- I thought you'd say that.

Meet Melanie Mitchell.

You can call her Mitch.

- Yeah. He keeps better company than you do.

- I wanna borrow your plane.

- No way.

- Ah, come on, Hayes.

This time I'll bring it back.

- No way. No way.

It's not enough.

Hey.

Ah. Yeah, the keys are in it.

- Professor Esquith? Professor?

- Oh! - Hey!

- Harris!

- He's been dead at least a day.

And Savage didn't shoot him.

- How do you know that? - He's not that good a shot.

- Professor Esquith.

- Where would he keep the tablet?

- In the study.

- Tell me about this device Esquith's been working on.

Harris, don't touch that!

- We have to turn off the switch.

- Whatever's in this house was in my plane!

- He who disturbs the sacred moai

will feel the hands of death!

Try and reach it.'

Ah!

No!

Uh!

- Good shot.

- Oh, oh, oh.

Ah. Mm.

Oh. Ah.

Mm.

- Dad!

- Melanie, I thought you had, oh, thank God!

- I've been so worried.

- You must hurry. You have to stop him.

- I'm not going to leave you.

- You must, if Savage gets to Easter Island before you do,

who knows what forces he'll unleash.

- But Father- - No.

- Harris, take care of her, but stop savage.

- I'll do my best, Reverend,

but Melanie should stay with you.

- No. She has the knowledge that may save both your lives.

She understands the source of the power.

She must go with you.

- I don't know how you expect to find it.

There's a lot of ocean down there.

- Well, we're flying the DC-3's last known course.

If my calculations are not wrong,

we should be near it.

- I don't believe it. I see it.

- That's it.

When I find the crate and tie this rope to it,

I'll give it three tugs.

You think you're strong enough to pull it up?

- It and you.

- Good girl, you've saved us a lot of work,

but I'm afraid your friend is going to have

to stay down there with the sharks.

They've always said he had more lives than a cat,

but I think he's just used his last one.

- All right, Savage.

There's your cave.

- What about the girl? - Forget her, forget her.

I've got what I want.

Aladdin's cave of untold power.

This is it, Valentine.

This is what we've been looking for.

It's all here.

Just like Professor Esquith said it would be.

Come on.

- They found the cave'.

Oh.

- Oh my God! Help me, Savage!

Help me, Savage!

Help me!

- Weak bastard.

Huh.

- Come on.

Here, give me your hand.

Okay, Mitch, just step where I step.

Harris!

Oh! Oh!

Ah! - Good trip?

- Oh, God. - Yeah.

Must be the crew of the Idaho.

Are my, ah...?

- Uh-huh. - So are yours.

Let's get outta here.

- Harris!

- Very gently move now.

- It's a great library.

A repository of ancient stone books.

Knowledge as old as time itself.

- You can read it later. Come on.

- Harris, what are we seeing here?

- Hey, that's my plane!

- Oh! - Hold on tightly!

Just don't look down. - I won't.'

- Savage.'

- No!

Oh.'

Oh.'

Oh! Let go.'

- Find someone your own size.'

Get outta here!

He who disturbs the sacred moai meets death.

- The pieces are back home, Harris.

Where they belong.

- Yeah, but we don't, so let's get outta here

before the roof caves in.

- Don't throw your lucky charm away.

You might still need it.

- I do.

I plan on keeping her right beside me.