"How do you explain it, sir? All this extraordinary damage just to steal an old sample container?"

"Major Cartwright: You know this Royston chap. Brilliant, of course, I'm sure. But the trouble with these scientific t…"

"Can anything escape its terror?"

"NOTHING CAN STOP IT!"

"It rises from 2000 miles below the earth to melt everything in its path!"

"Leo McKern — "Mac" McGill"

"Edward Chapman — John Elliott"

"William Lucas — Peter Elliott"

"Peter Hammond — Lieutenant Bannerman"

"It's on its way for the biggest meal of its life."