Christopher Lee credited as playing...
Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
- Countess Irina: Oh, yes, England. Queen Victoria, crumpets, Shakespeare.
- Professor Saxton: I admire Poland, madam. I believe there is a bond between our two countries.
- Countess Irina: My husband, the Count Petrovski, says that in the fifteenth century your King Henry betrayed us to the Russians. Hmm?
- Professor Saxton: I hope that you and your husband, madam, will accept my profoundest apologies.
- [after Wells buys his way onto a full train]
- Dr. Wells: It's called "squeeze" in China. The Americans call it knowhow.
- Professor Saxton: And in Britain, we call it bribery and corruption.
- Countess Irina: And what about the baggage man? And that poor thief at the station?
- Professor Saxton: What about them?
- Countess Irina: They are dead. Was your creature responsible for that?
- Professor Saxton: Probably.
- Countess Irina: And you don't care?
- Professor Saxton: [reflectively] A baggage man, and a thief... You're right madame. I don't care... as much as I should.
- Countess Irina: You're in bad humour because you've lost your box of bones, hmm?
- Professor Saxton: That box of bones, madame, could have solved many of the riddles of science. If the theory of evolution is confirmed, if the science of biology is revolutionized, if the very origin of man is determined ...
- Countess Irina: I have heard of evolution. It's... it's immoral!
- Professor Saxton: It's a fact. And there's no morality in a fact.
- Dr. Wells: What are you going to astound the scientific world with this time?
- Professor Saxton: You'll read about it in the Society's annual report. A remarkable fossil.
- Dr. Wells: Fossil? But you've got something live in there, I heard it.
- Professor Saxton: You're mistaken!
- Dr. Wells: You won't need to feed it then.
- Professor Saxton: The occupant hasn't eaten in two million years.
- Dr. Wells: That's one way to economize on food bills.
- [Mirov has opened the crate and found the body of the missing baggage man inside it]
- Dr. Wells: Are you telling me that an ape that lived two million years ago got out of that crate, killed the baggage man and put him in there, then locked everything up neat and tidy, and got away?
- Professor Saxton: Yes, I am! It's alive, it must be!
- [first lines]
- Professor Alexander Saxton: [narrating] The following report to the Royal Geological Society by the undersigned, Alexander Saxton, is a true and faithful account of events that befell the Society's expedition in Manchuria. As the leader of the expedition, I must accept responsibility for its ending in disaster, but I leave to the judgement of the honorable members of the Society the decision as to where the blame for the catastrophe lies.
- Yevtushenko: I'm an engineer. A scientist. And this is ordinary chalk. How do you explain it not writing on that crate?
- Professor Saxton: Hypnosis! Yoga! These mystics can be terribly convincing. They can even hypnotize themselves.
- Dr. Wells: Miss Jones, allow me to introduce Professor Alexander Saxton. He dabbles in fossils and bones.
- Miss Jones: Glad to meet you, Professor.
- Professor Saxton: How do you do?
- Dr. Wells: Miss Jones has been assisting me. Bacteriology, excellent technician.
- Miss Jones: [laughs] For a woman, he means.