Tales of Tomorrow

- If money was no object and a man was determined

to build an interplanetary spaceship.

What would happen?

For the answer Chrysler now brings you,

"Test Flight".

Starring Lee. J. Cobb

Yes. Yes, I agree with you completely.

Well?

I'll call you later, yes.

Has the committee decided what kind

of pink tea's going to serve?

- Well, we've decided weighing that an undertaking

like this requires a general meeting

of the board of directors.

No.

But Wayne...

I gave you exactly two minutes,

to come to a decision on what is it gonna be

a green light or a stop sign.

Well, Wayne, it's hard to conceive

of this type of venture on a moment's notice.

I doubt of even you've thought this thing through enough.

Davis I've lived this day and night,

for the last six months, I've read every book.

Every article on space travel,

I could lay my hands on.

Spoken to every astrophysicist in my country.

I know what I'm talking about.

Look at this, these charts,

we gotta fly outta here first, break outta here.

That's what it'll do on our first test flight,

break out of this into the stratosphere.

Wait a minute, here's a velocity chart.

Shows how fast we have to go to get beyond our atmosphere.

Break out of here, and we're on our way.

- But Wayne, why gamble millions on space travel?

- Progress gentlemen, I'm always for progress.

This is next.

Here's a model of our spaceship.

This is next and if it isn't enough, there's money,

there's money, there's more wealth, more minerals,

more than anything we ever dreamed of up there.

Well, this not...

- And I gonna be the first man to find them.

This is all very well theoretically.

Wayne even you, a spaceship.

In view of the initial expenditure,

and in view of what Marty says about the ship

that it won't fly.

You haven't got the guts.

Wayne, even for you a spaceship!

That's right a spaceship.

A ship to take me into a world

never important known by a man.

Crowder Enterprises, controlling not just one world,

but all worlds.

A mad idea but I tell you, Davis,

I'll do it if it takes everything I own.

And the corporate assets,

Wayne, as controller of this company,

I feel obligated to call your attention

to the tremendous cost involved.

Okay. You called it to my attention.

Alright, Wayne.

Alright, we'll go along part of the way

but if we should find ourselves thinking-

All the way, Davis

we'll go all the way.

Remember that.

Well, I don't know Wayne,

I'll have to sleep on it.

That's right.

You do that.

You sleep on it.

I start now.

Marty you wait.

Well, stop barking Wayne.

This is old toothless Marty.

The villain has left the room.

- If the imagination I lack could be honest.

We'd own the world.

A lot of what he says is true.

No advice, Marty, not even from you.

You pay my salary Mr. Crowder.

Marty, If they line solid against me,

you are the one man I need.

20 years.

A lifetime.

Listen to this.

Crowder's goal in tackling the impossible

at times verges on mania.

As witnesses, introduction of super jet atomic engines,

on his commercial air and water lines.

But this man has always succeeded.

And even when the first rocket shoots into space,

Crowder will be on it.

That why you're doing it Wayne,

to fulfill a magazine's prediction?

Think of it Marty,

the first man to conquer space.

- You've gotta get way up to reach a star Wayne.

If you follow your Humpty Dumpty.

Translation?

Well I'm your chief engineer.

My opinion on the feasibility of this flight

may cut no ice, but the cost is my department

and it sure didn't.

True.

- The initial cost of building the rocket, plant, personnel,

research, equipment, construction.

Well over 500 million.

Go on, keep scaring me.

- Well, you have to shut down all of the Crowder Enterprises

in favor of project rocket.

It'll take every ship, every plane, everything you own.

You'll have to scrounge in all parts of the world

for material.

It may take months, perhaps a year.

And you'll be in direct competition

with every nation on the globe.

You'll be bidding in the open market

for steel, aluminum, manganese, tungsten.

That plunks you right into the middle of the defense work.

Now, if you fight to procure those materials

you'll be the most hated man in America

Until the ship flies.

- Alright, then let's get down to the big plan.

We spend millions to build our rocket.

Alright, we can do that.

But we can't fly it Wayne.

There isn't an engine in existence

to power such a ship into space.

I'll find the engine.

Where?

- Bancroft that campaign I outlined yesterday,

post sweep starting tomorrow morning.

I want newspaper ads, radio, TV, the works.

Get on it.

Marty money and determination can buy anything.

Somewhere in this world is this man with my engine

and I'm going to find him.

Start building the rocket.

And Marty.

Sit down to Davis.

I've been expecting you

Wayne, since our meeting a month ago,

you've spent exactly 20 and one half million dollars

and still no engine to power your ship.

Glad to see you been keeping tabs on me.

I'm controller of the company, Wayne.

How do you do I'm chairman of the board

and largest stockholder.

Largest individual stockholder.

Don't forget that this company's owned

by thousands of small stockholders.

And I'm going to see that they're protected.

They're little people.

Yes, but with big voices.

Wayne, you railroaded this thing through,

if you fail, you're going to be held to account

for every single penny of the stockholder's money

that you gambled and lost.

I won't lose.

I never have

Well, don't start now, Wayne.

I warn you.

Don't start now.

Come in.

Wayne, I think you should see this man.

Mr. Wilkins, this is Mr. Crowder.

Well?

- Mr. Wilkins was highly recommended by our London office.

He has something to show you.

No models Mr. Wilkins?

No designs?

It's really quite simple.

My motor is based on the principle of the common magnets.

Electromagnetism, utilization of the force of gravity

or its opposite counter gravity.

I think I can show you very simply this way Mr. Crowder.

As you know opposite poles attract,

similar poles repel.

With this principle, I can power a spaceship.

I've proven it with my working model in London.

Marty?

- Yes. London looked into it pretty thoroughly

and I've checked it over.

I think it'll work.

What do you want?

I want to help you build a spaceship.

Why?

You have your own reasons, I have mine.

The money?

Perhaps?

There's a model of our rocket.

It's useless.

You'll have to build a different ship.

This will not house my motor.

- You mean we must junk everything we've done up until now.

Yes.