October Sky
[Radio Static]
[Man On Radio]
While most of President
Eisenhower's advisors...
[Static Continues]
[Woman Singing]
[Man On Radio]
Today are ominous.
[Man On Radio] Washington...
[Static, Music Continues]
[Man On Radio]
If you have just tuned in
to this special bulletin,
Washington has confirmed
that, yesterday,
on the fourth
of October, 1957,
the Soviet Union
successfully launched...
history's first
man-made satellite...
into space orbit
around the Earth.
[Switch Clicks]
[Motor Humming]
The satellite which the Russians
have dubbed Sputnik...
is being hailed
as a milestone in history.
No one in our nation's capital
could deny that the satellite...
has ushered in a grim
new chapter in the Cold War.
And indeed,
a wave of national anxiety...
already seems
to be sweeping the country.
[Man]
Still maintaining its speed
of 18,000 miles an hour,
completing an orbit of the Earth
every 96 minutes.
Doctor Wernher von Braun,
Chief Engineer of the Army
Ballistic Missile Agency,
expressed the hope
that the United States...
would soon be following
the Russians into space...
with our own
artificial satellite.
Doctor von Braun confirmed...
no actual sighting
of the Soviet satellite,
but the U.S. Expects
to be tracking it very soon.
We are told that Sputnik will be
visible to the naked eye...
about an hour after sunset
and an hour before dawn,
as it traverses the October sky
over the United States.
we still don't know.
It may be nothing more...
[music][music] [Radio: Elvis Presley's
"Jailhouse Rock"]
[Horn Honking]
in the county jail [music]
Let's go, Roy Lee.
[Engine Starts,
Singing Continues]
It's almost 9:
00.Sure are in a hurry
to get yourself killed.
No kiddin'. There are easier
ways to commit suicide, Homer.
Will you just step on it,
Roy Lee?
I am steppin' on it.
[Laughing]
[music]Everybody
in the whole cell block [music]
[music] Was dancin'
to the jailhouse rock [music]
[Whistle Blowing]
Okay, Maguire,
Longstreet, Hickam.
Let's see what you got.
Hey, take it easy on my kid
brother. Make him look good,
all right?
Let's go! Hut!
[Grunting]
[Boy]
Hut two.!
[Grunting]
I thought I told you
to take it easy on him.
I did take it easy on him.
[Boy] Set.!
you son of a b*tch.
You hear me?
[Boy]
Hut one.! Hut two.!
[Grunting Continues]
Homer, you sure got guts,
but you gotta know
when to quit.
Okay, Miller!
You're up!
[Band Playing]
[Shouting]
[music]Someday we'll all be blue [music]
[music] Well, that'll be the day
when you say good-bye [music]
[Panting] Why should
the damn jocks be the only ones
gettin' scholarships?
They're also the only ones
that get the girls.
This burns my ass.
[music] That'll be the day
when I die [music]
What do you boys think
about this?
Isn't that something?
Let 'em have outer space.
We got rock 'n' roll.
I'm with you. We got enough
Homer, your dad say anything
about the layoffs?
No.
- Have they pulled
any more pillars?
- Uh, he didn't say.
Does he talk at all?
Oh, yeah. He talks.
Damn it, Jake! Didn't
I tell you to put some men
to work on those roof bolts?
Was I talkin' to the wall?
I'm sorry, John.
We was just tryin' to get...
Make sure the hoot owl shift
sets those timbers by the vent!
Two more days on that block,
we're gonna be down to the bone.
I guess that's...
Jensen!
Get out of the way!
Jensen, look out!
[Horn Blowing]
[Sirens Wailing]
Come on. Come on, Jensen.
[Man]
Come on back.
[Jensen Grunting]
Come on.
What happened?
Whole damn mountain
'bout fell on your head.
And John here...
he saved your life.
That's my dad.
I want you out of this mine.
Don't come back, you stupid
son of a b*tch.
Didn't I tell you
to watch the roof, huh?
Now we could've all been killed
'cause you didn't have the sense
to look up!
That's my dad.
[Coughs]
Homer.
Well, how'd it go?
[Coughs]
Well, I told you. You spend
the summer shovelin' coal,
and you'll be playin'
linebacker next fall.
What's the matter, Homer?
Not cut out for mining coal?
Me neither.
[Men Laughing]
Hey, let's get that mess
cleaned up!
Let's get some cribbin'
on that roof!
Buck up, Homer.
You're a Coalwood boy.
When you get down in the mine,
get that coal shovel
in your hand,
feel just as natural to you
as a tick on a dog.
[Homer's Dad]
And get that slate
off the loader.!
[Man On Radio] It's
by the Soviet Sputnik.
Listen now for the sound
which forevermore separates
the old from the new.
[Rhythmic Beeping]
[Beeping Continues]
That's it?
That's the Sputnik?
- That's Sputnik.
- Well, big deal.
Big deal?
What you fail to grasp...
is that the sound you're hearin'
is bein' transmitted...
by an object that is travelin'
at 18,000 miles per hour,
a-a-a-and orbitin'the Earth
e-e-every nine...
Shut up!
Boys, not in my class.!
Thank you, Quentin.
Now Quentin's right, y'all.
Sputnik is a milestone
in history.
Things'll never be
the same again.
What do you think
about that, Homer?
Well, yes, ma'am. Uh...
[Students Laughing]
[Teacher]
Cat got your tongue?
We were talkin'
about bein' in orbit,
hundreds of miles
away from the Earth.
You know anything
about that?
[Girl Giggling]
No, ma'am.
I got my eye on you, boy.
Now who can tell me
why Sputnik is so important?
[Man]
We ought to just shoot
the damn thing down.
It's got one of them
little spy cameras in it.
It takes pictures of every one
of our missile bases.
This country'd better get on
the ball before it's too late.
All I know is this Sputnik
had better show up soon.
I'm gettin' a crick
in my neck.
[Roy Lee]
All right. What you need to do
is take her to the movies.
Somethin'scary, like
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
Then you take your arm
and put it up round the back
of her chair, like so.
Now when it gets real scary,
and she ain't payin' attention
to nothin' but the movie,
you sort of let your arm sort
of slide on down her shoulder,
real nice and slow
and easy...
until...
[Laughs]
Hey! Hey!
I see it!
Right there!
Where? Where?
[Chattering]
[Woman]
You seein'things, Carl?
I see it.
Where do you see it?
I see it.
It's right there.
[Chattering Continues]
[Whispering]
Wow.
[Man] Son of b*tches
gonna be droppin'bombs
on us from up there.
Don't know why they'd drop
a bomb on this place.
Be a heck of a waste
of a bomb.
The first game against Welch...
that's the one that's
gonna draw the scouts.
They're gonna be coming
after us.
Well, y'all be careful, Jim.
Last year, those two boys from
Welch got their arms broken.
Well, they started it.
[Laughing]
It don't matter much
who started it.
I don't call that football.
Ain't nobody on the Welch team
that can catch him.
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