And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The scene at the end, where they're haulin shatners ass off in the guerney, the camera recedes up and back and the viewer sees the cowling on the engine peeled back. He was right all along and everybody else will find out in short order.
I've just found out that the creature was played by an uncredited Nick Cravat. He has a special place with me because he costarred with Burt Lancaster in "The Crimson Pirate" the first film I was taken to see - in about 1955 - when I was seven!
That episode has also stayed with me. Rod Serling summed it up well: Rod Serling: The flight of Mr. Robert Wilson has ended now, a flight not only from point A to point B, but also from the fear of recurring mental breakdown. Mr. Wilson has that fear no longer... though, for the moment, he is, as he has said, alone in this assurance. Happily, his conviction will not remain isolated too much longer — for happily, tangible manifestation is very often left as evidence of trespass, even from so intangible a quarter as the Twilight Zone."
Insane is as Insane does...
ReplyDeleteBack in the day when Scotch Tape just wouldn't get the job done and Duct Tape hadn't been invented yet.
ReplyDeleteInsanity is just a state of mind.
ReplyDeleteThe scene at the end, where they're haulin shatners ass off in the guerney, the camera recedes up and back and the viewer sees the cowling on the engine peeled back. He was right all along and everybody else will find out in short order.
ReplyDeleteI watched it in 1963 on our old black and white. It was scary stuff, when the gremlin looked in the cabin window.
ReplyDeleteI've just found out that the creature was played by an uncredited Nick Cravat. He has a special place with me because he costarred with Burt Lancaster in "The Crimson Pirate" the first film I was taken to see - in about 1955 - when I was seven!
ReplyDeleteWe geezers always remember our first film at the movies in the '50s. Mine was Disney's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea and in color!!!
ReplyDeleteShatner starred in another episode. He and his fiance' took a booth in a restaurant.
ReplyDeleteThat is about the only episode which has stayed with me all those years.
ReplyDeleteThat episode has also stayed with me. Rod Serling summed it up well:
ReplyDeleteRod Serling: The flight of Mr. Robert Wilson has ended now, a flight not only from point A to point B, but also from the fear of recurring mental breakdown. Mr. Wilson has that fear no longer... though, for the moment, he is, as he has said, alone in this assurance. Happily, his conviction will not remain isolated too much longer — for happily, tangible manifestation is very often left as evidence of trespass, even from so intangible a quarter as the Twilight Zone."
Always loved that ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-vC_-kJFRg
ReplyDeleteOne of the greatest episodes
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