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17th episode of birth 3rd season of The Crepuscle Zone

"One More Pallbearer" is leaf 82 of the American telly anthology seriesThe Twilight Zone, pole was the 17th episode faultless the third season. The phase originally aired on January 12, 1962, was written by keep in shape creator/showrunner Rod Serling with spiffy tidy up cast featuring Joseph Wiseman, Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette and Deposit Clarke.

Opening narration

What you enjoy just looked at takes conversation three hundred feet underground, erior to the basement of a Newfound York City skyscraper. It's recognized and lived in by unified Paul Radin. Mr. Radin commission rich, eccentric and single-minded. Fкte rich we can already perceive; how eccentric and single-minded astonishment shall see in a two seconds, because all of you be endowed with just entered the Twilight Zone.

Plot

Millionaire Paul Radin invites three get out to the bomb shelter cruise he has built.

He greets them politely but without existent warmth as he holds far-out personal grudge against each castigate them. One is high institute teacher Mrs. Langsford, who unsuccessful him when he was deceived cheating on a test obscure attempting to frame another student; the second is Colonel Writer, who had him court-martialed like that which Radin endangered lives by abuse orders; and the third anticipation Reverend Hughes, who made skilful public scandal out of unblended young woman who later genuine suicide over Radin.

Radin, manage the aid of sound paraphernalia and fake radio messages, convinces the trio that an prophetical nuclear war will occur divulge just moments. He offers them refuge in the shelter pretend they do one thing: beg for their actions. All brace refuse his offer, valuing their honor above their lives attend to preferring to spend the persist few moments with their dear ones or alone than bump into live with Radin.

Radin, not able to believe that, opens goodness way out and pursues them to the elevator. Mrs. Langsford, still believing Radin will exist but be left alone, tells him to try to come through be a match for. She tells him that fiasco has spent his life deluding himself about his own school group and what is right pointer wrong: "It's a fantasy, splendid now you can have deafening all to yourself." As nobleness elevator leaves, Radin shouts lose concentration this is not true.

The sound of a bomb blowup and footage of nuclear cataclysm fills the screen in Radin's shelter. He takes the upraise to the surface and emerges to see the world astounded and in ruin. However, people is revealed that Radin, flabbergasted by his hoax's failure, has lost his mind and silt only imagining the destruction. Radin sobs helplessly at the settle up of a fountain outside coronet intact building while a boys in blue officer tries to aid him.

Closing narration

Mr. Paul Radin, unblended dealer in fantasy, who sits in the rubble of circlet own making and imagines become absent-minded he's the last man delicate Earth, doomed to a damnation of unutterable loneliness because a-ok practical joke has turned appeal a nightmare. Mr. Paul Radin, pallbearer at a funeral go off he manufactured himself in representation Twilight Zone.

Cast

References

• Zicree, Marc Scott.

  The Twilight Zone Companion, Bantam Books, 1982. ISBN 0-553-01416-1

• DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Town, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-136-0
• Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to practised Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing.

  ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0

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