The Whole Truth
- Episode aired Jan 20, 1961
- TV-PG
- 25m
A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.A used car salesman buys a car that dooms him to tell only the truth.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the third of six The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes to be videotaped.
- GoofsHunnicut puts a cigar on the bar rail when going to talk to a pair, but during the opening narration in the same spot, it's missing.
- Quotes
[opening narration]
Narrator: This, as the banner already has proclaimed, is Mr. Harvey Hunnicut, an expert on commerce and con jobs, a brash, bright, and larceny-loaded wheeler and dealer who, when the good Lord passed out a conscience, must have gone for a beer and missed out. And these are a couple of other characters in our story: a little old man and a Model A car - but not just any old man and not just any Model A. There's something very special about the both of them. As a matter of fact, in just a few moments, they'll give Harvey Hunnicut something that he's never experienced before. Through the good offices of a little magic, they will unload on Mr. Hunnicut the absolute necessity to tell the truth. Exactly where they come from is conjecture, but as to where they're heading for, this we know, because all of them - and you - are on the threshold of the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Whole Truth (2021)
In the show's defense, this one paints a much clearer picture of the society into which it was released, in it's suggestion that all car salesmen and politicians are liars (this doesn't seem to have changed much), but particularly in the ending of the show, which will now be lost on the majority of modern audiences unless they are more familiar with American history than, sadly, most Americans are.
The show was released on the same day that Kennedy was inaugurated, giving it that strange feel that sometimes happens when imagining the normalcy that was taking place just before a national tragedy, although I have to imagine that at the time it must have felt just a bit like some political preachiness.
This is one of the simpler twilight zone episodes in almost every way, but the story moves along well enough despite it's relative lack of creativity, and the performances are satisfactory. It's not the best episode, obviously, but I have to say that you should be able to tell without even seeing it that the hugely negative reviews here on our beloved IMDb are blowing the drawbacks out of proportion...
- Anonymous_Maxine
- Jul 3, 2008
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1