Harmon Gordon (Patrick O'Neal) is married to Flora (Ruta Lee), a predatory gold-digger forty years his junior who treats her ageing husband with contempt. Despite this, Harmon still loves the woman and wishes he was younger so that he could keep her happy. By coincidence, Harmon's brother, Dr. Raymond Gordon (Walter Brooke), is working on an experimental cellular serum that reverses the ageing process, but has so far only tested it on animals with partial success. Harmon convinces Raymond to inject him with the drug, with incredible results.
A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain is a tale of poetic justice, the tables turned on money-grubbing alleycat Flora. The use of the serum on Harmon has the desired results, winding back the years for the old man, but a little too far: he goes from big daddy to little babby, decades younger than his wife. Raymond, who has never liked Flora, tells the woman that if she wants to continue enjoying his brother's wealth, then she must become Harmon's carer. The look on her face as she is torn between a life of childcare or life without her husband's money is priceless - a fitting comeuppance from The Twilight Zone (although how long will it be before she finds herself another sugar daddy?).
6.5/10, rounded down to 6 for the unconvincing old-age make-up on O'Neal.
A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain is a tale of poetic justice, the tables turned on money-grubbing alleycat Flora. The use of the serum on Harmon has the desired results, winding back the years for the old man, but a little too far: he goes from big daddy to little babby, decades younger than his wife. Raymond, who has never liked Flora, tells the woman that if she wants to continue enjoying his brother's wealth, then she must become Harmon's carer. The look on her face as she is torn between a life of childcare or life without her husband's money is priceless - a fitting comeuppance from The Twilight Zone (although how long will it be before she finds herself another sugar daddy?).
6.5/10, rounded down to 6 for the unconvincing old-age make-up on O'Neal.