The Passersby
- Épisode diffusé le 6 oct. 1961
- TV-PG
- 25min
Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhile headed home, a Confederate soldier meets an anguished woman at the end of the Civil War.While headed home, a Confederate soldier meets an anguished woman at the end of the Civil War.While headed home, a Confederate soldier meets an anguished woman at the end of the Civil War.
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- AnecdotesJamie Farr: The future Corporal Maxwell Klinger of M.A.S.H. (1972) is seen at the beginning. He is one of the soldiers with the bottom of his face covered.
- GaffesTwo characters refer to "the Civil War," a Northern term that Southern contemporaries would not have used. Even at the time when this show was first aired, many Southerners still considered the name Civil War to be offensive and preferred to say The War Between the States or The War of Northern Aggression. It was only after social upheaval and cultural reevaluations in the late 1960s that the term Civil War began to be generally accepted in the South.
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[opening narration]
Narrator: This road is the afterwards of the Civil War. It began at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and ended at a place called Appomattox. It's littered with the residue of broken battles and shattered dreams.
[a Confederate soldier passing by a plantation house stops and has a conversation with the recently widowed owner sitting on the front porch]
Narrator: [narration continues] In just a moment, you will enter a strange province that knows neither North nor South, a place we call - The Twilight Zone.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Passersby (2022)
Rod Serling deals with the subject of war and moving on afterwords. This story is about the need to philosophically appreciate an individual's role in life and not to expect to be untouched by a changing world. Thoughts of personal revenge and feeling the general devastation of the south tend to poison Lavinia's mind. The story unfolds rapidly when, just after Serling's prologue, Lavinia meets a man she knew who had seemingly died in the war, now appearing to be treading the road home to his wife. A fairly similar moment of poignant 'seeing's believing' as when Maggie in 'The Four Of Us Are Dying' seems to meet her deceased love.
Joanne Linville is just right as Lavinia, having often played determined and emotional women with unusual motives in shows like 'Hawaii Five-0', 'The Fugitive','One Step Beyond' and 'Columbo'.
One of Serling's many reflections on war in TZ. A WWII hero, he never glorified anything about it, but wrote very poignantly here, and in 'The Purple Testament', 'The Changing of the Guard' and others.
- darrenpearce111
- 27 déc. 2013
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- Durée25 minutes
- Couleur
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- 1.33 : 1