The Passersby
- L’episodio è andato in onda il 6 ott 1961
- TV-PG
- 25min
Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaWhile 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.
- Jud Godwin
- (as Warren Kemmerling)
- Soldier
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- Narrator
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- QuizJamie Farr: The future Corporal Maxwell Klinger of MASH (1972) is seen at the beginning. He is one of the soldiers with the bottom of his face covered.
- BlooperTwo 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.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Passersby (2022)
Our pal, author Mark Zicree of "The TZ Companion", is very negative about this episode; believe me, his opinions are just that, and he totally misses the beauty and eloquence of this show. True, the pace is weary and measured, but that's exactly what the plot demands. He says that James Gregory is "too old" to play a Confederate Sergeant----has he ever seen actual photos from the Civil War??? Men of ALL ages fought---and they aged tremendously from the torturous rigors of war. Johanna Linville is wonderful--always on the edge of tears, heartsick, lost in her dreams of the past. Sure, WE might know what's happening fairly early on in the show---but SHE DOESN"T---she's too "disconnected" from reality to grasp it. GET IT, Mr. Z??
Fred Steiner's noble and elegaic score is magnificent; clearly he was inspired by what he saw on the screen to produce music of unusually lofty quality for TV. There's also a real shocker of a scene involving a Union Lieutenant---even though James Gregory's near- meltdown and his explanatory dialogue during that scene are pretty contrived and over-the-top. But the big "reveal" of this scene was mighty strong stuff for prime time TV in 1961.
And the final twist ending---- my goodness----how appropriate, touching, and understated. You really get a sense of the calm, compassion, wisdom and dignity of the man. The perfect resolution to this moving and otherworldly drama.
I only wish that director Silverstein had built up to the final encounter a little more gradually...maybe a shot of the feet/shoes of the tall guy slowly walking over the road, or a veiled shot from behind as the figure moves through the morning mist---anything to lend more mystery and anticipation. As it is, he's just THERE--big as life.
Ah, well...a minor quibble. The Passersby, despite its flaws, definitely goes on my list of top 10 favorite TZ episodes. LR
- lrrap
- 31 ago 2019
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