Buster Keaton Silent Film Gags in Twilight Zone. He gave the director ideas when they fit the script. Included are the come back here with that! gag from Steamboat Bill junior. He also included a funny gag from the garage. What is amazing is his timing even at this older age in life. “ Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase, Out of the frying pan, into the fire - said fire burning brightly at all times - in The Twilight Zone. ” Plot[edit] Woodrow Mulligan (Buster Keaton) is a grumpy janitor in 1890, dissatisfied with his time and place: a backwater town called Harmony with seventeen-cent cuts of meat, two-dollar hats, livestock freely roaming the streets, and penny-farthing bicycles that knock him down while going the speed limit (eight miles per hour). He works for Professor Gilbert (Milton Parsons), who has just invented a time helmet. Pouncing on the opportunity, Mulligan uses the helmet to transport himself to 1960, which of course turns out to be a surprise with even higher prices and more noise. He meets Rollo (Stanley Adams), a scientist and authority on the 1890s, which he regards as charming. Rollo tries to go back alone, but Mulligan jumps on him and they go back together. The 1890s turn out to be not entirely what Rollo thought of them. Mulligan, however, is relieved, and when he hears Rollo griping (This guy sounds worse than my mother-in-law, Mulligan observes through an intertitle), he sets the helmet for 1960, puts it on Rollos head, and sends him back to his own time. Closing narration[edit] “ To each his own - so goes another old phrase to which Mr. Woodrow Mulligan would heartily subscribe, for he has learned - definitely the hard way - that theres much wisdom in a third old phrase, which goes as follows: Stay in your own backyard. To which it might be added, and, if possible, assist others to stay in theirs - via, of course, The Twilight Zone. https://youtube/watch?v=tHwZxjZpRiM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upo...) Episode no. Season 3 Episode 13 Directed by Norman Z. McLeod (with an uncredited sequence by Les Goodwins) Written by Richard Matheson Featured music William Lava (piano score played by Ray Turner) Production code 4820 Original air date December 15, 1961 Creator: Robert Crabtree
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