Valley of the Shadow
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“Valley of the Shadow” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
[edit] Details
- Episode number: 105
- Season: 4
- Original air date: January 17, 1963
- Writer: Charles Beaumont
- Director: Perry Lafferty
- Producer: Herbert Hirschman
- Director of photography: Robert W. Pittack
[edit] Cast
- Philip Redfield: Ed Nelson
- Ellen Marshall: Natalie Trundy
- Dorn: David Opatoshu
- Evans: Dabbs Greer
- Connelly: Jacques Aubuchon
- Johnson: James Doohan
[edit] Synopsis
Small-town dwellers have an amazing device which literally gives them what they want, by means of insterting a card into the machine of what they want.
[edit] Memorable quotes
Dorn: "What do you do with Professor Einstein's primitive equation, E=mc²? It could have been used to bring water to deserts, to feed starving millions. Was it? (pause) It was used to destroy countless thousands of human beings."
Phillip: "So you're just gonna sit on your secrets. Use 'em to make ham sandwiches and roadblocks."
Dorn: "Ham sandwiches and roadblocks are a bit better than total destruction, wouldn't you say Mr. Redfield?"
Evans: "Let's get this over with!"
Phillip: "You're a bunch of hypocrites! You talk about us, but what do you do when you want someone out of the way? What do you do? The same as us: you eliminate him!"
Evans: "Be quiet!"
Dorn: "No. He has a point, Mr. Evans. It's just what I've been pondering. If we kill this man, in what way do we differ from the outsiders?"
Evans: "We do it out of necessity, not out of joy."
Phillip: "Thank you, Adolf Hitler."
Phillip: "Looks like we have the same problem. I'm locked in the house, you're locked in the town - what's the difference?"
Ellen: "I can leave any time I want to."
Phillip: "Well then why don't you?"
Ellen: "Why should I? We have everything we need."
Phillip: "Except freedom. Face it: if you were to go even a couple of steps outside of this town, why, they'd nail you. Have you ever tried?"
Ellen: "No, but why should I want to try? What could the outside world have to offer that we don't have?"
Phillip: "That's not the point! It's what you have to offer that they don't have."
Evans: "She cooperated because she thought you would prove your good intentions. As I did. But my colleagues were right; you were just like the others. If the end is just, so are the means, whatever they may be. Pity. You have just lost paradise, and don't even know why."