Dust (The Twilight Zone)

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“Dust”
The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from "Dust"
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 48
Written by Rod Serling
Directed by Douglas Heyes
Guest stars Thomas Gomez : Sykes
Vladimir Sokoloff : Gallegos
John Larch : The Sheriff
John Alonzo : Luis Gallegos
Paul Genge : John Canfield
Dorothy Adams : Mrs. Canfield
Duane Grey : Rogers
Andrea Darvi : Estrelita
Jon Lormer
Doug Heyes Jr. : Farmer boy
Dan White
Featured music Jerry Goldsmith
Production no. 173-3653
Original airdate January 6, 1961
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"Dust" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.


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[edit] Opening narration

“ There was a village, built of crumbling clay and rotting wood, and it squatted ugly under a broiling sun like a sick and mangy animal wanting to die. This village had a virus, shared by its people. It was the germ of squalor, of hopelessness, of a loss of faith. For the faithless, the hopeless, the misery-laden, there is time, ample time, to engage in one of the other pursuits of men. They begin to destroy themselves. ”

[edit] Synopsis

An unscrupulous peddler, after selling the executioner some rope needed for a hanging, sells a bag of “magic dust” to the condemned man’s father. The dust is nothing more than dirt, but the peddler claims that it will stop the execution. At the plot's conclusion, the man's father cries out and starts sprinkling the dust everywhere; surprisingly the noose breaks. The parents of the little girl accidentally killed by the condemned man then decide not to let the hanging continue.

[edit] Closing narration

“ It was a very small, misery-laden village on the day of a hanging, and of little historical consequence. And if there's any moral to it at all, let's say that in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human heart. For inside this deep place there's a wizardry that costs far more than a few pieces of gold. Tonight's case in point in the Twilight Zone. ”

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