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Execution: Directed by David Orrick McDearmon. With Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell. When a 20th-century scientist tests out his time machine he accidentally retrieves a murderer from 1880, saving him from the hangman's noose.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- David Orrick McDearmon
- 1960-04-01
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In 1880, an outlaw cowboy named Joe Caswell is about to be hanged for murder. But as the noose tightens around his neck, he suddenly disappears and finds himself in 1960, in the laboratory of Professor Manion. Manion explains that he used a time machine to pluck Caswell from the past.
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"Execution" is the twenty-sixth episode of the The Twilight Zone.
Opening Narration Episode Summary
In 1880 a man named Joe Caswell is about to be hanged for murder; but as the noose tightens around his neck, he suddenly disappears...and finds himself in 1959, in the laboratory of Professor Manion. Manion explains that he used a time machine to pluck Caswell from the past. But when Manion sees Caswell's rope burns around his neck, and hears Caswell's admission that in his life he had murdered over twenty men he knows he must try to send Caswell back. The discussion leads to an argument...Caswell attacks the Professor, killing the Professor with a desk lamp. Caswell flees from the laboratory into a busy street, but becomes so overwhelmed by the lights and the noise that he returns to the lab. Caswell, distraught and desperate, breaks down, pleading for the dead scientist to help him. Suddenly a thief enters the lab. Caswell fights with the thief, but the thief gets the upper hand in the fight and strangles Caswell with the cord from the window curtains. As the thief tries to find Manion's safe, he accidentally activates the time machine — and is sent back to 1880, appearing in the noose intended for Caswell, just in time to be hanged.
Cast
•Rod Serling as Narrator (voice only); •Albert Salmi as Joe Caswell •Russell Johnson as Professor Manion •Than Wyenn as Paul Johnson •George Mitchell as Old Man •Jon Lormer as Minister •Fay Roope as Judge •Richard Karlan as Bartender •Joe Haworth as TV Cowboy;
Crew
•Rod Serling (executive producer: Cayuga Productions) •Buck Houghton (producer) •George T. Clemens (director of photography) •Joseph Gluck (film editor) •George W. Davis (art director) •Merrill Pye (art director) •F. Keogh Gleason (set decorator; credited: Keogh Gleason) •Henry Grace (set decorator) •Ralph W. Nelson (production manager) •Kurt Neumann (assistant director) •Franklin Milton (sound; credited: Frank Milton) •Philip Mitchell (sound) •Van Allen James (sound effects editor; uncredited)
Production Companies
•Cayuga Productions •Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (in association with)
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A time travel story about a murderer who escapes from a hanging in 1880 and ends up in a 1959 lab. He kills the scientist who sent him back, but is then killed by a thief who is sent to his place in the past.
"The Twilight Zone" Execution (TV Episode 1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
" I Am the Night—Color Me Black " is episode 146 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on March 27, 1964 on CBS. Opening narration. Sheriff Charlie Koch on the morning of an execution. As a matter of fact, it's seven-thirty in the morning.
Watch and listen to a detailed breakdown of the classic Twilight Zone episode "Execution", where a cowboy is sentenced to death by a jury of his peers. Learn about the themes, symbolism, and twists of this iconic story by Rod Serling and George Clayton Johnson.
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The Execution. Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, a man in 1880 is transported into the year 1959 by a professor who soon realizes that he has brought forward a savage killer. Stream The Twilight Zone free and on-demand with Pluto TV. Season 1, Episode 26. Stream now.
