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Escape Clause: Directed by Mitchell Leisen. With Rod Serling, David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, Virginia Christine. A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Mitchell Leisen
- 1959-11-06
A frequent performer on television, Gomez also appeared in guest roles in such series as The Twilight Zone, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Mr. Ed, Burke's Law, The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched, The Rifleman, and Gunsmoke.
"Escape Clause" is episode six of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is "the story of a strange contract between a mortal man and his most satanic majesty"; [1] it originally aired on November 6, 1959, on CBS.
"Escape Clause" is the sixth episode of the The Twilight Zone. From the CBS Video Library cover: "Forty-four-year-old Walter Bedeker (David Wayne) is a hypochondriac par excellence. So when the Devil in the form of fat, jolly Mr. Cadwallader (Thomas Gomez) appears and offers him immortality and...
Cadwallader : [Walter Bedeker is in his cell about to face an eternity in prison] Mr. Bedeker, about that escape clause, you care to utilize it now? Cadwallader : That's a wise man. Odd thing: you look like a man having a heart attack. Just like a man having a heart attack.
Thomas Gomez. Actor: Key Largo. After graduating from high school in 1923, Thomas Sabino Gomez answered a help wanted ad, which resulted in his joining the Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne theater group.
Oct 12, 2014 · Throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, Gomez also guested on TV shows, including The Twilight Zone (in a memorable turn as Satan—the role he’d been building up to all his life), Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Burke’s Law, The Virginian, It Takes a Thief, Bewitched and The Rifleman.