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" Night Call " is a 1964 episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone directed by Jacques Tourneur. The story follows an elderly woman, played by Gladys Cooper, who receives persistent disturbing phone calls from an anonymous caller.
Night Call: Directed by Jacques Tourneur. With Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett, Rod Serling. Late-night telephone calls begin to haunt disabled elderly Elva Keene at her sequestered home in rural Maine.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Jacques Tourneur
- 1964-02-07
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"Night Call" is an episode of the The Twilight Zone.
Opening Narration Episode Summary
An elderly woman, Elva Keene (Gladys Cooper), receives strange anonymous phone calls. During the first calls she hears only static. Later she hears a man moaning and she repeatedly demands to know who is calling. Finally he says "Hello? Where are you? I want to talk to you." Elva, terrified, screams at the man to leave her alone. The phone company traces the cause to a telephone line that has fallen in a cemetery. Elva and her housekeeper visit the cemetery where she finds that the line is resting on the grave of her long-deceased fiancé, Brian Douglas. Elva says that she always insisted on having her own way, and Brian always did what she said. A week before they were to be married, she insisted on driving and lost control of the car. The accident killed Brian and crippled her. Now that she can talk to him again she won't have to be alone. At home she picks up the phone and calls out to Brian's ghost, pleading with him to answer. He replies that she told him to leave her alone and that he always does what she says. Then the line goes dead, leaving Elva alone and crying in her bed.
Production Companies
•Cayuga Productions •Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (in association with)
Distributors
•Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1959) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
Home media release
This episode is included on the Image Entertainment Vol. 26 DVD along with "The Big Tall Wish", "Showdown with Rance McGrew" and "A Piano in the House".
•http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734598/
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Feb 7, 2014 · The line goes dead. “Night Call” was written by Richard Matheson, based on his short story “Sorry, Right Number,” which was first published in 1953, then again in 1961 in Matheson’s short story collection Shock! Here’s where things gets a bit weird.
