![]() Lynn) to help him, and Trout, despite his strange behaviour, tells West that the TV is no TV, but a twonky: ”Something you have, but you don’t know what it is. He calls in his eccentric neighbour Coach Trout ( William H. Even worse, it begins to brainwash him, so that he can’t think his own thoughts, and instead recites the history if sexual promiscuity to his students. John Stuart Mill’s Freedom and The Life of Abraham Lincoln are quickly zapped out of his hands, and instead the twonky gives him the racy book Romance through the Ages. But the real problems arise when he tries to prepare a lecture on individualism and the great arts, or the importance of artistic freedom. ![]() He can’t even get drunk, as the twonky immediately zaps him sober. Neither is he allowed to listen to Mozart – zap zap! The twonky wants to listen to marching music. He’s not allowed to drink more than one cup of coffee a day – zap! goes the twonky’s laser beam, destroying the cup. It wobbles around on its strange legs and begins to assert mastery over the household, and especially over West himself.įirst it’s nuisances. Instead, the thing starts helping him in the household, duplicating money for the down payment, lighting his cigarettes, opening his Coke bottles and cleaning his dishes. But professor West soon discovers that this is not an ordinary TV. To keep her husband company, she has bought a TV set for him. College professor Kerry West (Hans Conried)’s wife Carolyn ( Janet Warren) is going away to visit her sister who is going to have a baby. Booth William Alland William Beaudine William Cameron Menzies William Schallert Willis O'Brien Wyatt Ordungįirst of all, let’s get the plot, what there is of it, out of the way. Goodkind Sci-fi Science Fiction Sergei Stolyarov Superman The Abominable Snowman Thea von Harbou The Invisible Man The Mysterious Island Thomas Edison Thomas Russell Sullivan Tomoyuki Tanaka Vincent Price W. Cooper Michael Curtiz Milicent Patrick Morris Ankrum Nick Grinde Philip Wylie Ray Bradbury Richard Carlson Richard Denning Robert Florey Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Sheckley Robert Stevenson Robur the Conqueror Roger Corman Sam Katzman Sam Newfield Samuel Hoffman Saul A. Fulton Jules Verne Karel Capek Karl Hartl Karl Struss Kenneth Strickfaden Kenneth Tobey Kurt Siodmak Leith Stevens Mary Shelley Merian C. Ernest Williamson Jack Arnold Jack Pierce Jack Rabin Jaime Salvador James Whale Jane Gail John Carradine John L. Harry Thomas Haruo Nakajima Henry Kuttner Herbert L. Schoedsack Faith Domergue Farciot Edouart Film First Men in the Moon Frankenstein Frank Lloyd Franklyn Farnum Fritz Lang George Pal Georges Méliès George Worthing Yates Godfrey Grayson H.G. Kornbluth Donovan's Brain Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Edward Dmytryk Eiji Tsuburaya Erle C. King Buster Crabbe Charles Gemora Cyril M. Reeves Easton Bela Lugosi Boris Karloff Brigitte Helm Bud Westmore Burton L. Most used tags 20 000 Leagues Under the Seas Alexei Tolstoy Anthony Hinds Arch Oboler Arthur C.
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