![]() ![]() Kuttner called her Martha.) I recall the Filmfax article claimed that the actors who were making The (He also rechristens Kerry’s wife Carolyn. Sidekick from the school’s psychology professor to a losing football coach whoĭabbles in psychology on the side. Sometimes made it difficult to understand the dialogue) - and changes his (just as well, I guess, given the low fidelity in the sound recording that Refrigerator in the central character’s kitchen is also an Admiral.) ObolerĪbbreviates the character’s name - Kerry Westerfield becomes simply Kerry West ![]() This film - a practice that was just beginning when it was made - because the ![]() (Admiral may have been doing product-placement in In the back for the picture tube (antedating the modern-day “flat” TV’s byĪbout 20 years), is comical. Whose very appearance, with its all-white cabinet, four bow legs and no bulge #The twonky short story tvSet instead of a radio-phonograph, and somehow Oboler found (or built) a TV Story technologically - his Twonky is built into an Admiral free-standing TV Humor that nonetheless remains surprisingly entertaining. TheĬomparisons were interesting the first half of the film is actually a fairlyĬlose adaptation of Kuttner’s story, while the second half veers off into silly Later I got out my videotape of the film version of The Twonky and ran it with Charles at his place. Seed-pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers are organic, the premises of the stories areīasically the same: an invader from outer space attempts to dominate humanĬonsciousness as a prelude to invasion and domination of the Earth. Though the Twonky is a mechanical device, while the Individualism as a philosophy - and finally it kills both him and his wife when Starts blocking out parts of his mind - anything relating (once again) to Of the Boyars - a piece I don’t know - and Wonderland or anything to do with individualismĪs a philosophy) and even what music he may listen to (it allows him Debussy’s AfternoonĬhloë, but denies him Halvorsen’s Entrance Read (it lets him read Chaucer and Millay, but not detective novels, histories, Alice in One cup of coffee but won’t permit him a second), what he will be allowed to Ordinary household chores - helping him light his cigarettes and washing dishesįor him - then deciding how much he will be allowed to drink (it lets him have Sold to college professor Kerry Westerfield, who finds the Twonky first doing The guise of an ordinary console radio-phonograph. ![]() Takes human form, infiltrates Mideastern’s workforce and produces a “twonky” in Twonky” begins in the Mideastern Radio factory, where an outer-space alien Serious novel about World War III, Red Alert, 14 years later to come up with Dr. (much the way Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern did with Peter Bryant’s What I hadn’t fully realized was that Oboler had taken a serious science-fiction story and turned it into a comedy #The twonky short story movieThat contained a long article about the making of the movie version of it inġ950, written, produced and directed by Arch Oboler from Kuttner’s 1942 short Represented was called “The Twonky.” I’d first heard of “The Twonky” in 1990, I’d heard of the name before somewhere - and it wasn’t until I picked up theīook and looked at its contents that I realized where I’d heard of Henry Kuttner: one of the 17 stories I’d seen the science-fiction collection The Best of Henry Copyright © 2018 by Mark Gabrish Conlan.The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (Lifetime.The Steel Trap (Andrew Stone Productions, Bert Fri.True Lies (Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century.Mission Mars (Red Ram Productions, Sagittarius Pro.Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Futurama Ent.The Twonky (Arch Oboler Productions, 1950, release.NOVA: “Great Escape at Dunkirk” (PBS, 2018).Bio: “Teacher Jail” (Broadway Video, Sethmake. 2018 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony (Internation.MS-13: PBS Program Shows Two Sides of Notorious Gang. ![]()
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