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Execution (The Twilight Zone)
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"Execution" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone
. It features Albert Salmi
, who also plays the lead character in the Season 4 episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville".
to randomly pluck Caswell from the past. But when Manion sees Caswell's rope burns around his neck, he attempts to send him back. The two men get into a fight, and Caswell ends up hitting Manion over the head with a heavy lamp. Caswell then tries to escape onto a busy street, but becomes so overwhelmed by the lights and the noise that he returns to the lab. Seeking the scientist's aid, he realizes that his blow has killed Manion. Just then a thief, Johnson, breaks into the lab. Caswell hits Johnson and tries to wrestle Johnson's gun from him, but Johnson gets the upper hand of the fight and strangles Caswell with a blind cord. As Johnson tries to break into 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.
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
. It features Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi
Albert Salmi was an American actor.-Biography:Albert Salmi was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Finnish immigrant parents, and following a stint in the Army, took up acting as a career, studying Method acting with Lee Strasberg. In 1955, Salmi starred in Bus Stop on Broadway...
, who also plays the lead character in the Season 4 episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville".
Synopsis
In 1880, a man named Joe Caswell is about to be hanged for murder. But as the noose tightens around his neck, he suddenly appears in the modern lab of Professor Manion. Manion explains that he used a time machineTime Machine
A time machine is a fictional/hypothetical device used to achieve time travel. The term may also refer to:-Novels and films:* The Time Machine, an 1895 novel by H. G...
to randomly pluck Caswell from the past. But when Manion sees Caswell's rope burns around his neck, he attempts to send him back. The two men get into a fight, and Caswell ends up hitting Manion over the head with a heavy lamp. Caswell then tries to escape onto a busy street, but becomes so overwhelmed by the lights and the noise that he returns to the lab. Seeking the scientist's aid, he realizes that his blow has killed Manion. Just then a thief, Johnson, breaks into the lab. Caswell hits Johnson and tries to wrestle Johnson's gun from him, but Johnson gets the upper hand of the fight and strangles Caswell with a blind cord. As Johnson tries to break into 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.