The Twonky (1953)

Directors

Arch Oboler

Cast

Hans Conreid, Janet Warren, Billy Lynn, Edwin Max, Gloria Blondell, Evelyn Beresford

The story

After seeing his wife (Janet Warren) off on her trip, Kerry West (Hans Conried), a philosophy teacher at a small-town college goes inside his home to contemplate his new purchase: a television set. Sitting down in his office, he places a cigarette in his mouth and is about to light it when a solid beam of light shoots from the television screen, lighting it for him. Absentmindedly unaware of what has taken place, it is only when the television subsequently lights his pipe that West realizes that his television is behaving abnormally.

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