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The Twonky (1953)
Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
03.10.09

The Twonky (1953) The last thing College Lit Professor Cary West wants, while is wife is out of town, is a TV set to keep him company; but that's just what wife Carolyn has bought for him. He is relieved when the serviceman returns to collect the $100 deposit Carolyn forgot to give him; good, he doesn't have the money so the man can take the TV back! Only, a $5 bill he accidently dropped on the floor near the TV has suddenly developed 19 siblings, and the serviceman leaves, cash in hand. West soon realizes he has a major problem: the TV is alive. It lights his pipe, washes his dishes, vacuums his rugs. It also chooses what he can read, write, and marches around to military music; and It also zaps anyone who tries to harm Cary in any way, such as treasury agents investigating the duplicate $5 bills, the police who investigate a call placed by the TV set to the phone company requesting a 'female companion' be sent over for Cary's comfort, and a female bill collector who decides to move in til Cary pays his wife's bills. Cary's sole confident in the adventure is is Gym Coach Trout, who theorizes the set is inhabited by a thing which has time-travelled from some authoritarian society of the future and landed in the TV by accident - a "twonky" he calls it. Now the only thing to figure out is how to get rid of it, since the Twonky also has the capacity and willingness to defend itself above all else, even serving its master Cary...

Movie Tagline:
Out of Your Own Tomorrow... Out of Time and Space a Fearsome Power!

Title: Twonky, The
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Brimstone Pit Rating: 6.7 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With T

Director(s):
Arch Oboler

Cast:
Hans Conried ...Kerry West
Janet Warren ...Carolyn West
William H. Lynn ...Coach Trout (as Billy Lynn)
Edwin Max ...Ed, TV Repairman (as Ed Max)
Gloria Blondell ...Lady Bill Collector
Evelyn Beresford ...Old Lady Motorist
Norman Field ...Doctor
Alice Backes ...Offended Phone Operator #1
Trilby Conried ...Baby
Joe Hawthorne ...Man pushing grapefruit in wife's face
Al Jarvis ...Mailman
Bob Jellison ...TV Shop Owner
Lenore Kingston ...Offended Phone Operator #2
Connie Marshall ...Susie - Girl with football team
Gayle Pace ...
Charles Phillips ...
William Phipps ...Student
Florence Ravenel ...Nurse
Stephen Roberts ...Head Treasury Agent
Jack Rourke ...
Jackson Wheeler ...
Vic Perrin ...TV Salesman
Brick Sullivan ...Cop

Producer(s):
Winston Jones
A.D. Nast Jr.
Arch Oboler
Sidney W. Pink

Writer(s):
Henry Kuttner
C.L. Moore
Arch Oboler

Composer(s):
Jack Meakin

More Movie Taglines:
  • Out of Your Own Tomorrow... Out of Time and Space a Fearsome Power!
Movie Quote(s):
  • Cary West: I'm not afraid of you, you king-sized cigarette lighter!
  • Cary West: You're driving on the wrong side of the road! Old Lady Motorist: Not in England I'm not! Cary West: Oh nooooo!
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Keywords:
Professor, Bill Collector, Nude Woman, Counterfeiting, Mind Control  ...[more]


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