What a great movie. So many memorable quotes and a Tangerine Dream Soundtrack. Even the fact that Tim Thomerson can't act is not a distraction. And might I add Jenny Wright's first Movie role.

Caleb Colton: I sure haven't met any girls like you.
Mae: No, you sure haven't.

Severen: Cut the shit. I know you're awake. I can smell it.

Bartender: What do you people want?
Jesse: just a few more minutes of your time. About the same duration as the rest of your life.

Mae: Listen to the night, it's deafening.

Loy Colton: Caleb, those people back there, they wasn't normal. Normal folks, they don't spit out bullets when you shoot 'em, no sir.

Caleb Colton: So, how old are you anyway, Jesse?
Jesse: Let's put it this way: I fought for the South. We lost.


Severen: Hey, Jesse, remember that fire we started in Chicago?

Severen: We keep odd hours.

Severen: Fasten your f***in' seat belt.

Homer: The name's Homer. H-O-M-E-R. Mispronounce it... and I wouldn't... wanna... be you.

Severen: How you doin', Jess?
Jesse: Like shit! How 'bout you?
Severen: I'm down to my last inch of skin!

Severen: Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

Severen: I hate it when they ain't been shaved.

Severen: It ain't what's goin' on, son. It's what's comin' off. Your face. Clean off.

Severen: [sucking blood off his fingers] It's finger-lickin' GOOD!

Jesse: I taught Severen everything he knew, but not everything I know.

[first lines]
Caleb Colton: [crushing a mosquito] Dumb suck.

[last lines]
Mae: Caleb, what's happening?
Caleb Colton: I brought you home.
Mae: I'm afraid.
Caleb Colton: Don't be. It's just the sun.

[Pale, sweating and in obvious withdrawal, Caleb is being shaken down by a policeman]
Deputy Sheriff: You ain't looking too good, son.
Caleb Colton: I ain't feeling too good, sir.
Deputy Sheriff: What're you on?
Caleb Colton: You wouldn't believe me...

THE COURTROOM SCENE:

Pilot: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it.
Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of you crew?
Pilot: Right, Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Stiker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.
Prosecutor: Andy went to pieces?
Pilot: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
Prosecutor: Howie came unglued?
Pilot: Oh no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
Prosecutor: And he bailed out?
Pilot: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.
Prosecutor: Then Howie survived?
Pilot: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.

Prosecutor: Over Macho Grande?
Pilot: No. I don't think I'll ever be over Macho Grande.

©1982 Ken Finkleman

Male announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

Female announcer: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

Male announcer: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.

Female announcer: No, the white zone is for loading.Now, there is no stopping in the RED zone.

Male announcer: The red zone has always been for loading.

Female announcer: Don't tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for unloading.

Male announcer: Look Betty, don't start with your white zone shit again.

Male announcer: There's just no stopping in the white zone.

Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.

Male announcer: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if it's done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.

Burgess Meedith as Henry Bemis in "Time Enough At Last" 11/20/1959

One of the classic Twilight Zone Episodes. An episode that is permantlly etched into my memory. Henry Bemis is a lover of literature, but his boss at the bank and his wife at home never give him time to just sit down with a book. The set-up shows a hen-pecking wife, and a obnoxious boss, neither with an appreciation for the written works. One day during his lunch break he sneaks into the Bank's safe with a book. In a close up shot we see his book pages start to flap, then his watch crystal explodes. Awaking from unconscienceness and disoriented we see Henry leave the vault, to a destroyed city. Apparently mankind had annihilated itself and only the vault spared the meek Mr. Bemis. He stumbles through the ruins, speaking to himself of the horror, and of taking his own life out of loneliness and desperation. Then he sees the steps to a Library and he lights up. After a commercial we see stacks of books. Henry happily looks to each stack trying to find the first literary morsel to consume. After he selects a book we see his glasses slide off his nose and smash on the steps of the Library. Mr. Bemis, very nearly blind now has lost his only reason to live along with his eyesight.

This classic irony story written by Rod Serling was adapted from a short story by the same title written for IF magazine in 1953 by Lynn Venable.

Meredith, a veteren of 4 Twilight Zones and numerous other television and movie appearances said that he got more comments and praise for this part than just about any role he played in his entre career.