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5.05 The Last Night of a Jockey
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“The name is Grady, five feet short in stockings and boots, a slightly distorted offshoot of a good breed of humans who race horses. He happens to be one of the rotten apples, bruised and yellowed by dealing in dirt, a short man with a short memory who’s forgotten that he’s worked for the sport of kings and helped turn it into a cesspool, used and misused by the two-legged animals who’ve hung around sporting events since the days of the Colosseum. So this is Grady, on his last night as a jockey.”
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5.02 Steel
Director: Don Weis
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Sports item, circa 1974: Battling Maxo, B2, heavyweight, accompanied by his manager and handler, arrives in Maynard, Kansas, for a scheduled six-round bout. Battling Maxo is a robot, or, to be exact, an android, definition: an automaton resembling a human being. Only these automatons have been permitted in the ring since prizefighting was legally abolished in 1968. This is the story of that scheduled six-round bout, more specifically the story of two men shortly to face that remorseless truth: that no law can be passed which will abolish cruelty or desperate need–nor, for that matter, blind animal courage.”
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5.01 In Praise of Pip
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Submitted for your approval, one Max Phillips, a slightly-the-worse-for wear maker of book, whose life has been as drab and undistinguished as a bundle of dirty clothes. And, though it’s very late in his day, he has an errant wish that the rest of his life might be sent out to a laundry to come back shiny and clean, this to be a gift of love to a son named Pip.”
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4.18 The Bard
Director: David Butler
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“You’ve just witnessed opportunity, if not knocking, at least scratching plaintively on a closed door. Mr. Julius Moomer, a would-be writer who, if talent came twenty-five cents a pound, would be worth less than car fare. But, in a moment, Mr. Moomer, through the offices of some black magic, is about to embark on a brand-new career.”
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4.16 On Thursday We Leave for Home
Director: Buzz Kulik
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“ William Benteen, who had prerogatives: he could lead, he could direct, dictate, judge, legislate. It became a habit, then a pattern, and finally a necessity. William Benteen, once a god–now a population of one.”
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4.15 The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Director: Abner Biberman
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“ Mr. Horace Ford, who has a preoccupation with another time, a time of childhood, a time of growing up, a time of street games, stickball and hide-‘n-go-seek. He has a reluctance to go check out a mirror and see the nature of his image: proof positive that the time he dwells in has already passed him by.”
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4.13 The New Exhibit
Director: John Brahm
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Martin Lombard Senescu, a gentle man, the dedicated curator of murderers’ row in Ferguson’s Wax Museum. He ponders the reasons why ordinary men are driven to commit mass murder. What Mr. Senescu does not know is that the groundwork has already been laid for his own special kind of madness and torment…”
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4.12 I Dream of Genie
Director: Robert Gist
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Meet Mr. George P. Hanley – a man life treats without deference, honor or respect. Waiters serve his soup cold. Elevator operators close doors in his face. Mechanics overcharge him for half-hearted labor. Novelty cake-bakers misspell his name. Clubs refuse him for membership on sight. Clerks roll their eyes at his questions. Shoeshine boys give him slapdash service at best. Therapists giggle at him. Pledge drive-workers turn down his donations. And mothers never bother to wait up for the daughters he dates. George is a creature of humble habits and tame dreams. He’s an ordinary man, Mr. Hanley. But, at this moment, the accidental possessor of a very special gift: the kind of gift that measures men against their dreams, the kind of gift most of us might ask for first and possibly regret to the last…”
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4.09 Printer’s Devil
Director: Ralph Senensky
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Exit the infernal machine, and with it his satanic majesty, Lucifer, prince of darkness - otherwise known as Mr. Smith. He’s gone, but not for good; that wouldn’t be like him - he’s gone for bad.”
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5.25 The Masks
Director: Ida Lupino
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Mr. Jason Foster, a tired ancient who on this particular Mardi Gras evening will leave the Earth. But before departing, he has some things to do, some services to perform, some debts to pay—and some justice to mete out.”
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5.16 The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Director: Don Siegel
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“The Salvadore Ross program for self-improvement. The all-in-one, surefire success course that lets you lick the bully, learn the language, dance the tango, and anything else you want to do - or think you want to do.“
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5.15 The Long Morrow
Director: Robert Florey
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“My life had been space. It had been missions, projects, and expeditions. There had been no time for intrusions that took the form of a woman’s face, a voice, a short month of a man and a woman drawing together, becoming a part of one another, reaching tentatively into that strange and mysterious pond of love and then watching the ripples that came from it. But now I think of these things. Now they come to mind, now in the darkness, in the cold, the solitude, the stillness, the loneliness. Now there comes a feeling of warmth.”
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5.14 You Drive
Director: John Brahm
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Portrait of a nervous man: Oliver Pope by name, office manager by profession. A man beset by life’s problems: his job, his salary, the competition to get ahead. Obviously, Mr. Pope’s mind is not on his driving. Oliver Pope, businessman turned killer, on a rain-soaked street in the early evening of just another day during just another drive home from the office. The victim, a kid on a bicycle, lying injured, near death. But Mr. Pope hasn’t time for the victim, his only concern is for himself. Oliver Pope, hit-and-run driver, just arrived at a crossroad in his life, and he’s chosen the wrong turn.”
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5.13 Ring-a-Ding Girl
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“We are all travelers. The trip starts in a place called birth, and ends in that lonely town called death. And that’s the end of the journey, unless you happen to exist for a few hours, like Bunny Blake, in the misty regions of The Twilight Zone.”
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5.11 A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Director: Bernard Girard
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Picture of an aging man who leads his life, as Thoreau said, ‘in quiet desperation.’ Because Harmon Gordon is enslaved by a love affair with a wife forty years his junior. Because of this, he runs when he should walk. He surrenders when simple pride dictates a stand. He pines away for the lost morning of his life when he should be enjoying the evening. In short, Mr. Harmon Gordon seeks a fountain of youth, and who’s to say he won’t find it?”
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