S1.E23

A World of Difference

Episode aired Mar 11, 1960
TV-PG
25m

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Howard Duff and Gail Kobe in The Twilight Zone (1959)

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A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is an actor. He fights to get back to his home and family.A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is an actor. He fights to get back to his home and family.A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is an actor. He fights to get back to his home and family.

Director
- Ted Post
Writers
- Richard Matheson
- Rod Serling
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7.6/10

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Director
- Ted Post
Writers
- Richard Matheson
- Rod Serling
Stars

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Howard Duff

Arthur Curtis…

David White

Brinkley

Frank Maxwell

Marty Fisher

Eileen Ryan

Nora Raigan

Gail Kobe

Sally

Peter Walker

Susan Dorn

Marion Curtis

Bill Idelson

Kelly
(as William Idelson)

Chet Brandenburg

Technician
(uncredited)

Michael Jeffers

Technician
(uncredited)

Thomas Martin

Technician
(uncredited)

Robert McCord

Camera Crew Member
(uncredited)

Rod Serling

Narrator
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Ted Post
Writers
- Richard Matheson
- Rod Serling
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Trivia
During his introduction Rod Serling says Gerry is 36. Howard Duff was actually 47 at the time.

Goofs
When Arthur Curtis first sees his wife in his office at the very end of the shot, the film goes in reverse for less than a second. You can see Arthur Curtis move backward and Mrs. Curtis' handbag swing back abruptly - both in the exact same motion as when going forward.

Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: [Opening Narration] You're looking at a tableau of reality, things of substance, of physical material: a desk, a window, a light. These things exist and have dimension. Now this is Arthur Curtis, age thirty-six, who also is real. He has flesh and blood, muscle and mind. But in just a moment we will see how thin a line separates that which we assume to be real with that manufactured inside of a mind.

Connections
Edited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: A World of Difference (2020)

Soundtracks
Twilight Zone Theme
(theme song)
Composed by Bernard Herrmann
(season 1)

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8/10

Intriguing.

Arthur Curtis (Howard Duff) is a businessman with a wife, a daughter. and a nice secretary...or is he who he thinks he is? Suddenly he sees a film director and crew in the office and the 'secretary' Sally (Gail Kobe- her first of three TZ) who is now an actress with her feet up on the desk calls him 'MR REGAN'. Then he finds everyone says he is Gerry Reagan, an actor who is only playing a character called Arthur Curtis.

An intriguing story as Howard Duff displays much torment as the conflicting identities character. The woman who claims to be his wife divorcing him, Nora Reagan (Eileen Ryan) could surely kill either 'character' with her stare. Miss Ryan's strong performance as the scary Norma seems to bring him to cold reality, but is this terrible shrew real? Duff is excellent as the woeful, confused 'businessman' or 'movie actor'.

All becomes clear...well at least I think it does!