Citizendia
Your Ad Here

“A Quality of Mercy”
The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from "A Quality of Mercy"
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 80
Written by Rod Serling from a story by Sam Rolfe
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Guest stars Dean Stockwell : Lt. Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling ( December 25, 1924 &ndash June 28, 1975) was an American Screenwriter, best known Sam Rolfe ( February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American Screenwriter. Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award -nominated Emmy Award -nominated Cannes Award and Golden Globe Katell/Lt. Yamuri
Albert Salmi : Sgt. Albert Salmi ( March 11, 1928 - April 22, 1990) was an American actor Causarano
Leonard Nimoy : Hansen
Rayford Barnes : Andrew J. Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American Actor, Film director, Poet, Musician and Watkins
Ralph Votrian : Hanacheck
Dale Ishimoto : Sergeant Yamazaki
Jerry Fujikawa : Japanese Captain
Michael Pataki : Jeep Driver
Production no. Ralph Votrian is an actor and a voice actor Anime Roles El Hazard Wanderers - Additional Voices Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Dale Ishimoto ( April 3, 1923 - March 4, 2004) was an American actor of Japanese descent Michael Pataki (born January 16, 1938) is an American Actor. Early life Pataki was born in Youngstown Ohio. 4809
Original airdate December 29, 1961
Episode chronology
← Previous Next →
"Five Characters in Search of an Exit" "Nothing in the Dark"
List of Twilight Zone episodes

"A Quality of Mercy" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Events 1170 - Thomas Becket: Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. "Nothing in the Dark" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. TemplateInfobox TTW season one through TemplateInfobox TTW season five to match -->This is a list of The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The Twilight Zone is an American Television series created by Rod Serling. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare ( baptised The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598 It was later adapted into the first segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Twilight Zone The Movie is a 1983 film produced by Steven Spielberg as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone, a 1950s and 60s

Contents

Opening Narration

“ It's August, 1945, the last grimy pages of a dirty, torn book of war. The place is the Philippine Islands. The men are what's left of a platoon of American Infantry, whose dulled and tired eyes set deep in dulled and tired faces can now look toward a miracle, that moment when the nightmare appears to be coming to an end. But they've got one more battle to fight, and in a moment we'll observe that battle. August, 1945, Philippine Islands. But in reality, it's high noon in the Twilight Zone. ”

Synopsis

A young gung-ho American Lieutenant in World War II orders his war-weary soldiers to make a near-suicidal attack on a group of sick and wounded Japanese soldiers holed up in a cave. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Sgt. Causarano, who knows the men have had enough of war, tries to talk him out of it, but Katell pulls rank and stands firm on his orders, intent on proving himself.

Suddenly, Lt. Katell finds himself in Corregidor, three years earlier in the war, and gets a new perspective. For the Spanish historical administrative position see Corregidor (position Corregidor is an island in the entrance of the Philippines As Lt. Yamuri in the Japanese army, he is ordered to attack a group of American soldiers in the cave. In vain, he tries to dissuade the captain from the attack, but the Japanese captain believes the young man is sick with jungle fever, or worse, has lost his nerve. Tropical diseases are diseases that are prevalent in or unique to tropical and subtropical regions He tells him to straighten up or stay with the wounded.

His mind reeling from what he has just experienced, Katell finds himself back in the Philippines, an American soldier, with his men telling him that they've gotten word the A-bomb has been dropped. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. They have been ordered not to attack the cave and to fall back. The young man seems relieved, in light of his revelation.

Closing Narration

“ The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ' Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, but applicable to any moment in time, to any group of soldiery, to any nation on the face of the Earth—or, as in this case, to the Twilight Zone. ”

The full quote used by the narrator at the end of the episode is from Act IV, Scene I, of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare ( baptised The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598 The words come from a line spoken by Portia to Shylock, which begin: "The quality of mercy is not strained, / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest, / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice. Shylock is a central character in Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice who famously demanded a pound of flesh from the title character " (lines 183-186)

Adaptation

The episode would later be remade into the first segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), with a modern day approach in which the main character, Bill Konnors (Played by Vic Morrow) is a racist businessman who is upset after a promotion is passed on him for a Jewish man. Twilight Zone The Movie is a 1983 film produced by Steven Spielberg as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone, a 1950s and 60s Victor "Vic" Morrow ( February 14, 1929 &ndash July 23, 1982) was an American actor After giving a prejudicial rant in a bar, he is then taken on a trip through time and is given similar justice of intolerance; a Jew during the Holocaust, an African-American being lynched by the KKK and a Vietnamese being attacked by American soldiers during the Vietnam War. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as Lynching is an Extrajudicial punishment meted out by a mob Lynching an enumerated Felony in some states in the United States, is defined by some Ku Klux Klan ( KKK) is the name of several past and present secret domestic terrorist organizations in the United States, generally in the southern states that are The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia It was directed by film director John Landis. John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie Actor, director, writer, and producer. While filming the segment, actor Vic Morrow and two young child actors were killed during a helicopter stunt while shooting the Vietnam scene and as a result, most of the film was incomplete. History Since 400 AD Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys. Later, Landis along with the film's producers were put on trial for manslaughter and child endangerment, but were found not guilty on all counts. Manslaughter is a legal term for the killing of a human being in a manner considered by law as less culpable than Murder.

Cast and crew

Many cast members from this episode went on to achieve fame in later science fiction television series. Dean Stockwell became well-known to science fiction fans as Al Calavicci in the television series Quantum Leap. Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award -nominated Emmy Award -nominated Cannes Award and Golden Globe Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, dukedom, etc Rear Admiral Albert “Al” Calavicci is a Fictional character on the Science fiction Drama Quantum Leap, created by Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series that ran for 96 episodes from March 1989 to May 1993 on the NBC network Leonard Nimoy, who makes a brief appearance in this episode, also later became well-known as Mr. Spock in Star Trek. Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American Actor, Film director, Poet, Musician and Spock (sometimes referred to as Mr Spock) is a main character in the original Star Trek TV series Star Trek is a Science fiction Television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 through Michael Pataki also made appearances on Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Michael Pataki (born January 16, 1938) is an American Actor. Early life Pataki was born in Youngstown Ohio. Star Trek is a Science fiction Television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 through Star Trek The Next Generation ( STTNG or TNG) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning science fiction television program created by Gene Roddenberry He is most famous in the Star Trek Universe for playing the Klingon Korax in "The Trouble with Tribbles". " The Trouble With Tribbles " is a second-season episode of Star Trek The Original Series, first broadcast on December 29, 1967 and

References

External links

Twilight Zone links

The Twilight Zone is an American Television series created by Rod Serling. TemplateInfobox TTW season one through TemplateInfobox TTW season five to match -->This is a list of TemplateInfobox TTW season one through TemplateInfobox TTW season five to match -->This is a list of
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic