March 9, 2006


Buenisimo el capitulo de "The Outer Limits" que dieron recién en Retro, con Martin Landau jovencisimo. Acá encontré la ficha técnica etc:
"The Man Who Was Never Born"
Script Title: "Cry of the Unborn"
Production Order #12 and Broadcast Order #6
Shooting Days: 27 August-4 September 1963
First Air Date: October 28, 1963
Production Credits:
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Director: Leonard J. Horn
Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin
Director of Photography: Conrad Hall
Composer: Dominic Frontiere (original score)
Cast of Characters:
Martin Landau as Professor Andro
Shirley Knight as Noelle Andersen
John Considine as Bertram Cabot
Maxine Stuart as Mrs. McCluskey
Karl Held as Captain Joseph Reardon
Marlowe Jensen as the Minister


Opening Narration:
"Here, in the bright, clustered loneliness of the billion, billion stars, loneliness can be an exciting, voluntary thing, unlike the loneliness Man suffers on Earth. Here, deep in the starry nowhere, a man can be as one with space and time; preoccupied, yet not indifferent; anxious and yet at peace. His name is Joseph Reardon. He is, in this present year, thirty years old. This is the first time he has made this journey alone..."

Plotline:
Astronaut Joseph Reardon crosses a time-portal and lands on Earth but in a bleak future where a bacteriological catastrophy destroyed humanity. Nevertheless, Reardon meets a survivor: librarian-mutant Andro who has a hypnotic gift. He convinces him to come in the present time to change the course of History at his own risks.

Closing Narration:
"It is said that if you move a single pebble on the beach, you set up a different pattern, and everything in the world is changed. It can also be said that love can change the future, if it is deep enough, true enough, and selfless enough. It can prevent a war, prohibit a plague, keep the whole world... whole."

Quote:
"Here... here lies the protected History of Man. The cherished words and pictures of all his known he loved."
—Professor Andro (Martin Landau)