26 DVD along with " The Big Tall Wish", " Showdown with Rance McGrew" and " A Piano in the House". This episode is included on the Image Entertainment Vol. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) ( 1959) (USA) (TV) (original airing).Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (in association with) This eerie Twilight Zone entry was scripted by Richard Matheson from his own short story 'Long Distance Call.Often thought of as one of the finest episodes. Case in point, Miss Elva Keene, who in every sense has made her own bed and now must lie in it, sadder, but wiser, by dint of a rather painful lesson in responsibility, transmitted from the Twilight Zone." Response and Analysis It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell. "According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. Then the line goes dead, leaving Elva alone and crying in her bed. He replies that she told him to leave her alone and that he always does what she says. At home she picks up the phone and calls out to Brian's ghost, pleading with him to answer. Now that she can talk to him again she won't have to be alone. The accident killed Brian and crippled her. A week before they were to be married, she insisted on driving and lost control of the car. Elva says that she always insisted on having her own way, and Brian always did what she said. 'Night Call' Writer: Richard Matheson - based on a short story 'Long Distance Call' by Richard Matheson Director: Jacques Tourneur Producer: Bert Granet Director of Photography: Robert W. The phone company traces the cause to a telephone line that has fallen in a cemetery.Įlva and her housekeeper visit the cemetery where she finds that the line is resting on the grave of her long-deceased fiancé, Brian Douglas. Finally he says "Hello? Where are you? I want to talk to you." Elva, terrified, screams at the man to leave her alone. Later she hears a man moaning and she repeatedly demands to know who is calling. During the first calls she hears only static. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended, for something different is about to happen to her, has in fact already begun to happen, via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night, telephone calls routed directly through - the Twilight Zone." Episode SummaryĪn elderly woman, Elva Keene (Gladys Cooper), receives strange anonymous phone calls. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair, reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication - and waiting for something different to happen. Elva Keene, confined to her bed and wheelchair, is driven to distraction by mysterious telephone calls on a dead line. "Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine.
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