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The Twonky answers the phone alerting Mrs West something is wrong. West returns home alone and very drunk. The Twonky zaps him and he is suddenly sober again. West is now totally frustrated and launches into a rant about the freedoms he deserves. The next day the TV repairman returns and thinks he is picking up the Twonky.
The Twonky. The Twonky is a 1953 independently made American black-and-white science fiction / comedy film, produced by A.D. Nast, Jr., Arch Oboler, and Sidney Pink, written and directed by Arch Oboler, and starring Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn, and Edwin Max. [1] The film was distributed by United Artists.
Here the Twonky is a little TV set that interferes with his life. It stumbles around the house, manipulated by stagehands you can almost see from time to time. It lights his cigarettes, cleans his dishes, answers his phone with a monotone, robot voice. And it sobers him up instantly with a zap ray, and when anyone else threatens it, it zaps ...
The robot-like set (the Twonky) uses rays to do helpful things (it lights his cigarettes, creates counterfeit $5 notes, empties the dishwasher, shaves him, vacuums the house), but it also walks around awkwardly, uses the phone and makes unwanted value judgements (like breaking his classical records – because the Twonky wants to listen to marching music).
Professor West (Hans Conreid) is making a point of ignoring the TV his wife has bought to amuse him while she's out of town, but failing, then taking a minute to realize the service guy (Ed Max) has arrived with a solution, in maverick producer Arch Oboler's SciFi comedy The Twonky, 1953.
The Twonky (1953) - * Cary West: I'm not afraid of you, you king-sized cigarette lighter!
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It also chooses what he can read, write, and marches around to military music; and It also zaps anyone who tries to harm Cary in any way, such as treasury agents investigating the duplicate $5 bills, the police who investigate a call placed by the TV set to the phone company requesting a 'female companion' be sent over for Cary's comfort, and a female bill collector who decides to move in til ...
