Shadow Play (The Twilight Zone, 1959) Quotes

Shadow Play (The Twilight Zone, 1959) is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Shadow Play stopped airing in 1970.

The cast includes: Dennis Weaver as Adam Grant, William Edmonson as Jiggs, Anne Barton as Carol Ritchie, Harry Townes as Henry Ritchie, Wright King as Paul Carson, Gene Roth as Judge, and Harry Townes as Attorney.

Shadow Play (The Twilight Zone, 1959) Quotes

Gene Roth as Judge

• (Gene Roth) "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict?"
• (Jury Foreman) "We have, your Honor."
• (Gene Roth) "And what is the verdict?"
• (Jury Foreman) "Your Honor, we find the defendant, Adam Grant, guilty of murder in the first degree."
• (Gene Roth) "The defendant will rise."
• (Gene Roth) "The defendant will rise."
• (Harry Townes) "Adam"
• (Gene Roth) "Adam Grant, you have been tried by a jury of your peers and found guilty. Do you have anything you wish to say before sentence is passed?"
• (Gene Roth) "Very well. It is the sentence of this court, that for the brutal and despicable crime of murder in the first degree, you shall be put to death by means of electrocution."
• (Dennis Weaver) "NO. Not again. I won't die again."
• (Dennis Weaver) "You can't make me die again."

Dennis Weaver as Adam Grant

• (Dennis Weaver) "You walk out of your cell, pass two gray doors. It's painted green. There's a guard that opens the door for you, and you go into a room. It's tan, it's all tan. There's nothing in it except one chair. It's like a chair you used to sit in when you were a kid. It's hard and solid. They strap your arms and legs, then they attach the electrodes. It's funny, they always feel cold to the touch at first. Then they drop the mask. It's musty. It smells like an old sofa. And then you wait, every muscle tense, straining. Any second, any second then you can almost hear it. They pull the switch --"

• (Dennis Weaver) "Well, Jiggs, don't you think that all of this is just a little bit too much the way it should be?"
• (William Edmonson) "I don't get you."
• (Dennis Weaver) "Well, I mean it's so pat. I got tried and sentenced the same day. It doesn't work like that. But you see, that's the way that I saw it in my mind, and so that's the way it is. Or you take this place here, you and Coley and his harmonica, or Phillips and his mother."
• (Dennis Weaver) "It's like a movie. Real death houses aren't like that, but you see I've never been in a real death house, so that's; that's my impression of it."
• (William Edmonson) "Oh, man, you're really clipped. I don't know what you're talking about."
• (Anne Barton) "Well, the Brothers Grimm, as I live."
• (Harry Townes) "What're you doing up?"
• (Anne Barton) "I'm not up. I'm down. Just like you and your funny friend here. Have they?"
• (Wright King) "Fifteen more minutes. That's another thing. Why does this always happen around midnight?"
• (Harry Townes) "Because that's when it happens."
• (Wright King) "Yeah, but why?"
• (Harry Townes) "You tell me why."
• (Wright King) "According to Grant, he doesn't know anything about these matters except what he sees in the movies, and in the movies it always happens at midnight."
• (Harry Townes) "Because movies are technically accurate."
• (Wright King) "Yeah, that's strange, too, when you come to think of it."

• (Dennis Weaver) "I'll tell you what it's like. You walk out of your cell, pass two gray doors. Seventy-eight steps to the final door, it's painted green. There's a guard that opens the door for you, and you go into a room. It's tan, it's all tan. There's nothing in it except one chair. It's like a chair you used to sit in when you were a kid. It's hard and solid. They strap your arms and legs, then they attach the electrodes. It's funny, they always feel cold to the touch at first. Then they drop the mask. It's musty. It smells like an old sofa. And then you wait, every muscle tense, straining. Any second, any second then you can almost hear it. They pull the switch --"

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