I thought I knew all of the episodes, I have the DVD set, I'll have to watch this one again. I saw them all when they first aired. I'm 70, one of the good things about getting old, you forget and it's like brand new again. LOL. Like all of this series, the message is timeless.
My family had just arrived to visit my grandparents and I was channel surfing (no guide) before bed when I came across this episode. It drew me in and ended up being the episode that got me into the Twilight Zone.
For the longest time, I watched this since I was a child in the eighties and it took me about 15 years for it to sink in. John Carradine was talking about the World War. Rod Serling WAS GENIUS!
I saw another version of this in the sixties that had a cast of a husband and wife. The wife comes home and finds her husband has captured a ragged man who he claims is the devil. The man has to leave but tells his wife not to let the man out of the cage. Eventually the ragged man convinces the wife that he is not the devil and she lets him out . Kinda like Eve being deceived in the garden.
That ending sequence walking past the pillers from an FX point of view it's very simple, even for the 1960's yet it still creeps me out. Everything comes together perfectly.
THE DEVIL HAS THE ABILITY TO TAKE EVERY SHAPE AND FORM. IF IT TARGETS YOU, IT CAN TAKE THE FORM OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND SIT DOWN NEXT TO YOU ON A TRAIN OR BUS. IT'S AN ACTUAL LIVING BEING.
"The Howling Man" is episode 41 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on November 4, 1960 on CBS. Ancient folk saying: "You can catch the Devil, but you can't hold him long." Ask Brother Jerome. Ask David Ellington. They know, and they'll go on knowing to the end of their days and beyond - in the Twilight Zone. The story is told in a flashback by an American named David Ellington. While on a walking trip through post-World War I Europe (circa 1925), Ellington becomes lost in a storm. He sees a building, and walks towards it. It turns out to be a castle, which is now the home of an order of Brothers (Wolfring Castle, referred to in the episode as the "Hermitage") near the village of Schwarzwald. He knocks, the door opens, and he pleads for help. He is told by the monk who opens the door that they cannot give him shelter and that he must leave immediately. Ellington pleads for sanctuary from the storm, and, while waiting in the front hall to see if he can stay there, he hears a disturbing wolf-like howl coming from somewhere in the castle.
Made me a believer as a child that the Devil is Real after seeing this particular episode. I had never seen satan depicted as a person anywhere with horns and cape and disappear in smoke and lighting Great Special affects in black and White! Twilight Zone was Way ahead of it's time.l should say Rod Serling was a head of his time he was our first Steven Spielberg.
Serling wasn't commercial like Speilberg and almost always had a moral to the story, not so for Speilberg. Anyhow, this episode was written by Charles Beaumont, not Serling.
Rod Serling was a true GENIUS !! A word that is tossed around you have to admit way too often,just because you are really impressed with something, yet when someone does something time after time after time and causes one to think and learn plus be entertained that my friend is GENIUS !!!
Front Row Center maybe this Carradine Moses look alike would have taught Satan that asphyxiation rope trick and tell Satan this is an auto erotic endorphin racing experience and Satan might go and try this fetish and while he's strangling from our closet rod and croaks hence making the world a safer place now Or for mankind to do the same thing probably. Since so many lives on meaningless just listen to the famous words of the Colossus of New York spouting Ayn Rand's philosophy..its a interesting Syfy movie from the 50s
Loved the LIGHTNING FLASH when Carradine says '.....the DEVIL HIMSELF.' The giveaway was the little staff securing the door. 'Moms' used to say, 'always follow your first mind'.
Satan doesn't always look like a man. The spirit of the devil takes many forms. And that spirit visits many places. It even visits TH-cam on an occasion. I found this episode to be amusing.
Yes I've always thought this episode is a lot more well made than most ..The actors , direction, music are all quality. It could of been stretched into a movie..
John Carradine always popped up in sci- fi flicks or as an undertaker in some macabre movie. Here he played a monk keeping the Devil behind bares but that crafty serpent tricked that stranger into believing in his innocence and helped him escape back into society to plague all of man kind.. The moral of this story is never open Pandora's box. GREAT STUFF.
Yep, John Carradine was in a very scary edition of "Night Gallery." Saw him at an art theatre in "Hound of the Baskervilles." I had never seen this until last week, and then I just knew Carradine would appear after the initial scene. It was his genre.
The howling sound has been a Simpsons scene transition sounds for 30 years. Amazed no one has caught on after all these years. You can hear it in dozens of episodes of The Simpsons as one scene transitions to the next. I wonder what the inside joke is.
I wouldn't have let a howling weirdo out of his cage. I love the devil transformation even though it looks like a Halloween costume. They did not have a big budget for this show and Rod Serling struggled to keep the show from getting cancelled every year and finally gave up.
My 3 favorite shows are: Doctor Who (1963-1989) The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) The Outer Limits (1963-1965) My favorite episodes / story of each of these shows, respectively: "City of Death" "The Howling Man" "The Man Who Was Never Born" if they ask me which one I love the most, I will name the 2nd.
A good review, Michael, and I rate it as a must see as well, but where I disagree are with your assertions that the episode is putting all the blame on the devil (that's actually brought up with Ellington's discussion with Brother Jerome, where the latter informs him that the everyday evils are due to the corruption of people ("We cause most of our own griefs. We need no help from him."), but the major ones, such as wars, are instigated by Satan, or that the plot is just a metaphor for struggling with our own personality flaws. I believe it was indeed Charles Beaumont's intention to pen a Gothic horror story expressing a struggle between supernatural light and darkness with a quite literal devil, but others are free to view it differently. My rule of thumb with _The Twilight Zone_ is to take what's on the screen as something occurring in some strange dimension, except on those rare occasions when it's evident, such as "The Arrival", which is clearly about the unraveling of an FAA Inspector's mind as he imagines an airliner lands without crew or passengers. Because the reveal that it's been a figment of his imagination doesn't come until the end, the outre quality of the episode, such as when he reaches his arm into the moving propeller, only to have the plane disappear, is strong throughout. However, I am firmly against those trying to reduce episodes to natural explanations, when the aim of the series is something entirely different. One example is when one of the hosts of the _Twilight Pwn_ podcast said he wished the end of "Living Doll" was different, and after Erich's death, his wife Annabelle didn't pick up the doll and have it say, "I'm Talky Tina, and you'd better be nice to me". He revisionist idea was that it would be better to show that it was all in Erich's head, and that nothing out of the ordinary had really happened. This is totally wrongheaded, because any show could do that; only in _TZ_ could a man be in mortal combat with a doll that could even resist his attempts to destroy it by a vise, a blow torch and a circular saw. "Living Doll" was pure _Twilight Zone,_ and that meant it was not the exceeding rare "it was all in his head" episode.
It is a blessing that someone takes the time to reintroduce these important episodes with this format. I myself will not watch old episodes because they seem to move at a sales pace. This type of format is better suited for the internet age. I have tried to go back on Netflix and binge watch old tv shows from when I was young and could not watch 10 min because they seem so slow paced today 😱
The great, but sadly underused Robin Hughes as the howling man. Friedrich Von Ledebur (Queequeg from Moby Dick) as brother Christophorus. John Carradine! H.M. Wynant-still with us and also a remarkable career. A first rate story boosted to epic status with grade AAAA cast.
The monks/brothers seem to be taken straight from the Old Testament. The devil seem to be taken straight from an old Underwood Deviled Ham Spread Can. It looks like the head monk/brother etc. played by John Carradine borrowed the same hair piece and staff used by Moses (Charlton Heston) in "The Ten Commandments." John Carradine played Moses' brother Aaron in that movie. I suspect if I could find some episode trivia I bet I would find that Carradine in fact did use TTC props.The story was pretty suspenseful to me then (9 years old) until that $5.99 devil emerged!
+The Great Red Dragon 87. I saw it when it first aired in November 1960. I remember quite well it was silly to me even then! It aired just after Halloween (my birthday) and we joked that their prop budget must have allowed the producers only the Sears Halloween costume leftovers. We can blame some of the cheap effects of the times on the times, but not this episode. The Creature of the Black Lagoon, Wolfman, Dracula and even Frankenstein kind of scared my young eyes. They were made about a decade or more before the TZ. There were films with little "bugets" but BIG bugs---ants, grasshoppers, tarantulas, and praying mantis of the time that had some cheesy effects, but they were not outright silly to me. If TZ had no monster budget then I wished they would have used shadows on the wall or something, hell I don't know, not something that could eventually end up on Sesame Street with Big Bird, and Cookie Monster. I really enjoyed the episodes of "The Outer Limits," (another network's answer to the TZ). It was more thought provoking and it aired in the mid 60s. It had perhaps a $4.99 monster budget. And it was obvious it had no budget overruns; may have even saved money! Of all the TV shows ever, this series had the worst make-up department in the annals of TV filming. Check out Robert Culp in "The Architects of Fear." That paper mache thing/thang couldn't pass a screening test for "Barney & Friends," because babies would think it too silly. TODAY, people think the series special effects' ultra cheapness then was just due to the times. No my friend, it was bad even for those times. Hey, Monty Python at least rode fake horses; rather than ride hobby horses for real horses.
The Great John Carradine as a Holy Monk, making up for being Dracula in the 1940's. Only Burgess Meredith, as the Devil, and as a Good Librarian in TZ outdoes this.
Ignoring our reason NOTHING! "This is all that's holding you up?" The howling man was the one appealing to 'DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!' Faith is not about ignoring reason.
To this day people think satan is some dude in a red suit, horns on the head, a forked tail and carries a pitchfork. A total lie. He can project himself to resemble a grizzled mountain man, a businessman, even a being with light coming out of him in the most beautiful fashion ever imaginable.
They used Moses' staff to keep in the Devil in his cell - I'll bet they wanted a crucifix but could not get it past the CBS censors. The analog tricks they used to morph the prisoner into the Devil were brief but excellent f/x. (The actor had depth, a refined method, and was well cast.) When I saw the ambience of the monastery, the rain, etc, I said, "Old man Carradine will be in this episode." He wanted Satan locked up. So why the heck did they let the stranger roam free? A brother had him locked up in the penultimate scene, but alas.... then WW ll happened.
I must disagree with your conclusion that the story removes the responsibility for our evil actions as John Carradine makes clear that we are responsible for most of our own suffering and we need no help from the likes of him but that the devil has a hand in the unnatural events that occur (WWII, worldwide pestilence). It's the part of the story I like the most.
say no more imma watch this. Im looking for paranormal, spiritual and mystical codes and knowledge to come to me. That is what i seek. I never.. seen the twighlight episodes. Always came across to me as mainstream and cheezy. Prejudice kept me away and now i see that this is my shit !!
I was buying this story and losing myself in it until the very end, when Satan escapes and transforms into a silly caricature of “the Devil” you’d see in comic books. They could have done that better.
I gotta say, if the devil was in jail all that time then why did evil continue to exist, if the devil is not responsible for evil then why keep him locked up. But even more baffling, why is he a dollar store magician, why is the jailer Moses. Love the transformation, though, The only thing better than before/after make overs is when the final result is Shrek.
This should be a simple decision. Do nothing and if you're wrong, *1 innocent man suffers* Do nothing and if you're right, *You protect the whole world from 1 very nasty demon* Just do nothing.
I respect that... Agreed... I just wish Mr. Beaumont would have wrote in the script; He is the devil clothed in flesh and blood... Because the only devil 😈 we see walking 🚶♂️around is man himself..... Facts.... My favorite episode.. "Classic"...
Revelation 20:2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while."
In the film "The Howling Man" the "Staff" was substituted for the Cross-[to avoid controversy]...! For if merely an imprisoned man easily could've reached down and lifted the Staff to be free; - only unrighteousness cannot touch Righteousness? - Jesus dying on the cross for us is the pinnacle of Righteousness subjected to the wiles of Satan who put Christ there reveals the brilliance of Gods trick on him when Jesus rose on the 3rd day as the key to the door for mankind's way back to God in this fallen world = thru Christ's Righteousness alone...! In the travellers delerious state he didn't think to ask why if Howling Man wasn't Satan but mere mortal man didn't he reach down let himself out-> reveal its a choice WE each make in our own lives to loose him...!
Okay so I think I’m experiencing “The Mandela effect.” I could’ve swore this episode was an hour long. That there was a shortened 30min version and an extended 1hr version. Edit: Can someone clarify this for me?
Good video, but listen more carefully please, Brother Jerome accounts for mans participation and responsibility for sin to Ellington. This film deals with the larger and Biblical account for SIN. Most Important episode because it is real!!
You have the ability to see through the Jesus delusions, but you won't. Because you have been raised in a Christian society. Had you been born in Iran, you would be Muslim. Had you been born in India, you would be Hindu. The religious programming you were subject to when you were raised is inescapable. It can only be broken through serious academic study. I've been there.
Dave Deneau I have the ability to see because Christ knows me as being one of His. I didn't realize this until some years later when He saved me. I was NOT looking to be saved at all. Anyhoo, Those that don't believe (like yourself) Jesus said they are NOT his sheep. Case closed.
Dave Deneau serious academic study? Really. So you are one of those who are caught between pride and logic and not even caught but deceived by it. Jesus talks about people like you... professing themselves wise they became fools. You feel now that because you have some measure of logic and intellect that you are now enlightened ,but your Enlightenment is darkness and bondage that will ultimately lead to your spiritual death and your Eternal separation from the Lord. And since it's all about serious academic study what do you say to those who are saved yet still study seriously and who are academically successful and brilliant? REPENT.
+liam green PRECISELY, Mr. Green!!! Who's to say, if indeed, the depiction was true or false? Unless of course, you've seen him yourself? In that case, see Matthew 12:27.
l disagree it was one of the few times Hollywood actually showed Satan.Better than Satan today on tv who looks like a Ken doll.or Amercia Next male model.
Please try and make the movie, even if it is sort of a docudrama of some sort , it would be better than some highly fictitious account which tries to pass itself off as an accurate historical portrayal of the life of a f black icon. We will not get the telling of our stories correct until we have completely and thoroughly disavowed most of what this country stands for and come to terms with our relationship to it, and what a real solution might look like. But at this point I honestly believe, we are too afraid to contemplate what kind of sacrifices and rethinking and re imagining it will take to gain real independence and power, if in fact that is what we really want, otherwise what do you expect!!!!
Actually the depiction of satan worked very well at the end considering 1) The production was under much pressure as to HOW satan should be photographed so as not to offend the catholic conservative south and lose sponsorship. 2) The transformation was handled with subtle lighting shifts during the shot which was difficult. The close up after the devil steps out the cell was excellent. The make up and hair shadowed perfectly while walking past the pillars.
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Howling Man...Wow!!!.one of my favorite Episodes....
Shame you can't see it anymore on moneygrubbing u-tube.
The transformation is so dope for a simple camera trick
@@degsbabe You can find all the episodes of The Twilight Zone on Netflix.
I thought I knew all of the episodes, I have the DVD set, I'll have to watch this one again. I saw them all when they first aired. I'm 70, one of the good things about getting old, you forget and it's like brand new again. LOL. Like all of this series, the message is timeless.
My family had just arrived to visit my grandparents and I was channel surfing (no guide) before bed when I came across this episode. It drew me in and ended up being the episode that got me into the Twilight Zone.
What y r was that ?
@@fishfire_2999 Don't remember. I wrote that comment maybe a couple years after watching it.
For the longest time, I watched this since I was a child in the eighties and it took me about 15 years for it to sink in. John Carradine was talking about the World War. Rod Serling WAS GENIUS!
I saw another version of this in the sixties that had a cast of a husband and wife. The wife comes home and finds her husband has captured a ragged man who he claims is the devil. The man has to leave but tells his wife not to let the man out of the cage. Eventually the ragged man convinces the wife that he is not the devil and she lets him out . Kinda like Eve being deceived in the garden.
The husband and wife bit is at the end of the episode.
Hm husband and wife..
Then what happens ? What does devil guy do ?
THIS ONE'S SEND CHILLS DOWN MY BACK
That ending sequence walking past the pillers from an FX point of view it's very simple, even for the 1960's yet it still creeps me out. Everything comes together perfectly.
“I saw him but i didn’t recognize him” - that line perfectly captures how satan has always deceived man and continues to deceive humanity
If he was real.
The devil only exists in... the twilight zone.
He doesn't continue to deceive anyone he's a fictional character.
pinkbeatle2012 Sure he is ....lol
THE DEVIL HAS THE ABILITY TO TAKE EVERY SHAPE AND FORM. IF IT TARGETS YOU, IT CAN TAKE THE FORM OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND SIT DOWN NEXT TO YOU ON A TRAIN OR BUS. IT'S AN ACTUAL LIVING BEING.
I'm glad you explained this episode. I thought it was how TRUMP was let loose. 😯
One of the best TV series shows ever made.
"The Howling Man" is episode 41 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on November 4, 1960 on CBS.
Ancient folk saying: "You can catch the Devil, but you can't hold him long." Ask Brother Jerome. Ask David Ellington. They know, and they'll go on knowing to the end of their days and beyond - in the Twilight Zone.
The story is told in a flashback by an American named David Ellington. While on a walking trip through post-World War I Europe (circa 1925), Ellington becomes lost in a storm. He sees a building, and walks towards it. It turns out to be a castle, which is now the home of an order of Brothers (Wolfring Castle, referred to in the episode as the "Hermitage") near the village of Schwarzwald. He knocks, the door opens, and he pleads for help. He is told by the monk who opens the door that they cannot give him shelter and that he must leave immediately. Ellington pleads for sanctuary from the storm, and, while waiting in the front hall to see if he can stay there, he hears a disturbing wolf-like howl coming from somewhere in the castle.
the most important episode
Definitely one of my favorite episodes😊
I love the camera angles.
Made me a believer as a child that the Devil is Real after seeing this particular episode. I had never seen satan depicted as a person anywhere with horns and cape and disappear in smoke and lighting Great Special affects in black and White! Twilight Zone was Way ahead of it's time.l should say Rod Serling was a head of his time he was our first Steven Spielberg.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg
Serling wasn't commercial like Speilberg and almost always had a moral to the story, not so for Speilberg. Anyhow, this episode was written by Charles Beaumont, not Serling.
Rod Serling was a true GENIUS !! A word that is tossed around you have to admit way too often,just because you are really impressed with something, yet when someone does something time after time after time and causes one to think and learn plus be entertained that my friend is GENIUS !!!
I don't think he wrote this episode but he's a genius for sure
John Carradine is absolutely brilliant as Jarome.
Michael Snow: This is my all time favorite episode of the Twilight Zone. I enjoyed your analysis. Thanks for posting.
Incredibly, H.M.Wynant, who played the lead character David Ellington, is still with us (13 January 2020 speaking). On 12 February he will turn 93.
A spectacular episode from the greatest dramatic television series ever created.
Although only 23 minutes in length. I always felt that a I watched a feature length film whenever I see this.
The Wise Old Man who heads this show is John Carridine Sr... Father to Kung Fu Dave Carridine
John Carradine Sr.?? Who is John Carradine Jr.?
Front Row Center maybe this Carradine Moses look alike would have taught Satan that asphyxiation rope trick and tell Satan this is an auto erotic endorphin racing experience and Satan might go and try this fetish and while he's strangling from our closet rod and croaks hence making the world a safer place now
Or for mankind to do the same thing probably. Since so many lives on meaningless just listen to the famous words of the Colossus of New York spouting Ayn Rand's philosophy..its a interesting Syfy movie from the 50s
@@georgeplagianos6487 -David Carradine & Eddie Murphy--Sex and Murder Secrets Exposed with Mark Ebner [YT]
@@FutureGirl2033 In the Kill Bill movies....he was "Bill".
@@steelcastle5616 His name is DAVID Carradine. Who is John Carradine, Jr.??
Loved the LIGHTNING FLASH when Carradine says '.....the DEVIL HIMSELF.' The giveaway was the little staff securing the door. 'Moms' used to say, 'always follow your first mind'.
Satan doesn't always look like a man. The spirit of the devil takes many forms. And that spirit visits many places. It even visits TH-cam on an occasion. I found this episode to be amusing.
He really does look like Moses and charleton Heston as moses
My favorite episode from the twilight zone series...
"I saw him and didn't recognise him."
Yes I've always thought this episode is a lot more well made than most ..The actors , direction, music are all quality. It could of been stretched into a movie..
I agree!
One of my many favorites
I love this one.one of my favorites.
John Carradine always popped up in sci- fi flicks or as an undertaker in some macabre movie. Here he played a monk keeping the Devil behind bares but that crafty serpent tricked that stranger into believing in his innocence and helped him escape back into society to plague all of man kind.. The moral of this story is never open Pandora's box. GREAT STUFF.
Yep, John Carradine was in a very scary edition of "Night Gallery." Saw him at an art theatre in "Hound of the Baskervilles." I had never seen this until last week, and then I just knew Carradine would appear after the initial scene. It was his genre.
Best TZ episode, IMO.
2:46 I love how the brother twirls his staff and bangs it on the floor for emphasis...
The howling sound has been a Simpsons scene transition sounds for 30 years. Amazed no one has caught on after all these years. You can hear it in dozens of episodes of The Simpsons as one scene transitions to the next. I wonder what the inside joke is.
I wouldn't have let a howling weirdo out of his cage. I love the devil transformation even though it looks like a Halloween costume. They did not have a big budget for this show and Rod Serling struggled to keep the show from getting cancelled every year and finally gave up.
The transformation was good for it's time tbh
pinkbeatle2012 its , not it’s
@@Wellch But I like it anyway because it's the Twilight Zone.
I always appreciated the creativity of the prop teams from earlier times, everything is just CG now.
My favorite episode
I'm sorry I didn't recognize him " that is man's weakness and Satan's strength" key to this episode is don't get tricked by the devil.
I don't think it's literally about the devil
I agree.
I have not seen this. I thought I'd seen them all. I love it. Amazing
Wow, a plethora of famous faces! That, of course was Mr. Serlings reputation, and well deserved it was!
I thought I saw all of them! Gotta see this one.
there is a horror short named "demon" on the Alter channel that is a really good current "remake" of this very story. DOPE!
My 3 favorite shows are:
Doctor Who (1963-1989) The
Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
The Outer Limits (1963-1965)
My favorite episodes / story of each of these shows, respectively: "City of Death" "The Howling Man" "The Man Who Was Never Born" if they ask me which one I love the most, I will name the 2nd.
Interfere with the affairs of others without due cause is itself evil 😈
The Devil be sayin' 'see ya,wouldn't want to be ya'!
One of my favorite episodes!
A good review, Michael, and I rate it as a must see as well, but where I disagree are with your assertions that the episode is putting all the blame on the devil (that's actually brought up with Ellington's discussion with Brother Jerome, where the latter informs him that the everyday evils are due to the corruption of people ("We cause most of our own griefs. We need no help from him."), but the major ones, such as wars, are instigated by Satan, or that the plot is just a metaphor for struggling with our own personality flaws.
I believe it was indeed Charles Beaumont's intention to pen a Gothic horror story expressing a struggle between supernatural light and darkness with a quite literal devil, but others are free to view it differently. My rule of thumb with _The Twilight Zone_ is to take what's on the screen as something occurring in some strange dimension, except on those rare occasions when it's evident, such as "The Arrival", which is clearly about the unraveling of an FAA Inspector's mind as he imagines an airliner lands without crew or passengers. Because the reveal that it's been a figment of his imagination doesn't come until the end, the outre quality of the episode, such as when he reaches his arm into the moving propeller, only to have the plane disappear, is strong throughout.
However, I am firmly against those trying to reduce episodes to natural explanations, when the aim of the series is something entirely different. One example is when one of the hosts of the _Twilight Pwn_ podcast said he wished the end of "Living Doll" was different, and after Erich's death, his wife Annabelle didn't pick up the doll and have it say, "I'm Talky Tina, and you'd better be nice to me". He revisionist idea was that it would be better to show that it was all in Erich's head, and that nothing out of the ordinary had really happened. This is totally wrongheaded, because any show could do that; only in _TZ_ could a man be in mortal combat with a doll that could even resist his attempts to destroy it by a vise, a blow torch and a circular saw. "Living Doll" was pure _Twilight Zone,_ and that meant it was not the exceeding rare "it was all in his head" episode.
I agree with your points completely.
How'd they do that? 5:00 to 5:05, the face totally changed and there was no cut. They eyes went from normal to "evil".
Why as a kid I thought the guy in the white beard was Moe from the Three Stooges.. love this episode
It is a blessing that someone takes the time to reintroduce these important episodes with this format. I myself will not watch old episodes because they seem to move at a sales pace. This type of format is better suited for the internet age. I have tried to go back on Netflix and binge watch old tv shows from when I was young and could not watch 10 min because they seem so slow paced today 😱
My FAVORITE TZ episode! There's no episode I've watched more.
The great, but sadly underused Robin Hughes as the howling man. Friedrich Von Ledebur (Queequeg from Moby Dick) as brother Christophorus. John Carradine! H.M. Wynant-still with us and also a remarkable career. A first rate story boosted to epic status with grade AAAA cast.
JT used this for inspiration for his filming of Battlefield Earth.
For whatever it is you can see the staff holders sun glasses
The monks/brothers seem to be taken straight from the Old Testament. The devil seem to be taken straight from an old Underwood Deviled Ham Spread Can. It looks like the head monk/brother etc. played by John Carradine borrowed the same hair piece and staff used by Moses (Charlton Heston) in "The Ten Commandments." John Carradine played Moses' brother Aaron in that movie. I suspect if I could find some episode trivia I bet I would find that Carradine in fact did use TTC props.The story was pretty suspenseful to me then (9 years old) until that $5.99 devil emerged!
I was always bothered by the look of he devil myself but this was the 50s
+The Great Red Dragon 87. I saw it when it first aired in November 1960. I remember quite well it was silly to me even then! It aired just after Halloween (my birthday) and we joked that their prop budget must have allowed the producers only the Sears Halloween costume leftovers. We can blame some of the cheap effects of the times on the times, but not this episode. The Creature of the Black Lagoon, Wolfman, Dracula and even Frankenstein kind of scared my young eyes. They were made about a decade or more before the TZ. There were films with little "bugets" but BIG bugs---ants, grasshoppers, tarantulas, and praying mantis of the time that had some cheesy effects, but they were not outright silly to me. If TZ had no monster budget then I wished they would have used shadows on the wall or something, hell I don't know, not something that could eventually end up on Sesame Street with Big Bird, and Cookie Monster.
I really enjoyed the episodes of "The Outer Limits," (another network's answer to the TZ). It was more thought provoking and it aired in the mid 60s. It had perhaps a $4.99 monster budget. And it was obvious it had no budget overruns; may have even saved money! Of all the TV shows ever, this series had the worst make-up department in the annals of TV filming. Check out Robert Culp in "The Architects of Fear." That paper mache thing/thang couldn't pass a screening test for "Barney & Friends," because babies would think it too silly. TODAY, people think the series special effects' ultra cheapness then was just due to the times. No my friend, it was bad even for those times. Hey, Monty Python at least rode fake horses; rather than ride hobby horses for real horses.
My favorite episode!
I'm 48 and this still creeps me out today. My Dad's 86 and he's still creeped out by Nightmare at 20,000 Ft.
The Great John Carradine as a Holy Monk, making up for being Dracula in the 1940's. Only Burgess Meredith, as the Devil, and as a Good Librarian in TZ outdoes this.
Excellent episode, to be sure...
Ignoring our reason NOTHING! "This is all that's holding you up?" The howling man was the one appealing to 'DON'T THINK ABOUT IT!' Faith is not about ignoring reason.
one of the best episodes
To this day people think satan is some dude in a red suit, horns on the head, a forked tail and carries a pitchfork. A total lie. He can project himself to resemble a grizzled mountain man, a businessman, even a being with light coming out of him in the most beautiful fashion ever imaginable.
Truth.. Taking r rudely u under t tormenting h hostage
I assumed it was Hitler being released from Landsberg prison in 1923.
Just got done reading the short story this is based on. :D
The BEST original TZ episode EVER
Whenever I look at old films I wonder if anyone is wearing red?
I just love the color red. It makes me curious.
They used Moses' staff to keep in the Devil in his cell - I'll bet they wanted a crucifix but could not get it past the CBS censors. The analog tricks they used to morph the prisoner into the Devil were brief but excellent f/x. (The actor had depth, a refined method, and was well cast.) When I saw the ambience of the monastery, the rain, etc, I said, "Old man Carradine will be in this episode." He wanted Satan locked up. So why the heck did they let the stranger roam free? A brother had him locked up in the penultimate scene, but alas.... then WW ll happened.
Anyone notice Ellington had an accent in the intro?
where is all of it ?????????????
I must disagree with your conclusion that the story removes the responsibility for our evil actions as John Carradine makes clear that we are responsible for most of our own suffering and we need no help from the likes of him but that the devil has a hand in the unnatural events that occur (WWII, worldwide pestilence). It's the part of the story I like the most.
THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE HOW SATAN LIES TO MAN
UNTIL THIS DAY HE STILL UP TO HIS EVIL TRICKS IN
THIS WORLD SOON HE WILL BE IN HELL
Not great at all, if God is real then he can wipe out the devil quicker than a nanosecond.
say no more imma watch this. Im looking for paranormal, spiritual and mystical codes and knowledge to come to me. That is what i seek. I never.. seen the twighlight episodes. Always came across to me as mainstream and cheezy. Prejudice kept me away and now i see that this is my shit !!
I was buying this story and losing myself in it until the very end, when Satan escapes and transforms into a silly caricature of “the Devil” you’d see in comic books. They could have done that better.
This episode should be renamed "The Government of America".
I gotta say, if the devil was in jail all that time then why did evil continue to exist, if the devil is not responsible for evil then why keep him locked up. But even more baffling, why is he a dollar store magician, why is the jailer Moses. Love the transformation, though, The only thing better than before/after make overs is when the final result is Shrek.
I mean he could of picked up the lock barrier
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
This should be a simple decision.
Do nothing and if you're wrong, *1 innocent man suffers*
Do nothing and if you're right,
*You protect the whole world from 1 very nasty demon*
Just do nothing.
I love this one!
Its like a story i read about a devil in a cage and a family cursed to keep it locked up
What's it called.?.
I noticed that this episode was scheduled to be on tonight. Then i forgot to change to that channel. Im so mad at myself.
Full episode not on the Tube....wonder why ???🤔🤔🤔. Never mind .......$1.99. Someone’s gotta make a buck......or two!!
I dont like how they made the religious people look like Moses peace be upon him.Moses peace be upon him was a prophet who had help from God.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses
I respect that... Agreed... I just wish Mr. Beaumont would have wrote in the script; He is the devil clothed in flesh and blood... Because the only devil 😈 we see walking 🚶♂️around is man himself..... Facts.... My favorite episode.. "Classic"...
You left off the ironic ending.
The best episode imo
If you’ve ever met my ex wife, you’ve met the devil.
The actual Devil is, collectively; those who rejected Christ and condemned his new covenant.
Revelation 20:2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
3and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while."
In the film "The Howling Man" the "Staff" was substituted for the Cross-[to avoid controversy]...!
For if merely an imprisoned man easily could've reached down and lifted the Staff to be free;
- only unrighteousness cannot touch Righteousness?
- Jesus dying on the cross for us is the pinnacle of Righteousness subjected to the wiles of Satan who put Christ there reveals the brilliance of Gods trick on him when Jesus rose on the 3rd day as the key to the door for mankind's way back to God in this fallen world = thru Christ's Righteousness alone...!
In the travellers delerious state he didn't think to ask why if Howling Man wasn't Satan but mere mortal man didn't he reach down let himself out-> reveal its a choice WE each make in our own lives to loose him...!
twas a go0d episode
MOSES NOAH
Okay so I think I’m experiencing “The Mandela effect.” I could’ve swore this episode was an hour long. That there was a shortened 30min version and an extended 1hr version.
Edit: Can someone clarify this for me?
It's only 30 minutes.
commentary screws up hole program
Good video, but listen more carefully please, Brother Jerome accounts for mans participation and responsibility for sin to Ellington. This film deals with the larger and Biblical account for SIN. Most Important episode because it is real!!
The best episode. It rings true to all who are still under the deception of Satan to this day. Repent of your sins, Jesus is coming.
You have the ability to see through the Jesus delusions, but you won't. Because you have been raised in a Christian society. Had you been born in Iran, you would be Muslim. Had you been born in India, you would be Hindu. The religious programming you were subject to when you were raised is inescapable. It can only be broken through serious academic study. I've been there.
Dave Deneau I have the ability to see because Christ knows me as being one of His. I didn't realize this until some years later when He saved me. I was NOT looking to be saved at all.
Anyhoo, Those that don't believe (like yourself) Jesus said they are NOT his sheep. Case closed.
Dave Deneau serious academic study? Really. So you are one of those who are caught between pride and logic and not even caught but deceived by it.
Jesus talks about people like you... professing themselves wise they became fools.
You feel now that because you have some measure of logic and intellect that you are now enlightened ,but your Enlightenment is darkness and bondage that will ultimately lead to your spiritual death and your Eternal separation from the Lord. And since it's all about serious academic study what do you say to those who are saved yet still study seriously and who are academically successful and brilliant? REPENT.
Yak-yak-yak
The corny, caricatured depiction of Satan after his transformation at the end was the only downfall of this episode.
...then you know him?
+Matt Blount you can't know a fictional character
+liam green PRECISELY, Mr. Green!!! Who's to say, if indeed, the depiction was true or false? Unless of course, you've seen him yourself? In that case, see Matthew 12:27.
+Matt Blount why did you post about five comments then delete them all?
l disagree it was one of the few times Hollywood actually showed Satan.Better than Satan today on tv who looks like a Ken doll.or Amercia Next male model.
Please try and make the movie, even if it is sort of a docudrama of some sort , it would be better than some highly fictitious account which tries to pass itself off as an accurate historical portrayal of the life of a f black icon. We will not get the telling of our stories correct until we have completely and thoroughly disavowed most of what this country stands for and come to terms with our relationship to it, and what a real solution might look like. But at this point I honestly believe, we are too afraid to contemplate what kind of sacrifices and rethinking and re imagining it will take to gain real independence and power, if in fact that is what we really want, otherwise what do you expect!!!!
didnt need dushebag narrator. The movie can speak for it self.
This one was truly cartoonish,but as Count Floyd would say 'reaaaally scccaaary'.
'owwWOOOOOOOOooooo'. Lol.
its only seems cartoon-like because don't realize the true message that it is carrying.
Him keep talking
I agree about the depiction of Satan at the end, silly characture that spoils the episode
Actually the depiction of satan worked very well at the end considering 1) The production was under much pressure as to HOW satan should be photographed so as not to offend the catholic conservative south and lose sponsorship. 2) The transformation was handled with subtle lighting shifts during the shot which was difficult. The close up after the devil steps out the cell was excellent. The make up and hair shadowed perfectly while walking past the pillars.
He.s hot stuff
Talking thu the whole thing.😒