Saw a great Twilight Zone episode about gold bars...

291fifth · September 13, 2006 6:34AM

It originally aired during the show's second season, 1960-61. This was on DVD. Four thieves steal a large shipment of gold bars and then place themselves in suspended animation for 100 years. All eventually end up dead before they can ever realize anything from their crime. The last dying criminal offers a motorist a gold bar just before he dies of thirst and exaustion. The motorist casually tosses the bar aside and comments to his wife that the fellow was out of his mind to think that gold had any value. They had learned how to make it.

vaq45 · September 13, 2006 6:41AM

name the actors

StrikeOutXXX · September 13, 2006 6:42AM

<< It originally aired during the show's second season, 1960-61. This was on DVD. Four thieves steal a large shipment of gold bars and then place themselves in suspended animation for 100 years. All eventually end up dead before they can ever realize anything from their crime. The last dying criminal offers a motorist a gold bar just before he dies of thirst and exaustion. The motorist casually tosses the bar aside and comments to his wife that the fellow was out of his mind to think that gold had any value. They had learned how to make it. >>

Never saw that one, but sounds like a fun one.

Would be kind of like if someone stole a shipment of toned coins 50 years ago and showed up around now - they've learned how to make them too

thebeav · September 13, 2006 7:19AM

That was a good episode. I can picture the guys in it, but i don't think I can name any. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Ralph Meeker was one of them.

StrikeOutXXX · September 13, 2006 7:20AM

<< name the actors >>

The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961)

Episode Cast (in credits order)
Simon Oakland .... De Cruz
Rod Serling .... Narrator/Host
Oscar Beregi Jr. .... Farwell (as Oscar Beregi)
Lew Gallo .... Brooks
John Mitchum .... Erbie
Wallace Rooney .... Man on Road
Shirley O'Hara .... Woman on Road

cladking · September 13, 2006 7:20AM

It was "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" originally aired 4-21-61 starring Oscar Beregi
as the last criminal. (He also later starred in the episode (Death's Head Revisited).
Brooks was played by Lew Gallo and Erbie by John Mitchum. Simon Oakland play-
ed DeCruz the real bad guy in the episode.

RKKay · September 13, 2006 7:23AM

<< 

<< name the actors >>

The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961)

Episode Cast (in credits order)
Simon Oakland .... De Cruz
Rod Serling .... Narrator/Host
Oscar Beregi Jr. .... Farwell (as Oscar Beregi)
Lew Gallo .... Brooks
John Mitchum .... Erbie
Wallace Rooney .... Man on Road
Shirley O'Hara .... Woman on Road >>

Someone's got The Twighlight Zone Companion!

RedTiger · September 13, 2006 8:07AM

It reminds me that aluminum was once rarer and more precious than gold. The top of the Washington Monument is capped with aluminum. Now aluminum is cheaper than most other industrial metals.

mrearlygold · September 13, 2006 8:12AM

coynclecter · September 13, 2006 8:29AM

<< The motorist casually tosses the bar aside and comments to his wife that the fellow was out of his mind to think that gold had any value. They had learned how to make it. >>

Yep, they have, they call them futures contracts and they sell them on Comex.

LucyBop · September 13, 2006 9:16AM

That was a great episode!

cladking · September 13, 2006 9:34AM

<< That was a great episode! >>

Indeed. It's a damn shame that current generations can't see how good these shows
really were because they've all been chopped up to make more room for ads. Almost all
the original versions are lost.

cladking · September 13, 2006 9:38AM

The crooks should have invested in gold coins. They'd have held their value better.

vaq45 · September 13, 2006 9:48AM

i think it was claud akins as the guy who kept charging the guy a gold bar for a swallow of water?

Saw a great Twilight Zone episode about gold bars...

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