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The Twonky is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Arch Oboler released in USA on 10 june 1953 with Hans Conried
The Twonky (1953)
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Add to a movie listThe Twonky is an independently made 1953 American black-and-white science fiction film comedy, 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.
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After seeing his wife (Janet Warren) off on her trip, Kerry West (Hans Conried), a philosophy teacher at a small-town college goes inside his home to contemplate his new purchase: a television set. Sitting down in his office, he places a cigarette in his mouth and is about to light it when a solid beam of light shoots from the television screen, lighting it for him. Absentmindedly unaware of what has taken place, it is only when the television subsequently lights his pipe that West realizes that his television is behaving abnormally.Actors
Hans Conried
(Kerry West)
Gloria Blondell
(the Bill Collector)
William Phipps
(Second Male Nurse entering Kerry's bedroom at finale)
Vic Perrin
(TV Salesman (uncredited))
Buddy Roosevelt
(Taxi Driver (uncredited))
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