In the original short story, however, the story ends the following night, when the phone rings and she answers.
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The TV episode ends when Elva Keene finds out the call is coming from the cemetery. Case in point, Miss Elva Keene, who in every sense has made her own bed and now must lie in it, sadder, but wiser, by dint of a rather painful lesson in responsibility, transmitted from the Twilight Zone. It is man's prerogative-and woman's-to create their own particular and private Hell. Then the line goes dead, leaving Elva alone and crying in her bed.Īccording to the Bible, God created the Heavens and the Earth. He replies that she told him to leave her alone and that he always does what she says. At home, she picks up the phone and calls to Brian's ghost, pleading with him to answer. Now that she can talk to him again, she won't have to be alone.
The accident crippled her and caused Brian to fly through the windshield, killing him. That day, she insisted on driving, lost control of the car and hit a tree. Brian died a week before they were to be married. Elva says that she always insisted on having her own way, and Brian always did what she said. The phone company traces the calls to a telephone line that has fallen in a cemetery.Įlva and her housekeeper, who believes the calls are the result of a bad connection, visit the cemetery where she finds that the line is resting on the grave of her long-deceased fiancé, Brian Douglas. Finally he says, "Hello? Where are you? I want to talk to you." Elva, terrified, screams at the man to leave her alone. The man continues to call and keeps repeating "Hello?" over and over. Later she hears a man moaning and she repeatedly demands to know who is calling. During the first calls she hears only static. Plot Īn elderly woman, Elva Keene, receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of a stormy night. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended, for something different is about to happen to her, has in fact already begun to happen, via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night, telephone calls routed directly through-the Twilight Zone. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair, reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication-and waiting for something different to happen.
Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. The story ends differently than the TV episode. The title was changed to "Long Distance Call" when the story was anthologized. The episode is based on Richard Matheson's short story "Sorry, Right Number" which appeared in the November 1953 issue of Beyond Fantasy Fiction. The story follows an elderly woman, played by Gladys Cooper, who receives persistent disturbing phone calls from an anonymous caller.
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" Night Call" is a 1964 episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone directed by Jacques Tourneur. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 5) "Long Distance Call" (AKA "Sorry, Right Number") 19th episode of the 5th season of The Twilight Zone " Night Call"
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