The Ray Bradbury Theatre

Marionettes, Inc.

Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 21.5.85

Filmlänge:

Drehbuch: Ray Bradbury nach einer Geschichte von Ray Bradbury

Musik: Bruce Ley

Kamera: Thomas Burstyn

Regie: Paul Lynch

Produzent: Seaton McLean

Darsteller: Pixie Bigelow (Buyer), Tom Christopher (The Other Braling), James Coco (Braling), Jayne Eastwood (Mrs. Braling), Michael Fletcher (Buyer), Rex Hagon (Buyer), Laura Henry (Secretary), Leslie Nielsen (Fantoccini), Kenneth Welsh (Crane).

Inhaltsangabe: A computer salesman (James Coco), tired of his suburban lifestyle, is offered the chance to gain his freedom without any knowing, by being replace by a life-sized replica of himself.

Info: Remake of: Design For Loving

Präsentation der TV-Show durch Ray Bradbury: "People ask where do you get your ideas. Well right here. All this is my Martian landscape. Somewhere in this room is an African veldt. Just beyond perhaps is a small Illinois town where I grew up. And I'm surrounded on every side by my magicians toyshop. I'll never starve here. I just look around, find what I need, and begin. I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is" The Ray Bradbury Theater. "Well then, right now what shall it be. Out of all this what do I choose to make a story. I never know where the next one will take me. The trip, exactly one half exhilaration, exactly one half terror."

Additional introduction (HBO and video only) "Its a new age. Even the coffee machines are talking to us. Maybe the next thing will be they'll tell us not only what to drink, but when to drink. But what if they're wrong. I wonder if old Geppetto had any idea of what notions he let loose on the world."

Links:
Design For Loving 1958 (Original)