Monday, June 12, 2023

OVERLOOKED TELEVISION: LIGHTS OUT: AND ADAM BEGOT (jULY 2, 1951)

Times were simpler then.  Television was simpler then.  And production values?  Well...

A classic triangel:  two men wanting the same woman.  Geoffrey (a cultured Philip Bourneuf), Claude (more practical and tougher, played by Kent Smith), and eye candy Kay (Joan Wetmore) are traveling through France when they have an accident and their car careens down a slope.  Somehow they land 50,000 years in the past.  (You just can't trust these French!)  And then they are taken captive by a Neanderthal caveman (Kurt Katch) and are taken to -- yep -- a cave.  Frank Gallop serves as the narrater.  Not much happens.  The sniping between the two opposing Romeos is cute.  The science about Neanderthals appears accurate for its time, but is hideously outdated now.

Written by Arch Oboler and Ernest Kinoy, this episode of Lights Out was directed by Laurence Schwab Jr.

Enjoy it for what it is.

https://archive.org/details/LightsOut-AndAdamBegot

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