The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Deaths-Head Revisited (1961)
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- TV-PG
- 25min
- Drama, Fantasy
- 10 Nov 1961
- TV Episode
A former German SS captain returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing on the power he enjoyed there, until he finds himself on trial by those who died at his hands.
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| Joseph Schildkraut | ... |
Alfred Becker
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| Oscar Beregi Jr. | ... |
SS Capt. Gunther Lutze
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| Karen Verne | ... |
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Robert Boon | ... |
Taxi Driver
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| Ben Wright | ... |
Doctor
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| Gene Coogan | ... |
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Chuck Fox | ... |
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| Jimmie Horan | ... |
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David O. McCall | ... |
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| Rod Serling | ... |
Narrator / Self - Host (uncredited)
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| Martin Strader | ... |
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Arthur Tovey | ... |
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Directed by
| Don Medford | ... | (directed by) |
Written by
| Rod Serling | ... | (written by) |
| Rod Serling | ... | (created by) (creator) |
Produced by
| Buck Houghton | ... | producer (produced by) |
Cinematography by
| Jack Swain | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
| Bill Mosher | ... | film editor |
Art Direction by
| Philip Barber | ... | (as Phil Barber) |
| George W. Davis | ||
Set Decoration by
| H. Web Arrowsmith | ... | (set decoration) |
Production Management
| Ralph W. Nelson | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| E. Darrell Hallenbeck | ... | assistant director |
Sound Department
| Bill Edmondson | ... | sound |
| Franklin Milton | ... | sound |
Music Department
| Marius Constant | ... | composer: theme music (uncredited) |
| Robert Drasnin | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
| René Garriguenc | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
| Jerry Goldsmith | ... | composer: stock music (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
| Richard P. McDonagh | ... | story consultant (as Richard McDonagh) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- CBS (1961) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
- Image Entertainment (2011) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Stalmaster-Lister Co. (casting)
- Eagle Clothes (Mr. Serling's wardrobe)
- Pacific Title (optical effects)
Storyline
| Plot Summary |
Gunther Lutze, a former captain in Hitler's SS, decides to return to the area that contains the remnants of Dachau concentration camp. As he revels in the memories of the days when he had tortured prisoners, prisoner Alfred Becker appears before his eyes. What he does not realize is Becker is a ghostly apparition, and plans to put Lutze on trial for crimes against humanity for the torture and killing of the prisoners that were held in the camp. It is one trial Lutze may regret. Written by Pat McCurry |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The title, a little wordplay of the novel "Brideshead Revisited" (Evelyn Waugh, 1941), refers to the "Totenkopf" or Death's Head symbol used by the SS during World War II depicting a skull and crossbones. It is distinguished from similar traditions of the skull and crossbones and the Jolly Roger by the positioning of the bones directly behind the skull. See more » |
| Goofs | This episode was set in 1962, 17 years after the end of the war and Dachau is shown as abandoned. However, after the war it remained open, first as a prison and then as a refugee camp until the mid-1960s. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Referenced in Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Twilight Zone Theme See more » |
| Quotes |
[closing narration]
Narrator: There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buckenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worse of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in The Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth. See more » |