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Not Rated | 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Short | Episode aired 14 June 1960
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: Edgar Stehli, Candy Moore, Anna Karen
A brother and sister are devastated by the death of their grandfather, to whom they were inordinately close. However, they soon begin to suspect that he may be trying to contact them from beyond the grave.
Director: John Newland
Writers: Merwin Gerard, Lawrence B. Marcus
Stars: Edgar Stehli, Candy Moore, Anna Karen
Category
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Short filmTranscript
00:01Is the story you're about to see true?
00:04Well, no one really knows.
00:06No one as yet has been able to prove or disprove it.
00:09And so it remains in limbo,
00:11a part of that vast, uncharted world of psychic phenomena,
00:14beyond our powers of explanation.
00:17And a lonely place,
00:29with a rusty old railroad track,
00:31long since abandoned,
00:33and which, as you can see,
00:35ends there.
00:37Nowhere.
00:39Or is it nowhere?
00:42Is this apparently godforsaken place,
00:46perhaps not the beginning of a world
00:48that most of us don't suspect at all,
00:51or completely overlook?
01:02Boy! You boy!
01:16It's her!
01:18It's her, and I'm not gonna miss her this time!
01:24Callie! Callie, did you hear that?
01:27What, Grandpa?
01:29It's her!
01:46You hear it? Hear it?
01:49Yep, that's her!
01:51Sure enough, it was her this time.
01:53Oh, we must have just missed her.
01:56Hey, boy!
01:58Hey!
02:11Where you been, Grandpa?
02:13Where you been, Grandpa?
02:15Oh, out.
02:22Toot! Toot!
02:24Silly, just out and sit down!
02:34Hey! Pay yourselves!
02:37Straw's cheaper.
02:38Copycat! You copied that from me!
02:41You didn't think by any chance it was original.
02:44What?
02:45Never mind. Eat your breakfast and shut up.
02:48Sure, sure. Eat my breakfast.
02:53Cut that out!
02:55You said to eat my breakfast,
02:57so I'm eating my breakfast, see?
03:08I want raisins!
03:09You can't have raisins.
03:11I won't eat it without raisins.
03:13Oh, don't then.
03:17You said I didn't have to eat it!
03:19Eat it!
03:21I want raisins on it.
03:23Can't have raisins on cornflakes, stupid.
03:26Raisins go on mush.
03:28I don't care. I want raisins.
03:30You little stoop you. Now listen, you boy, you.
03:33I told you, in the winter you have mush with raisins.
03:37Get it?
03:38I like raisins on cornflakes.
03:40Oh, how do you know? You never even had it.
03:43Oh, yes, I did at that camp that time,
03:46with Grandpa and that man.
03:49He's stopping! Mailman's stopping!
03:56Ain't nothing but a bill.
04:03For you, Mama.
04:08Package from him again.
04:11Meaning some old thing we got no use for.
04:14Open it quick, Ma. Open it.
04:16Yeah, hurry up.
04:17What you think I'm doing?
04:31Well, what's it for, exactly?
04:34What's it for, exactly?
04:38Tell you what it's for, exactly.
04:41To get me hoppin' mad I ever married him, that's what it's for.
04:45Look at that. Five dollar price tag still on the bottom.
04:49Not a word of writin' nor a check for months.
04:53Ma! Ma, it's mine, isn't it? Say it's mine.
04:56What?
04:57Look, Ma, the fur. The beautiful fur.
05:00Please, I can have it.
05:02You've got to, Ma.
05:04It's the only beautiful thing in a hundred miles.
05:07I want it. Why can't I have it?
05:10Don't listen to that sissy thing, Ma. It's mine.
05:18I could cut it in half, me too.
05:21But I guess it's better to have one good thing than two piddly.
05:25It's going to be another sizzler.
05:33You little boy, didn't I tell you you weren't to have any raisins?
05:36Oh, Callie, why don't you tell him the truth? Ain't any raisins left.
05:40That's not the point. He's got to learn.
05:43In the winter you have mush with raisins.
05:47In the summer you have cornflakes with milk.
05:50Heaven's sakes, Callie.
05:52Just he's got to learn. Somebody's got to teach him.
05:56What do you got to have that old stove burnin' for on a hot day?
06:00I'm dying.
06:02You're groovy.
06:03You're fresh.
06:05I'm dying for a t-shirt for school play.
06:08It's gonna be red.
06:10I don't know. Maybe when it's dry.
06:13It'll be passion red.
06:15What?
06:16Nothing stupid.
06:18What does dying mean to you, Callie?
06:21Beet juice.
06:22It is not.
06:23I ought to know. I made it.
06:25Did you really, Callie? How?
06:27Easy.
06:29Just beet juice and a pinch of salt.
06:32What's the salt for?
06:33Stupid. Anybody knows you always add a pinch of salt.
06:37Pinch?
06:38Ow!
06:39Pinch?
06:40Ow!
06:45Mama, something's got to be done about that boy.
06:49Callie, you go get that boy and get him in here to finish his breakfast.
06:52Yes, Ma.
06:59Here.
07:21Who couldn't do that?
07:23You couldn't.
07:25You wanna bet?
07:30Who couldn't hit a tin can?
07:33Let's see you hit that can.
07:37Easy as pie.
07:42Sissy, you missed it on purpose.
08:00Nice kitty. You're a nice kitty.
08:06Yeah, yeah. Sissy boy.
08:09Petting a mangy old stray cat.
08:30Uh-huh.
08:32I know somebody's been feeding that mangy old stray cat.
08:36It's nothing but cat milk and water.
08:39Oh, Callie, Callie, Callie.
08:42You want to answer your old grandpa something?
08:45If I got time.
08:47Dishes aren't done yet.
08:49I'll get it.
08:51I'll get it.
08:53I'll get it.
08:55I'll get it.
08:57If I got time, dishes aren't done.
09:00Why are you always making out with that little lad like you're so tough?
09:03I am tough.
09:05I'm hard as nails.
09:07And the sooner I teach him how to be the same, the better off he'll be.
09:11Who told you that?
09:13You don't have to answer.
09:15Nobody told me. I got eyes.
09:17Grandpa, you're old enough to see yourself
09:20that sissy boy's just got to wake up to facts.
09:23Raisins on cornflakes.
09:25I half know the hard facts of life.
09:27Oh, yeah.
09:29The hard facts of life.
09:31Go ahead.
09:33Make fun.
09:35Callie, I got to tell you one little thing.
09:38Dishes or no.
09:40Go ahead.
09:42Well, it's about this ugly old world we got ourselves into.
09:46Now, I'll admit that looking on from where we sit,
09:51it don't look much.
09:53It's kind of sad, even.
09:55It's sad and terrible.
09:58But then, if a person takes the time to look real careful
10:03and listen hard...
10:06Look.
10:11Lookie here, cowgirl.
10:14Now, look.
10:17Pink and orange and yellow, where the sun kisses it.
10:22Oh, I know that old crow got an ugly, harsh old voice.
10:27But listen.
10:29Listen now. You listen real hard.
10:32What do you hear?
10:34Wild quail.
10:36Sweet.
10:38Sweet, isn't it?
10:41Oh, Callie, there's plenty of beautiful things around
10:45for them as has the patience to look and listen.
10:51Callie, come on in and finish the dishes.
10:54Look. You look and listen.
11:08Little dipper.
11:10Big dipper.
11:12You see them? See them?
11:14Where, Grandpa? Where?
11:16Up there.
11:18They're all there.
11:20They just sort of move around, I reckon.
11:24Moving around, boy.
11:26Now, that's one of the best things in life.
11:28And you take that from a traveling man.
11:33Boy, you gonna come in here
11:35and clean up this mess of glue and tape you made?
11:37Sure, Ma. In a minute now.
11:39Tell about it again.
11:41You used to travel to different states and cities.
11:44Big cities, like Topeka and Omaha.
11:47Sure, sure. You mean when I was engineer of the Silver Street.
11:50Yeah, that's when.
11:52You mean when I used to take that train of mine along the tracks
11:56before they tore up all that section,
11:58take her along 60, 70, 80, 90 miles per hour.
12:04Whiz! The fastest train in the world.
12:06Clear about.
12:08In them days, anyway.
12:11The engineer of the Silver Street.
12:13Yeah.
12:15You should travel.
12:17You know it.
12:19Beautiful things they see in June.
12:21Lakes.
12:23Big lake waters as far as I could see.
12:26And blue.
12:28Blue as the sky.
12:31Blue as Callie's bottle of poster paints.
12:36Grandpa, you gonna keep this boy out here all night?
12:39Just a little bitty more, Ma.
12:41Now, Nan, the boy likes to hear about the old days.
12:44Grandpa was the engineer.
12:47He was the engineer's brakeman. That's what he was.
12:50Ma, why do you always have to spoil everything?
12:52Well, he was.
12:54Anyway, what do you want to talk about all that nonsense that...
12:57Oh, come on. Come on. You get to bed, boy.
12:59I cleaned up your mess for you. Now, go on. Get to bed.
13:02Grandpa?
13:04I believe you.
13:06I believe he was the engineer.
13:15I only meant... I didn't want him to...
13:17It's all right, my dear. It's all right.
13:34Your Ma thinks I'm getting so old.
13:40What's she doing?
13:43What she don't notice
13:45is that she's getting old faster than me.
13:49She's kind of forgot how, when she was just a little thing,
13:52her and her grandma used to sit up
13:55nights waiting for the old Silver Street to go by
13:58and how, when I'd be gone for a few days,
14:01I'd toot them a signal.
14:03Two long, three short.
14:06Two long, three short.
14:09Oh, that was the days.
14:11We used to have some good times, Callie.
14:13Your old grandpa, he lived a full life.
14:16Sometimes I...
14:18I almost think I had more than my shade.
14:21Grandpa, what did you ever get?
14:24Nothing, that's what.
14:29Listen. Listen. Do you hear that?
14:33Hear what?
14:35Shh. What do you hear, Grandpa?
14:40Yes. Silly.
14:43Sometimes, every now and then, it seems to me like I...
14:46I hear my dear old Silver Street coming to get me.
14:50Toot. Toot. Toot. Toot. Toot.
14:56Coming to take me home.
15:01Grandpa?
15:03You are home.
15:05Are you going somewhere?
15:07Don't you worry, boy.
15:09Your old grandpa's never going to get away from here
15:12without saying goodbye to you.
15:14And that's a promise.
15:23See? Dry as a bone.
15:26Hard as a rock.
15:28Couldn't even grow a turnip on it.
15:31Just about the lousiest land anywhere.
15:34Still and all, I like it.
15:36That's cause you've never seen anyplace else.
15:38Have you, Gally?
15:39It's got nothing to do with it.
15:41In geography.
15:42Oh, what's the use of telling a dumb boy?
15:46Now, if you were Mary Agnes,
15:48oh, that sure was a mean thing of parents taking her off
15:51to live in Kansas City.
15:53I guess Mary Agnes was about the only real close friend
15:56you ever had.
15:58If Mary Agnes was here,
16:00I'd be only too happy to tell her about you.
16:03Lovely places like Vermont or Connecticut,
16:06where green grass grows under big trees
16:10and winds from the ocean
16:12make everything smell divinely salty.
16:15Why is salty divine?
16:17Oh, shut up!
16:34Gally.
16:35Yes?
16:36Your grandpa, he...
16:38he has stroke.
16:39Stroke?
16:53Gally.
16:55Good girl, Gally.
16:57Grandpa, I don't want stroke.
17:00Gally.
17:01Grandpa, I don't want you to be sick.
17:06Goodbye.
17:09Gally.
17:10Grandpa, Grandpa, wait.
17:12Wait, Grandpa.
17:13Good boy.
17:30These old raisins won't keep if someone don't eat them.
17:33That's a brand new box.
17:35Gally only bought it yesterday.
17:37Hot weather.
17:38They don't keep.
18:01Son, you cleaned up that sink for me real nice for a little boy.
18:07You're not such a little boy after all.
18:11You're the man of the house now.
18:14You're taking things real good.
18:31Shut up, you.
18:33I said shut up, you mangy old cat.
18:36You think someone's going to feed you?
18:39You better learn.
18:41Nobody keeps promises.
18:43Nobody.
18:45Nobody.
18:47Nobody.
18:49Nobody.
18:51Nobody.
18:53Nobody.
18:55Nobody.
18:57Nobody.
18:59Nobody.
19:08If it's Grandpa's promise to me,
19:10about going away and not saying goodbye.
19:13You think I care.
19:29Why don't we, old fool?
19:31Why'd you have to go and die for?
19:34You're nothing but a mean old cunt.
19:37Breaking your promise.
19:39Going off like that without goodbye to boy.
19:43Don't see why you'd bother to tell me goodbye.
19:47I told you, I'm tough and hard as nails.
19:52Don't see why you'd bother to tell me goodbye.
19:55I told you, I'm tough and hard as nails.
20:00I could take anything,
20:03but boy,
20:05poor Sissy Fance boy.
20:09Don't see why you didn't tell him,
20:12but you ought to know.
20:22Don't need to go to bed so soon, boy.
20:29Maybe you'd like to go out in the porch
20:32and sit with Callie a while.
20:34How?
20:53Wish I'd never said that about his grandpa.
20:56I know, Ma.
21:12Boy.
21:15Boy.
21:18Boy.
21:26Grandpa, you crazy old coot.
21:30What'd you ever know about the world and things?
21:34You had it all wrong, Grandpa.
21:38It's not true about beautiful things
21:41and happy things all around.
21:44Looked and looked,
21:46and I've listened and listened.
21:50Boy.
21:53Boy, listen, listen.
21:55I don't hear anything.
21:57You've got to. Can't you hear?
21:59Listen, you little stoop. Listen.
22:01It's the silver streak.
22:04It is, Callie.
22:06It's Grandpa's train. It's taking him home.
22:08It's his signal, remember?
22:10Too long, three short.
22:15Bye, Grandpa. Bye.
22:20Gosh, wasn't it super?
22:23I bet nobody would be able to believe it.
22:26We won't tell him.
22:28Won't tell anybody.
22:30They won't believe it.
22:32But who cares?
22:34We know.
22:36You and me.
22:39It's just between us.
22:41Do you mean a secret like you and Mary Agnes had?
22:44Just between friends?
22:46What else?
22:47Now that Grandpa's gone,
22:48you have to have some friend, don't you?
22:50Gosh, Callie, thanks.
22:52I like you, too.
22:54It's nothing.
22:55Just don't let it go to your head.
22:57Now, get inside there, boys,
22:59before you catch cold.
23:12Thanks, Grandpa.
23:15Thanks ever so much.
23:30It's a well-known fact
23:32that the desert land produces all types of mirages.
23:36It is also true
23:38that sounds have been known to carry over great distances
23:41on the dry desert air.
23:47But have you ever heard of a mirage
23:50that makes a sound like that?
23:53In any event, the children will sleep well tonight.
23:56For the young do not question that which is miraculous.
24:02Do you?
24:38THE END
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