The Twilight Zone. Capítulo 17

[Damned Martian]

La Fiebre

Título V.O.: "The Fever"

Guión: Rod Serling

Director: Robert Florey

Fecha de emisión en USA: Ene. 29, 1960

Guest Starring: Everett Sloane (Franklin Gibbs), Vivi Janiss (Flora Gibbs)

Sinopsis: Un matrimonio gana un fin de semana en Las Vegas en un concurso. Al marido, sin embargo, le repugna la ciudad y sus vicios, y le prohíbe a su mujer que juegue. Sin embargo, cuando una casualidad le empuje a jugar una vez en una tragaperras, todo cambiará para él. Sobre todo porque la máquina grita su nombre...


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Opening Narration: Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gibbs, three days and two nights, all expenses paid, at a Las Vegas hotel, won by virtue of Mrs. Gibbs's knack with a phrase. But unbeknownst to either Mr. or Mrs. Gibbs is the fact that there's a prize in their package neither expected nor bargained for. In just a moment one of them will succumb to an illness worse than any virus can produce, a most inoperative, deadly, life-shattering affliction known as the fever.

Closing Narration: Mr. Franklin Gibbs, visitor to Las Vegas, who lost his money, his reason, and finally his life to an inanimate metal machine variously described as a one-armed bandit, a slot machine or, in Mr. Franklin Gibbs's words, a monster with a will all its own. For our purposes we'll stick with the latter definition because we're in the Twilight Zone.