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[Damned Martian]

El Testamento Púrpura

Título V.O.: The Purple Testament

Guión: Rod Serling

Director: Richard L. Bare

Fecha de emisión en USA: 12/02/1960

Guest Starring: William Reynolds (Tnte. Fitzgerald), Dick York (Capitán Riker), Barney Phillips (Capitán Gunther), Ron Masak (Hombre de la Harmónica), William Phipps (Sargento), S. John Launer (Coronel), Michael Vandever (Smitty), Paul Mazursky (Orderly), Marc Cavell (Freeman), Warren Oates (Conductor)

Sinopsis: Segunda Guerra Mundial, un destacamento en Filipinas. Tras un duro combate con 4 bajas, el Teniente Fitzgerald le hace una estremecedora revelación a su superior: antes de ir al campo de batalla, él supo que esos cuatro hombres iban a morir al mirarles al rostro.

Frases destacadas:

Opening Narration: Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Phillipine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight. As if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear - yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat and these are the faces of war.

Closing Narration: From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt. The line reads, 'He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.' And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed. Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found the Twilight Zone.

Curiosidades:

- El título proviene de un diálogo de Ricardo III, de William Shakespeare.

- Dean Stockwell iba a interpretar al Teniente Fitzgerald inicialmente, pero no pudo debido a un conflicto con las fechas de rodaje.