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The Man in the Bottle ()

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  • Season 2
  • Episode 2
A luckless couple stumbles upon fortune when a genie materializes from a bottle in their antique shop. The genie grants them four wishes but warns them, prophetically, to be careful what you wish for.
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Arthur Castle
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Edna Castle
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Genie
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IRS Man (as Olan Soulé)
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Mrs. Gumley
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Narrator / Self - Host (uncredited)
Albert Szabo ...
German Officer #2 (uncredited)

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Don Medford

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Rod Serling ... (written by)
 
Rod Serling ... (created by) (creator)

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Buck Houghton ... producer
Del Reisman ... associate producer

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George T. Clemens ... director of photography

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Leon Barsha ... film editor

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Ethel Winant ... (casting)

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Philip Barber ... (as Phil Barber)
George W. Davis

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H. Web Arrowsmith ... (set decorations)
Henry Grace ... (set decorations)

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Ralph W. Nelson ... production manager

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E. Darrell Hallenbeck ... assistant director (as Darrell Hallenbeck)

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Franklin Milton ... sound (as Frank Milton)
Charles Scheid ... sound

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Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)
Bernard Herrmann ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Lucien Moraweck ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Van Cleave ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
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  • CBS (1960) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
  • Image Entertainment (2010) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)

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Plot Summary

Arthur and Edna Castle run a small antique shop but business is not good and they're having trouble paying their bills. Despite that, the good-hearted Arthur buys an old wine bottle from the desperate Mrs. Gumley for a dollar. When he knocks the bottle open, a genie appears offering them four wishes. They soon find that their wishes don't lead them to the outcomes they had hoped for and certainly don't lead to happiness. Written by garykmcd

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Trivia Joseph Ruskin, who played the Genie in "The Man in the Bottle," also provided the voice-over of the Kanamit alien in The Twilight Zone season 3 classic "To Serve Man." See more »
Goofs A sound editing error. At the 15:50 mark, as the genie sits on the stairs lighting a cigarette, the end of the genie's line "...taxes involved" is repeated when there's a cut to Arthur Castle getting up from the floor below to confront the genie. The same words, "...taxes involved" are repeated over this shot. This happens when there isn't a clean separation between one performer's line delivery and the other performer's line delivery. When the lines overlap, the editor gets stuck having to use the overlapped sound from the off-camera actor's line delivery leading in to the next shot's on camera line delivery of the other actor. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Man in The Bottle (2021). See more »
Soundtracks Twilight Zone Theme See more »
Quotes Narrator: [Opening Narration] Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Castle, gentle and infinitely patient people, whose lives have been a hope chest with a rusty lock and a lost set of keys. But in just a moment that hope chest will be opened, and an improbable phantom will try to bedeck the drabness of these two people's failure-laden lives with the gold and precious stones of fulfillment. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Castle, standing on the outskirts and about to enter the Twilight Zone.
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