***SPOILERS*** Remade 25 years later in the "New Twilight Zone" episode "The Call" here we have this momma's boy Schmendrick- perennial loser in Yiddish- Charley Parkes, Robert Duvall,who lives in a world of make believe and refused to see the reality of the world and people around him. Fired from his job because, as his boss told him he, he just doesn't fit in Charley now spends all his time, which he has a lot of, at the museum watching a doll house and the occupants in it. It seems that those in the doll house respond to Charley's attention he has towards them in becoming alive whenever he watches them!
Charley's bazaar actions leads his mom, whom he still lives with, played by Pert Kelton to get him matched up with a girl the sexy and aggressive Harriet, Joan Chambers, that leads, in Charley freaking out, to total disaster. It's the doll, Claire Griswold, in the doll house that Charley has the hots for and looks after her as if she were his kid sister. This leads Charley to completely go off the grid when he see another one of his illusions the Doll's suitor, Richard Angorala, break into the doll house and attempt to rape her! That's where Charley ends up going nuts, if he wasn't already, and ends up in a mental institution.
***SPOILERS**** Cured and ready to step out into the real world Charley's hang ups still takes control of him as he slips out of the house, where there's a coming home from the loony bin party prepared for him, and disappears into thin air. As we see Charley is now back in the world that he loves so much with the love of his life in a place where no one, even the men with the white suites, will never think of finding him!
Charley's bazaar actions leads his mom, whom he still lives with, played by Pert Kelton to get him matched up with a girl the sexy and aggressive Harriet, Joan Chambers, that leads, in Charley freaking out, to total disaster. It's the doll, Claire Griswold, in the doll house that Charley has the hots for and looks after her as if she were his kid sister. This leads Charley to completely go off the grid when he see another one of his illusions the Doll's suitor, Richard Angorala, break into the doll house and attempt to rape her! That's where Charley ends up going nuts, if he wasn't already, and ends up in a mental institution.
***SPOILERS**** Cured and ready to step out into the real world Charley's hang ups still takes control of him as he slips out of the house, where there's a coming home from the loony bin party prepared for him, and disappears into thin air. As we see Charley is now back in the world that he loves so much with the love of his life in a place where no one, even the men with the white suites, will never think of finding him!