***SPOILERS**** Crashing in the Mexican desert the soul survivor of the space craft, Geoffrey Horne, soon finds his way to the nearest town not only seeking help for his injuries but offering a gift to mankind to prove to the inhabitants his good intentions. It's only 9 year old Pedro, Edmund Vargas, and the town blind man guitarist Vladimir Sokoloff, who aren't afraid of the clean cut and human looking alien but the rest of the population except the town doctor,Nico Minardos, are terrified of the stranger from outer space.
It's the greedy and butt-kissing, for anyone in authority,bar owner Manolo,Cliff Osmond,who drops a dime on him and calls the local police to come and arrest the barley alive from loss of blood Alien. That for the measly 30 silver pesos' reward that Manolo was paid off to do his dastardly deed. Seeing that he's about to be arrested by the police and trying to escape the alien is trapped in a police dragnet and his only hope to stay alive is to reveal the gift, that he gave to Pedro for safe keeping, that he brought to humanity!
****SPOILERS**** It's a sad end to the story or "Twilight Zone" episode when instead of receiving the gift that the alien brought to the human race he was blasted to Kingdom Come by the trigger happy police and as for the gift itself it was set on fire by the both stupid and mindless Manolo after all the smoke cleared. The gift was in fact a show of faith by the alien in it having a formula for a cure to all forms of cancer that was now gone forever. And it was the fear an ignorance of that great unknown, by the people of the town,that caused the people in it not to be able to look a gift horse in the mouth when it was standing right in front of them!
It's the greedy and butt-kissing, for anyone in authority,bar owner Manolo,Cliff Osmond,who drops a dime on him and calls the local police to come and arrest the barley alive from loss of blood Alien. That for the measly 30 silver pesos' reward that Manolo was paid off to do his dastardly deed. Seeing that he's about to be arrested by the police and trying to escape the alien is trapped in a police dragnet and his only hope to stay alive is to reveal the gift, that he gave to Pedro for safe keeping, that he brought to humanity!
****SPOILERS**** It's a sad end to the story or "Twilight Zone" episode when instead of receiving the gift that the alien brought to the human race he was blasted to Kingdom Come by the trigger happy police and as for the gift itself it was set on fire by the both stupid and mindless Manolo after all the smoke cleared. The gift was in fact a show of faith by the alien in it having a formula for a cure to all forms of cancer that was now gone forever. And it was the fear an ignorance of that great unknown, by the people of the town,that caused the people in it not to be able to look a gift horse in the mouth when it was standing right in front of them!