Walking Distance Score - Bernard Herrmann - The Twilight Zone

[JOHN02099]

awsome score to the best show to air on tv,love the twilight zone,rip rod serling

[1tinybob]

Great! It's my favorite. Gig Young was great in it.

[roselandalvin]

Hermann's lilting ,yet ethereally haunting,,music to one of the finest episodes ever produced on The Twiilight Zone ....Eerily reminscent of Hermann's 2 great scores, Vertigo,, and what was to come; Psycho.... Thanks for the upload!!

[thunder12325]

almost made me cry favorite show ever and favorite music never be forgotten rod serlings a genius

[IDEMANDPOPCORN]

Beautiful score. Thank you for uploading this!

[cutis1000]

I have this on CD. It's on the Twilight Zone soundtrack. I love it!

[4jester]

"No more cotton candy, no more band concerts. I only wanted to tell you that this is a wonderful time for you, now, here, this moment..." favorite episode and so it should deserve such an amazing score.

[seejay1001]

This is a MAGNIFICENT episode - thing is, the moment at the end where the ice cream vendor mentions it's "too late," which becomes a mantra of sorts repeated by the protagonist, kind of undoes the optimistic speech by the father about Sloane finding his own merry-go rounds. That's so defeatist that it becomes depressing - IF I'm interpreting it correctly. I'd like to think that Martin will be able to recapture at least SOME of his youthful spirit.

At any rate, Hermann's score is glorious.

[waddyprocess]

@seejay1001 remember when Martin's father tells him, "maybe there is cotton candy and band concerts where you're from. Maybe you're looking in the wrong places."

We are left to imagine what Martin did with that advice, but I think he went back home and changed his life. He found band concerts and had some cotton candy and realized it's not so bad. He quit his job and did something he loved. He escaped the dead-run he'd been in for years.

[Gridseeker]

@waddyprocess This episode has, in some way, an opened ending, I mean Martin recognized that he has future and continue his life as adult or well as you said he decided to do something he liked. Whatever what happened, this episode deal with the "inner child" who rest in every man.

[schallrd1]

The music is a rare find. The episode was very thought provoking and elicited a lot of emotions. It certainly has a different perspective when you are older.

[Gridseeker]

This episode reminds me a lot a couple of movies, "Wild Strawberries" by Sweden Ingmar Bergman and "Ikiru" (Live in Japanese) by Kurosawa. In both movies, two old men remind and reprise some moments of their lives.

[seejay1001]

@Gridseeker I was thinking how it reminded me of my fave movie Ikiru, as well. Also, 8 1/2 by Fellini. These films feature men who are somehow disconnected, and reconnect by embracing their childlike side (among other things). That longing is also found in "Kane."

[Gridseeker]

I don´t think this episode is so sad, nostalgic yes but at the end the man learned that he must look to the future not his past as his father said, but yeah this is one of the most powerful episodes in terms of plot and acting, so emotional because makes you miss an age free of any concern or duties, an age that will never come back, our childhood.

[waddyprocess]

This is such a stunning episode of a man who looks back instead of his present and future, despite the fact that he does have a future. He thinks there are no more merry-go-rounds and band concerts. His father asks him if things are so bad where he's from. "Is it that bad?" And concludes older Martin is not looking in the right places for joy.

It's a lesson for all of us.

[DickieAnginson]

"Walking Distance" is my favorite episode of The Twilight Zone. Gig Young was wonderful as a businessman who travels down memory lane, only to learn you can't go home again. It's so sad and nostalgic. Every year when they air that Twilight Zone marathon around New Year's, I make sure to catch this episode. I cry every single time I see it.

Bless Bernard Hermann for his genius in capturing emotion in music.

[RationalDischarge]

I remember, when that 40th anniversary CD boxset came out a few years back, I played that thing til the discs were scratched and worn beyond recognition. I've never seen any television show with as much tender and meticulous attention paid to selecting musical scores and cues for absolutely perfect dramatic effect. Sometimes you can remember whole scenes in your mind just because of one passage of music that struck you. These TZ scores deserve so much more recognition than they currently get.

[bidtimereturn7777]

A haunting , beautiful score. Going back in time to talk to a loved one, or even talking to yourself in the the past, brings up so many emotions, as so does this incredible score.Thank you Bernard Herrmann.

[Ditkobeetle]

This Episode always makes me cry.

[eyeoftiger999]

Life was so great back than,God bless!!!

[nickagunter]

I feel like there's a distinctly different artistic statement that this song makes compared to the episode it was made for. While the episode seems to say that we should look forward instead of behind, this score seems to say something different. The way it progresses makes it feel like a person is running away from their present and finding solace in their past. There's a sense of sadness, in that they know it won't last but still fight back and try to believe that it will somehow. Favorited.

[CousinToGeorgeBailey]

"... And perhaps then, too, there will flit across his mind a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old -- never outgrow the parks and merry-go-rounds of his youth. And he’ll smile, then, too, because he’ll know that it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory, not too important really -- some laughing ghosts that can cross a man’s mind ... that are a part ... of THE TWILIGHT ZONE.”

[septip123]

I think about this episode all the time when I'm at work and things aren't going my way, or I'm having an off day and I just want to run into the woods and keep running.

[septip123]

1:54 - best part

[myrtlebox]

@septip123 Agreed. He finally realizes that this is the boy's Summer and not his. He has to let it go and return to his own life. We are given but a few golden Summer's with total freedom to do as we please. Those days are now gone - You can't go home again ;-(.....