Twilight Zone: Bill Connor (1 of 2)

You're about to meet an angry man: Mr. William Connor, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt. This is a sour man, a lonely man, who's tired of waiting for the breaks that come to others, but never to him. Mr. William Connor, whose own blind hatred is about to catapult him into the darkest corner of the Twilight Zone.

Vic Morrow plays Bill Connor, an outspoken bigot who is bitter after being passed over for a promotion. Drinking in a bar after work with his friends, Bill makes prejudiced remarks and racial slurs towards Jews, blacks and Asians, attracting the attention of a group of black men sitting near them who, of course, strongly resent his racist comments. Bill leaves the bar very angry. When he walks outside, however, he is not in the parking lot. Instead, he finds himself in Vichy France during World War II. He is spotted by a pair of SS officers patrolling the streets, who see him as a Jewish man. After a chase around the city, Bill time travel jumps to the rural South during the 1950's, where the Ku Klux Klan sees him as an African American whom they are about to lynch. Bill is scared and confused and vehemently tries to tell them he's white. While trying to escape the Ku Klux Klan members, he time travels into the Vietnam War, where he is a Vietnamese man nearly blown to bits by U.S. soldiers. Bill has become the selected nationalities of the people against whom he was always prejudiced. The grenade thrown by the soldiers blasts him back to Vichy France, where he is captured by Nazi soldiers and put into an enclosed railroad freight car, along with other Jewish Holocaust prisoners, with no possibility of redemption or rescue, futilely screaming for help as the train pulls away, presumably to a concentration camp or death camp.

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[pimpyourhideontube]

He is obviously republican! ;)

[iamLurkn]

This is one of the most creepiest Twilight Zone's I have ever seen...it felt like you were actually there. literally

[MobHeataEnt]

@stuy2376 I was just reading that over on wikipedia that he died a year before the movie came out I was like wth? decapitated that's a bad way to to like Jayne Mansfield.

[stuy2376]

The guy playing Bill Connor (Vic Morrow) and two children died when a stunt helicopter crashed on them during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. He was decapitated.

[differentandalike]

Inspiring

[SteveLLW]

When I saw this in the theater when it first came out, I almost walked out in disgust at this segment. The rest of the movie was good, but this 'social comentary' against racism and stereotypes is one big stereotype, itself. "White anglo saxon protestant white guy against the world" ... he hates jews, blacks, asians, Japanese, you name it, but racists come in all flavors, not just vanilla. If the segment had shown that, it would have been good. Instead, it came off as "scolding" towards whites.

[differentandalike]

YOU SYMBOLIZE HOPE

[jays2474]

@Muirmaiden Jennifer jason leigh wouldnt talk to her dad.But she sure went for the money after he died.Now that being said I will achknowledge that it is most likely what you said.That she deeply regreted not speaking with him ya know.I just cant stand these hollywood types anymore.It is sad that she didnt get a chance to heal what was damaged in thier relationship.Im a believer & Im betting he knows she loves him.I hope she knows also.Idiotic pride does damage

[jays2474]

3:30.Is'nt that black dude the guy from MISSING IN ACION PART 2?

[Jonnn79]

Love 1:21 when you can hear the chorus for "Nights are Forever"...

Oh, and Charles Hallahan at 1:37 sounds genuinely DRUNK!!