The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

He's Alive (1963)

Paul Mazursky: Frank

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• Ernst Ganz : [Ernst has interrupted Peter's speech]  Go on, Mr. Vollmer. You were saying? I can tell them what you were saying. I've heard it before. I've heard it a thousand times before. In Munich, in Berlin, on a hundred different street corners. It was drivel then, and it is drivel now.

  Peter Vollmer : [weakly]  You've got to stop, Ernst.

  Ernst Ganz : [to the crowd]  Well, what is this one here? The new model? A 1963 fuhrer right off the assembly line? Well, this one is not so new. He's not so fresh. This one is nothing but a cheap copy!

  Frank : [whisper]  Peter, we've got to do something about it. We're losing the audience. Let me get rid of him. Let me get rid of him.

  Peter Vollmer : [to Frank]  Just leave me alone.

  Ernst Ganz : [to the crowd]  Well, let me tell you about this one. About the breed, the species. They're all alike. They are all alike. Problem children. Sick, sad neurotics, who take applause like a needle!

  Peter Vollmer : [pitifully]  That's enough, Ernst. Please. Please?

  Ernst Ganz : Listen to me, Peter, and let them listen. Or else I'll tell them about a quaking, whimpering boy who cried on my couch; who still cries on my couch.

  Peter Vollmer : [quietly]  Please don't, please Ernst. Please don't.

• Frank : Pete, don't let him do this. Put him down. Put him down.

  Ernst Ganz : Yeah, put me down, put me down! Shut me up. Stifle me - why don't you? Why can't you?

  [He grabs Peter's arm, showing his organization's insignia] 

  Ernst Ganz : Because this is your courage right here. This is your strength. This, and the torch lights, and the crowd, and the Sieg Heil!

  [Peter slaps Ernst's face] 

  Ernst Ganz : ... The rebuttal. The only sort of answer your kind knows how to give.

  [to the crowd] 

  Ernst Ganz : This is your fuhrer. He's yours. I give him to you. A gift from the sewers.