Bartlett Finchley is a food critic who detests people almost as much as he does machines.\u00a0 When we first meet him he is castigating his tv repairman for cheating him and failing to sympathize with his battle against his household machines.\u00a0 The repairman states that Finchley has thrown his transistor radio down the stairs and kicked his foot through the picture tube of his television.\u00a0 He considers Finchley a crank.<\/p>\n
But once Finchley is alone in his house we see the inexplicable behavior of the machines.\u00a0 A clock starts ringing endlessly even after it\u2019s been broken in fragments.\u00a0 His electric razor came alive on his own and struck at him as if it were a cobra.\u00a0 His automobile escapes his control and crashes into his house and later on releases the emergency brake and rolls into the street barely missing a child.\u00a0 Later on a typewriter and his tv set both start telling him to leave the house.<\/p>\n
When his typist shows up and he insults her she quits.\u00a0 But before she can leave Finchley begs her to stay because as much as he dislikes her, he fears his machines more. \u00a0Before she leaves, she mocks him and tells him he\u2019s paranoid.\u00a0 After the horrors of his day Finchley gets soused and passes out.\u00a0 When he wakes up all the appliances attack at once.\u00a0 All of the speaking devices tell him to get out and the razor slithers down the stairs in pursuit.<\/p>\n
As he runs out the door his car chases him around the property until it pushes him in the swimming pool.\u00a0 The next day the cop and ambulance driver discuss how he could have ended up that way.<\/p>\n
Alright, the fussiness of Benchley and some of his diatribes are a little amusing but this is really thin.\u00a0 C+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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