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A man named Philip Redfield is travelling by car with his English Sheepdog Rollie when he pulls in to a small town called Peaceful Valley to refill his nearly empty gas tank.\u00a0 The attendant doesn\u2019t seem to know much about cars and seems distinctly unfriendly and tries to convince Philip to leave town as soon as possible.\u00a0 But while the attendant is laboriously counting out change for a ten-dollar bill Rollie catches sight of a little girl holding a cat and leaps out to chase it.<\/p>\n

When Philip catches up to the dog and the cat, he\u2019s just in time to see the little girl point a small electronic device at Rollie causing him disappear.\u00a0 When Philip interrogates her about his dog she rushes into the nearby house and shuts the door.\u00a0 Philip pounds on the door and the girl\u2019s father (played by James Doohan, Scotty from Star Trek) emerges and refuses to believe his story but maintains that Rollie just ran behind the house.\u00a0 He tells Philip to head one way around the block and he\u2019ll go the opposite to find the dog.\u00a0 As soon as the father turns the corner, he takes out a similar device and triggering it causes Rollie to reappear.\u00a0 The father maintains that Rollie just ran away and Philip goes back to his car very confused but convinced that something strange is going on in Peaceful Valley.<\/p>\n

Failing to find a place to eat, Philip decides to drive out of town but as he approaches the town line his car crashes into an invisible barrier and Rollie is killed in the wreck.\u00a0 Several townsmen appear immediately and insist that they will get him to medical help.\u00a0 When Philip is escorted away from the scene of the accident one of them who stayed behind uses one of the mysterious devices to resurrect Rollie back to life.<\/p>\n

Instead of being brought to a doctor, Philip is escorted to the town hall and there he is introduced to Dorn, the mayor of Peaceful Valley.\u00a0 Dorn learns that Philip is a reporter but has only come to Peaceful Valley because he ran out of gas.\u00a0 Now Dorn reveals the town secret.\u00a0 Peaceful Valley was visited a hundred years previously by a scientist who was either from another planet or because he was unimaginably brilliant made breakthroughs in physical science that allowed him to invent machines that can rearrange and transmute physical things in almost any way imaginable.\u00a0 Their science allows them to disassemble and reassemble living creatures instantaneously.\u00a0 They can even run time backward for someone who has been injured or for any other reason.\u00a0 And Dorn shows him the original scientific papers used to create this miraculous world and puts them in a place where Philip can find them.<\/p>\n

Dorn tells Philip that this secret is so important that anyone discovering it must make the choice of either staying thereafter forever in Peaceful Valley or be put to death.\u00a0 He claims that such incredible power would be used by the outside world to produce weapons unimaginably more powerful than even atom bombs.<\/p>\n

Faced with a life or death decision Philip tells Dorn he chooses to stay in Peaceful Valley.\u00a0 Dorn hands Philip over to a young woman named Ellen Marshall who prepares a house for Philip to live in and tries to orient Philip in his new environment.\u00a0 But Philip finds out that the house he lives in is surrounded by a force field meant to keep him trapped.\u00a0 Philip appeals to Ellen to help him steal the scientific secrets and break out of Peaceful Valley and bring these wonders to the outside world.\u00a0 She agrees and using her own devices she frees Philip and joins him as he heads to the town hall to get the book.\u00a0 When he reaches the control room, he uses the transmuter to crate a pistol and when Dorn and his men catch him stealing the book Philip shoots them down with the gun.<\/p>\n

He and Ellen flee but when he reaches the town line, he looks in the book and finds that it is blank.\u00a0 Ellen was a part of a test that Philip has now failed.\u00a0 A resurrected Dorn and his men soon return Philip to the town hall where Dorn explains that Philip has proven the point that mankind would use this almost godlike power to wage war on each other.\u00a0 Philip is defiant and claims that given the chance he would do it all again the same.\u00a0 And he blames Ellen for her false claims of love for him.\u00a0 But she claims that she did have feelings for him.\u00a0 Dorn declares that the death penalty will be needed.\u00a0 But he makes a vague reference to more than one kind of death.\u00a0 He puts a helmet on Philip, hits a button and the scene ends.<\/p>\n

In the next scene we see Philip reenacting his first scene with the gas station attendant and acting confused when he sees Ellen walk by.\u00a0 Instead of actual death, Dorn has reversed time for Philip and he has no memories of the events in Peaceful Valley.\u00a0 He and Rollie leave with Philip feeling only vague misgivings about Peaceful Valley.<\/p>\n

This is an actual science fiction story.\u00a0 Hurrah!\u00a0 Despite some slightly hackneyed conventions and plot devices it\u2019s nice to get some good old fashioned sci-fi.\u00a0 The acting is pretty good and even the ending is relatively happy.\u00a0 Ray guns, time travel, a goofy dog and even Scotty!\u00a0 B+<\/p>\n

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