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Roswell embraces her departure but as she leaves, he suddenly becomes hypersensitive to sound.\u00a0 Even a dripping faucet becomes as loud as a gong.\u00a0 Roswell goes to his doctor but the medical man declares his ears perfectly normal.\u00a0 He sarcastically recommends a psychiatrist and after running out of other options that is where Roswell goes.\u00a0 The psychiatrist attributes Flemington\u2019s problem to an anxiety problem associated with his mother\u2019s dislike of noise when he was a child and the transference of this anxiety to his relationship with his wife.\u00a0 The psychiatrist convinces him that the malady is completely psychosomatic and once Flemington believes him the problem goes away.<\/p>\n
When Roswell gets home, he finds his wife preparing to leave and just for spite he tells her that he has discovered that he can shut out his wife\u2019s voice from his mind merely by willing it.\u00a0 He attempts it and finds it true.\u00a0 In the final scene he decides to celebrate by playing one of his recordings of a naval bombardment at full volume.\u00a0 But although we can see the furniture shaking from the sound Roswell can hear nothing.\u00a0 He has permanently shut himself off from sound completely.<\/p>\n
Roswell is played by John McGiver, a well-known character actor of the time with a very distinctive voice.\u00a0 He and Penny Singleton (who was the voice of George Jetson\u2019s wife Jane, among other things) who plays his wife Lydia give the material everything they\u2019ve got.\u00a0 But let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 This is not much of a plot to work with.\u00a0 There are some comical moments so I\u2019ll be kind and say B-.<\/p>\n
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