Former child star Jackie Cooper plays Jonathan West, an Irish immigrant who has a very unsuccessful career as a ventriloquist.\u00a0 Caesar, his dummy is, of course, alive.\u00a0 He berates Jonathan because of his failure and threatens to abandon him.\u00a0 Having pawned his last valuables and owing the rent to his landlady Mrs. Cudahy, Jonathan and Caesar go on one last audition at a local nightclub.\u00a0 But the audition is a bomb and now Jonathan is desperate.\u00a0 Caesar mocks Jonathan and tells him that he is going to have to become a thief if he wants to avoid being evicted.\u00a0 Caesar talks him through breaking into the local deli and stealing enough money for the rent.<\/p>\n
But Mrs. Cudahy has a young niece Susan who dislikes Jonathan and suspects that something strange is going on with Caesar.\u00a0 She eavesdrops on them talking together in their room and tries to figure out how Caesar seems to be talking.<\/p>\n
Now Caesar tells Jonathan they need to get more money and relates a plan to rob the nightclub that they auditioned at. \u00a0Jonathan doesn\u2019t want to do it but Caesar is adamant and they go to the club at midnight.\u00a0 While escaping with the money they are caught by the night watchman but they convince him that they were there waiting for the boss.\u00a0 He had seen them at the audition and believes their story so he lets them go.\u00a0 That night Jonathan bewails his new career as a thief and Susan hears them talking about the robbery through the door.<\/p>\n
The next day news of the robbery reaches Susan and she immediately calls the police to report Jonathan.\u00a0 The police show up at Jonathan\u2019s door and they tell him he\u2019s been identified by the night watchman.\u00a0 Jonathan confesses and is taken away by the police.\u00a0 Susan watches Jonathan being taken away but then Caesar speaks to her.\u00a0 He tells her that he knows where the stolen money is and if she will get the money and take him along he\u2019ll show her around New York City.\u00a0 She says she wants to but says her Aunt will stop her.\u00a0 Caesar tells her that she can get rid of her Aunt (sounding like murder).<\/p>\n
Regular readers of these Twilight Zone reviews know how I feel about living dummies.\u00a0 But seeing how close we are to the end of the series and knowing this is the last dummy story I won\u2019t go on and on.\u00a0 The story is sort of melodramatic and Jackie Cooper plays the character as a pathetic figure.\u00a0 The story is thin.\u00a0 C+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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