He's Alive
| "He's Alive" | |
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Written by | Rod Serling |
| Production code | 4856 |
| Original air date | January 24, 1963 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Dennis Hopper: Peter Vollmer |
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Dennis Hopper: Peter Vollmer
Ludwig Donath: Ernst Ganz
Curt Conway: Adolf Hitler
Paul Mazursky: Frank
Howard Caine: Nicholas "Nick" Bloss
Barnaby Hale: Stanley
Jay Adler: Gibbons
Wolfe Barzell: Proprietor
Bernard Fein: Heckler
Chet Brandenburg: Audience member
Paul Bryar: Policeman
Bobby Gilbert: Man with cat
Buck Harrington: Audience member
Ed Haskett: Audience member
Robert McCord: Cop
William Meader: Townsman in brawl
William H. O'Brien: Audience member
Bill Zuckert: Detective
"He's Alive" is a fourth-season episode of The Twilight Zone. It tells of an American neo-Nazi who is inspired by the ghost of Adolf Hitler. A personal passion of Rod Serling, it concludes that figures such as Hitler will always be alive so long as prejudice and ignorance persist.
Peter Vollmer (Dennis Hopper), the leader of a small and struggling Nazi group, is visited by a shadowy figure who teaches him how to enthrall a crowd. The figure instructs Vollmer to arrange the death of one of his followers, Nick, thereby creating a martyr to rally everyone around.
Following the figure's instructions and assistance, Vollmer is considerably more successful and his group's following grows. However, the elderly Jewish man that Vollmer lives with, Ernst Ganz (Ludwig Donath), spent nine years in Dachau and strongly disapproves of Vollmer's politics. Ernst disrupts a rally accusing Vollmer of being "nothing but a cheap copy" of the German Führer. After the failed rally, responding to the shadowy man's accusation that while Vollmer has the voice of a lion, he has the instincts of a rabbit, Vollmer demands to know who his mysterious benefactor is. The man steps forward from the shadows to reveal himself to be Adolf Hitler (Curt Conway). The figure orders Peter to kill Ernst and Peter steels himself enough to complete the task. Hitler congratulates him and asks him how it felt. Peter replies that he felt immortal. Hitler's thundering response is "Mr. Vollmer! We ARE immortal!"
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