Come Wander With Me

Come Wander With Me
For the short film, see Little Minx
"Come Wander With Me"
The Twilight Zone episode
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Scene from "Come Wander With Me"
Episode no. Season 5
Episode 154
Directed by Richard Donner
Written by Anthony Wilson
Featured music Jeff Alexander
Original air date May 22, 1964
Guest stars

Gary Crosby: Floyd Burney
Bonnie Beecher: Mary-Rachael
John Bolt: Billy Rayford
Hank Patterson: Old Man
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"Come Wander With Me" is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.

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Synopsis

The "Rock-A-Billy Kid," Floyd Burney, arrives at a small town in search of a new song. He is directed to a dilapidated shop in the woods run by a reclusive old man. After his offer of money in exchange for an original song is rebuffed, Floyd hears a voice singing and wanders off through the woods, not seeing a nearby tombstone inscribed with his name.

Next to a lake, he encounters a pretty but mysterious woman, Mary-Rachael, who reluctantly plays a song for him about two lovers who meet in the woods and are torn apart by tragedy. Floyd offers to buy the song rights from her, but she claims it isn't for sale. As he tries to seduce her, a jealous young man named Billy Rayford shows up and attacks Floyd, who defends himself, killing Rayford.

Mary-Rachael's song reflects the event, and foreshadows a future attack. As Floyd runs off, he looks back and sees that Mary-Rachael's clothes have changed; she is now dressed in black, with a black shawl, mourning.

Soon, Billy Rayford's brothers arrive to chase after Floyd. As he prepares to flee, Mary-Rachael begs him to stay, hoping things will be different "this time". She implies that these same events have occurred before. Ignoring her, he runs away and finds himself back at the shop in the woods. The old man declines to help him hide, and in his anger, Floyd kills the old man, then hides among the old musical instruments in the shop.

Billy Rayford's three brothers arrive at the shop, see the old man's body, and when Floyd bumps a music box, the brothers close in on him and shoot him. The camera returns to the image of the tombstone in the first scene, thus fulfilling the prophecy within the song that Floyd would die.

Production notes

According to The Twilight Zone Companion, Liza Minnelli auditioned for the role of Mary-Rachael, but was so nervous during the audition she was rejected. Although this was the third-to-last episode broadcast, this was the last episode in the series to be filmed. (The last original episode to be broadcast was "The Bewitchin' Pool". The very last episode to be broadcast during the original run -- as a repeat -- was "The Jeopardy Room".)

The song ("Come Wander With Me")

The "Come Wander With Me" song was composed by Jeff Alexander and sung by actress Bonnie Beecher. The song is built into the story. It builds verse by verse together with the events in the episode. Parts of the lyrics are not complete, since some verses are not sung in full. The song has been used in several places since its 1964 broadcast. It was covered by The Gathering's former vocalist Anneke Van Giersbergen on her solo record Air, released under the moniker of Agua de Annique. It was featured on the soundtrack of Vincent Gallo's 2003 film The Brown Bunny. It was also used as background music in Belgian director Koen Mortier's 2006 television commercial "Angels" for Dutch insurance company RVS. The ad shows flying men with open umbrellas inspired by René Magritte's Golconda.[1] Lacoste also used it in an ad for their fragrance "Love of PInk". It was also covered by the band British Sea Power for their Man Of Aran soundtrack, and sung by Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta during the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group tour in 2011.

References

  • DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
  • Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090
  1. ^ RVS: Angels

An instrumental version of the song was also used by Jeff Alexander as part of his score for Jerry Thorpes 1968 western 'Day of the Evil Gun' starring Glenn Ford.

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