Twilight Zone: The Movie

Time Out

written and directed by John Landis

Release: 24 June 1983
Format: Short Film
Genre: Weird Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The Twilight Zone anthology movie reprises three of the original show’s stories along with one new story, “Time Out” by John Landis, in which disgruntled bigot Bill Connor finds himself as a Jew in World War II German occupied Europe, a black man facing the clan in mid-20th century America, and a man in a Vietnamese jungle during the Second Indochina War.

— Michael Main

Ray, help! Larry! It’s me!

DEBUT

“Time Out” (at movie theaters, USA, 24 June 1983).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Time Travel Methods

Unexplained Time Travel Methods

Real-World Tags

Groupings

Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Baja California, circa 1983 ⋙ to Nazi-occupied France, early 1940s.
From Nazi-occupied France, during World War II ⋙ to the American South, circa 1950.
From the American South, circa 1950 ⋙ to Vietnam, mid 1960s.
From Vietnam, mid 1960s ⋙ to Nazi-occupied France, early 1940s.