Guest Stars

Raymond Massey As Colonel Archie Dittman Recurring	Tom Troupe As Jeffrey Pierce
Barry Brown As Archie Dittman Jr.	Herbert Jefferson, Jr. As Tom

Main Cast

Rod Serling As Host

Recap

Lawyer Jeffrey Pierce travels to the woodlands estate of Colonel Archie Dittman. Also present is Dittman’s 21-year-old son, Archie Jr. Dittman introduces his servant, Tom, who he says is the son of an African chief of the Ebo tribe, and despite his Harvard education is still a pagan savage. Pierce is there to get Dittman’s signature on the $2 million trust fund, but Dittman is disinterested. Instead he speaks of his time in the jungles of the world, hunting animals for sport. He says his son is a coward and says that he’s never hunted. When Pierce objects on the boy’s behalf, Dittman insists his son is a milksop and an alcoholic, and talks of how the Maasai tribe put their senior citizens out into the brush to die. Pierce says that it’s savage, but it serves a purpose, and hunting animals does no such thing. Dittman tells the lawyer that he does hunt for a purpose: to prove himself superior...

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• Creator	Rod Serling
• Producer	Jack Laird
• Hairstylist	Larry Germain
• Make-up	Bud Westmore
• Set Decorator	Charles S. Thompson (1)
• Director of Photography	Richard C. Glouner
• Art Director	Joseph Alves, Jr.
• Main Title Design	Wayne Fitzgerald
• Music Score	Robert Prince
• Film Editor	James Leicester  |  Bud Hoffman
• Sound	David H. Moriarty (1)
• Assistant Director	Jack Doran (1)  |  Ralph Ferrin  |  Ralph Sariego
• Production Executive	Paul Freeman (4)
• Unit Manager	Burt Astor
• Editorial Supervisor	Richard Belding
• Theme Music	Gil Melle
• Gallery Paintings	Thomas J. Wright