A Passage for Trumpet
episode of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
"A Passage for Trumpet" is the thirty-minute episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.
Opening narration
Joey Crown, musician with an odd, intense face, whose life is a quest for impossible things like flowers in concrete or like trying to pluck a note of music out of the air and put it under glass to treasure.
The narration continues after dialogue between Joey and Baron.
Joey Crown, musician with an odd, intense face, who, in a moment, will try to leave the Earth and discover the middle ground - the place we call The Twilight Zone.
Plot
Joey Crown is a hapless trumpet player in New York City; he has no money, no friends, and no job prospects due to alcoholism. Looking for a chance to work again, he is turned down by the manager at his old club, who while appreciating Joey's abilities, knows how unreliable he is. Joey feels his life is worthless. He sells his beloved trumpet at a pawn shop for cash, then after a drinking binge impulsively steps into the path of a speeding truck. When he regains consciousness, he realizes that nobody can see or hear him and assumes that he is dead. None of the people he sees are ones he recognizes, though he goes to places with which he is familiar.
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