The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

The Big Tall Wish (1960)

Ivan Dixon: Bolie Jackson

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• Bolie Jackson : Little boys. Little boys with their heads full up with dreams. When do they find out, Frances? When do they suddenly find out that there ain't any magic? When does somebody push their face down on the sidewalk and say to them, "Hey, little boy, it's concrete. That's what the world is made out of, concrete." When do they find out that you can wish your life away?

• Henry Temple : Bolie?

  [yawns] 

  Henry Temple : I ain't gonna make no more wishes, Bolie. I'm too old for wishes, and there ain't no such thing as magic, is there?

  Bolie Jackson : I guess not, Henry.

  [pauses] 

  Bolie Jackson : Or maybe... maybe there is magic, and maybe there's wishes, too. I guess the trouble is... I guess the trouble is not enough people around to believe. Good night, boy.