The Little People (The Twilight Zone) Zone" historian Marc Zicree, series producer Buck Houghton discussed that the final scene in which the giant astronauts appear and stand towering behind the mountains in the foreground. He explained that this was an optically composited matte shot which combined new footage of the two actors playing the 'giants' with stock location footage of the real mountains around Death Valley, which had originally been filmed two years earlier for the Season 1 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Like many other installments of "Twilight Zone" episodes, this episode used several props and costumes originally created for MGM's "Forbidden
The Twilight People Neva begins to doubt her fathers' work following a botched experiment on another test subject and falling in love with Farrell. She decides to help Farrell and the animal people escape. Steinman and his men hunt them down. Director Romero had previously produced 1959's "Terror Is a Man", closely based on H. G. Wells' "The Island of Doctor Moreau", and returned to the same subject matter with "The Twilight People", although neither film acknowledged their source material. The film, which is also known as "Island of the Twilight People", was originally made for New World Pictures, then run by Roger