**SPOILER** Brilliant history professor Walter Jameson, Kevin McCarthy,has been wowing his students as well as collage faculty members for some 12 years with his BS stories about historic events dating back to the ancient Greeks. How does Jameson come up with all these stories of events that happened hundreds if not thousands of years ago with such clarity and imagination? It's as if he was there at the time both observing and even taking part in them!
That's what Prof Jameson's colleague 70 year old chemistry professor Sam Kittridge, Edger Stehli, thought about him until one day looking at old photos of the Civil War Kittridge spotted a person on the Union's General Sherman's staff that's the spitting image of Walter Jameson! In fact the person a Col. Hugh Skelton is the very same person who Jameson was reading to his students excerpts from his personal diary of the burning down of Atlanta back in 1864 by Sherman's men!
As Kittridge starts to ask some deep and very probings questions about Jameson's past he finally gets him to admit the dark secret that he's been keeping from him and everyone else he knew in his life. Jameson is a lot older then he looks, a lot lot older, and no matter how hard he tries he just can't get himself to die. Being the coward that he was and still is back some 3,000 years ago Jameson, or whoever he was at that time, had himself treated by this Egyptian alchemist who made him immortal! This feeling of immortality has since worn off with Jameson outliving his friends family and, over the last 3,000 years, scores of wives!
Despite his past in knowing that he'll outlive any woman he marries Jameson has his sights set on Prof. Kittridge's 30 year old daughter Susanna, Dodie Hearth, a graduated student at the collage that he and Prof. Kittridge teaches at. Susanna had fallen madly in love with the tall graying handsome and well spoken, on historical matters, Jameson and nothing on this God's earth, including her father, is going to stop her from marrying the big hunk. That's until one of Prof. Jameson's former spouses, who he left out in the cold, 78 year old Lauretta Bowen, Estelle Winwood, has something to say about it!
***SPOILERS*** Having found out about her former husband Thomas "Tommy Boy" Bowen, now calling himself Walter Jameson, forthcoming marriage to Susanna Kitteridge in the local newspaper's society column Lauretta decided to pay him a visit. Not to talk about the good old days but to pay the two-timing heel back for everything that he did to her and also prevent him from doing the same thing to the unsuspecting Susanna Kittridge! And in that put her former estranged and long suffering husband, in being sick and tired of living, out of his misery! Something that he's been trying to do for centuries but didn't quite have the guts to do it himself!
That's what Prof Jameson's colleague 70 year old chemistry professor Sam Kittridge, Edger Stehli, thought about him until one day looking at old photos of the Civil War Kittridge spotted a person on the Union's General Sherman's staff that's the spitting image of Walter Jameson! In fact the person a Col. Hugh Skelton is the very same person who Jameson was reading to his students excerpts from his personal diary of the burning down of Atlanta back in 1864 by Sherman's men!
As Kittridge starts to ask some deep and very probings questions about Jameson's past he finally gets him to admit the dark secret that he's been keeping from him and everyone else he knew in his life. Jameson is a lot older then he looks, a lot lot older, and no matter how hard he tries he just can't get himself to die. Being the coward that he was and still is back some 3,000 years ago Jameson, or whoever he was at that time, had himself treated by this Egyptian alchemist who made him immortal! This feeling of immortality has since worn off with Jameson outliving his friends family and, over the last 3,000 years, scores of wives!
Despite his past in knowing that he'll outlive any woman he marries Jameson has his sights set on Prof. Kittridge's 30 year old daughter Susanna, Dodie Hearth, a graduated student at the collage that he and Prof. Kittridge teaches at. Susanna had fallen madly in love with the tall graying handsome and well spoken, on historical matters, Jameson and nothing on this God's earth, including her father, is going to stop her from marrying the big hunk. That's until one of Prof. Jameson's former spouses, who he left out in the cold, 78 year old Lauretta Bowen, Estelle Winwood, has something to say about it!
***SPOILERS*** Having found out about her former husband Thomas "Tommy Boy" Bowen, now calling himself Walter Jameson, forthcoming marriage to Susanna Kitteridge in the local newspaper's society column Lauretta decided to pay him a visit. Not to talk about the good old days but to pay the two-timing heel back for everything that he did to her and also prevent him from doing the same thing to the unsuspecting Susanna Kittridge! And in that put her former estranged and long suffering husband, in being sick and tired of living, out of his misery! Something that he's been trying to do for centuries but didn't quite have the guts to do it himself!