The Twilight Zone: Vol. 18 (1959) Review

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(More customer reviews)Volume 18 in "The Twilight Zone" DVD series offers an interesting combination of two space stories with one about the Civil War. "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air," written by Rod Serling and based on an idea by Madelon Champion, relates how the U.S. spaceship Arrow One disappears off the radar screen and crashes. Three of its astronauts survive the crash and find themselves on what they take to be an asteroid with only five gallons of water between them. Corey (Dewey Martin), decides the only way to survive is to kill the other two. Another spaceship is featured in the hour-long "Death Ship," written by Richard Matheson and based on his short story. The E-89 investigates something shining on the surface of a planet and discover what looks to be their own wrecked ship and dead bodies. Lieutenants Mason (Ross Martin) and Carter (Fredrick Beir) become convinced they are dead, but Captain Paul Ross (Jack Klugman), will have none of that. "Still Valley" by Serling based on Manly Wade Wellman's short story "The Valley Was Made Still," stars Gary Merrill as Paradine, a Confederate scout who stumbles upon a town filled with Union soldiers all standing frozen. An old man (Vaughn Taylor) has used a book of black magic to work this miracle. The old man is dying and begs Paradine to take the book and use it to win the war. This is another disc where none of the episodes qualify as a classic Zone story. Its chief virtue is seeing Jack Klugman once again on the show, but for once playing a strong and very determined character.

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The Twilight Zone - Vol. 21 (1959) Review

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(More customer reviews)... just kidding. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" is one of the best Twilight Zone episodes ever, and it is included in this DVD. Written by series creator Rod Serling, it is obviously based on "Six Characters in Search of an Author", a 1921 theater play by italian Luigi Pirandello, which also inspired Paul Sartre's "No Exit". It's a claustrophobic story about a soldier, a ballet dancer, a clown, a musician and a wonderer trapped in a cilinder shaped room with no doors... the outcome is sorpresive, incredibly original and terrifying. Vincenzo Natali, a canadian filmmaker, also took a very similar ground for his sci-fi movie "The Cube"... The other episodes included are "Mirror Image" (Season 1) where a woman finds a "double" of herself (scary), "Dust" (Season 2) about a man's execution and "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (Season 5), about a man that believes that his life depends on his grandfather's clock . This last episode is the only one not written by Serling on this DVD.

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Episodes: "Mirror Image" (Ep. 21, February 26, 1960) - When Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) spies her exact double at a bus station, she becomes convinced that the double is trying to take her place. Fellow passenger Paul Grinstead (Martin Milner) thinks she's crazy--at first. "Dust" (Ep. 48, January 6, 1961) - A man is about to be hanged for drunkenly running over a little girl in a decaying town. But when the girl's anguished father (Vladimir Sokoloff) flings "magic dust" into the air, a change comes over the squalid village. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" (Ep. 79, December 22, 1961) - A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player and an army major are trapped together in an enormous cylinder. They don't know who they are or how they got there. But when the major tries to escape, they finally learn the truth. "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (Ep. 132, December 20, 1963) - Sam Forstmann (Ed Wynn) believes that he will die if his grandfather clock stops. When the clock does begin to wind down, Sam must face his deepest fear.

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The Twilight Zone - Vol. 36 (1959) Review

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(More customer reviews)"As a result, the episode lacks the slick elegance and grim humor that marked Beaumont's best work, but it is nevertheless funny."
Funny? Who does this bozo think he is? This is the best of the best. The New Exhibit still give me chills. It is a master work.

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Episodes: "The Chaser" (Ep. 31, May 13, 1960) - Roger Shackleforth (George Grizzard), desperate to win the affection of the beautiful Leila (Patricia Barry), slips her a love potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well--at first. "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" (Ep. 60, April 21, 1961) - Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars. But even in the future, wealth is still far out of reach for two greedy crooks (Oscar Beregi, Simon Oakland). "The New Exhibit" (Ep. 115, April 4, 1963, 50 min.) - The curator (Martin Balsam) of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins.

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