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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381894028
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: 8940
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1959
Editorial Review:
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An above-average edition in the Twilight Zone DVD collection, Volume 23 begins with "Long Live Walter Jameson," starring Kevin McCarthy as a Methuselah-like history teacher whose lessons are based on personal experience--but his secret of longevity is discovered with fateful results. McCarthy's climactic aging scene marked a milestone in TV makeup effects, and it's still dramatically effective. The same can't be said for "Dead Man's Shoes," a typical episode in which a Bowery bum (Warren Stevens) steals the shoes off the body of a murdered gangster, and instantly assumes the dead man's identity, thus assuming his role in a deadly cycle of fate. It was a good idea in 1962, but the pulpy plot and characters were hokey even then.
"You Drive" is an enjoyable fifth-season episode starring stalwart character actor Edward Andrews as a hit-and-run driver who is relentlessly badgered by his driverless car, which honks its horn, chases him, and wreaks havoc with the man's guilty conscience. A precursor to Stephen King's Christine, this offbeat episode offered ample proof that the latter-day Twilight Zone still had a knack for capitalizing on simple ideas. Likewise "The Long Morrow" offers a tragic twist on the effects of long-term space travel. Removing himself from deep freeze, spacefaring astronaut Robert Lansing ages normally while his Earthbound lover (Mariette Hartley) awaits his return in suspended animation. Thanks to some subtle acting by '60s TV veterans Lansing and Hartley, the episode's payoff is still poignantly effective; ironically, CBS announced The Twilight Zone's cancellation shortly after this episode aired. --Jeff Shannon
Description:
This volume includes:
"Long Live Walter Jameson" (Episode 24, March 18, 1960)--Kevin McCarthy is Professor Walter Jameson, an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it. Little can his students imagine...
"Dead Man's Shoes" (Episode 83, January 19, 1962)--A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on earth to seek revenge against his killer.
"You Drive" (Episode 134, January 3, 1964)--Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews) accidentally hits a boy on a bike, killing him. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
"The Long Morrow" (Episode 135, January 10, 1964)--Commander Douglas Stansfield (Robert Lansing) and Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley) fall in love shortly before Stansfield launches into space to begin 40 years in suspended animation. As they dream of being together, their fates take an ironic turn...
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I bought this for "Long Live Walter Jameson" and "The Long Morrow." They're still great after 30+ years. These DVD's are a great bargain.
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First and foremost, these all have great ideas (the Shoes and Walter Jameson, at least), but all are horribly done. Bad dialogue, (which is one of the main reasons I watch TZ) saturates everything, not to mention the shifty acting.
Long Live Walter Jameson is the reason I bought this DVD. Being a huge fan of TZ and owning several DVD's I must say this is the weakest set of episodes I have seen yet.
Long Live Walter Jameson was much worse than I remember it being after seeing ... Read More
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The original Twilight Zone is my all-time favorite TV series, ahead of Seinfeld and the original Star Trek. And this volume contains one of my Top 5 TZ episodes of all time (Long Live Walter Jameson).
Long Live Walter Jameson - Absolutely first rate and fascinating story of a 2000 year-old man (brilliantly played by Kevin McCarthy of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers) with amazing special effects for a show produced in the 1960's.
Dead Man's Shoes - Interesting story ... Read More
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The four episodes collected on Volume 23 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series do not share a similar theme, although two deal with the supernatural search for justice while the other pair feature the problem having too much time can cause love. So you can see two pairs of episodes from the celebrated television anthology series created by Rod Serling without stretching too far.
Episode 24, "Long Live Walter Jameson" (Written by Charles Beaumont, First aired March 18, 1960) features the familiar ... Read More
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I wonder and I keep wondering why there is no order in this collection. It could have been season by season, or according to the episode numbers, to the air dates or even conceptual (horror, time travel, extraterrestrials, etc). In this DVD, you can find a little bit of everything (different seasons and subjects). First we have an episode from season one ("Long Live Walter Jameson), which is -by far- the best episode found here: a history expert is actually an immortal being. From the third season we ... Read More
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