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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305772507
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305772509
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 03, 2001
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 70856
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1959



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Episodes: 'Elegy' (Ep. 20, February 19, 1960) - Three astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone is frozen in place in the midst of their activities. The only one who moves is the caretaker (Cecil Kellaway), who reveals that they are in an exclusive cemetery where the deceased's greatest wishes can come true. 'The Thirty-Fathom Grave' (Ep. 104, January 10, 1963, 50 min.) - A mysterious clanging sound is heard within a submerged submarine--20 years after it was sunk by the Japanese during World War II. A sheared periscope? Or ghosts of the drowned crewmen? Chief Bell (Mike Kellin) reveals a guilty secret that has tormented him ever since that horrible event. 'A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain' (Ep. 131, December 13, 1963) - An aging man (Patrick O'Neal) desperate to keep up with his much younger wife (Ruta Lee), tries a highly experimental youth serum. To his wife's delight, he is restored to vigorous young manhood, but the worm soon turns when the serum continues its work...

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Volume 20 of The Twilight Zone DVD collection opens with 'Elegy,' a first-season episode in which three astronauts are forced to land on an Earthlike asteroid where all of the people seem frozen in time. The only exception is an elderly 'caretaker' (Cecil Kellaway), who explains that the asteroid is actually a cemetery where the dead are posed in the posthumous fulfillment of their fondest wishes. This was the third episode written by the prolific TZ contributor Charles Beaumont, and it ends with the requisite twist.

'The Thirty-Fathom Grave' is from the fourth season, when episodes were expanded to one-hour length. The cast includes such TV stalwarts as Simon Oakland and Bill Bixby, but the standout is Mike Kellin, who plays Chief Bell, a crewman on a present-day Navy destroyer who's haunted by visions of crewmates who drowned in a World War II submarine 20 years earlier. When the destroyer investigates a mysterious noise heard from inside the derelict sub, Bell suffers a nervous breakdown, and it remains unclear whether the submarine specters were real or figments of Bell's survivor-guilt-ridden imagination. Although it suffers from slow pacing, the episode is redeemed by Kellin's intense performance.

'A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain' is a fifth-season entry starring Patrick O'Neal as the aging husband of a ruthless gold digger (Ruta Lee). He's hopelessly in love with this unbearable harridan (a dreadful lapse of dramatic logic), so he begs his scientist brother to be the first human to test a dangerous youth serum. The potion works too well, however, and the shrewish wife gets an unexpected comeuppance that's as deserved as it is dramatically unsatisfying. It's far from a classic episode, but TZ collectors take note: this is one of the few episodes to be withheld from syndication, so it's a relative rarity. --Jeff Shannon



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - An excellent group of stories--no disappointments here.
Volume 20. Three episodes occur on this disc, one of them being a 1-hour episode.

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Twillight Zone: Vol. 20
It's a great flick. It scared me as a kid and scares me now. If you're a Twillight Zone fanatic, this ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Another great trip to another dimension!
This DVD has 3 great episodes on it. "30 Fathom Grave" would have been one of those classic episodes that ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - More twisted tales from Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone"
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What the Twilight Zone is all about
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