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The Twilight Zone: Vol. 23

starring: Rod Serling, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, Robert McCord, Jack Klugman

: The Twilight Zone: Vol. 23
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381894028
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 66518
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 02, 1959



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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...

Amazon.com:
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



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Still Great After 3+ Decades
I bought this for "Long Live Walter Jameson" and "The Long Morrow." They're still great after 30+ ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Weak and Shameful
First and foremost, these all have great ideas (the Shoes and Walter Jameson, at least), but all are ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Long Live Walter Jameson - One of the best in the series!
The original Twilight Zone is my all-time favorite TV series, ahead of Seinfeld and the original Star ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Love and Justice in "The Twilight Zone"
The four episodes collected on Volume 23 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series do not share a similar theme, ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Could be better, but TZ is and will always be a cult-tv show
I wonder and I keep wondering why there is no order in this collection. It could have been season by season, ... Read More


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