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Summary: Five Stars in Search of a Review...
Review: ... 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.
Rating:
Summary: Five Stars in Search of a Review...
Review: ... 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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Summary: Very Good!
Review: All of the episodes on this DVD are fine, especially the surreal "Five Characters in Search of an Exit." "Ninety Years without Slumbering" is a charming script, even if the ending is a little weak. Ed Wynn is superb throughout as an elderly gentleman who suffers from a delusion involving an heirloom grandfather clock. I wouldn't want to reveal the endings of any of the episodes, so you'll just have to trust me that they are three good ones. In short, you can't go wrong with this DVD.
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Summary: Very Good!
Review: All of the episodes on this DVD are fine, especially the surreal "Five Characters in Search of an Exit." "Ninety Years without Slumbering" is a charming script, even if the ending is a little weak. Ed Wynn is superb throughout as an elderly gentleman who suffers from a delusion involving an heirloom grandfather clock. I wouldn't want to reveal the endings of any of the episodes, so you'll just have to trust me that they are three good ones. In short, you can't go wrong with this DVD.
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Summary: two good, two average
Review: Music by Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann accompany the shows on this Twilight Zone DVD. Mirror Image and Five CHarecters in search of an EXit are the best shows on this `DVD. The other two are pretty below average stories.
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Summary: The power of beliefs in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: The common element for the four episodes in Volume 21 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series is the power of belief and what it can mean for your life, your sanity, or both. In "Mirror Image," written by Rod Serling, Vera Miles plays Millicent Barnes, who thinks everybody in the bus station must be insane since they all act like she's already been there. Then she looks in the washroom mirror and sees herself sitting in the waiting room. Her paranoia increases throughout the episode, even when a concerned stranger (Martin Milner) tries to help, until the shattering conclusion. Serling's "Dust" offers a nice pair of performances by Thomas Gomez as a peddler named Sykes and Vladimir Sokoloff as the father of a man due to be hanged for running over and killing a little girl in his wagon while he was drunk. Having sold the hangman brand-new hemp for the noose, Sykes sells the old man a bag of "magic dust" that he claims will turn hate into love. Of course, the bag contains only ordinary dirt, but the old man will try to use it to save his son. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," written by Serling and based on the short story "The Depository" by Marvin Petal, will remind the more literate members of the audience of a classic existential play by Pirandello. A clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major (William Windom) find themselves trapped inside an enormous, featureless cylinder. They do not know who they are or how they got there. "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," written by Richard deRoy and based on an unpublished story by George Clayton Johnson, stars Ed Wynn as Sam Forstmann, who is convinced that his own life will end when his grandfather clock stops. A visit to a psychiatrist does not appear to help, but to make his granddaughter happy, he sells the clock to a neighbor, but with the provision that he can make regular maintenance visits. Then the neighbors go on vacation and inside the locked house, the clock begins to wind down, making Sam quite frantic. There is an unexpected twist to the expected twist on this one, but the script does not do Wynn justice. However, the other three episodes are all above-average "Zones," so you do come out ahead with this volume.
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Summary: Very Good!
Review: The common element for the four episodes in Volume 21 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series is the power of belief and what it can mean for your life, your sanity, or both. In "Mirror Image," written by Rod Serling, Vera Miles plays Millicent Barnes, who thinks everybody in the bus station must be insane since they all act like she's already been there. Then she looks in the washroom mirror and sees herself sitting in the waiting room. Her paranoia increases throughout the episode, even when a concerned stranger (Martin Milner) tries to help, until the shattering conclusion. Serling's "Dust" offers a nice pair of performances by Thomas Gomez as a peddler named Sykes and Vladimir Sokoloff as the father of a man due to be hanged for running over and killing a little girl in his wagon while he was drunk. Having sold the hangman brand-new hemp for the noose, Sykes sells the old man a bag of "magic dust" that he claims will turn hate into love. Of course, the bag contains only ordinary dirt, but the old man will try to use it to save his son. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," written by Serling and based on the short story "The Depository" by Marvin Petal, will remind the more literate members of the audience of a classic existential play by Pirandello. A clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major (William Windom) find themselves trapped inside an enormous, featureless cylinder. They do not know who they are or how they got there. "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," written by Richard deRoy and based on an unpublished story by George Clayton Johnson, stars Ed Wynn as Sam Forstmann, who is convinced that his own life will end when his grandfather clock stops. A visit to a psychiatrist does not appear to help, but to make his granddaughter happy, he sells the clock to a neighbor, but with the provision that he can make regular maintenance visits. Then the neighbors go on vacation and inside the locked house, the clock begins to wind down, making Sam quite frantic. There is an unexpected twist to the expected twist on this one, but the script does not do Wynn justice. However, the other three episodes are all above-average "Zones," so you do come out ahead with this volume.
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Summary: The power of beliefs in "The Twilight Zone"
Review: The common element for the four episodes in Volume 21 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series is the power of belief and what it can mean for your life, your sanity, or both. In "Mirror Image," written by Rod Serling, Vera Miles plays Millicent Barnes, who thinks everybody in the bus station must be insane since they all act like she's already been there. Then she looks in the washroom mirror and sees herself sitting in the waiting room. Her paranoia increases throughout the episode, even when a concerned stranger (Martin Milner) tries to help, until the shattering conclusion. Serling's "Dust" offers a nice pair of performances by Thomas Gomez as a peddler named Sykes and Vladimir Sokoloff as the father of a man due to be hanged for running over and killing a little girl in his wagon while he was drunk. Having sold the hangman brand-new hemp for the noose, Sykes sells the old man a bag of "magic dust" that he claims will turn hate into love. Of course, the bag contains only ordinary dirt, but the old man will try to use it to save his son. "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," written by Serling and based on the short story "The Depository" by Marvin Petal, will remind the more literate members of the audience of a classic existential play by Pirandello. A clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major (William Windom) find themselves trapped inside an enormous, featureless cylinder. They do not know who they are or how they got there. "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," written by Richard deRoy and based on an unpublished story by George Clayton Johnson, stars Ed Wynn as Sam Forstmann, who is convinced that his own life will end when his grandfather clock stops. A visit to a psychiatrist does not appear to help, but to make his granddaughter happy, he sells the clock to a neighbor, but with the provision that he can make regular maintenance visits. Then the neighbors go on vacation and inside the locked house, the clock begins to wind down, making Sam quite frantic. There is an unexpected twist to the expected twist on this one, but the script does not do Wynn justice. However, the other three episodes are all above-average "Zones," so you do come out ahead with this volume.
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