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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $1 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 02 October, 1959 DVD Release : 26 October, 1999 |
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Treasures of The Twilight Zone description From the tinkling avante-garde drone of the opening theme, The Twilight Zone promises a journey into the unknown. The mix of science fiction, the macabre, and O. Henry twists compel viewers to this day, and decades after Rod Serling's acclaimed CBS-TV series left the air it remains one of the great cult classics of all time. Treasures of the Twilight Zone presents a collection of rarities that were frequently excluded from the show's syndication package. The pilot episode "Where Is Everybody?" stars Earl Holliman wandering through an empty ghost town seeking someone, anyone, to break his isolation. The volatile, edgy study in racism, "The Encounter," with Neville Brand and George Takei was pulled from syndication after its initial showing. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," the show's memorable swan song, was the only episode created outside of Serling's production company and his creative control, an award-winning short film from France by Robert Enrico. The real treasures of this Twilight Zone DVD, however, remain two of its compelling supplements. A thoughtful 1959 interview with Rod Serling (from the TV show The Mike Wallace Interview) cuts through the usual small talk to get to the business of writing for TV, from the creative process to commercial compromises and sponsor-driven censorship, and the original "pitch" film made for sponsors features Rod Serling using simple props in brilliantly inventive ways to explain his vision for the series. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Response to critic who thinks "The Encounter" is a disaster. |
| Just want to clear up a few historical inaccuracies in this post.
1. "Nevermind the fact that no Japanese American has ever been found guilty of treason..." Answer: The last person convicted of treason in the United States was Tom Kawakita, a Japanese American. Kawakita, born in California, went to Japan in 1939 when he was 18 to visit his grandfather. He stayed, never renouncing his U.S. citizenship. He was employed as an interpreter with a Japanese nickel company. He was never conscripted, but Japanese authorities used him as an interpreter in a prisoner of war camp. He readily joined in the abuse of American prisoners, "going beyond any conceivable duty of an interpreter," according to the U.S. Supreme Court. He beat some, pushed another into a cesspool and forced the obviously ill into hard labor. After the war, he re-registered as a U.S. citizen and returned home. His former victims, who knew him as "Meatball," spotted him and turned him in, and he was sentenced to death for treason in 1952. President Eisenhower commuted his sentence to life in 1953. Kawakita v. United States, 343 U.S. 717 (1952) 2. ...or that they served in the MOST DECORATED US military unit of WWII (it's true; look up the book "Go For Broke!") Answer: Most decorated FOR THEIR SIZE AND LENGTH OF SERVICE, after Hawaii Senator Akaka introduced legislation in the 1990s and Bill Clinton started handing out medals and upgrades like candy canes to Japanese Americans against the advice of the Pentagon's head historian, many years and miles away from the battlefield in complete defiance of American military tradition. I like this episode. It reflects a lot of what Americans knew then about this history compared to what Americans know today, a history manipulated by ethnic activists and politicians that is far from the truth. |
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