The Twilight Zone: Vol. 1
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Features
• Black & White
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 02 October, 1959
DVD Release : 03 April, 2001 |
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The Twilight Zone: Vol. 1 Customer Reviews
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Entering the Mists of Unbounded Imagination.
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From my teens this is one of the series that I more fondly remember. As a sci-fi fan I was attracted by "The Twilight Zone" proposal. At that time I wasn't able to see more than a score of episodes, but they remain in my memory with extraordinary persistence.
Thanks to the technological marvel of DVD I'm able to see these amazing stories again and find them as magical & thought provoking as 45 years ago.
As the structure of the episodes are mostly bounded to a surprise ending or to the argument in a very short span of time, usually 25 minutes each, I'll focus my review more on outstanding features than on the topic of the episode in order not to spoil the pleasure of the viewer.
Disk 1 contains only three chapters but wow! Two of them are extraordinary.
1) The Invaders - An emblematic episode, only one character, a lone woman in an isolate house receives the unexpected visit of a tiny "flying saucer" with two small aliens.
She doesn't utter a word and all the tension is focused in her mute wild chase of the aliens.
Agnes Moorhead, best known by her role as Endora the Witch Mother of "Bewitched", gives an extraordinary performance.
Cinematography in charge of George Clemens deserves a special mention. He won Emmy Award 1961 and nominations for the same honor 1962 & 1963 all due to several episodes of this series.
Qualification: 10.
2) The Night of the Meek - This is a rather conventional Christmas episode, nevertheless it manages to touch viewer's emotional chord.
Qualification: 7.
3) Nothing in the Dark - An old lady is entrenched in her basement apartment in order to avoid Mr. Death visit. However there are people trying to make her leave her bunker as those buildings are going to be demolished.
Gladys Cooper impersonates entrenched Wanda with authority but surprise, surprise her acting partner is... Robert Redford! Very young, very charismatic & very proficient.
Qualification: 10.
This DVD format has two great advantages: it has a very good price and allows buyers to choose their favorite chapters without needing to buy the whole series.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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