The Twilight Zone: Vol. 4 (1961)
NETFLIX SYNOPSIS: Creator Rod Serling’s long-running, Emmy-winning television series brought science fiction to the masses. Viewers enjoyed the twisted, often-humorous mysteries as well as the show’s thinly masked social commentary and philosophical discussions. Includes the classic episodes “Mr. Dingle, the Strong,” “Two,” “A Passage for Trumpet” and “The Four of Us Are Dying.”
REVIEW: Volume 4 in the non-linear collection of classic Twilight Zone episodes is highlighted by “Two,” with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery as survivors of a devastating war who find love in the rubble. Why Liz didn’t just wrinkle her nose and make it all go away, I have no idea. There are two additional solid episodes: “A Passage for Trumpet” with Jack “The Odd Couple” Klugman as a New York musician named Joey (a guy in New York named Joey? You don’t say!) who loses his love for music in a bottle of cheap whiskey, and “The Four of Us Are Dying” about a guy who can change his appearance at will. A fourth episode, “Mr Dingle, the Strong” with Burgess Meredith and Don Rickles, is a stab a humor that hasn’t aged too well. A decent collection, but not the best in the series.
4 stars
HAWK
