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Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter
Actors: Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort, Nicholas Pryor, Patricia Charbonneau
Synopsis: Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the "return" of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart supporting actor Bill Pullman is given star billing as Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox
Synopsis: A scam artist is forced to pose as a miracle worker in this adventure tale with comic touches. Joe Moses (Robert Mitchum) is a confidence man and jewel smuggler from America who somehow finds himself in Africa, attempting to pull a fast one on some natives who quickly prove to be sharper than he Read More
Crew: Screen Story
Synopsis: In Volume 26 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a drifter stumbles across a mansion controlled by aliens. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Suzy Parker
Synopsis: This Twilight Zone episode was purportedly adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story "The Beautiful People," though it was actually scripted by an uncredited John Tomerlin. The story takes place in a futuristic society where conformity is not only encouraged, it is enforced. Read More
Actors: Ann Blyth, Lee Philips, Celia Lovsky, Frank Ferguson
Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the then-current publicity blitz surrounding the Elizabeth Taylor film version of Cleopatra, this Twilight Zone episode was credited to scriptwriter Charles Beaumont, even though Jerry Sohl did the actual writing. Ann Blyth stars as Pamela Morris, a seemingly ageless movie Read More
Actors: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee
Synopsis: Though based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories, Masque of the Red Death relies more upon its mood and atmosphere than its story values for its success. During a devastating 12th-century plague called "The Red Death," the decadent, devil-worshipping Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) holds court over a Read More
Actors: Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten
Synopsis: Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady." Hoping to save their tattered marriage, Alan and Eileen Ransome (Lee Philips and Joyce Van Patten) book passage on a luxury liner bound for England. Their first indication Read More
Actors: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva, Maggie Mahoney, William Mims, Milton Parsons
Synopsis: First telecast April 4, 1963, this grim 60-minute Twilight Zone installment would seem to be more suited to Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Thriller. Martin Balsam stars as Martin Senescu, curator of a "chamber of horrors" wax museum. Upon learning that the museum is to be demolished, Martin takes Read More
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Robert Sterling, Pat Crowley, Ray Teal, Charles P. Thompson
Synopsis: In his last Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Mr. Smith, a slightly demonic fellow who offers his services as a reporter and typesetter to small-town newspaper editor Doug Winter (Robert Serling). Knowing full well that Winter's Danzburg Courier is on the verge of folding Read More
Actors: George Grizzard, Gail Kobe, Katherine Squire, Wallace Rooney
Synopsis: When Alan Talbot (George Grizzard) returns to his home town after a week's absence, he finds that there have been a few significant changes, chief among them the fact that a stranger is living in his house. At a loss to explain this and other curiosities to his fiancée Jessica Connelly (Gail Read More
Actors: Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, David Opatoshu, James Doohan, Suzanne Cupito
Synopsis: Stranded in the remote mountain town of Peaceful Valley, reporter Philip Redfield looks on in amazement as a dog and cat seemingly vanish into thin air. Apparently, Peaceful Valley houses some sort of deep dark secret -- which has naturally aroused Redfield's journalistic instincts. He may Read More
Actors: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, William Windom
Synopsis: Robert Duvall stars as Charley Parkes, a shy and lonely man who spends his spare time at the museum, even though his domineering mother (Pert Kelton) would prefer that Charley seek out a suitable girlfriend. But as far Charley is concerned, he already has a sweetheart -- a tiny but lifelike Read More
Actors: Telly Savalas, Mary Laroche, Tracy Stratford, June Foray
Synopsis: Though credited to Charles Beaumont, this Twilight Zone episode was actually written by Beaumont's associate Jerry Sohl. Telly Savalas heads the cast as Erich Streator, whose life becomes Hell on Earth when his stepdaughter Christie (Tracy Stratford) is presented with an expensive "Talky Tina" Read More
Actors: Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson, Kevin Tate
Synopsis: Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see Randall as Dr. Lao, an enigmatic Chinese medicine-show impresario. The doctor brings his travelling show into the frontier town of Abalone, which is chafing under the Read More
Actors: Michael Rennie, Phyllis Thaxter, Natalie Trundy, Jim McMullan, Connie Gilchrist
Synopsis: Fortune hunter Ralph Manson (Michael Rennie) persuades wealthy widow Nora Cory (Phyllis Thaxter) to marry him, only to run afoul of Nora's son from a previous marriage. Manson tries to solve this problem by killing the boy, but Nora witnesses the crime -- whereupon she suffers a stroke which Read More
Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon
Synopsis: The Haunted Palace is a witches' brew of stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft--with the fine hand of sinister scenarist Charles Beaumont stirring the pot. Vincent Price plays two roles this time: A New England doctor burned as a sorcerer in 1745, and the dead man's great-grandson Read More
Actors: Warren Stevens, Ben Wright, Joan Marshall, Harry Swoger, Eugene Borden
Synopsis: Written by Charles Beaumont with the uncredited assistance of OCee Ritch), this compact little Twilight Zone offering gets under way as a pair of gangsters dump a corpse into a Bowery alley. Emerging from the shadows, shabby derelict Nate Bledsoe (Warren Stevens) steals the dead man's custom-made Read More
Actors: J. Pat O'Malley, Susan Gordon, Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp
Synopsis: One of Charles Beaumont's most charming Twilight Zone scripts, this episode stars the ubiqitious J. Pat O'Malley as Old Ben, the only ray of sunshine in the life of crippled eight-year-old Jenny (Susan Gordon). Out of earshot of Jenny's harridan guardian Mrs. Gann (Nancy Kulp), Old Ben confesses Read More
Actors: Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Betty Harford
Synopsis: Awakening with "the grandaddy of all hangovers," David Gurney (Richard Long) is not amused when his wife Wilma (Shirley Ballard) emits a scream and insists that she'd never set eyes on David before. As the day progresses, it turns out that no one recognizes David, nor is their any record of Read More
Actors: Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon
Synopsis: Night of the Eagle was the second film version of Fritz Leiber Jr.'s Conjure Wife (the first was Weird Woman, perhaps the best of Universal's low-budget "Inner Sanctum" series of the 1940s). The film's title was possibly meant to invoke memories of the earlier Night of the Demon (58); both films Read More
Actors: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel, Alan Napier
Synopsis: Roger Corman's success with low-budget adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales continued with this third installment, the first to lack the commanding presence of Vincent Price. Instead, we have Ray Milland as tormented protagonist Guy Carrell, who is so traumatized by the death of his father -- whom Read More
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Buddy Hackett
Synopsis: This long, 135-minute feature is divided into four different segments, three highlighting fairy tales and the first introducing the two Brothers Grimm. Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) is the dreamer, and Jacob (Karl Boehm) is the practical one, and between them, some marvelous fairy tales develop. Read More
Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Dane Clark, Christine White, Nesdon Booth, Jane Burgess
Synopsis: Upon discovering that his business partner Jimbo Cobb (Buddy Ebsen) possesses psychokinetic powers enabling him to move things with his brain power alone, café owner and compulsive gambler Ace Larsen (Dane Clark) hightails it to Las Vegas with Jimbo in tow. It is Ace's contention that Jimbo's Read More
Actors: Dean Jagger, Carmen Mathews, Robert Emhardt, Alice Pearce, Arch Johnson
Synopsis: Dean Jagger stars as Ed Lindsay, a cranky middle-aged man living in a boarding house with several other old-timers, including his former fiancée Vinnie Brown (Carmen Mathews). Fed up with television, Ed squirrels himself away in his room, where he begins tooling around with the antique radio he's Read More
Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter
Actors: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Jeanne Cooper
Synopsis: The Intruder was not only Roger Corman's most daring and unusual film, but a unique movie in the history of cinema, as one of the few theatrical feature films to deal with school desegregation in the South. William Shatner gives the performance of a lifetime as Adam Cramer, a sly, rabble-rousing Read More
Actors: John Dehner, Walter Brooke, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright
Synopsis: Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, this episode stars John Dehner as Alan Richard, an American hydroelectric engineer, who has recently returned from a project in Africa. Having had a voodoo curse put on his head by the local witch doctors, Richard laughs off such silly Read More
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King, William Edmonson, Anne Barton
Synopsis: One of the best of the "existential" Twilight Zone episodes, Charles Beaumont's "Shadow Play" begins in a courtroom, where Adam Grant (Dennis Weaver) is convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to the electric chair. Shouting "It's happening all over again!", Grant insists that his trial Read More
Actors: Lili Darvas, Philip Abbott, Patricia Smith, Bill Mumy, Jenny Maxwell
Synopsis: The last of the six videotaped Twilight Zone installments of the 1960-61 season, this episode also featured the first of three series appearances by child actor Billy Mumy. In this one, Mumy plays Billy Bayles, a 5-year-old boy with a strong attachment to his grandmother (Lili Darvas). Using a toy Read More
Synopsis: The only pleasure afforded the half-crazed residents of a ghost town called Bonanza is the faded portrait of a beautiful woman which hangs on the wall of the saloon. When the portrait turns up missing, the locals blame the only stranger in their midst--namely, Paladin (Richard Boone). Ultimately Read More
Synopsis: Sixty-year-old gardener Phil Canby (Tom Tully) woos neither wisely nor well when he falls in love with 18-year-old Sue Thompson (Phyllis Love). Later on, Sue's father is killed, and Sheriff Willetts (Alan Baxter) arrests Phil for the murder. Protesting his innocence, Phil insists that he was Read More
Actors: Cecil Kellaway, Kevin Hagen, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins
Synopsis: Adapted for television by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, the Twilight Zone episode "Elegy" was first telecast February 19, 1960. Making an emergency landing on an Earth-like asteroid, three astronauts -- Webber (Kevin Hagen), Meyers (Jeff Morrow), and Kirby (Don Dubbins) -- are Read More
Actors: H.M. Wynant, John Carradine, Robin Hughes, Frederick Ledebur, Ezelle Poule
Synopsis: Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, this is one of a handful of Twilight Zone episodes that can truly be described as terrifying. Told in flashback, it's the story of David Ellington (H.M. Wynant), who, while on a walking tour of Europe in the 1930s, is forced to take shelter in Read More
Actors: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, John Close, Wayne Tucker, Sandra Warner
Synopsis: Shot down while escaping the cops, two-bit hoodlum Rocky Valentine (Larry Blyden) awakens to find a jovial, bearded fellow named Mr. Pip (Sebastian Cabot) standing over him. Realizing that he is now dead, Rocky assumes that Pip is his guardian angel, an assumption "proven" when Rocky is Read More
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Estelle Winwood, Dody Heath
Synopsis: College professor Kittridge (Edgar Stehli) cannot understand why the history lectures of his future son-in-law, Professor Walter Jameson (Kevin McCarthy), seem so vividly real -- as if Jameson were actually present at the incidents he describes. It turns out that Jameson is actually several Read More
Synopsis: While guiding his ship through Japanese waters at the height of WW2, Captain Will Fielding (Whit Bissell) becomes seriously ill. Only an emergency operation will save Fielding, and the only man qualified to perform the surgery is Pharmacists' Mate Harris (George Grizzard), a dissolute Read More
Actors: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr
Synopsis: Originally telecast November 27, 1959, "Perchance to Dream" was writer Charles Beaumont's first contribution to The Twilight Zone. Richard Conte stars as Edward Hall, a man who lives in mortal fear of falling asleep. Visiting a psychiatrst (John Larch), Hall explains that he has a weak heart, and Read More
Synopsis: Refusing to heed warnings that it is haunted, Andrew and Ellen Courtney (Robert Webber, Nancy Hadley) rent an old house on the New England coast. Before long, the Courtneys wish that they'd listened to those warnings: Andrew has been possessed by the ghost of a sadistic sea captain, who seems Read More
Actors: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Laurie Mitchell, Paul Birch, Patrick Waltz, Barbara Darrow
Synopsis: This legendarily campy sci-fi epic (shot in color and CinemaScope, and rather lavish for a sci-fi film of this period) concerns a team of astronauts (all men -- this was 1958, you know) who are drawn off course and land on the planet Venus, only to discover it's populated entirely by beautiful Read More
Actors: Robert Wilcox, Nan Grey, Jimmy Savo, William Lundigan, Frank Jenks
Synopsis: This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of Read More
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