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Fritz Walter

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8. Here's the IMDB link

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Fri Nov 20, 2015, 01:55 PM

Nov 2015

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734572/?ref_=ttep_ep4

When I searched YouTube, I found excerpts from that episode and a review.
I'm also pretty certain that it's on Amazon Prime Video, if you subscribe to that service and are willing to pay $1.99.
Anybody on Netflix able to provide a link?

I love Rod Serling's intro to the episode describing the Dennis Hopper character as:

...A sparse, little man who feeds off his self-delusions, and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet.
And like some goose-stepping predecessors, he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting.
The something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon, he calls it faith, strength, truth.
But in just a moment Peter Vollmer (Hopper) will ply his trade on another kind of corner. A strange intersection in a shadow land called The Twilight Zone.

OMG! That describes tRump to a tee and (broken-)crosses it!

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The Twilight Zone Rod Serling's words: Episode "He's Alive'' [View all] Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author marym625 Nov 2015 #1

Stuff like that doesn't get on tee vee anymore. Octafish Nov 2015 #2

Serling's moral view, I think, was shaped by his combat experience during WWII deutsey Nov 2015 #4

I binge watched...... suston96 Nov 2015 #5

a lot of the sci fi writers couched their liberal politics in allegory. Doctor_J Nov 2015 #22

This message was self-deleted by its author yuiyoshida Nov 2015 #3

You inspired me to go find that episode online and watch it. Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2015 #6

Rod Serling's script on Hitler telling Hopper's character what he needs to do Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #7

hard to believe it came out in 1963. AlbertCat Nov 2015 #11

Here's the IMDB link Fritz Walter Nov 2015 #8

Bigoted idiots should shut their mouth! n/t RoccoR5955 Nov 2015 #9

Something else that struck me about the episode: Tommy_Carcetti Nov 2015 #10

You know what's REALLY fscked up? markbark Nov 2015 #12

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street sarge43 Nov 2015 #13

I agree with you sarge43 Doc_Technical Nov 2015 #14

Beautifully summed, Doc. sarge43 Nov 2015 #16

Yeah........ those were Sterling's words too Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #18

Like Carl Sagan, a good man who left us far too soon. n/t sarge43 Nov 2015 #21

... FlatBaroque Nov 2015 #23

K&R from Gauleiter WALKER'S Wisconsin-he's alive here big time bobthedrummer Nov 2015 #15

It's available for free at Hulu.... Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2015 #17

All his scripts are available on line too Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 #19

Netflix is also streaming it n/t sarge43 Nov 2015 #20

I had to go watch it, and man was that creepy! loyalsister Nov 2015 #24

Not to hijack the thread Omaha Steve Nov 2015 #25

I support this pseudo highjack. longship Nov 2015 #26