“Little Girl Lost” is effectively the latter half of Spielberg and Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist” done in half an hour. Changing of the guard twilight zone movie#Spielberg directed one of the segments of the "Twilight Zone" movie in 1983 and the show’s influence on his work is seen clearly in this episode. “Little Girl Lost” (Season 3, episode 26). His eyes gleaming for fire and fury simply because they have the means to. Andrew’s villain is another “Twilight Zone” character that’s gained an uncomfortable sheen of the timely. A remarkably tense thriller for its 30 minutes, the dread of discovery handing over them as sure as the dread of destruction when the bombs start falling. Time is running out for their escape, and they’ve attracted the attention of an oily coworker (Edward Andrews) who loves needless destruction almost as much as he hates the idea of refugees fleeing to safety. Fritz Weaver got a turn to be the hero in this episode as a scientist trying to save his family from war that will destroy the planet. “Third From the Sun” (Season 1, episode 14). Meredith turned in several iconic performances on “The Twilight Zone” but my favorite is his librarian in “The Obsolete Man,” the quiet resistance of free will and the soul that gnaws through the root of fascism. Changing of the guard twilight zone code#Weaver has underestimated Meredith’s courage, and cunning, and on a visit to gloat at the man’s impending death he finds himself locked in Meredith’s apartment, forced to share the man’s fate unless he relents and admits that their might be more to life, and the universe than the hard, inflexible code he has destroyed society with. Don’t you wish anti-fascist parables could stop being described with the phrase “surprisingly timely”? In a totalitarian society a librarian ( Burgess Meredith) is judged obsolete by a tribunal led by a merciless Fritz Weaver. “The Obsolete Man” (Season 2, episode 29). By turns tough and tender, Montgomery in the more difficult role of having no dialogue says pages with a suspicious flick of the eyes, or a hard won wary smile. If you’re familiar with Bronson and Montgomery for their later work as a tough action movie bruiser and Montgomery as the perky witch housewife on “ Bewitched,” both play fascinatingly against those roles. That the two will eventually reach accord is for granted, but it’s a terrific nearly wordless episode watching the pair get there. Unfortunately she is from the opposite side of the war that destroyed all human life on the planet. In time after a devastating nuclear war the last man on Earth ( Charles Bronson) finds out he’s not alone one day while making his rounds when he stumbles across another survivor (Elizabeth Montgomery).
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