The Twilight Zone: Vol. 3 | 
| Actor: Rod Serling
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 8983
UPC: 014381898323
EAN: 0014381898323
ASIN: B000046S2D
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 1959
Release Date: April 3, 2001
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Episodes: "Steel" (Ep. 122, October 4, 1963) - In the future, only androids are allowed to box. Desperate to raise money, penniless manager Steel Kelly (Lee Marvin) must fight disguised as his own broken-down robot. "A Game of Pool" (Ep. 70, October 13, 1961) - Jesse (Jack Klugman) is a brilliant pool player whose dream of a showdown with the legendary (and dead) Fats Brown (Jonathan Winters) comes true. The stakes: his life. "Walking Distance" (Ep. 5, October 30, 1959) - Martin Sloan (Gig Young) is a frazzled executive who learns that you can't go home again after he steps back in time and meets his mom, his dad--and himself! "Kick the Can" (Ep. 86, February 9, 1962) - Has an old man at Sunnyvale Rest Home discovered a secret to regaining youth? After playing a simple child's game, he and the other residents are rewarded with rejuvenating powers!
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 Best Episodes of the Series September 24, 2008
A professional boxer was hired to train the actors for "Steel." "Kick the Can" was one of George Clayton Johnson's best stories, and features real-life father and son Ernest and Barry Truex. "Walking Distance" almost caused friction between musician Bernard Herrmann and script writer Rod Serling.
Trivia supplied not from the DVD, but from the book, "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic" because the 800 plus page book is a P-E-R-F-E-C-T companion to the DVD. Before or after you watch an episode, you can use the book to uncover the in-jokes, bloopers and trivia that make viewing these episodes fun. Both are available on Amazon.
 One of the best Twilight Zone dvds July 12, 2008
Twilight Zone is one of the greatest tv shows that was ever made. Rod Serling wrote brilliant tv and even in the end when it seems his writings were not as good but also surrounded himself with alot of other talented writers. This set is an excellent sampler of what the show as about. Steel is the weakest effort on the set but it doesnt bring the rating down.
Steel- Human's boxing is banned in the not so distant future. A good film but it should have been replaced by a show that had the same themes of the other shows on the dvd.
A Game of Pool- Jack Klugman is an excellent actor and he does a brillant job as a pool player who wants to the the best. He challenges the greatest player who ever lived and he gets his wish. Johnathan Winters does a good job as Fats. With only two actors in the whole show and some great dialogue between the two actors-its a must watch. Klugman is also brilliant in In Praise of Pip and The Passage of the Trumpet.
Walking Distance- Perhaps the finest half hour of television you'll ever witness. Serling wrote a beautiful and touching story based on his youth. While recently viewing this, I noticed a few story errors but it doesnt take away from how powerful this show is. Martin's dad and Martin have some words of wisdom and then Serling's narration in the middle and the end of the show were some of the most touching words ever written for television.
Kick The Can- An old man believes he will be young again if they play the game Kick The Can and believe there young again. I like his roommate who thinks its all rubbish and the ending is good. Then again, all Twilight Zone epsiodes had great endings.
Excellent set with great acting and story telling thru out the set. Steel is out of place on this set and could have been replaced by a dozen or so stories that fit the mold.
I Was Required To Tell you That... May 31, 2008
Four classic episodes with one that stands head-and-shoulders above the others. The pool hall episode is by far one of the best TZ episodes that I have seen in recent memory. Klugman and Winters were superb. This is a great disc and an asset to any TZ collection. Recommended.
Box, Pool, Kicking the Can & Going Back Home. January 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 3 contains four excellent chapters well representative of the whole series spirit & charm, composing a perfect 10 points poker.
1) Steel - Human box fights are abolished & boxers are robots now, so where is drama gone? Just watch this episode and you'll discover it.
Lee Marvin gives one his top-notch performances as the robot's manager.
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.
Richard Matheson delivers, once more, a great story.
Qualification: 10.
2) A Game of Pool - Jesse Cardiff is great pool player is embittered because no matter his own prowess the public always mention deceased "Fats" Brown as the best ever. The Twilight magic will allow Jesse to have a chance of confronting "Fats".
Jack Klugman impersonates Jesse with outstanding brilliance. Fortunately for TLZ fans he will perform in several episodes of the series.
Jonathan Winters, usually a comedian, delivers a nice dramatic characterization of "Fats".
The story written by George C. Johnson has his trade mark style: slightly melancholic & gripping.
Qualification: 10.
3) Walking Distance - A distressed executive stops his car at a fuel station, discovers he is "at walking distance" from his hometown and decides to pay a visit entering the strange universe of The Twilight Zone.
It is an episode written by Rod Sterling in person delivering a nice sci-fi story.
Gig Young who has been twice Oscar nominee and will win his Oscar award in 1970 gives a great performance as the main character of the episode.
Qualification: 10.
4) Kick the Can - In a senior citizen rest home an internee tries to recover the delightful world of infancy.
Here we have again a story written by George C. Johnson with his trade mark style.
Qualification: 10.
This DVD series presentation 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.
Some of the sharpest, tightest writing and acting on record. October 2, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In this review, I do not disclose any of the surprise endings. So don't worry.
I own about twenty Twilight Zone discs. Some of the tales are eternal classics, for example, To Serve Man, The Odyssey of Flight 33 (William Shatner), Nick of Time (William Shatner), The Fever, The Living Doll (Telly Sevalas), and Time Enough At Last (Burgess Meredith).
The volume being reviewed, Volume Three, contains some of the tightest writing and sharpest acting that I have ever encountered on any T.V. program or movie.
The first story, Kick the Can, takes place in an old folks home, where the inhabitants can view youngsters out in the street playing kick the can and other games. One of the retired old folks, reminded of his own childhood, is struck with the notion that if he can persuade the other old folks to join in a game of kick the can, they will somehow recapture some aspect of their youth. FIVE STARS.
The second story, Steel, takes place in 1974, a time in the future when boxing has been outlawed and all boxing matches are done with competing robots, where the robots look essentially like real people. The issue is that the owner and mechanic, in charge of their boxing android, realize that their android is broken and won't be fixed before that evening's fight. The owner, Lee Marvin, has the idea of placing himself in the ring, instead of the robot. What is astonishing is Lee Marvin's ability to change personna. In one scene, Lee Marvin is forceful and demanding towards his mechanic, that is, the android's mechanic. And in another scene, Lee Marvin is groveling and apologetic towards the owner of the boxing ring, in a scene where the boxing ring owner complains about Lee Marvin's out-dated robot. FIVE STARS.
(A similar transformation (demanding versus groveling) can be found in the character of Biff, in Back to the Future. When Michael J. Fox travels to the past, he sees Biff abusing Michael J. Fox's father in a soda shop. However, when Michael J. Fox returns to the future, Biff is respectful and groveling towards the father.)
The third story, A Game of Pool, is initiated when Jack Klugman, a pool player in Chicago, vows to himself that he wants to have a match with deceased pool legend, Jonathan Winters. As it turns out, the pool legend materializes, and after several minutes of negotiating, decide to have a match then and there. FIVE STARS.
(Please note that Jonathan Winters was one of the highest profile comedic actors from the 1960s. I recommend Jonathan Winters' narrative of the Paul Bunyan story, accompanied by Duck Baker on guitar, available on compact disc. If you need to buy a kid a gift, I recommend Jonathan Winters' rendition of Paul Bunyan.)
The fourth story on this disc, Walking Distance, starts when a high pressure company executive stops in a rural service station for an hour's worth of repairs on his automobile, then decides to walk to a nearby town when he realizes that the town is where he'd spent his childhood. As it turns out, when he stops in an ice cream parlor for a bit of refreshment, the year is 1938 when the man was just a boy. The man finds his childhood home, visits his disbelieving parents, and unintentionally scares himself off, when he (the executive) discovers himself (the boy) carving his name in a structure in the town park. When the executive (the man) tries to approach himself (the boy), the man again inadvertently frightens the boy, and the boy falls off the edge of a merry-go-round, injures his leg, thus explaining the etiology of the executive's limp. The story is really a mood piece, that is, the story is not a setup for a suprise ending. The story concludes with a charming little narrative. FOUR STARS.
Volume Three of Twilight Zone makes an excellent, inexpensive gift, for just about anyone. This volume does not include any especially creepy or scary scenes. This volume also includes a couple of stories that feature little kids. All of the actors on this disc are easy to like.
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