Product Details

• Actors: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, James Turley
• Writers: Rod Serling
• Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: April 30, 1996
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630264044X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,465 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The 16 Millimeter Shrine: Season 1, Episode 4 Original Air Date: October 23, 1959 Guest stars: Ida Lupino and Martin Balsam The Hitch-Hiker: Season 1, Episode 16 Original Air Date:January 22, 1960 Guest starts: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Going My Way?, July 6, 1999

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Kirk L. (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Hitchhiker/ The 16 Millimeter Shrine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

One of Rod Serling's masterpieces which features a young, attractive woman on her way to California, who cannot escape the haunting vision of an eerie man thumbing a ride wherever she goes.

Going My Way? For fans of the Twilight Zone, this is a must-see indeed!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Star on Sunset Boulevard, and a Wanderer, September 13, 2004

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NMdesapio - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Hitchhiker/ The 16 Millimeter Shrine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If "A Passage for Trumpet" is Rod Serling's version of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, then "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" is his SUNSET BOULEVARD. Like that classic's Norma Desmond, Barbara Jean Trenton is a "movie great from another era" who is unable to accept the fact that she is no longer in demand by Hollywood and spends her days in a darkened room with her old films. Barbara's greatest wish is to recapture her past, with Jerry Herndon, her former, handsome leading man...and in a positively uncanny climax, her wish is granted. Ida Lupino gives a formidable "star performance" as the aging actress, and Martin Balsam brings emotional depth to the role of her sympathetic agent, Danny Weiss, who tries in vain to snap her back to reality. Mention must also be made of the set (the star's Beverly Hills mansion), which is simply beautiful.

In "The Hitch-hiker," young, pretty Nan Adams (Inger Stevens), while driving cross-country, is beckoned to repeatedly by a shady looking hitch-hiker (Leonard Strong) and wanders between death and life, not certain -- until the chilling final scene -- to which she truly belongs. This nightmarish episode is best enjoyed in the dark.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fear of the Unknown, September 12, 2004

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Michael (Washington, D.C. area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Hitchhiker/ The 16 Millimeter Shrine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"To me, the worst fear is the fear of the unknown - the fear which you cannot share with others. That is the most nightmarish of the stimuli." These words of Rod Serling could apply to "The Hitch-Hiker", one of Serling's most chilling, evocative and memorable TWILIGHT ZONE scripts. It concerns a young woman driving alone across country. She is frightened by the sight of a sinister-looking hitch-hiker who seems to appear at every turn. In a story that resembles a religious parable, she encounters a good-natured auto mechanic, a drug store owner, a heartless gas station owner, and a selfish young sailor. The episode plays with some of Serling's favorite themes: human cruelty, and the loneliness and helplessness caused by a secret anxiety. Its dark, unsettling atmosphere - especially during the terrifying night the woman goes through when her car breaks down - remain vivid in my memory.