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Looking Into the Soul, May 8, 2002
This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Lonely/ Probe 7 - Over and Out [VHS] (VHS Tape)
THE LONELY is one of Rod Serling's classics from the series. Jack Warden convincingly plays a convict sentenced to forty years alone on a distant asteroid. A periodic supply ship commanded by John Dehner one day leaves him a companion, a robot played flawlessly by Jean Marsh. Bernard Herrmann's poignant score evokes the enigmatic inner feeling of Jack Warden's love for his companion. And subsequently Herrmann's score captures the human quality of this female robot as she reciprocates that love. The combination of scripting, acting and scoring realistically captures our perceptions of loneliness, love, loss and reality. PROBE 7 - OVER AND OUT leisurely written by Rod Serling for the fifth Season examines the relationship of two beings, Richard Basehart and Antoinette Bower, the sole survivors of their respective annihilated planets. Basehart and the much underrated and forgotten Bower give good performances.
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Good shows, January 31, 2009
This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Lonely/ Probe 7 - Over and Out [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This are interesting shows. "The Lonely" is about a guy falsely charged with a crime and put on an asteroid in space. He's dying of loneliness but gets a robotic girl friend. The second show is about a guy in a space ship that crash lands. What kind of planet is he on? There is a great surprise
ending.
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"Witness...a man dying of loneliness", September 21, 2004
This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Lonely/ Probe 7 - Over and Out [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"The Lonely" is the classic here, a textbook example of an effective Rod Serling TWILIGHT ZONE episode. Mr. James A. Corry is a convict who, as punishment, has been sent to an asteroid (which, in The Twilight Zone, resembles a desert that stretches "to infinity") for fifty years. As the action begins, Corry is languishing from loneliness. His head supplier, Allenby, takes pity on him and gives him a robot woman, named Alicia, for a companion. Though Alicia is "a machine," she looks and sounds like a human being. This makes Corry boil over with frustration and anger, since he desires her but cannot have her; he is "sick of being mocked by the memory of women." But when Corry learns that Alicia has feelings, too, a relationship blossoms. Jack Warden gives an intense, wholly believable performance as the convict, and the rest of the cast - including Jean Marsh as Alicia and Ted Knight as one of Allenby's crew - are a perfect team. "The Lonely" includes what has been called the most romantic scene in any episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, that in which Corry and Alicia sit outside at night, gazing at and talking about the stars. Bernard Herrmann's musical score, which suggests the infinity of the desert and the emptiness a lonely person feels, sets the seal on a most satisfying episode.
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