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Very current even today, January 1, 2001
This review is from: The Twilight Zone: Obsolete Man/ Death's Head Revisited [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The Obsolete Man stand up with the best of Sterling's work on the Twilight zone. Just Look at all the jails being built and the people they put in them and you may begain to realize how current this one twilight zone show is. Goverments still decides who's obsolete. Not to be missed!
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Serling isn't a writer, he's a prophet., September 19, 2000
This review is from: The Twilight Zone: Obsolete Man/ Death's Head Revisited [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Two masterful episodes, both originated by Serling. In "Death's Head Revisited," a Nazi gets a dose of his own medicine. In "The Obsolete Man," Burgess Meredith gives a riveting performance as a librarian in the desolate future where books have been banned. It has everything: a moral, suspense, wit, and irony. A must.
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Two Timely Warnings from Serling, September 21, 2004
This review is from: The Twilight Zone: Obsolete Man/ Death's Head Revisited [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The Obsolete Man" and "Deaths-Head Revisited" both deal - one in a veiled and the other in an explicit way - with oppression, Nazism, and the Holocaust. In the first episode, Burgess Meredith plays a librarian who is ruled "obsolete" and condemned to die by a State that has outlawed books, free thought, and God. This chilling episode truly makes one imagine and fear a society in which the creative individual has no place.
In "Deaths-Head Revisited," a former S.S. captain named Gunther Lutze (the cold-eyed Oscar Bergei) revisits the Dachau concentration camp out of nostalgia, only to encounter Alfred Bekker (the quietly captivating Joseph Schildkraut, who had previously played Mr. Otto Frank in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK on stage and screen), a former inmate of the camp. Rod Serling was one of the first television writers to deal with the Holocaust, and his work here is unforgettable due to such powerful lines as Bekker's final one, and to Serling's own moving and timely closing narration, which tells us why we must "never forget." The fact that the Holocaust victims are referred to not as "Jews" but as "human beings" demonstrates Serling's talent for cutting to the moral core of an issue.
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