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: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302468477
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,474 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars KICK THE GAMBLING HABIT, February 23, 2001

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hille2000 "hille2000" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Prime Mover/ The Fever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

These two episodes are about gambling and all that implies as you enter "The Twilight Zone." THE FEVER written by Rod Serling demonstrates what can happen to just one of the most unlikely addictive people in the person of veteran actor Everett Sloane. Charles Beaumont's fable of gambling shows that you can kick the habit in a most unlikely way in THE PRIME MOVER with Dane Clark and Buddy Ebsen.

5.0 out of 5 stars Comedy and Tragedy in the Twilight Zone, April 14, 2005

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NMdesapio - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Prime Mover/ The Fever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Rod Serling's "The Fever" is one of the few true tragedies in THE TWILIGHT ZONE. The episode features a superb characterization by Everett Sloane as Mr. Franklin Gibbs, the most unlikely of gamblers who is nevertheless infected, during a trip to Las Vegas, by the gambling "fever." By contrast, Charles Beaumont's "The Prime Mover" is one of THE TWILIGHT ZONE's few comedies and offers a delightful gambling duo in Dane Clark and Buddy Ebsen. Both of these episodes are well above average and make an ideal pairing.

4.0 out of 5 stars Gambling is not a good thing in The Twilight Zone, December 22, 2001

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Twilight Zone: The Prime Mover/ The Fever [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The dangers of gambling provides the common theme to the two episodes of "The Twilight Zone" on this videotape. First, Buddy Ebsen plays Jimbo Cobb the title characters of "The Prime Mover," written by Charles Beaumont but based on an unpublished story by George Clayton Johnson. Jimbo, who runs a cafe, has psychokinetic power and when his partner Ace Larsen (Dane Clark) discovers Jimbo's power would allow him to manipulate dice, they head for Las Vegas. The pair win big, but Ace cannot stop gambling, despite the pleas of his girlfriend Kitty (Christine White) and Jimbo, who cares more about his friend than all the money in the world. Ebsen and Larsen play well off each other and the story takes the notion of compulsive gambling seriously. "The Fever," written by Rod Serling, stars Everett Sloane as Franklin Gibbs, a tight-fisted man whose wife Flora (Vivi Janiss) wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. Franklin hates the whole idea, but when a drunk gives him a silver dollar and gets him to play a slot machine, everything changes. Not only does the machine pay off, but Franklin can hear the one-armed bandit calling his name and simply cannot stop playing. Sloane, who had starred in Serling's classic "Playhouse 90" drama "Patterns," makes this one work with his performance as his character does a 90-degree turn and ends up losing absolutely everything. Neither of these are classic Zones, but they make a nice matched-pair.