His name is Arch Hammer, he’s 36 years old. It’s a clever bit of timing for the actors and camera operators. A man named Arch Hammer checks into a flea bag hotel, and as he shaves in the mirror, the camera tracks little details, leaving the mirror momentarily only to return to it to find that Hammer’s face has changed. The writing has a good hard boiled quality, and all the cast members play their roles with a terrific subdued professionalism befittingly the dark underbelly nature of the milieu.
And the direction and cinematography pulls off some very nicely executed low budget effects using well-choreographed blocking and camera movement and framing. It’s got a very creative shooting style despite it’s low-budget there’s a semi-surreal approach to the set decorating with all the neon signs suspended seemingly in mid-air, and Dutch angles. Tied for 152nd place out of 156 is “The Four of Us Are Dying.” It’s not a classic episode among the likes of “Time Enough At Last” or “To Serve Man”, but it’s worlds better than clunkers like “The Whole Truth”, “Mute”, “From Agnes-With Love” and others near the bottom along with it.
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In my ongoing survey in which over 3,000 writers and Facebook fans of the original Twilight Zone series responded to the question, “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” this episode is amongst the few that deserved much better than the low ranking it received due to few votes.
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