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"The Twilight Zone" The Four of Us Are Dying (1960)



Overview

User Rating:
7.3/10   219 votes
Director:
John Brahm
Writers:
George Clayton Johnson (story)
Rod Serling (teleplay)
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Original Air Date:
1 January 1960 (Season 1, Episode 13)
Plot:
A man who can change his face to look like other people uses his ability to improve his life regardless of his affect on others. | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Episode Complete credited cast)
Harry Townes ... Arch Hammer
Phillip Pine ... Virgil Sterig
Ross Martin ... Johnny Foster
Don Gordon ... Andy Marshak
Harry Jackson ... Trumpet Player
Bernard Fein ... Penell
Peter Brocco ... Pop Marshak
Milton Frome ... Detective

Beverly Garland ... Maggie
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Additional Details

Runtime:
25 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails most likely named a song after this episode. It is off their 2008 release called "The Slip." Similarly, they also have a song called "Where Is Everybody?" on their album "The Fragile" (1999). "Where Is Everybody?" is also the name of the very first Twilight Zone episode. more
Quotes:
Ramon: [answers the door] Excuse me, sir, Mr. Penell is not at home this evening.
[Sterig pushes Ramon out of the way]
Penell: Who is it, Ramon?
Virgil Sterig - Gangster: It's *me*, Mr. Penell.
[Penell, in shock, drops his beer and smashes the television]
Virgil Sterig - Gangster: Picture tubes are expensive, but you can always get yourself another beer. Imported, isn't it? I always liked your taste, Mr. Penell.
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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Multiple Personalities, 29 September 2008
7/10
Author: Hitchcoc from United States

Once you've bought into the premise, you will find this a pretty intriguing episode. It's about a man who can change himself by concentrating hard. He can see a poster and make a chameleon like transfer to that person. Unfortunately, he is a really bad guy whose motives are always questionable. He enjoys his transformations, but always uses them for evil, or at worst a disrespectful self promotion. Unfortunately for him, one of his incarnations confronts the father who hates him because he has brought shame and degradation to his family. This man has only one thing in mind. To see justice done. When you live by the sword, you die by the selfsame sword and this man is no different. It's well done, thought the cheesy transformation scene at the end isn't very well done. It's a theme that Serling employed a couple of other times in his canon of works.

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