Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode 13 The Four of Us Are Dying
(1 Jan. 1960)
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Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode 13 The Four of Us Are Dying
(1 Jan. 1960)
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Harry Townes | ... |
Arch Hammer
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Phillip Pine | ... |
Virge Sterig
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| Ross Martin | ... |
Johnny Foster
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| Don Gordon | ... |
Andy Marshak
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Harry Jackson | ... |
Trumpeter
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Bernard Fein | ... |
Penell
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Peter Brocco | ... |
Mr. Marshak
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Milton Frome | ... |
Detective
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| Beverly Garland | ... |
Maggie
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Arch Hammer arrives in the city and checks into a seedy hotel. He looks like any other man but looks can be deceiving. Hammer has the ability to change his appearance at whim, a trick he definitely uses to his own advantage. He takes on the appearance of the recently deceased musician Johnny Foster. who died in a car accident. He goes to meet Maggie, a lounge singer who is mourning Foster's death and convinces her to run off with him. He then takes on the appearance of Virge Sterig, a gangster whose bullet-riddled body was recently found in the river. He then visits mob boss Penell who double-crossed him to get his share of the money their most recent job. An unplanned change of face doesn't go over well however. Written by garykmcd
Four different players guest star in this unique Twilight Zone episode where a man has the ability to change his facial appearance on a whim if he has a face to concentrate on.
It occurred to me watching this episode that not only did this individual take on the face, but the whole identity of the person he concentrated on. It was like he invaded the souls of Harry Townes, Ross Martin, Don Gordon and Philip Pine.
As luck would have it these four are not the best specimens of human kind that this chameleon changed into. The last choice he made was truly a bad one.
A really offbeat episode from a series that was certainly offbeat.