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The Twilight Zone: The Thirty-Fathom Grave (1963)
Alternate Ending...Definitely has spoilers....
This was one of my all time favorite episodes. Mike Kellin's performance was wonderful as was Simon Oaklands. But please can someone help mer here.....I distinctly remember the ending this way: Diver McClure enters the submarine thru the air-lock attachment that arrived via another ship in response to the Captains request for this type of equipment. So in the final scene McClure enters the sub thru the air lock and the expression on his face says it all. He is staring past the camera with this look of horror and reports to the captain what he can see: 8 dead sailors and "one of them is holding a hammer". Thats the way I remember it, but thats not the ending I just saw today during the SyFy marathon, in which the scene is shot on the deck of the ship and McClure just gives a verbal account of what he saw inside the sub. Does anybody else remember it that way or is somebody calling muster on ME???
The Green Mile (1999)
Best performance by a mouse since Algernon in "Charly".
This film has an excellent cast, one of the best I've ever seen. I was particularly tickled to see Dabs Greer in the role as the aged Tom Hanks. He has been a favorite of mine on just about every TV show I ever watched while growing up (including numerous episodes of "The Fugitive").
I was relieved that the film did not get on the "anti-death penalty" soap box although there is a strong message throughout the film as to the finality and sometimes brutality of capital punishment. Also, I wish the victims families had not been portrayed as unsympathetic and vengeful. The death penalty remains as the final solution of choice in dealing with people who commit terrible and heinous crimes.
I give this film a big "thumbs up" and expect it to be on just about everyone's "best" list for the year.
Men Into Space (1959)
I was going on eleven
I think it was on Wednesday nights. It was absolutely my favorite program at that time. I have never seen a single clip of this show since it went off the air. The only scene from an episode I can remember is the time Col. McCauley got separated from his space craft and started drifting away in space. All he did was repeat his name: "McCauley.....McCauley...." until he was located and rescued. Around 10 years later I remembered this scene while watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" when the astronaut, Dr. Frank Poole, was terminated by the HAL 9000 computer and was left to drift in space. I kept expecting to hear Poole repeat his name. But it was not to be. Poole was expendable. McCauley wasn't.