Major Ivan Kuchenko is a political prisoner from a non-specified country (cough**Russia**cough) who wants to escape to the free Western world, but he's being hunt down by a megalomaniacal commissioner named Vasiloff and his simple-minded assistant Boris. The two have traced Kuchenco to his hideout in a small hotel, and they easily shoot him, but Vasiloff insists to toy around with his target and kill him in an original way. Well, he shouldn't have done that.
There's nothing supernatural or fantasy-like about "The Jeopardy Room", so it's one of the few outcast episodes in the entire series. That is totally fine, though. One of my personal favorite installments is "The Shelter" and that one also doesn't feature any surreal aspects whatsoever. "The Jeopardy Room" is an enjoyably straightforward thriller, with director Richard Donner displaying his skills of generating suspense, but the story is little simplistic and badly suffering from its silly ending.
It features two very interesting actors, though. Always positive to see Martin Landau reappear in "The Twilight Zone". He starred in one of the very first episodes of Rod Serling's TV-series, and it's nice to see him return in one of the last. Bob Kelljan plays Vasiloff's not-so-intelligent and refined assistant Boris. That name might not sound very familiar, but he would later direct a handful of excellent horror/cult movies in the 70s, like "Count Yorga - Vampire", "Rape Squad" and "Black Oak Conspiracy".
There's nothing supernatural or fantasy-like about "The Jeopardy Room", so it's one of the few outcast episodes in the entire series. That is totally fine, though. One of my personal favorite installments is "The Shelter" and that one also doesn't feature any surreal aspects whatsoever. "The Jeopardy Room" is an enjoyably straightforward thriller, with director Richard Donner displaying his skills of generating suspense, but the story is little simplistic and badly suffering from its silly ending.
It features two very interesting actors, though. Always positive to see Martin Landau reappear in "The Twilight Zone". He starred in one of the very first episodes of Rod Serling's TV-series, and it's nice to see him return in one of the last. Bob Kelljan plays Vasiloff's not-so-intelligent and refined assistant Boris. That name might not sound very familiar, but he would later direct a handful of excellent horror/cult movies in the 70s, like "Count Yorga - Vampire", "Rape Squad" and "Black Oak Conspiracy".