Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

Episode aired Oct 14, 1960
TV-PG
25m

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6.6/10

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Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.

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6.6/10

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Joe Mantell

Jackie Rhoades…

William D. Gordon

George

Rod Serling

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(uncredited)
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Trivia
Long before Taxi Driver (1976) or even Dirty Harry (1971), the Jackie Rhoades character - as he looks a mirror - is the first to deliver the famous lines "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?".

Goofs
The main character's reflection in a mirror has come to life and much of the episode is a confrontation between the character and his reflection - although they made an effort to reverse the image (the reflection wears his watch on the opposite hand and he bites his fingernails with the opposite hand) they forgot to reverse the buttons on his shirt.

Quotes
Narrator: [Opening Narration] This is Mr. Jackie Rhoades, age thirty-four, and where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their fragmentary existence on Earth, this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discolored blemish to document a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his betters. What you're about to watch in this room is a strange and mortal combat between a man and himself, for in just a moment, Mr. Jackie Rhoades, whose life has been given over to fighting adversaries, will find his most formidable opponent in a cheap hotel room that is in reality the outskirts of The Twilight Zone.

Connections
Edited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room (2021)

Soundtracks
Twilight Zone Theme
(theme song)
Composed by Marius Constant
(seasons 2-5)

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7/10

Descriptive Title

Joe Mantell plays nervous and insecure small-time crook Jackie Rhodes, who currently inhabits a cheap four dollar a night hotel room where he anxiously awaits news from his crooked boss George(played by William D. Gordon) who appears to tell him that he must commit the murder of a bar owner who wont pay protection money. Knowing that if he fails the next murder will be his own, Jackie starts to panic and begins to see in the mirror his stronger and more confident alter-ego John, who desperately tries to make Jackie listen to him, before it is too late... Interesting if thin episode has a pair of fine performances to elevate it sufficiently.