Do you also love the intro-sequences of "The Twilight Zone" so much? Rod Serling's stern and ominous narrating voice saying stuff like: You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind... Well, in "The Last Night of a Jockey", all three the dimensions apparently fit into one single and utterly DULL room!
As much as I love Rod Serling and the wonderful Sci-Fi/fantasy universe he created with "The Twilight Zone", this must - hands down - be the most boring and uninteresting script he ever penned down. I never cared much for Mickey Rooney as an actor, so he's well cast as the whiny and self-pity-sick jockey (he is short, after all) who's banned from professional horse-racing. As if one Rooney isn't enough yet, he starts talking to his own conscience that appears as another Rooney in every reflecting object. And that really is all they do... talk. Knowing Rod Serling, I'm sure there's a valuable life-lesson hidden somewhere, but the dialogues were just too dull to listen to.