I love watching teleplays from the classic era of television and try to watch as many as I can. Many of these, such as "Marty", "12 Angry Men" and "Days of Wine and Roses" are true classics. However, despite many, many wonderful productions, a few, such as "Dark of the Moon", are truly awful and prove that not everything old is worth seeing. This film, to put it bluntly, is painful.
The film stars Tom Tryon as a witch--not the sort of witch we generally think of, but a non-human creature that watch and manipulate people. Somehow he's fallen in love with a human lady (Gloria Talbot) and determined to marry her--though he really doesn't know her at all. Well, he is able to somehow transform into a human and soon sweeps her off her feet and marries her. However, the marriage turns out to be tragic...though by this point in the film, it's almost certain that you would have turned off "Dark of the Moon"! The film comes off much like a combination of "Li'l Abner", "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "The Twilight Zone"! It's full of lots of Hollywood folks WAY overdoing the Southern accents in such a way that it must have made the South collectively cringe when it debuted. Additionally, everyone acts so broadly and obnoxiously--like they are amateurs in some local community theater production! Overall, a truly painful and annoying teleplay from start to finish with NOTHING to recommend it....nothing! By the way, a year after Tryon and Talbot starred in this crappy film they appeared as the leads in a sci-fi classic (seriously), "I Married a Monster From Outer Space".