You're about to meet an angry man. Mr. William Connor, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt! I was like dayyuummm when I heard that statement. Lol!
Terrific story and teleplay. But the acting is what makes this episode so magical, particularly the interplay between the fulfiller of needs, Ernest Truex, and evil, greedy Steve Cochran. Both were exceptional Shakespearian actors on stage. Truex later specialized in gentle, avuncular characters, while Cochran excelled at playing gangster characters. Their backgrounds dovetail well here.
Always wanted an episode of Cheers to reenact this Zone. Sam gets a ticket to a manager job. Diane finds true love and maybe Cliff gets slightly bumped by a Segway.
@Steve Kelsey Morals taught doesn't mean morals taken. Your argument is essentially that morals aren't being taught unless they are in an era where they're already understood. You look at an episode like "I Am the Night-Color Me Black" and tell me they weren't 'trying' to teach about racism. yes, bad, racist things happened in the time when Twilight Zone happened. Twilight Zone went against that grain. You're blaming the teacher when in this case the student was at fault.
@Steve Kelsey Of course not. I think what the writer of the comment meant is that it's an example of the media being used to teach, not people in general. Morals will be taught for as long as we exist, so if we try to apply that to 'everything' of course it's going to be skewered.
You skipped my favorite line which was "Patience. That's another thing you need. Patience." It's what I tell myself when I need to be more patient-to be honest I think we all need that!
@@paulroberts9483 I thought your last line was going to be: So I hooked up with Prudence! I knew you were talking about the name Patience, and yes I am old, so that's how I knew! And then there's the song "Tonight You Belong To Me" by sisters named Patience and Prudence! Good song, by the way!
His impatient bad nature proved the old man was right. _Dead right!_ As the car kept speeding along . Patiently pay attention spending time on Earth. I just might be one's only chance, and unfortunately, not only in- The Twilight Z∅ne
I concur. I'm a huge fan of hers. She was a true beauty. You said it, she was so beautiful she could make you stare. She was highly underrated as an actress as well.
These Twilight zones do one thing and do it well.... THEY DELIVER AWESOME EPISODES THAT PEOPLE TODAY ,WHO ARE WRITERS, CAN LEARN FROM. ROD STERLING WAS A FRIGGIN GENIUS!!!
I particularly liked the soundtrack for this one, whimsical and yet mysterious like the salesman. This was also one of the few times that I didn't have sympathy for one of the "normal" protagonists in the show, definitely loads of guys like him knocking about these days. You quite often encounter them when you're out on the town, needlessly aggressive people always looking for a fight. Also I really like how pleased he looks when he helps everything fall into place for Lefty and the woman in the booth, and Lefty going from thinking he's an old crackpot to being in awe and respectful of him in the space of a few minutes.
T'Pring. Arlene Sax. Arlene Martel. She's featured in many TV shows, including one of the best Outer Limits, Demon With a Glass Hand starring Robert Culp. I think my favorite bit she did was an episode of Battlestar Galactica in which she asks Starbuck, 'what is star buckin?'
He has the uncanny ability to know EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED, BEFORE you need it!!! Scary!!Even at the end, in the middle of the night he gives this man a COMB!The part that always scared me the most was when he gave that man those scissors s and told him "they are what you need, they really are. Take them." And they saved his worthless life! My hair stood up on end when he was catching his breath and the camera focused on those scissors lying on the elevator floor and he picks them up and looks at them. Look like this near death experience would have made a better man of him. No he just kept being evil. But it all ended when that car hit him.
I think it would have been understand to expect to him be uniquely grateful to the salesman.... I think I would be! But yeah, the man because somewhat abusive and possessive
Where can I find this man? Is he still alive? No, this was made 60 years ago, and the man was already 60+. Was he one-of-a-kind, or does he have disciples? I know what I need, and I want it!
I saw less than a dozen of these when I was a kid in the 1980s and my parents turned me on to them, and this was one of the ones I remembered, mainly the climactic scene. Thanks.
Steve Cochran's career had gone downhill since the end of his W-B contract in the early '50s and by the Sixties he was doing television to pay the bills. In 1965, aged 47, he was found dead on his yacht.
Neat little episode about fate and justice. I wracked my mind as to where I'd seen the actors before. The little trinket seller was a scoundrel on Bonanza; the gruff dour ex-con also was on Bonanza as an avenging brother.
Died in real life about 5 years later on a yacht with 3 Mexican Girls onboard, one only 14 years old........Maybe the Mexican Girls gave him just what he needed too.
You know? this is a true story. The other day I was thinking "there are sooo many episodes of twilight zone that i haven't seen. but i haven't the time to watch them." And then I met someone who made abridged videos IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Amazing how improbably the scarf on Menard got caught in the elevator door. And he could have easily gotten out of it by just moving differently. He actually TRIED to stay caught in the door. And why would the hit and run driver purposely hit Menard on the street and then drive away? And finally - why would the newspaper reporter take a photo of the man who came out of his house in the middle of the night to see the hit and run, only to have his hair look like a mess and luckily have a comb to comb his disgustingly greasy hair in order to get his photo in the paper…for what? Crazy.🙄😜
Steve Cochran recruited three young women to accompany him on a sailing trip from Acapulco to Costa Rica, ostensibly to take part in an upcoming film. A few days into the trip, the yacht lost one of its two masts in a storm. Shortly thereafter, Cochran fell ill, and died two days later on June 15, 1965 at the age of 48, of what was later determined to be an acute lung infection. The women who were accompanying him did not know how to sail the boat, and were trapped with the decomposing body for ten days, before being rescued out at sea. The boat, still carrying his corpse, was later found drifting off the coast of Guatemala.[24][25][26][27] Cochran's widow was given half of his estate of $25,000. She shared it with his daughter by another marriage.[28]
"I Know What You Need" is a fantasy/horror short story by American writer Stephen King, first published in the September 1976 issue of Cosmopolitan, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Originally published: September 1976 Author: Stephen King Wikipedia Naughty, naughty, Mr. King. Tut-tut.
Correct the greedy guy is at the end of the bar at the beginning of the episode, he watches the whole thing unfold and then follows the old man outside and demands to know what he needs.
Repeatedly i watch all the episodes in full ,again and again, i 🧡 them all . Unfortunately this time all these episodes are just the " cut short " one.
Well, initially I use youtube to upload my presentation materials. A presentation is about 10min, so I felt this length would be most suitable during those time.
@@cherrybarb4651 It's sad that Cochran's good looks and intelligence didn't get him more than a few good movie parts: the big studios didn't want him by his early '30s and from then on he went nowhere, getting only the occasional good role. Like Errol Flynn, he had a hectic off-screen sex-and-booze lifestyle and lived himself to death.
Twilight Zone brings back Friday nites of my youth. Oh, man. Im crying remembering watching it with my dad, a late hour. I used to have nightmares and these shows didn't help. But they really made me think, as they say, outside the box.
Pedott: "Mr. Renard, what I saw in your eyes at that bar was death, my death. You were going to kill me. So, what was needed for Mr. Renard was slippery shoes. That's what was needed, slippery shoes."
