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Post by lune7000 on May 5, 2021 18:11:41 GMT
I really liked the 1960's Twilight Zone shows but have found little in classic cinema that has their flavor.
Twilight Zone characteristics that I enjoyed were:
1. Reality is ambiguous: these shows often had a dreamlike feel that questioned our mental constructs of truth 2. A focus on the issues of existence and death 3. An emotional flavor of alienation, loss and bittersweet outcomes 4. The theme of: Be careful what you wish for
After watching many classic films, I just assumed that making movies with these themes were just not considered before the 1960's. Recently however I watched two films that had many elements. One was Dead of Night which was about a man who goes to a house where people from his reoccurring dream meet him. The other was Between Two Worlds where passengers on a ship discover that they are all dead. These films had elements 1 & 2 listed above in them (I still haven't found 3 & 4, combined with 1 & 2, in classic film yet).
So are there other movies out there like these two films, movies that have a Twilight Zone vibe? Thanks.
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Post by mattgarth on May 5, 2021 18:39:44 GMT
REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947) --
Stage Actress Joan Leslie shoots unfaithful hubby Louis Hayward in self-defense on New Year's Eve.
Then Joan discovers that she is reliving the entire year -- and tries for a different outcome.
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Post by MCDemuth on May 5, 2021 18:52:45 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on May 5, 2021 20:53:01 GMT
The earlier thread asked for movies of any era that resembled specific TZ episodes. I like the "Classic" limit and the "vibe" aspect of this one. Some titles mentioned on the earlier thread also apply to this one.
Berkeley Square / Frank Lloyd (1933). Leslie Howard is magically transported back in time from his own year of 1933 to 1784.
All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil and Daniel Webster) / William Dieterle (1941). Farmer James Craig sells his soul to devil Walter Huston. When Craig's time is up, he enlists Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) to defend him and break the contract.
It Happened Tomorrow / René Clair (1944). The mysterious keeper of a newspaper's morgue presents struggling reporter Dick Powell with a copy of the next day's paper.
Inner Sanctum / Lew Landers (1948). On a train, a mysterious man with seeming clairvoyant abilities tells a tale of murder that took place at an upcoming station.
The Birds / Alfred Hitchcock (1963). The avian population begins an unexplained revolution against humanity.
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Post by mikef6 on May 5, 2021 20:56:53 GMT
REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947) -- Stage Actress Joan Leslie shoots unfaithful hubby Louis Hayward in self-defense on New Year's Eve. Then Joan discovers that she is reliving the entire year -- and tries for a different outcome. An excellent choice and an excellent "lost" film that was restored in the 21st century with funding from Eddie Muller's Film Noir Foundation.
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 5, 2021 21:04:03 GMT
The Night My Number Came Up (1955) UK. Leslie Norman. An excellent story about predestination, based on a supposedly real incident in the life of Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard. At a party the evening before a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British officer (Redgrave) recounts a dream he had about being in a plane crash; the next day, events begin to conform to the dream... the scheduled plane develops mechanical problems and the substitute is the plane from the dream; there are personnel changes, passengers added, and suddenly the occupants of the plane match those in his dream… Air Marshal Hardie (Michael Redgrave) contemplates his fate... ![](https://i.postimg.cc/VNZ8pzSh/nmn55.jpg)
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2021 23:25:17 GMT
Angel On My Shoulder After his release from prison, gangster Eddie Kagle is killed by his partner in crime, Smiley Williams. Kagle ends up in Hell, where "Nick" offers him a chance to leave and avenge his own death in exchange for help with a problem. Kagle looks exactly like Judge Frederick Parker, an upright man who is causing Nick distress because he is entirely too honest. Nick fears that Parker may cause him more anxiety in future, as he is running for governor of his state. Nick wants to destroy Parker's reputation and Kagle readily agrees to have his soul transferred into Parker's body.
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 5, 2021 23:30:12 GMT
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) UK Dir. Anthony Pelissier. This excellent dark psychological fantasy is an adaptation of story from D. H. Lawrence. Into young Paul's unhappy home life comes Basset (John Mills) who has been hired as the families driver/gardener. Basset soon befriends Paul who is fascinated with his stories of his life, especially when he was a jockey. After Paul gets a rocking horse for Christmas, Basset shows Paul how to ride it as if it were a real horse. Paul begins to hear the house whispering to him and while riding furiously he gets premonitions on the winners of horse races not yet run....
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2021 23:36:24 GMT
Hail the Conquering Hero (A whimsical one) Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) is a small town boy whose father, "Hinky Dinky" Truesmith, was a Marine who died a hero in World War I. Woodrow has been discharged from the Marine Corps after only a month owing to his chronic hay fever. Rather than disappoint his mother (Georgia Caine), he pretends to be fighting overseas in World War II while secretly working in a San Diego shipyard.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on May 6, 2021 0:22:52 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on May 6, 2021 0:32:41 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 6, 2021 0:49:49 GMT
Three schoolgirls and a teacher seemingly disappear into the Twilight Zone while on a sightseeing trip to Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) Aus. Dir. Peter Weir. Unsettling and provocative, the film starts with a voice, presumably Miranda’s, who whispers a line from Edgar Allen Poe: “What we see or what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream,”... Hanging Rock is a bewitching journey into the mystic, a disquieting and haunting Australian Classic. In response to criticisms of the films enigmatic conclusion Director Peter Weir had this to say "There are, after all, things within our own minds about which we know far less than about disappearances at Hanging Rock"...
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Post by bravomailer on May 6, 2021 1:04:31 GMT
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36 Hours
The Manchurian Candidate
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Post by wmcclain on May 6, 2021 1:39:15 GMT
Night Tide (1961), directed by Curtis Harrington. A lonely sailer falls in love with a strange woman working as a carnival mermaid at the pier. Too late, he discovers the police are watching her -- two of her earlier boyfriends drowned. She thinks she is one of the "sea people": a siren who lures sailors to their deaths. Oddly enough, other people believe it, too. He begins having lurid nightmares... A micro-budget, minimalist production with both pro and amateur cast. It has a bit of the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits (1963) ambience of the period, and that dreamy off-kilter mood of Carnival of Souls (1962). More than anything it seems like a return to the Val Lewton thrillers of the 1940s. Like Psycho (1960) it wraps up with a rational (or rationalizing?) explanation. Dennis Hopper was an unusual choice for the lead (his first). As warm and friendly as he tries to be, there is always a dangerous unreliability to his persona. You expect him to go all pervy and transform into a giggling sadist at any moment. David Raksin score. Hopper did his own scuba-diving. Roger Corman helped with financing, such as it was, but the independent production had many money problems. There seem to be several DVD versions. The one I got from Netflix is 4:3 letterboxed but has a late 1990s commentary track by Hopper and the director. Harrington confirms he was thinking of Val Lewton and Cat People (1942). Also available online for free: Night Tide. I haven't watched that version. ![](http://watershade.net/public/night-tide.jpg)
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Post by lune7000 on May 6, 2021 22:34:22 GMT
thanks to all- I really appreciate these recommendations
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Post by Nalkarj on May 8, 2021 2:50:33 GMT
This may be too obvious, but there’s always Planet of the Apes (1968), for which Rod Serling cowrote the script. The movie follows his plot largely faithfully; the changes, and cowriter Michael Wilson’s contributions, seem to be in dialogue and world building (Serling had a contemporary-looking planet of apes) rather than in plot.
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Post by Stammerhead on May 8, 2021 23:35:04 GMT
The Halfway House (1944) Sinners stop at a British inn run by ghosts of a man (Mervyn Johns) and his daughter (Glynis Johns) who died the year before. ![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/68/f4/d168f4750abfcd1b3d45b4efd8544f69.jpg)
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