Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-01 (Monday)

'Kong x Godzilla' - Theatrical
The latest big monsters stomp cities movie with occasional appearances by puny humans pretending to explain why big monsters are stomping cities.  My stuffed animals enjoyed it, which would be a pretty good indicator of the intellectual requirements to watch it.
The Twilight Zone S5E25 'The Masks' - DVR
A dying man forces his heirs to wear masks at a Mardi Gras party to receive their inheritance.  (Comcast)
Wealthy Jason Foster is dying and he invites his greedy heirs to a Mardi Gras party where they must wear the masks he specially had made for them or else be cut off from their inheritance.  (IMDb)
Trivia:
This was the only episode of the series to be directed by a woman, Ida Lupino. She previously played Barbara Jean Trenton in The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1959), which also made her the only person to star in one episode and direct another.
This was Robert Keith's final acting role before his death on December 22, 1966 at the age of 76.
Quotes:
[opening narration]
Narrator: Mr. Jason Foster, a tired ancient who on this particular Mardi Gras evening will leave the Earth. But before departing, he has some things to do, some services to perform, some debts to pay - and some justice to mete out. This is New Orleans, Mardi Gras time. It is also the Twilight Zone.
[closing narration]
Narrator: Mardi Gras incident, the dramatis personae being four people who came to celebrate. And, in a sense, let themselves go. This they did with a vengeance. They now wear the faces of all that was inside them, and they'll wear them for the rest of their lives. Said lives now to be spent in shadow. Tonight's tale of men, the macabre, and masks - on The Twilight Zone.
The Twilight Zone S5E26 'I Am the Night - Color Me Black' - DVR
Elva Keene, confined to her bed and wheelchair, is driven to distraction by mysterious telephone calls on a dead line.  (Comcast)
The Sun doesn't rise on a small town where an execution is scheduled to take place.  (IMDb)
Trivia
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Goofs: The episode is set in the present (1964) and concludes with a public hanging. No public executions had taken place in the United States since 1936.
Quotes:
[opening narration]
Narrator: Sheriff Charlie Koch on the morning of an execution. As a matter of fact, it's seven-thirty in the morning. Logic and natural laws dictate that at this hour there should be daylight. It is a simple rule of physical science that the sun should rise at a certain moment and supersede the darkness. But at this given moment, Sheriff Charlie Koch, a deputy named Pierce, a condemned man named Jagger, and a small, inconsequential village will shortly find out that there are causes and effects that have no precedent. Such is usually the case - in the Twilight Zone.
[closing narration]
Narrator: A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.
Radio Announcer: ...and still the phenomenon remains unexplained, except for the reports that now come in of similar occurrences here in the United States and elsewhere. At two o'clock this afternoon, a dark cloud suddenly appeared over a street in Dallas, Texas. The mayor of West Berlin verified the fact that a rectangular area over the Berlin Wall has suddenly gone dark. In Budapest, European newspapermen passed over censorship an article about several square blocks, including a political prison, which were suddenly thrown into darkness early this morning. In Birmingham, Alabama... an area in Shanghai... the entire northern section of Vietnam... a section of Chicago, Illinois... the darkness continues to make itself known.
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