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| Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics | |
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| Genre |
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| Written by | Rod Serling Richard Matheson |
| Directed by | Robert Markowitz |
| Starring | Amy Irving Gary Cole Jack Palance Patrick Bergin |
| Narrated by | James Earl Jones |
| Music by | Patrick Williams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Michael O'Hara Lawrence Horowitz |
| Producer | S. Bryan Hickox |
| Cinematography | Jacek Laskus |
| Editor | David Beatty |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Production company | O'Hara-Horowitz Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | May 19, 1994 |
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Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics is a 1994 American made-for-television fantasy supernatural horror film consisting of two stories by Rod Serling. The film was co-produced by Serling's widow Carol Serling.[1] Reportedly, she found the two pieces in a trunk in the family's garage.
The first and shorter segment, entitled The Theatre, was expanded and scripted by Richard Matheson from a Serling outline.[2] It starred Gary Cole and Amy Irving.
The longer segment, Where The Dead Are, was a complete script Serling penned in 1968. Patrick Bergin and Jack Palance starred. (Because it was written four years after the end of the original series, this was not originally a Twilight Zone story.) The tales have thematic echoes of stories about unnaturally prolonged longevity, such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" and H. P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air".
James Earl Jones hosted and narrated the special.[1] He previously worked with Serling on the 1972 film The Man.[3]
- ^ a b Tucker, Ken (May 20, 1994). "Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ^ Bradley, Matthew R. (January 4, 2011). "Richard Matheson—Storyteller: The Twilight Years, Part II". Tor.com. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
- ^ Otfinoski, Steven (2010). Cinema Detours p. 126. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-2855-9.