The silent era of film that Buster Keaton was in certainly deserves love even to this day. So I'm sure this episode was a rush of nostalgia for people who grew up watching his films.
That they are,I didn't grow up when films were silent but my Mom and Dad did.used to be on weekends on late night TV they would play the ole silent movies and I would watch them with my Mom,loved them so very many great silent films.me and my Mom r both old monster movie fans and still love Phantom of the opera, Hunch back of Notrodom(sorry bout spelling),Nosfurato, Metropolis and any silent comedy, especially The Keystone cop's.Happy Halloween 🎃💀🦴
Even for me, seeing the episode (completely oblivious until I saw Keaton on-screen) for the first time as an adult in the 21st century. I couldn't believe it.
Buster Keaton actually went through a bit of a career renaissance as a result of this episode. He went on to become a spokesman for Alka-Seltzer for a few years and did several ads for them on TV. It’s so odd to see that he was both a great spoken Word comedian with his dialogue here and we’re still willing to do a few pratfalls. It’s clear that there was a lot of love for silent comedy among the twilight zone writing staff, it really elevated what would be a mundane comedy episode into one last great performance by a true master
This isn't quite was caused the 'career renaissance' as you put it. It obviously helped his career, obviously, but your subscribing a bit too much credit.
I kinda remember people I grew up with not liking this episode because it didn't fit in with their idea of what a Twilight Zone episode should be, but on its own this is a great and sadly rare direct example of love being thrown at silent comedies. I always really liked this episode even before I became familiar with how great Buster Keaton was. But I think it wasn't so much a career renaissance as a sign to executives that there was demand for Keaton, his profile was always notable, a career renaissance for him would've been him getting more control over his own work rather than getting leading roles IMO
I really liked that half of the episode was filmed like a typical "Silent movie", befitting the 1890's setting. It's neat to see the show change up its usual formula a little.
Was waiting for this one! Fun fact: did you know the piano music played during the “silent movie” sequences was composed by Bill Lava, the last Golden Age composer for Warner Bros. cartoons? While he's not as revered as Carl Stalling or Milt Franklyn, I have a soft spot for his music - I particularly loved his score for Chuck Jones’ “Transylvania 6-500”.
The weird thing that I only learned after I ripped the isolated score from the DVD: There is no music whatsoever in the "present day" scenes. It's just sound effects and dialogue.
"You are a janitor! I am a scientist!" I was surprised as heck when the show suddenly turned into a slapstick comedy, but I loved every second of it. I feel this episode gets better, or at least more interesting, with age because the silent era becomes an older part of history.
I remember reading a biography about Buster Keaton and it stated that he was all for the new technology of television. As a matter of fact when movies were transitioning to sound he was ready to jump the shark.
Also give Sherlock Jr a watch. Dude broke his neck on a stunt that is in the movie. And he gets up and merrily runs along. Some 10 years later, Keaton went to his doctor, complaining of migraines. The doctor took x-rays and came back and said "When'd you break your neck?" Keaton said "I didn't." The x-rays showed that he had, and Keaton had to figure out that that stunt is when he broke it. Also check out Steamboat Bill Jr. You know the gag every time a side of a building crashes around something that just happens to be standing where the window is? That gag originated from Steamboat Bill Jr. Buster Keaton was an absolute genius and my favorite of the silent comedians. I think Chaplin is better known today. Harold Lloyd is great as well (and he was missing his right thumb and index finger from holding a what was supposed to be a prop bomb but it was a real one). But, my favorite is Buster Keaton.
one thing I absolutely loved about this episode, and it's kind of a "modern perspective looking back" thing.....is when you see him caught in traffic, from an afar shot, and the sign says "Welcome To Harmony"; it works on two different levels: obviously, all that bustling traffic wouldn't be harmony to a fella from the 1890s, but also......to a modern viewer "WTH" ;)
I've never seen Buster Keaton on film to my knowledge, except in this. I do love the style and feel of the Once apon a time. It's one of the comedic that works well. The sight gags were great to witness and I was thoroughly entertained
If you like the style I can recommend you to watch some of Keaton's work. Must if not all of them should be public domain by now, so it should be easy to find them.
Comedic Twilight Zone episodes are a mixed bag; there are some good ones and some bad ones. This is a good one. As an aspiring Buster Keaten Fan, I have grown to appreciate this episode. I might give it another watch.
As a black and white movie lover in his twenties, I am amazed to learn that this episode exists! Keaton is my all time favorite silent era comedian. Also, I agree, everyone should totally watch The General at least once! It's the ONLY silent film that shows an ACTUAL TRAIN CRASHING OFF A BRIDGE.
There may be problems in every time period, but others have less of them and are more tolerable than others while having more redeeming qualities, unlike this one.
I love this episode! I'm glad that they got Buster Keaton to do this show because he is one of my favorite silent comedian! I can relate to his character at the beginning of this episode because of the high cost of living in this day and age.
The Great Stone Face, even wearing his signature pork pie hat. I didn't appreciate his work as a kid, but as I get older, the silent era becomes more and more appealing.
My dad was a huge Buster Keaton fan and I've seen many of his films because of that. I LOVE this episode so much, even though its not scary or anything like that. It's just so enjoyable to watch. The General is one of my favorites!
I've seen a number of Buster Keaton films (recently the short film "One Week") and The General is the best of his work. I also love it because it has a train. This episode also teaches us to beware of the rose-tinted glasses.
Thanks for this!! Big ol Buster fan here.. And the Twilight Zone. I remember seeing this but out of context in reruns as a kid, since I was too young to know of Buster. I had to wait a long time before getting to his work, but when I did, I lost myself in dreaming of being his leading lady. A girl CAN dream! *wink!
One could go on for hours recommending Buster Keaton films to watch; my personal favorite is "Sherlock Jr." The silent film "gag" of this episode was a stroke of genius.
Love how this is both a hilarious comedy AND teaches us an important message (enjoy the present cos the past or future may not be as great as you think).
The General was one of the first films I ever saw! It had a big impact on my life and it's been one of my favourites ever since! Also I didn't know the Twighlight Zone did comedy or happy endings in general.
I’ve honestly been enjoying all these twilight zone episodes, I’ve been going back on paramount+ watching most of the episodes that I’ve never really watch, i have my favorites episodes but some of them I’ve been seeing on here are a fun watch and this is in my watch list again cause this is a fun watch
I didn't watch any Buster Keaton movies and only know about him thanks to a TV documentary and his role in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (his last appearance before his death), but I have to appreciate him finding new life in an episode that had a great subversion of premise: What if a man from the past traveled forward to the present? It presents interesting opportunities to show how much of a man out of time the protagonist is. Back in 1890, automobiles, cinema, and electric lighting were rare and television was practically nonexistent. Hell, to his eyes, the British Empire would've been the deadliest threat to America, not Communist Russia. This a shame I can't find any clips on RUclips.
Sounds like this movie served as partial influence on the writing for back to the future. That Doc Brown reference I wouldn't be surprised if it was paying homage to this particular TZ episode. Seeing as both BTTF and this TZ episode involves time travel and there are two people involved with getting someone back to his own time.
Really bittersweet. By then it was no secret anymore that Hollywood had dropped its former megastars like hot potatoes. Keaton. lloyd, Chaplin, H.B. Warner, Swanson, and many others had just vanished off the screens. Many of them were considered not up to snuff with their voices or accents, so Hollywood brought in stage actors for sound films. Peter Bogdanovich called 1928 the best year in film... and it probably was.
Always a treat to see the old time silent film comedians like Keaton in action. The only thing that I would have liked better would have been if Rod's narration was also in silent movie title cards.
3:12. Interesting that they manually made parts of the film to look like an old film. Like making video look like it was filmed from VHS, with the artifacts.
Five things I look forward to every year: 1. The publishing of new books to review, especially one in a series that I love. 2. The release of a new Star Wars series 3. The Muny season in summertime in St. Louis 4. The Twilight-Tober Zone 5. The Nostalgia Commercials special
What is especially amazing to me is that after 50 plus years of watching The Twilight Zone, dozens of tv marathons for decades, and even following channels like this on the subject on the net, I have somehow never seen or heard of this episode. Thanks for making me aware of it. BTW, when did that episode with George Takei air? or did it air? I have asked George himself about it (I too am a Japanese-American) and he seemed uncomfortable talking about it. I have curious and awaiting
according to mr. google, ""The Encounter" is episode 151 of the American television series The Twilight Zone. First broadcast on May 1, 1964, its racial overtones caused it to be withheld from syndication in the U.S. until 2004."
Stanley Adams returned to TZ in final season as bartender in Mr. Garrity and the Graves. Jesse White previously starred in Cavender is Coming. James Flavin appeared in A Passage for Trumpet.
@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 I never said I hold the 90s on a golden pedestal. I just meant I lived through it but it wasn't all perfect. I don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth!
I think it's high time for an update of this story with a comedy legend of the 70s or 80s being shot forward to now. Though I imagine it would be an incredibly short sequence before he or she noped out of there. 😆
Keaton is regarded as the " second genius " of the silent film era . ( The first is Charlie Chaplin and the third is Harold Lloyd . ) Sadly , most people have never heard of Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd , or watched any of their movies .
If you want a great later work with Buster Keaton that not many know about look up The Railrodder. It is on youtube and shouldn’t be that hard to find.
Twilight Zone was well known for featuring big movie or TV stars of the past, present and the future at the time. But, none was even close to how huge of a star Buster Keaton was. Sure, at the time of this episode, his fame was long gone and he was mostly forgotten by the early 60s due to never managing to transition from silent movies, of which he was arguably the hugest star in history, to talkies, which uncovered all of his audio flaws, including his distinct voice which did resonate terribly in talkies.
After a bad experience in 30's talkies, Buster Keaton sank into retirement obscurity, but was suddenly rediscovered in the 50's, and returned to do TV, commercials and movie cameos. One of the more famous is a then-unrecognized Buster helping fool Candid Camera victims, as just a poor average diner customer: ruclips.net/video/lMMSpM8vukI/видео.html
there are other Buster films recommended like the short one week, films sherlock jr. steamboat bill jr, the railrodder and documentary buster keaton rides again
I don't really understand how the helmet actually works. It can send you to another time but only for 30 minutes before automatically bringing you back? Yet the helmet itself travels with you and if it's damaged or changes hands then the 30 minute time limitation really doesn't mean anything. I mean if it's damaged you could fix it whenever you want and still go back to your own time just by resetting the dial. The only way to really be stranded is to either be stuck in the past before the parts needed to repair the helmet would exist and/or with no one who understands how to fix it or to lose the helmet to someone else who travels to another time instead. I don't know why they put that time limit into the script when it never actually comes up again in the story. It's really kind of hard to place a time limit in any kind of a story that involves time travel since time limits would really be meaningless to a time traveler. It works in Back to the Future because they needed the lightening to jump start the time circuits and it was the only time that they had future knowledge of exactly when and where a lightening strike would occure but outside of that I don't think I have ever seen a time limit introduced in a time travel story that actually made sense.
There is nobody in the history of film who has a greater influence than Buster Keaton, check out the list of greatest silent films of all time he has several in the list, who was greater as a writer, performer director and stunt performer, nobody, Chaplin gets alot of credit because he was among the first of the great clowns but most of his stuff was sentimental and he was no where near keaton in stuntwork, keaton was the king of the surreal, Chaplin always played it safe, keaton is in my opinion one of the film makers of all time and one of the most influential
The only thing that would have made this better (and I don't know WHY they didn't do it) was to have had Rod Serling's opening and closing narration on silent-movie title cards as well.
The silent era of film that Buster Keaton was in certainly deserves love even to this day. So I'm sure this episode was a rush of nostalgia for people who grew up watching his films.
That they are,I didn't grow up when films were silent but my Mom and Dad did.used to be on weekends on late night TV they would play the ole silent movies and I would watch them with my Mom,loved them so very many great silent films.me and my Mom r both old monster movie fans and still love Phantom of the opera, Hunch back of Notrodom(sorry bout spelling),Nosfurato, Metropolis and any silent comedy, especially The Keystone cop's.Happy Halloween 🎃💀🦴
Silent comedy performances are what all physical comedians since are inspired by. You can certainly tell. It's why they hold up
Love Keaton’s ‘The General’
@@OldMusicFan83 fantastic film.
Even for me, seeing the episode (completely oblivious until I saw Keaton on-screen) for the first time as an adult in the 21st century. I couldn't believe it.
Buster Keaton actually went through a bit of a career renaissance as a result of this episode. He went on to become a spokesman for Alka-Seltzer for a few years and did several ads for them on TV. It’s so odd to see that he was both a great spoken Word comedian with his dialogue here and we’re still willing to do a few pratfalls. It’s clear that there was a lot of love for silent comedy among the twilight zone writing staff, it really elevated what would be a mundane comedy episode into one last great performance by a true master
Keaton did this in the midst of his late life career revival and it was definitely a high point of it.
This isn't quite was caused the 'career renaissance' as you put it. It obviously helped his career, obviously, but your subscribing a bit too much credit.
I kinda remember people I grew up with not liking this episode because it didn't fit in with their idea of what a Twilight Zone episode should be, but on its own this is a great and sadly rare direct example of love being thrown at silent comedies. I always really liked this episode even before I became familiar with how great Buster Keaton was.
But I think it wasn't so much a career renaissance as a sign to executives that there was demand for Keaton, his profile was always notable, a career renaissance for him would've been him getting more control over his own work rather than getting leading roles IMO
He did some beach party movies as well.
he also did industrial films the last couple years of his life, he could still fall down with no damage at 65-70 years old
Cheers to "A production crew member" I only did crew in school, but it feels nice that a director listened to one of 'us' haha
I really liked that half of the episode was filmed like a typical "Silent movie", befitting the 1890's setting. It's neat to see the show change up its usual formula a little.
Me too! It's sort of like The Wizard Of Oz where the Kansas scenes are in black and white. And we transition to the technicolor of Oz.
Right down to the use of subtitles for dialogue. Especially this bit when Keaton has a rude response to the cop.
"CENSORED!!!"
Was waiting for this one!
Fun fact: did you know the piano music played during the “silent movie” sequences was composed by Bill Lava, the last Golden Age composer for Warner Bros. cartoons? While he's not as revered as Carl Stalling or Milt Franklyn, I have a soft spot for his music - I particularly loved his score for Chuck Jones’ “Transylvania 6-500”.
That‘s a lovely tidbit that even I, a longtimefilm buff, didn‘t know. Thank you!
@@georger64 the pianist however was Ray Turner; Lava just composed the score
Love the Tunes! Great fact!
The weird thing that I only learned after I ripped the isolated score from the DVD: There is no music whatsoever in the "present day" scenes. It's just sound effects and dialogue.
I’ve always enjoyed this one. Buster Keaton remains one of the greatest cinematic geniuses of all time
"You are a janitor! I am a scientist!"
I was surprised as heck when the show suddenly turned into a slapstick comedy, but I loved every second of it. I feel this episode gets better, or at least more interesting, with age because the silent era becomes an older part of history.
Seeing an episode with old stone face, Cyrano Jones and the Maytag repairman was totally worth it.
Worth noting that the actor who plays Rollo here also played Cyrano Jones in Star Trek's "The Trouble with Tribbles."
It was great seeing Buster Keaton return and do an homage, per se, to what made him famous
I remember reading a biography about Buster Keaton and it stated that he was all for the new technology of television. As a matter of fact when movies were transitioning to sound he was ready to jump the shark.
Also give Sherlock Jr a watch. Dude broke his neck on a stunt that is in the movie. And he gets up and merrily runs along. Some 10 years later, Keaton went to his doctor, complaining of migraines. The doctor took x-rays and came back and said "When'd you break your neck?" Keaton said "I didn't." The x-rays showed that he had, and Keaton had to figure out that that stunt is when he broke it.
Also check out Steamboat Bill Jr. You know the gag every time a side of a building crashes around something that just happens to be standing where the window is? That gag originated from Steamboat Bill Jr.
Buster Keaton was an absolute genius and my favorite of the silent comedians. I think Chaplin is better known today. Harold Lloyd is great as well (and he was missing his right thumb and index finger from holding a what was supposed to be a prop bomb but it was a real one). But, my favorite is Buster Keaton.
Always great to see Buster Keaton in anything.
... and appreciate the amount of planning, preparation and pure hard work he put into all his movies.....
Wow...Buster has to be about 65 here...look at how physical he was.
Also the stunts that he preformed in his earlier years are legendary.
one thing I absolutely loved about this episode, and it's kind of a "modern perspective looking back" thing.....is when you see him caught in traffic, from an afar shot, and the sign says "Welcome To Harmony"; it works on two different levels: obviously, all that bustling traffic wouldn't be harmony to a fella from the 1890s, but also......to a modern viewer "WTH" ;)
I've never seen Buster Keaton on film to my knowledge, except in this. I do love the style and feel of the Once apon a time. It's one of the comedic that works well. The sight gags were great to witness and I was thoroughly entertained
If you like the style I can recommend you to watch some of Keaton's work. Must if not all of them should be public domain by now, so it should be easy to find them.
BK played the old man in the comic movie A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. It's worthy of a watch.
Comedic Twilight Zone episodes are a mixed bag; there are some good ones and some bad ones. This is a good one. As an aspiring Buster Keaten Fan, I have grown to appreciate this episode. I might give it another watch.
As a black and white movie lover in his twenties, I am amazed to learn that this episode exists! Keaton is my all time favorite silent era comedian. Also, I agree, everyone should totally watch The General at least once! It's the ONLY silent film that shows an ACTUAL TRAIN CRASHING OFF A BRIDGE.
We all have this thought where we think life is better in another time, but realize there are problems in every time period
I think it's because we look at the different eras through rose colored glasses.
There may be problems in every time period, but others have less of them and are more tolerable than others while having more redeeming qualities, unlike this one.
I love this episode! I'm glad that they got Buster Keaton to do this show because he is one of my favorite silent comedian! I can relate to his character at the beginning of this episode because of the high cost of living in this day and age.
The Great Stone Face, even wearing his signature pork pie hat. I didn't appreciate his work as a kid, but as I get older, the silent era becomes more and more appealing.
My dad was a huge Buster Keaton fan and I've seen many of his films because of that. I LOVE this episode so much, even though its not scary or anything like that. It's just so enjoyable to watch. The General is one of my favorites!
I've seen a number of Buster Keaton films (recently the short film "One Week") and The General is the best of his work. I also love it because it has a train. This episode also teaches us to beware of the rose-tinted glasses.
I first saw this episode a few years ago on SyFy, and it is a great homage to Buster Keaton's career and silent film in general.
just finished the last episode of the playlist perfect timing
I won't be surprised Hat's Off Entertainment is a fan of this episode.
its always impressive seeing who lived threw the most foot notes in history. and going from silent films to TV is definitely an achievement
This episode must be a true delight .
One of the most impressive as well is Buster doing the stunts and also running even at age 65 during 1961.
Thanks for this!! Big ol Buster fan here.. And the Twilight Zone. I remember seeing this but out of context in reruns as a kid, since I was too young to know of Buster. I had to wait a long time before getting to his work, but when I did, I lost myself in dreaming of being his leading lady. A girl CAN dream! *wink!
Glad you enjoyed it!
One could go on for hours recommending Buster Keaton films to watch; my personal favorite is "Sherlock Jr."
The silent film "gag" of this episode was a stroke of genius.
I always get a kick out of watching something old parody something even older
Love how this is both a hilarious comedy AND teaches us an important message (enjoy the present cos the past or future may not be as great as you think).
I only have a passing knowledge of the original TZ so I had no idea that Buster Keaton was featured in an episode! A must-watch indeed 😁
Seriously seriously a piece of fascinating art.
(I remember back in high school, I was totally into Buster Keaton and silent films.)
The General was one of the first films I ever saw! It had a big impact on my life and it's been one of my favourites ever since!
Also I didn't know the Twighlight Zone did comedy or happy endings in general.
I’ve honestly been enjoying all these twilight zone episodes, I’ve been going back on paramount+ watching most of the episodes that I’ve never really watch, i have my favorites episodes but some of them I’ve been seeing on here are a fun watch and this is in my watch list again cause this is a fun watch
My number 103 episode. One of the best comic episodes. Buster Keaton was great, and I remember seeing his short films on TV as a kid 😂
I didn't watch any Buster Keaton movies and only know about him thanks to a TV documentary and his role in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (his last appearance before his death), but I have to appreciate him finding new life in an episode that had a great subversion of premise: What if a man from the past traveled forward to the present? It presents interesting opportunities to show how much of a man out of time the protagonist is. Back in 1890, automobiles, cinema, and electric lighting were rare and television was practically nonexistent. Hell, to his eyes, the British Empire would've been the deadliest threat to America, not Communist Russia. This a shame I can't find any clips on RUclips.
Love when you drop jewels about stuff I don't know anything about. Great vid!
Buster Keaton? AWESOME
One of my favorite episodes.
Sounds like this movie served as partial influence on the writing for back to the future. That Doc Brown reference I wouldn't be surprised if it was paying homage to this particular TZ episode. Seeing as both BTTF and this TZ episode involves time travel and there are two people involved with getting someone back to his own time.
Really bittersweet. By then it was no secret anymore that Hollywood had dropped its former megastars like hot potatoes. Keaton. lloyd, Chaplin, H.B. Warner, Swanson, and many others had just vanished off the screens. Many of them were considered not up to snuff with their voices or accents, so Hollywood brought in stage actors for sound films. Peter Bogdanovich called 1928 the best year in film... and it probably was.
Always a treat to see the old time silent film comedians like Keaton in action.
The only thing that I would have liked better would have been if Rod's narration was also in silent movie title cards.
Eh, Rod still being audible in the 1890's works for me, like he's an intentional fish out of water to get the point across.
@@Chaos89P Also the title cards would be huge. Short and snappy was not Rod's forte. 😆
It was a perfect episode for Keaton's debut in TZ.
The repair shop scenes certainly give the madcap chase stuff a break. I feel like if it had been a notstop chase it would have gotten tedious.
Nice night for a visit to the twilight tober zone
Love time travel
I've lived through many Twilight Zone marathons over the decades, & I swear I've never seen this episode before.
3:12. Interesting that they manually made parts of the film to look like an old film. Like making video look like it was filmed from VHS, with the artifacts.
One of the episodes i must have missed.
I Love ❤️ The twilight zone
Five things I look forward to every year:
1. The publishing of new books to review, especially one in a series that I love.
2. The release of a new Star Wars series
3. The Muny season in summertime in St. Louis
4. The Twilight-Tober Zone
5. The Nostalgia Commercials special
This is my favorite Twilight Zone episodes for, basically, all the points you brought up here.
What is especially amazing to me is that after 50 plus years of watching The Twilight Zone, dozens of tv marathons for decades, and even following channels like this on the subject on the net, I have somehow never seen or heard of this episode. Thanks for making me aware of it.
BTW, when did that episode with George Takei air? or did it air? I have asked George himself about it (I too am a Japanese-American) and he seemed uncomfortable talking about it. I have curious and awaiting
according to mr. google, ""The Encounter" is episode 151 of the American television series The Twilight Zone. First broadcast on May 1, 1964, its racial overtones caused it to be withheld from syndication in the U.S. until 2004."
Richard Matheson wrote a comedy?! Will wonders never cease?
This was a great video
Great review and legendary episode.
-"Cait ' silent film lover' Jackson adores this episode and Buster Keaton.
Stanley Adams returned to TZ in final season as bartender in Mr. Garrity and the Graves.
Jesse White previously starred in Cavender is Coming.
James Flavin appeared in A Passage for Trumpet.
Buster Keaton is the key 🔑 to all
this. None of this would work
without him.
People do like to regard the past with rose-colored glasses.
That said, I wouldn’t mind spending even just a day back in the 90s 😂
I was a teenager in the 90s. It was a decent time to be in but if I choose to do it again I probably won't.
@@melissacooper8724 Said by the type of person who constantly hates on every time after and holds the 90s on a golden pedestal.
@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 I never said I hold the 90s on a golden pedestal. I just meant I lived through it but it wasn't all perfect. I don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth!
Fun Fact This is actually the first Twilight Zone episode I ever watched.
I think it's high time for an update of this story with a comedy legend of the 70s or 80s being shot forward to now. Though I imagine it would be an incredibly short sequence before he or she noped out of there. 😆
Awesome 😎
WOW! I never even heard of this episode! I need to watch it!
Keaton is regarded as the " second genius " of the silent film era . ( The first is Charlie Chaplin and the third is Harold Lloyd . ) Sadly , most people have never heard of Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd , or watched any of their movies .
Super amazing video
Happy birthday walter
Great video.
I actually have seen The General! It’s legitimately very fun and entertaining. Some of the stunt work that Keaton pulled in it is fantastic.
i rewatched the episode the other day.
a classic episode with a classic actor
A man from a silent film world sounds interesting. 😁
Thanks for sharing
Wow, just wow. Respect.
I'm usually not fond of TZ eps, but this one works delightfully well.
3:21 and 4:09 are my favorite parts of this episodes, I think it’s funny 😂
If you want a great later work with Buster Keaton that not many know about look up The Railrodder. It is on youtube and shouldn’t be that hard to find.
They should have told Jesse White the helmet was a Maytag.
This is one of my favorite TZ episodes ever! Gave me Three Stooges feels 😅
Long live Buster Keaton, the king of Slapstick and silent motion pictures!
Fantastic nod to the silent film era in this TZ episode.
Nice.
Twilight Zone was well known for featuring big movie or TV stars of the past, present and the future at the time. But, none was even close to how huge of a star Buster Keaton was. Sure, at the time of this episode, his fame was long gone and he was mostly forgotten by the early 60s due to never managing to transition from silent movies, of which he was arguably the hugest star in history, to talkies, which uncovered all of his audio flaws, including his distinct voice which did resonate terribly in talkies.
And watch The Railrodder. One Keaton’s last films before his passing. He rides the Canadian railway on an open air service cart.
The music playing throughout this review sounds like tales from the crypt stuff
Awesome and cool! :D
After a bad experience in 30's talkies, Buster Keaton sank into retirement obscurity, but was suddenly rediscovered in the 50's, and returned to do TV, commercials and movie cameos.
One of the more famous is a then-unrecognized Buster helping fool Candid Camera victims, as just a poor average diner customer: ruclips.net/video/lMMSpM8vukI/видео.html
there are other Buster films recommended like the short one week, films sherlock jr. steamboat bill jr, the railrodder and documentary buster keaton rides again
I don't really understand how the helmet actually works. It can send you to another time but only for 30 minutes before automatically bringing you back? Yet the helmet itself travels with you and if it's damaged or changes hands then the 30 minute time limitation really doesn't mean anything. I mean if it's damaged you could fix it whenever you want and still go back to your own time just by resetting the dial. The only way to really be stranded is to either be stuck in the past before the parts needed to repair the helmet would exist and/or with no one who understands how to fix it or to lose the helmet to someone else who travels to another time instead. I don't know why they put that time limit into the script when it never actually comes up again in the story.
It's really kind of hard to place a time limit in any kind of a story that involves time travel since time limits would really be meaningless to a time traveler. It works in Back to the Future because they needed the lightening to jump start the time circuits and it was the only time that they had future knowledge of exactly when and where a lightening strike would occure but outside of that I don't think I have ever seen a time limit introduced in a time travel story that actually made sense.
Me and my family are big fans of silent movies we even have the General on DVD
Has Walter seen the other Once Upon a Time?
There is nobody in the history of film who has a greater influence than Buster Keaton, check out the list of greatest silent films of all time he has several in the list, who was greater as a writer, performer director and stunt performer, nobody, Chaplin gets alot of credit because he was among the first of the great clowns but most of his stuff was sentimental and he was no where near keaton in stuntwork, keaton was the king of the surreal, Chaplin always played it safe, keaton is in my opinion one of the film makers of all time and one of the most influential
:) I loved it
That moment when you realize that Buster Keaton was what Doug named his two cats after...
Keaton makes Tom Cruise Jackie Chan blush 😊
So THIS is where Cyrano Jones got his tribbles!
The only film I've seen with this sort of comedy was It's a Mad mad mad mad world, maybe I should give the older comedies a shot.
The narrator of this says "check it out". But I can't find it.
The only thing that would have made this better (and I don't know WHY they didn't do it) was to have had Rod Serling's opening and closing narration on silent-movie title cards as well.
Charlie Chaplin should've been in one of the episodes too. Would be wonderful.
I thought the time helmet only works for 30 minutes so wouldn’t the scientist be back?