Package Includes: Blu-ray
Disc Type: BD50 (dual layer)
Region: A
MSRP: $24.99
The Production: 3.5/5
In 1845 Louisiana, the wedding of Phoebe Ann Naylor (Rosemary Forsyth) to Don Andrea Baldazar (Alain Delon) is interrupted by a scorned lover in the US Calvary Dragoons who wants Phoebe’s hand in marriage for himself. After the spurned suitor accidentally dies during a duel, Don Andrea goes on the run after being falsely accused of murder; he joins up with trek guide Sam Hollis (Dean Martin) and his Indian sidekick Kronk (Joey Bishop) en route to the Republic of Texas (prior to annexation and statehood). Along the way, the two uneasy partners have to deal with their cultural differences, a band of warring Comanches and eventually each other when both are competing for Phoebe Ann’s affections; all is resolved after the Calvary arrives and a rip roaring, no holds barred fight that engulfs the entire Texas settlement!
By William Kozy
The overly histrionic ranting of “Four O’Clock” led to its receiving only 3 votes in the survey asking “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?” This put it in a tie with 6 other episodes for 133rd thru 139th place. It’s an unpleasant episode to sit through, despite Theodore Bikel’s thoroughly immersed characterization in the role of Oliver Crangle, a pathetic shut-in who spends his whole waking life as a clerical bully: “I compile [people] and I investigate them, analyze them. Then I categorize them, and I judge them. If they’re impure and evil then they must be punished.”