Into The Unknown

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THE UNKNOWN-THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN-1964-Two women (Vera Miles & Barbara Rush) kill a blackmailing gigolo (Scott Marlowe). After they wreck their car during a storm, the two seek refuge at a remote mansion where Tone Hobart (David McCallum) and his blind butler Kolos (Sir Cedric Hardwick in his last acting role) live. Hobart is experimenting with a "time tilt" machine which he says can bring back the dead.

There's a lot of talk and weird camera angles and it kind of reminded me of a Harold Pinter play! This was originally devised by THE OUTER LIMITS writer Joseph Stefano and director Gerd Oswald as the pilot for a new series to be called THE UNKNOWN. ABC rejected the idea and it became (with a different ending and credits) the finale episode of THE OUTER LIMITS' first season.

McCallum was in another episode the same season, the memorable THE SIXTH FINGER.

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Violent Playground

VIOLENT PLAYGROUND-1958-While a string of fires created by arson plagues a Liverpool community, a police Sgt. (Stanley Baker) tries to help a young brother and sister who are ac-cused of shoplifting and kind of takes shine to their older sister (Anne Heywood). Their older brother (David McCallum who was in A NIGHT TO REMEMBER the same year) is the leader of a gang of teenage thugs with mental problems. At one point he does a wild weird dance.The local priest (Peter Cushing) tries to help too. Also with Tsai Chin and Michael Chow.

This is a fairly serious look at teenage delinquency directed by Basil Dearden who went on to make THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, THE MIND BENDERS, KHARTOUM and THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF.

“No man is ever old enough to know better”…Holbrook Jackson

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