Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
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Actor: Martin ManulisDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Panasonic
DVD Reviews of Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
DVD Review: Five stars not enough!
Summary: 5 Stars
For any Serling fan, this DVD is a must! Wonderful encapsulation of the brilliant writer's life and career. Snippets of various productions of his work and brief interviews with some of the stars that were blessed to have been able to take part. Also interviews with some of his relatives. One of the best parts is the opening sequence which is done just like one of the classic openings to a 'Twilight Zone' episode. In this case it refers to Rod himself and contains the same eloquent word style that became legendary. If you pay attention closely, at one point you'll discover who did the 'voice over' for the opening and that's the icing on the cake! Amen.DVD Review: PREPARE TO LAUGH
Summary: 2 Stars
The operating table footage is hilarious. Not sure who came up with that idea, but anyone who felt the death of Rod Serling on an operating table was a great way to open a documentary needs to go back to school. And to think I saw this on PBS over a decade ago!
The man who narrates in Rod Serling style voice did a good job. You won't learn much from watching this documentary, sadly. It's just a summary of the teleplays Serling wrote for the networks and brief bits of dialogue from video interviews that can be found in other books.
Looking for a documentary about The Twilight Zone that does better than this documentary?
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: UNLOCKING THE DOOR TO A TELEVISION CLASSIC by Martin Grams is 800 plus pages and includes "everything" about the classic series. The details about Serling's writing career on radio, early television and Twilight Zone is well researched and highly detailed. Exclusive interviews with cast and crew and behind-the-scenes trivia will floor you. Available from Amazon.com
As a fan of Twilight Zone and owner of two dozen books on the subject, this is the first and only book I can say is the comprehensive standard so I know what I am talking about. Forget the DVD. Buy the book.
DVD Review: Freeze Frame Footage causes buyer's regret
Summary: 3 Stars
After painstakingly searching for Submitted...I finally located a copy on Amazon! But to my amazement...after viewing for a while I noticed "freeze frame in the footage!" I had to rewind a few times and hit play again to continue. Unfortunately I will have to get another copy.
Roni Mathews
DVD Review: A Great Tribute to "Television's Last Angry Man"
Summary: 5 Stars
I just watched this excellent dvd from the CBS "Masterworks" series, and couldn't be more impressed with it. It is a real "labor of love", done in the style of an old Twilight Zone episode with the voice of Rod narrating a flashback through his career, using actual film clips (some from some of his very early & hard-to-find works...) as the basis of the narrative. Marc Scott Zicree (the author of the authoritative guide to TZ) was a consultant to this project written by John F. Goff & Thomas Wagner. These two writers manage to hit most of the major points in succinct fashion, and Serling's life makes for a compelling story -- even for the "non-fan." The many famous writers and actors Rod worked with are all interviewed throughout, as well as an old archival kinetoscope of his interview with Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" fame. Also glimpsed are the commercials Serling unfortunately lowered himself to doing toward the end of his career, a choice he himself would later verbally regret. An excellent companion to the book by Gordon Sander I used as the title of this review.
* As a personal postscript, it should be known that I work as a video editor in the broadcast television industry. Unfortunately, watching this documentary makes it all too evident how far television has fallen, and truly has become the "vast wasteland" spoke of at its birth.
DVD Review: If you like Rod...get it. If not...dont get it. Simple.
Summary: 5 Stars
I am only doing this cause amazon sent me an email asking if i want to...so i though..."what the heck"...........It was very good...would have liked bonus features...but the movie itself is worth the purchase in my opinion.
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