Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval

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Actor: Martin Manulis
DVD: 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: 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 the writer of the script, and he manages to hit most of the major points in succinct fashion. The many famous writers and actors Rod worked with are all interviewed throughout, as well as old archival kinetoscopes which were dug up of his interview with Mike Wallace. Also glimpsed are the commercials Serling unforunately owered himself to doing toward the end of his career. An excellent companion to the book I used as the title of this review.

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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