Rewatching Ep. 4 *THE SIXTEEN MILLIMETER SHRINE* (1959) The Twilight Zone | classic tv show reaction

[@SueProv]

The actor is Martin Balsam. He was also in Psycho. Ida Lupino was a great actress from Warner Brothers. She also became one of the first women directors in movies and TV. My favorites of her was High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart. It was one of his best roles too. And she was in Devotion where she played Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte was played by Olivia de Havilland. Also They Drive through the Night where she plays a murderer who goes nuts

[@kruuyai]

Love Ida Lupino. My fave is The Big Knife

[@curiousworld7912]

@@kruuyai Me, too. I think mine is 'Beware, My Lovely', which saw her once again on screen with Robert Ryan. Fantastic actress and director. :)

[@billolsen4360]

Mine favorite Ida Lupino movie is The Bigamist where she starred and directed. And you'd like Martin Balsam in The Taking of Pelham 123, especially the final scene where's he's actually rolling in wealth.

[@martyemmons3100]

Those were the days of TV outside of the box. I remember not only The Twilight Zone, but also One Step Beyond and The Outer Limits. All three of those TV shows had very creative talent on the cast and crew. The music, writing, directing and actors were outstanding!

[@geraldthompson4633]

Oh hell yeah!

[@ludovicoc7046]

"That's the signpost up ahead--your next stop: another great MWM video!"

[@Ontario100]

Ida Lupino not only starred in an episode of Twilight Zone, she also directed an episode of the Twilight Zone (The Masks). She was also a screenwriter, producer and director of movies too. She was exceptionally talented and beautiful as well ! Great Reaction. 👍

[@geneeverett7855]

The best season five episode! Indeed impressive she returned to direct.

[@bradsullivan2495]

Selfishly, I have to strongly urge you to watch the TZ episode, "A Stop at Willoughby." Besides being one of the best-remembered episodes, it literally hits home--I live in the city of Willoughby and they have an annual day-long festival that shows this episode on a loop.😂

[@rokuronzoni6274]

Considering how that episode ends, that's a pretty messed up festival

[@isoldejaneholland8370]

My favorite episode.

[@mildredpierce4506]

The actress is Ida Lupino. She’s not only an accomplished actress, she’s a director as well. She directed the film noir classic, the Hitch-Hiker.

[@KennethBatchelor]

So glad you came back to TZ! This episode was one of the first that I saw originally as a child.

[@DanielOrme]

Ida Lupino, one of my favorite actresses of the Classic Hollywood period. She was born in England to a family whose involvement in theater literally could be traced back for centuries. Beautiful, with an intensity that rivalled even Bette Davis (check out her performance in "The Hard Way" [1943]), she was also the only woman working as a director in her generation. There had been many woman directors in the silent era, but by the 1940's they had all been squeezed out. But Ida broke through directing independently produced (i.e. outside the big studios) films in the late 40's, and she worked regularly through the 50's and 60's in movies and TV, the only female director in Hollywood. She even directed an episode of The Twilight Zone.

[@williamcurry4868]

Great to see you covering this some more. Martin Balsam was so great in this, and a lot of stuff he was in. Loved these bittersweet episodes, and a nice twist, but that it was a sort of happy ending for the main actress there. Great to see you covering more of these.

[@patriciaparker2622]

The reference to SUNSET BLVD is strong with the fact that Franz Waxman also provided the score for this episode.

[@philipholder5600]

The thing I like most about you,is the fact you research into the films and shows that you watch.

[@crose7412]

Ida directing Edmond O’Brien & Frank Lovejoy as captives in the sadistic ‘The Hitch-Hiker’ is an underrated classic. I’m currently watching her as a torch singer in ‘Road House’ co-starring Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark & Cornel Wilde 🙂

[@MichaelVHart]

The past is just as real as the present and the future, we just don’t experience it anymore, so we think it is “gone” or lost, but it is not. There is only the eternal NOW.

[@MK-zj8sc]

You are literally rhe only React channel I like because A) you go through pretty relatively old and unknown to modern pop culture (some of my favorite stuff) B) you don't show the entire media so that it just feels like stealing C) you actually react and give some thoughts and opinions

[@MoviesWithMia]

Thank you so much M K! I appreciate your comment :) Thank you so much for watching :)

[@BeeWhistler]

If you liked the ending for this one, you’ll love “Night of the Meek.” I can’t remember whether you’ve watched it or even whether I used the form to recommend it, but it’s one of my absolute favorite episodes. Watch it at Christmas time.

[@geneeverett7855]

One of the best! Just a shake it was one of the episodes done on video not tape. But otherwise a perfect episode

[@curiousworld7912]

I grew up on 'The Twilight Zone', and am still very fond of these old programs. As to this particular episode; 'ageism' was much more overt in show business then, but it's far from over, sadly. Ida Lupino was an amazing woman: actress, and director.

[@wellwellthatiswhy]

Thank for your great review! This movie also reminds The Purple Rose Of Cairo by Woody Allen

[@TTM9691]

A perfect episode for this channel! Totally "Sunset Blvd" influenced! Yes, that was Martin Balsam! That guy pops up in EVERYTHING. You've definitely seen him in "Psycho" and "12 Angry Men", if not more! He kept working through the 70s and even has a cameo in Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear" from 1992 (Balsam in in the original, along with Peck and Mitchum, both of whom also have roles in the remake). The actress is Ida Lupino.....who was also one of the few female directors during that time! I'm so jealous you get to be Rod Serling! 😆 I always wanted to do those intros!!! Ha! It must be so much fun! You do them great! :D This episode was in the first batch I ever saw, I still remember that fateful week I discovered the Twilight Zone! This was, like, the fourth or fifth episode I ever saw. Viva Mia! :D

[@geneeverett7855]

She was also the director of season five episode “ The Masks”. The only female director of a TZ.

[@Marybaklava]

When I was little I used to sit up late to watch late night television like Perry Mason and the Twilight Zone. At least when my grandmother didn't catch me. 😂 I really enjoy your channel thank you so much. If you've never seen them the Deanna Durbin movies I think you would really enjoy seeing them whether or not you cover them on the channel.

[@MoviesWithMia]

Hi Mary! Welcome! Thank you so much for watching! :)

[@takaono7243]

I do love this episode a lot, specifically for its callbacks to Sunset Blvd. And I've always thought that the housemaid's scream was especially chilling. I feel like she had to have been directed to scream as though she had literally found Barbie dead. Just as an aside, I'm super happy that you're doing this series, and I'm especially excited for you to get to The After Hours, which is my personal favorite episode of the entire show. ;D

[@yvettefortinkeyser2222]

I remember him from the movie psycho.

[@franciscogarza9633]

That's Martin Balsam who played Detective Arbogast from psycho, he also played juror number 1 from 12 angry men with Henry Fonda

[@moviemonster2083]

Martin Balsam was also in 'Psycho" as Arbogast, the private eye who gets slashed and falls down the stairs in that scene. Wonderful actor. And Ida Lupino was also affecting.

[@bradsullivan2495]

Ida Lupino's father, Stanley, was an actor who also delved in other areas of film. In December 1934, he held a party for her, with one of the invitees being actress Thelma Todd. That's relevant because the party was the last time anyone saw her alive. Her death was ruled a suicide and Ida testified at the inquest. However, the fact that her husband was a mob enforcer has kept this mystery going for close to 90 years.

[@mildredpierce4506]

I love love love the Twilight Zone. The radio versions narrated by Stacy Keach are worth listening to. I think the radio version sounds more ominous than the television version. The Obsolete Man is one of my favorite episodes to hear.

[@AnimalMagnetism1965]

This is one of my favourite episodes, tnx for covering it 😊🇬🇧

[@waterbeauty85]

Martin Balsam's smile and Rod Serling's closing monologue about "dreams that come true" and "the mystic strength of the human animal" indicate that this is meant to be taken as a happy ending. If you keep going with Twilight Zone, you'll get to an episode called "The Big, Tall Wish" starring Ivan Dixon which also involves making a fantasy come true, but it works out differently. It would be good to keep "The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine" in mind for comparison when you watch it. The thing about "Wish" is that I recently read or saw a review of it that gave an opposite interpretation of it than I have comfortably had for almost half a century, and it was an interesting thing to consider.

[@edisonlima4647]

The Twilight Zone is always great! Thank you for sharing this. Wish you the best. Success and happiness for you, Mia!

[@RetroClassic66]

Great video! The actor playing the old co-star was Jerome Cowan. He was a character actor both on stage and in film. He started on stage in the 20s and continued until the year this episode first aired, 1959, and he started in film in the mid-30s. So he was not made up to look old; that’s really how he looked at the time (perhaps the glasses weren’t his, though). He was in his early 60s when this episode was filmed. He appeared in more than one hundred films, but is probably best remembered for two roles in particular: Miles Archer, the doomed private eye partner of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) and Thomas Mara, the hapless district attorney who has to prosecute Santa Claus in MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947). Cowan also played Dagwood Bumstead's boss Mr. Radcliffe in several installments of Columbia Pictures' BLONDIE series. He also appeared in DEADLINE AT DAWN(1946), JUNE BRIDE (1948), and HIGH SIERRA (1941), which featured Barbara Jean herself, Ida Lupino.

[@chag1pyk5]

I'm so glad you brought that up. I was trying to remember where I saw him before (Miracle on 34th Street)

[@brettv5967]

I absolutely agree. It is a happy result for her.

[@airmark02]

Ida Lupino starred with Humphrey Bogart in " They Drive by Night "

[@bauertime]

Martin Balsam stole the movie in The Bedford Incident and should have been nominated for an academy award.

[@kurtb8474]

Ida Lupino was also an accomplished director. I believe she directed a Zone or two.

[@TheCharlesJLee1000]

Ida Lupino, starred in other TV shows, such as Columbo in the Seventies on NBC.

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

Evening made! Your content really is just so up my alley. I'd watch you react to any episode. 😁 I thought this episode was mysteriously under-ranked on lists for the show when I first watched it but I watched it before Sunset Boulevard and it's only then I realized it was just TZ's take on it and nothing more. But I still like it a lot, Barbara Jean Trenton seems like she'd be easier to get along with than Norma Desmond. Equally delusional but in a way that's only self-destructive as opposed to destructive to those around her, and you're right, she does get an ending befitting that "better behavior" where succumbing to her fantasies leaves her far less humiliated and happy only in ignorance. She gets to be genuinely happy. It's a nice inversion on the same story. Fingers crossed we'll see The Hitch-Hiker this year, even if for you it's another rewatch.

[@mikeduplessis8069]

Martin Balsam did this great but VERY weird film where he underwent extensive plastic surgery to turn himself into Rock Hudson. 1966, 'Seconds'. Its worth watching.

[@psychoween]

This episode always makes me think of Norma Desmond, the female lead in Sunset Blvd.

[@micpar2]

Actor Martin Balsam he played the detective in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).

[@hankw69]

Thanks for this one, am a fan of Martin Balsam and I am in love with the late-great, actress, writer/director Ida Lupino. Keep up the great work!

[@bradsullivan2495]

Martin Balsam (the agent) also appeared in an hour-long episode of TZ and in 1965, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie, "A Thousand Clowns"

[@bobbuethe1477]

He was also a regular on "Archie Bunker's Place," the follow-up series to "All in the Family."

[@rogermorris9696]

Ida Lupino was a trailblazer in Hollywood, being one of the first female directors to get major studio backing. As to te ageism, until recently was a joke "Actress have three basic roles, Cheerleader, deputy DA and Miss Daisy".

[@SueProv]

Also similar to the Purple Rose of Cairo. Woody Allen a Depression based film. It may be his best

[@tacticalgrace6456]

I think Mia should react to A Trip To The Moon (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903)

[@johnnehrich9601]

Yes, back then, women had few roles - the young blonde bombshell beauty that all desired, the stay-at-home mom devoted to her housewifely duties (June Cleaver of Leave It to Beaver), the secretary, typist, telephone operator, all secondary roles to men. The woman had to be protected from the villain or monster by the manly hero and she invariably broke her heel when being chased. But POC had it so much worse - the "mammy," the maid or cook, the Pullman porter, elevator operator, the comedy relief when the man rolls his eyes - tertiary mostly-invisible roles. Part of the reason that comedies like Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Rocky Horror were so over the top was that they put people into totally untraditional roles - humor can be enhanced by shock. Viewed from this side of this divide, it is so hard - even for those of us who grew up in that former era - to remember how rigid conformity strangled people's lives.

[@melenatorr]

The one and only Martin Balsam!!!!

[@brightfaith8403]

Yay, I’m early! Love you, Mia💗

[@MoviesWithMia]

Yay!! Welcome! Thanks so much for watching :)

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

2:46 As we used to say in college, "Begone, curs-ed Daystar!"

[@diablosrouge]

Ida Lupino would come back to The Twilight Zone as a director of the extraordinary episode: The Masks.

[@debbieanne7962]

I love this episode. Haven't seen Sunset Boulevard, would love to. Ida Lupino (Barbara Jean Trenton)looks beautiful for a woman in her 40s. She was also the only woman director in the series (directing another awesome episode The Masks) Danny Weiss is played by the wonderful Martin Balsam. He was also in the fourth season episode 'The new exhibit'. Only found your channel today. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺

[@carlbaker7242]

A wonderful ending for her.

[@chris...9497]

Recommendation: Consider viewing back-to-back an original Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" starring a 7yr-old Billy Mumy as a controlling and dangerous psychic 'monster', then a later Twilight Zone reboot episode "It's Still a Good Life" starring a middle-aged Bill Mumy and his actual 6yr-old daughter. It's a revisit of the original story set some decades later. Cloris Leachman plays Bill's mother in both episodes.

[@chag1pyk5]

I think that holds the record for the longest time between sequels

[@aranerem5569]

Good to see you Mia

[@purpleslog]

Martin Balsam! He was a great character actor in tons of stuff.

[@jamesrowles9249]

I had family members who were so stuck in the past that they suffered socially as they got older. This episode always got to me because of that. Great episode! A happy, yet sad ending. Like saying goodbye forever to an old friend.

[@tarmaque]

The sun! Evil day star! It hurts us! It burns our skin! - Every Irish person ever.

[@chris...9497]

Rod Serling came back from his war experiences damaged psychologically, with PTSD. I believe I read somewhere his daughter saying he took to writing in order to process his experiences, and if there is a word to describe the works he produced, you'd have to settle on 'psychological'. I grew up watching the Twilight Zone and they did influence my perspective and interaction with life. Serling's stories made you think beyond the immediacy of the circumstances in front of you to a bigger picture. The Twilight Zone was a genre, a mindset, a particular 'thing'. Every story was set in ordinary, familiar settings or in familiar genres. He had space stories, cowboy stories, hillbilly stories. He had urban stories and post-apocalyptic stories and alien stories. He had ones set in the heartland or the military. But they all had a twist. They often had a lesson. Mainly they were psychological, intellectual, yet also emotionally-impactful. And Serling had a reputation for how he spun this unsettling twist in the familiar storyline. And it was considered genius, progressive, intelligent. I want to contrast this with the works of another storyteller, one also with a penchant for staging his tales in the ordinary and familiar, for including a twist. But this storyteller's reputation is not of being considered a genius. He's considered a hack, a person using a twist in the story to no discernable purpose other than to rely on the twist as a tired cliche. And my view is that he is every bit the genius as Rod Serling. I'm talking about M Night Shyamalan. Serling wrote his tales to explore the psychological, and people in the 1950s & '60s were able to grasp that. Shyamalan writes his tales from the perspective of spirituality. While Serling exposed the psychological underlying even ordinary experiences, Shyamalan exposes the spiritual (nondogmatic) underpinnings of ordinary life. Both writers used familiar settings, both used familiar genres, and both used unexpected twists to depart from the expected to highlight what we miss in our unaware traverse of life. But the public take Shyamalan's work too literally; so his "Sixth Sense" is marketed and viewed as a 'ghost story'; it's not. His "Signs" is taken as an 'alien invasion story'; it's not. The "Unbreakable" trilogy is taken as a 'superhero story"; it's not. "The Village" is considered a 'monster story'; it's not. They're all spiritual stories. But Shyamalan doesn't get the recognition that was afforded Rod Serling. I just wanted to take a moment to compare the similarities of two geniuses, hopefully getting people to start considering a better way to view M Night Shyamalan's work. I believe Shyamalan has taken up the mantle of Serling's perspective and advanced it.

[@geoffmason7215]

love a good twist....done well great reaction

[@craigdixon4113]

Mia This Time of the Year, try The Twilight Zone Episode called, “The Night of The Meek” (S2, E11) it’s very Holiday Oriented and has a heartwarming theme. You’ll love it. Thanks!

[@MatrixRefugee]

My all time favorite classic TV series, also my mother's favorite sci=fi show, which she introduced me to when I was a teenager. Rod Serling and his team of creative folk captured lightning in a bottle when they made this series.

[@micpar2]

Check out these comedies. Animal House (1978) John Belushi/Bluto , Caddy Shack (1980), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Back to School (1986) Rodney Dangerfield.Robert Downey JR small supporting role. RD JR was also in the comedy Weird Science, he played a punk rocker jerk guy.

[@jeffmartin1026]

"Diving in nose deep", well that's a new one for me! 😄 The Twilight Zone was a part of my youth, loved to watch them when they were originally on. Have fun with this series!

[@MsBackstager]

Shades of Sunset Blvd.

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

I used to love TZ - both the original and the revamps of the 80s. Many actors and directors cut their teeth on programs such as this - my favourite episode was 'Nothing in the Dark' which starred a very young Robert Redford (1962). I'm not sure I agree with the commonly held belief that women were not offered interesting roles after hitting a certain age. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Susan Hayward, Katherine Hepburn (to name but a few) had long and successful careers including Oscar nominations in their later years.

[@billolsen4360]

Have you ever seen Twilight Zone episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33"? That's a real good one.

[@MsBackstager]

To think that Ida was only in her young 40s at the time.

[@MsBackstager]

IT was a younger man who played Jerry. Ida played herself as a younger woman.

[@micpar2]

Check out Walking Distance from season one I believe it was episode #7? Also The Changing of the Guard, Will the Real Martin please stand up? Also To Serve Man, The Silence and Back there.

[@brianmcconnell1817]

Please consider watching “The Monsters are due on Maple Street”. It’s the best episode of the whole series and a very timely one as well.

[@okay5045]

Very Sunset Boulevard

[@edisonlima4647]

Since you asked why couldn't older actresses portray the female lead in romantic flicks during the 1950's... You should watch "All That Heaven Allows" someday, if you can. It was considered borderline immoral for an older woman to feel desire. Whenever the subject was brought the woman in question would be portrayed as either an "unnaturally predatory" woman of "lose morals" or as a pathetic victim of a gigolo. In "All That Heaven Allows" an older woman falls in love with her (Much younger) immigrant gardener and about her entire city gathers to try and convince her that she could have a secret affair with a young poor man, if she really wanted, but publicly declaring LOVE for him would be a scandal and destroy both their lives. There is a shot in that film *EXTREMELY* iconic in which her son buys her a television set to "keep her home, like she should" and she sits in the dark watching not the tv, but her lone reflection in the turned off screen, looking as if she was trapped inside it (that's kiiiiiiinda the origin of the expression "black mirror").

[@mildredpierce4506]

There’s an episode of Columbo with a similar plot.

[@bradsullivan2495]

Interesting that he referred to her as "Barbie"--1959 was the first year they were sold.😂

[@lisathuban8969]

But which came first? Maybe lots of Barbara's were called "Barbie" for short before the doll was a thing.

[@albertpringle4918]

In order to embrace the future You have to let go of the past

[@melenatorr]

Here's a TCM short on Ida Lupino: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maHYpHSgoJyoiqc

[@MK-zj8sc]

You need to watch don hertzfeldts "it's such a beautiful day"

[@karstenvoigt7280]

I wonder if this episode inspired Woody Allen to write The Purple Rose of Cairo.

[@albertpringle4918]

Thanks for the information about the 12 angry men till you said something about it

[@okay5045]

It is a mind set of today. Woman in there 30s are being relegated to mother rolls then and now. Women in a strange way did more movies and had more power back in the 1920s -1950s than they do now.

[@lalelol8956]

I also feel like the end of the episode is Barbie's fictionalized reality. I think the actual reality is that she killed herself somehow... maybe by walking into the screen or something

[@lalelol8956]

Also a thing that I noticed in this episode is all the men are out of touch with reality and are allowed to exist in this alternate acceptable reality that somehow they're much younger than she is when probably they're older. Barbie's like I wanna pretend and exist in that reality too...and they're like nope...this is only for men. They're always bringing up her age, when they're much older or the same age... it's only because they know there's endless opportunities for the men. Even the housekeeper was a woman reduced to "traditional" roles. A woman who takes care of a home and another aging woman. They tucked the women in the house. I hate that even to this day, "older" women have no other roles than the mother and the one who holds the family together. the one who watches her kids and husband and other men live adventurous misadventures lives...while "fixing" any problems they encounter a long the way. She watches everyone else live. more single older women without the connections of a husband or kids freely and unapologetically living their best happy lives are needed on tv and in the real world. I wander how Barbie afforded her mansion, and lifestyle..when her films weren't popular anymore..and she apparently didn't have any other jobs.

[@terryhughes7349]

great reaction!

[@MoviesWithMia]

Thank you!! 😁 Glad you enjoyed :)

[@JoePlett]

Have you seen Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo? He obviously saw this episode.

[@empirejeff]

The lesson here is when you are not happy with your life, then retreat to a fantasy world?

[@arnoldzyphill3167]

barbara reminds me of an aunt'

[@dennyfrodge7539]

Mia, you have to react to the twilight zone episode "the hunt"

[@AlisonsArt]

Martin Balsam

[@MoviesWithMia]

Thank you HAHA!! His name was right there in the tip of my tongue!!

[@marinamoscow3755]

Will you do James Bond movies?

[@MoviesWithMia]

Yes, eventually!

[@purpleslog]

Is it a happy ending? If/when the film projector turns off or the film becomes damages that twz life ends.

[@frankrossi6972]

The aging-actress thing arguably has gotten worse, and a great documentary by Rosanna Arquette, "Searching for Debra Winger," from 2002 (before the superhero movie craze further deteriorated the business even more) explores how Hollywood's tosses actresses aside or relegates them to mother/grandmother/or other supporting roles once they reach a certain age. Lots of interviews with actresses including Patricia Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Laura Dern, Jane Fonda, Teri Garr, Whoopi Goldberg, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Diane Lane, Kelly Lynch, Julianna Margulies, Samantha Mathis, Frances McDormand, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond, Gwyneth Paltrow, Martha Plimpton, Charlotte Rampling, Vanessa Redgrave, Theresa Russell, Meg Ryan, Ally Sheedy, Adrienne Shelly, Sharon Stone, Tracey Ullman, JoBeth Williams, Alfre Woodard, and Robin Wright Penn.

[@fernandosandoval4711]

Was i. Psycho (1960) W. Anthony. Pwrkins

[@goldenerarewind]

Barbara Jean is like the 1960s JLo...LOL still trying to recapture the past

[@dennismason3740]

Always: when you steal, steal from the best. Credit the source.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Isn't this one a riff on the real-life seclusion of actress Greta Garbo?

[@MoviesWithMia]

I read that Greta Garbo chose not to be in the public eye. She despised interviews and refused to partake in them, at least that’s what I read

[@micpar2]

I wasn't a big fan of CBS's 1985-89 Twlight Zone. Two episodes that were brand new stories were pretty good with the Sterling twist endings. Another eight were more horror like but still pretty good. The best two ironically were on JFK's assassination and on Elvis Presly. Here's Profile in Silver from season 1 one of the last episodes of the first season. The other one on Elvis was The Once & Future King. The casting in these were great, but the stories were great. If they/ CBS had put much more money into it. For better stories and great actors, even if they were unknowns then. It might of been almost as great as the original series. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKO7g4OHZ7GgZtU

[@fernandosandoval4711]

Martin. Balson