Twilight Zone - Jess Belle

[@RyanRoemer8624]

Jess Belle deserved a happy ending and she is very pretty

[@chrismcdevitt7814]

I always liked this episode. The poor girl pays a huge price for the thing she wants the most. It was an interesting story, but a sad ending.

[@subsamadhi]

She was an idiot. And she eventually embraced being a witch. She deserved her fate

[@rondelby2482]

I wanted a sequel because she was tricked and that witch Hart would pay for all her evils.

[@garyedwards3269]

A similar love story is The Little Mermaid where Ariel goes to the Sea Witch Ursula to be transformed into a human.

[@lastdragon820]

The Twilight Zone has existed in many lands in many times. It has its roots in history, in something that happened long, long ago and got told about and handed down from one generation of folk to the other. In the telling the story gets added to and embroidered on, so that what might have happened in the time of the Druids is told as if it took place yesterday in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Such stories are best told by an elderly grandfather on a cold winter's night by the fireside in the southern hills of the Twilight Zone. - Rod Serling

[@Seiryuki2002]

This is my most favourite Twilight Zone episode.

[@sugarcane1234]

Yeah I happen to really like this Episode too.

[@terrellstaley4001]

One of my favorite episodes

[@melissaj6982]

Mine too!

[@zarchy55]

I am in my 60s, and I must have been very young when I first saw this episode. As I watched it last night, I kept having deja vu and flashbacks across the many decades. It’s amazing how many forgotten things are stuck in your brain.

[@sidewinder3434]

I also watched it last night but don't remember this episode when I was younger ( am same age as you )

[@sandrabrooks6382]

I watched it many times. I am 68. I remember he said you love me hot and she loves him calm. He was the monster in this. So sad small town. Let her go home. No he had to stop her. 😢😢😢😢

[@n40798]

This Twilight Zone episode is unique from the rest not only for the plot being expressed through song, but also the opening narration had a very different feel than the rest

[@yeahx32p69]

@Quint Pierre send a link where it says hes a jew

[@seangunnells9101]

I think there’s one other episode like this one where the plot is made up of a song one of the cast started singing and like this episode as the plot continues so does the song I don’t remember the name but a music producer kills a man for the love of the women singing the song

[@kevinsims2876]

Man I really loved the radio version song better🥲

[@Lily-kl1of]

The moral of this story is that sometimes the person we love just can't or won't love us in return so we have two options. We can either accept that it's a love that will never be and try to find a better love in someone else or we can let that unrequited love become an obsession that consumes everything and every part of us. Even our souls.

[@florida1716]

very true and well said! I thank for the truth to be told and asking/telling the hard truth! in... or... out...? well done!

[@Lily-kl1of]

@@florida1716 You’re welcome. I think.

[@rondelby2482]

She was not told un til later that her soul was taken. She was tricked by Granny Hart so therefore she did not willfully give her soul. Her payment was that she be a shapeshifter that was her price. It was also punishment for consulting a black magic witch.

[@miketerranova2818]

Always move on love will be there resistance is pain

[@charlesciminera5881]

Very poetic and true this enlightenment can only come with experience the sad part is by then sometimes were too old at that point it's too late

[@swa7169]

"Honey, you don't know much about men, do you?" "Only him."

[@mikeheaphy]

WOW, brings back memories and one of my favorite "Zones", as well...also had a big young kid crush on Jess Bell and I don't think I'm the only one...lol...great series !

[@paml.6101]

Great acting from the cast.

[@robertofleites811]

Best Twilight Zone episode !!!!!

[@brookehanley3659]

Agree and Anne Francis was so beautiful

[@gregherried5189]

This is one of my absolute favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone. Because it was an hour-episode, it wasn't shown as often as the 30-minute episodes. I finally got to record it on ME TV this week and I was able to watch it after all these years. Anne Francis, Jeanette Nolan and Virginia Gregg were all excellent in this tragic but fascinating story.

[@lordalessan]

I felt so bad for Jessbelle on this one. The guy loved her and gave her all these promises and through no fault of her own, he fell in love with the preacher's beautiful daughter and left Jessbelle. And it's such a small town, I assume, and so Jess had to deal with it even more. What she did was bad, but I couldn't help but feel sorry for her.

[@curtisdalrymple42]

Me too throughout the whole story she was made out to be the bad girl and the villian,but he was just as guilty if not even more so than her because he left her for another girl,and led her on. Of course,what she did was bad,but how many girls have stooped to levels they never dreamed they would because they were in love with some guy,and at least she felt bad about what she did. He never once felt sorry for her, and in the end when she died he acted like he was glad about it the girl he was once going to marry. He was a total jerk in my opinion. By the way,Jessbelle was much prettier than the preachers daughter.

[@jondoes8222]

Granny Hart tricked her and she did not know that the deal was to give up her soul, so I believe she was not damned but had to be the wereleopard. Her orice to pay was with her life.

[@CapstoneTider]

Make no mistake this was a battle of beauty and Jezebel had the unsightly mole under her mouth.

[@CapstoneTider]

Jess Belle's biggest disadvantage was not having a father to explain hormonal love from Men Would be interesting to know what happened to her father. Unlike today's ghetto family, his absence was most likely due to health or accident. It appears she gave away her flower trusting.

[@cityman2312]

@@curtisdalrymple42 What do you mean? Granny Hart is the villain.

[@arexec1]

I believe Anne Francis was a natural blonde so she wore a dark wig to play the part of Jess Belle.

[@CalamityJane3280]

Yes, that’s true. But she looked gorgeous in that black wig!

[@andregoodwin890]

Nobody wins dealing with THOSE people, Hollywood,music, sports,they always take it back or kill you!

[@JohnLincolnHawk]

One of my favs of all time!

[@elsapoelsapo1821]

God I love this song ...took me year's to hear it in it's UNCUT version beautiful. Thank you.

[@jamespittman4520]

This is my favorite episode I love it.

[@waynehighsmith7591]

I grew up in that part of the country. I heard many a witch-tale from my older relatives. My mamaw claimed that, before I was born, she lived next door to a witch. Scared my mom to death.

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Written by Earl Hamner, of "The Waltons" fame.

[@rickylee93274]

I felt so sorry for Jess-Bell. she was a beautiful girl! she didn't need him. he wasn't worth that.

[@linshore7451]

Great compilation of one of my all time favorite TZ episodes. Thank you.

[@ultimatemovierecaps]

Amazing capture my friend.

[@Merisu_Sheep]

Its a tale that tells a story of a women who did wrong means to get what she wanted and because of that she ended up paying the price

[@jondoes8222]

No one can lose their soul like that The only way is to sin against the Holy spirit. Its in the bible.

[@statman99]

Funny to see Roscoe P. Coltrane as a love interest.

[@itsnotdeliveryitsdiporno318]

statman99 right lol

[@jondoes8222]

lol and the greasy hair a turn off

[@thomaslocke3939]

Thank you for posting this, Fernando. I knew the lyrics had to do with the story, and understood them more or less, but wasn't able to understand the lyrics in detail until you added them to the video.

[@anawolf2354]

As much as Jess-Belle was wrong in wanting Billy to love her even if it meant using a spell (messing with his free will), I feel sorry for her. Yes, maybe if the bargain hadn't ended up so badly for *her* (losing her soul and becoming a leopard at night), she wouldn't have regretted it, but it's hard to not sympathize with her pain as I watch the episode. Yes, Jess-Belle is not a poor little innocent, but I don't think we can call her a complete villain either.

[@jondoes8222]

the were creature in my opinion was punishment enough. Granny hart needed to be put away.. She was the evil one

[@rondelby2482]

He was the azhole and caused all of it. He and granny hart were the villians.

[@Justme77400]

This was on last night

[@CapstoneTider]

If you ever want to turn off your woman get a guitar and sing the ode to jessabelle to her.

[@CalamityJane3280]

He should have picked JessBelle ! She was far more prettier!

[@rondelby2482]

Jess Belle was tricked , so hhe was not totally accountable.

[@edwardbliss8931]

Ar rhe end, she didn't die. In a puff of smoke, she became a nurse on Columbo

[@PunaSquirrel]

Honey West ❤🤙🏼

[@saxmankid]

Jess Belle was beautiful but Ely was no slouch by any means...I actually thought Granny Hart was sexy in her own way....This is hands down my favorite TZ episode...they never show it on TV coz its an hour long

[@CalamityJane3280]

Frankie Gray. Yes, Granny was sexy in her own way! I loved the part when she says to Billy Ben “ ain’t I a beauty?” Lol.

[@erickregalado4671]

Where can I see the full episode?

[@good-dm6gr]

I saw a wart toad on your pillow🐸

[@jondoes8222]

that was so funny

[@jojo-xu4iz]

That's an omen.

[@rondelby2482]

I love frogs

[@tomdooley3522]

Never seen this one Untill now, it's in a class of its own and I only seen this cut take of it. But it's fantastic , story telling twilight zone Style at it finest . I do remember honey. West from another show , I am not sure if that's her name or the character she played.

[@colecionadorj]

Oi boa noite. Gostei muito do vídeo, pois a Série Além da Imaginação, de Rod Serling, é uma das minhas preferidas. Me lembro desse episódio, em que Jesse Belle procura uma feiticeira que prepara para ela uma poção a fim de que o galã da história fique apaixonado por ela. Você sabe informar o nome dessa canção e quem está cantando? Obrigado. Também tenho escutado as canções que foram colocadas em outras postagens suas. Muito bom gosto.

[@fernandodts]

Esta música faz parte da tilha, o nome não sei, mas ouvi dizer que quem a cantou foi a própria Anne Francis.

[@tadimaggio]

This was definitely an actresses' story. Jeanette Nolan (Granny Hart), Virginia Gregg (Ossie Stone, Jess-Belle's mother), and Anne Francis (Jess-Belle) unequivocally walked off with the acting honors in this episode. I found it VERY hard to believe that two lovely women would go over the moon for James Best. Best was a good enough actor, but being a romantic figure requires certain qualities that one either has or doesn't. (Brian Aherne from "The Trouble With Templeton" couldn't have played Billy-Ben -- he was much too old, and no one would have believed him as a farmer from the Blue Ridge Mountains -- but I had no trouble believing that he could have gained the love of a beautiful and compassionate woman.)

[@rondelby2482]

The greasy hair of him was a turn off yuck

[@tadimaggio]

@@rondelby2482 I suspect that Rod Serling intended that as a realistic element -- men in that period often used hair products that produced that greasy effect. As a man, I agree with you that it's not very attractive; but I would imagine that the number of possible husbands in a mountainous rural region like the one in which "Jess-Belle" is set didn't leave young women like Jess-Belle or Ellwyn with many options.

[@cityman2312]

That guy playing Billy Ben is not good looking or charismatic enough to make two ladies openly smitten (or have an old witch coming onto him towards the end and cutting him favourable deals with no hidden clauses).

[@Ilovegrunge123]

They should have casted Robert Redford for Billy Ben.

[@tadimaggio]

Edson Stroll, who was the handsome representative of "the village" at the end of "Eye of the Beholder", would have been a better choice as Billy-Ben than James Best.

[@arkanoiddude]

Well they lived in a really small tight-knit village out in the boondocks, so there was probably slim pickings in terms of suitors. But yeah both those women were too hot for that guy lol.

[@pgroove163]

@@Ilovegrunge123 lol....glad you aren't in the casting business...

[@pgroove163]

@@arkanoiddude now that you put that comment in don't text anything else for the next 24 hours

[@EarlHutton2030]

Laura Devon was so beautiful. I know I sound like I'm comparing apples and oranges, but she's more attractive to me than Anne Francis.

[@BruceTheSillyGoose]

:( btw, who sang that song?

[@sharonlevy265]

Song performed by Terrea Lea, a folksinger who had a coffeehouse in the late 60's, called the Garret (in West Hollywood). I used to go there to hear her perform. She was incredible!

[@BruceTheSillyGoose]

@@sharonlevy265 thank you :) i don't know how i'd find about about any of this stuff without you all here on YT :D

[@jerryjordan677]

👁️

[@jondoes8222]

Did Jess lose her soul or was the curse lifted?

[@Merisu_Sheep]

Lost her soul most probably

[@nathanbonwell6524]

The story goes, once a witch is killed you see a falling star. The story behind the falling star is that the witch is strapped to a burning star and destined to fall and burn for eternity. Very sad for jess-belle. Very sad and emotional.

[@yeahx32p69]

@@nathanbonwell6524 my goodness.

[@nathanbonwell6524]

@Quint Pierre First of all, learn how to spell. Second, you don't know me or what I know. In college I studied mythology and theology. There's alot of symbolic undertones in this story. So before you try to educate me on what I know, get yours, because I got mine. And learn how to spell. You commenting negatively on my comments about a simple story. It's funny how people always wanna criticize what a person has to say and don't know how to be positive. Let's change the world and come together as a people and stop being so negative and critical of others.

[@stephenpoole5331]

@@nathanbonwell6524 Spelling is obviously not Pierre's strong suit. It also seems he tried to insult not only you, but Americans in general. Hey Pierre, when trying to insult someone, it's probably best if you brush up on your spelling.

[@ciankeane6485]

billy turner is a bit of a trouble maker

[@jondoes8222]

Ben in the story was greasy haired and a turn off whew...

[@rondelby2482]

Yes he was a villian a playing with her heart. She was tricked and in my view still could find hope. Not a good end because Billy Turner lived happialy ever after even though he was an azhole.

[@jondoes8222]

As for losing one's soul, the bible states the only way you can lose the soul is to sin against the Holy spirit. Jess Bell's punishment of being a were creature was enough punishment in my view.

[@RyanRoemer8624]

The bible was written by an antisemitic jewish person