Warning: Spoiler Alert. No --- I can't spoil it for you if you've never seen it.
All I can say is like the few GREAT 'Outer Limits' episodes, this has many themes, a lot going on, great dialog, changes of situations and all in only 52 minutes! It's basically the 'tired' (not unless you bring something new to it!) science fictional 'What If' theme of 'What if you could go back in time and kill........'
Every scene is great. It begins with an astronaut accidentally winding up in the far future meeting the awful fate that awaits mankind, in the shape of the ugly, grotesque Andro (Martin Landau). After their great scene together, they go back in time, so Andro can prevent the evil future from occurring.
We'll forget about all the easy coincidences that make this a two and half hour movie telescoped down to fifty minutes. Who cares? This is one of the great episodes of television!
Now the scene changes to the imminent wedding in the boarding house where Andro is staying. Conveniently, he has the ability 'to cloud men's minds' and make everyone think he looks like Martin Landau in a natty 60s suit! He is there to kill. To save the future.
I can't say any more, except that what really elevates this to great theater is the uncompromising ending. No maudlin 'if only there is love' clichés so common in all the other episodes! As other reviewers have said, and I say too, it's sad, and unforgettable, but may I add truly horrifying! Even though Martin Landau's New England (?) accent is phony and grating, so what. I give this episode a 10.
All I can say is like the few GREAT 'Outer Limits' episodes, this has many themes, a lot going on, great dialog, changes of situations and all in only 52 minutes! It's basically the 'tired' (not unless you bring something new to it!) science fictional 'What If' theme of 'What if you could go back in time and kill........'
Every scene is great. It begins with an astronaut accidentally winding up in the far future meeting the awful fate that awaits mankind, in the shape of the ugly, grotesque Andro (Martin Landau). After their great scene together, they go back in time, so Andro can prevent the evil future from occurring.
We'll forget about all the easy coincidences that make this a two and half hour movie telescoped down to fifty minutes. Who cares? This is one of the great episodes of television!
Now the scene changes to the imminent wedding in the boarding house where Andro is staying. Conveniently, he has the ability 'to cloud men's minds' and make everyone think he looks like Martin Landau in a natty 60s suit! He is there to kill. To save the future.
I can't say any more, except that what really elevates this to great theater is the uncompromising ending. No maudlin 'if only there is love' clichés so common in all the other episodes! As other reviewers have said, and I say too, it's sad, and unforgettable, but may I add truly horrifying! Even though Martin Landau's New England (?) accent is phony and grating, so what. I give this episode a 10.