The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). In 2016, he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.Īppearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Throughout his career, he has won several film awards, including an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director and activist. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing.Charles Robert Redford Jr. The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Īt the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Redford stated he has been told by the production company of the series that it is the most often viewed episode of The Twilight Zone. IMDb lists this episode at number seven in a ranking of all 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone. Object lesson for the more frightened amongst us in, or out of, the Twilight Zone. But who discovered in a minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. And, like all of us, was frightened of the dark. There was an old woman who lived in a room. ![]() Wanda and Harold walk arm in arm through the doorway, up the stairs, outside into the sunlight. ![]() Before she even realizes anything has changed, she finds herself standing beside her own dead body. Wanda continues her protests, but he gently assures her she has nothing to fear and finally persuades her to give him her hand. He explains with a friendly smile that he set up the ruse to gain her trust and convince her that he means her no harm. She turns to Harold for help, but the contractor doesn't see him, and leaves to get the authorities. He affirms that she has been given due notice, and if she will not leave he will call the police. He tries to persuade her that his work is both necessary and good, since tearing down clears way for the new. When she regains consciousness, the man apologizes and explains he is a building contractor and is tasked to demolish the building in an hour. The man forces the door open and she collapses from terror. There is a knock at the door and Harold persuades Wanda to answer it. Consequently, she has not left her home in years, preferring to live unhappily than to not live at all. Inside she explains her reluctance to help him, describing how she saw Death in the form of a man take an old woman's life just by touching her, and that she has seen him many times since then with different faces. She is relieved when she touches him and doesn't die, which convinces her that he is not Death after all. She has no phone to call a doctor, but he continues begging her to help him, so she relents. Death" trying to trick her into letting him in. He cries out that he is dying and pleads for her help, but she is afraid that he is "Mr. She is awakened by an altercation outside, in which Harold Beldon, a young police officer, is shot and falls just outside her door. ![]() Wanda Dunn, a frail and elderly woman, huddles in a dark basement apartment in an abandoned tenement. And in some strange and frightening way she knows that this seemingly ordinary door leads to the Twilight Zone. Now she's faced with a grim decision-whether or not to open a door. This is one of two episodes that were filmed during season two but held over for broadcast until season three, the other being " The Grave".Īn old woman living in a nightmare, an old woman who has fought a thousand battles with death and always won. " Nothing in the Dark" is episode 81 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, originally airing on January 5, 1962. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 3)
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