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<blockquote data-quote="reveal" data-source="post: 2440944" data-attributes="member: 1236">105. Death - &quot;Nothing in the Dark&quot; - Twilight Zone, Season 3<img src="http://hollywood.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/robert_fondo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Personally, &quot;Nothing in the Dark&quot; is my favorite Twilight Zone episode of all time. Death was played by a young Robert Redford.A lonely and paranoid old woman refuses to leave the confines of the condemned building she occupies for fear that &quot;Mr. Death&quot; is waiting for her outside the door.Gladys Cooper gives a compelling lead performance as Wanda Dunn, a woman who has shut herself off from the world almost completely. Yet there's still some memory of the life she lived before she spotted &quot;Mr. Death&quot;, a being she believes to be a real living entity, still some compassion for the injured policeman Harold Belden (Robert Redford) whom she tries to nurse back to health inside her home after he's been shot right outside of her door, still some desire for company as she takes the chance to take him in even though she fears at first he might indeed be &quot;Mr. Death&quot; in disguise. She talks to him about her life and how her struggle for survival, to hide away from &quot;Mr. Death&quot;, has lead her away from the world of light she once so greatly loved and enjoyed, lead her away from the outside world to one where she's constantly inside in darkness, ever alert in fear her enemy should spot a weakness in her defense, aware her life is not one many would want to have but yet she still clings on to life, refusing to give in to death.In the end, Death admits to being who is and leads her away. Death is played as a sauve character who ends up tricking an old woman to get her to die.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="reveal, post: 2440944, member: 1236"] 105. [b]Death[/b] - "Nothing in the Dark" - Twilight Zone, Season 3 [img]http://hollywood.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/robert_fondo.jpg[/img] Personally, "Nothing in the Dark" is my favorite Twilight Zone episode of all time. Death was played by a young Robert Redford. A lonely and paranoid old woman refuses to leave the confines of the condemned building she occupies for fear that "Mr. Death" is waiting for her outside the door. Gladys Cooper gives a compelling lead performance as Wanda Dunn, a woman who has shut herself off from the world almost completely. Yet there's still some memory of the life she lived before she spotted "Mr. Death", a being she believes to be a real living entity, still some compassion for the injured policeman Harold Belden (Robert Redford) whom she tries to nurse back to health inside her home after he's been shot right outside of her door, still some desire for company as she takes the chance to take him in even though she fears at first he might indeed be "Mr. Death" in disguise. She talks to him about her life and how her struggle for survival, to hide away from "Mr. Death", has lead her away from the world of light she once so greatly loved and enjoyed, lead her away from the outside world to one where she's constantly inside in darkness, ever alert in fear her enemy should spot a weakness in her defense, aware her life is not one many would want to have but yet she still clings on to life, refusing to give in to death. In the end, Death admits to being who is and leads her away. Death is played as a sauve character who ends up tricking an old woman to get her to die. [/QUOTE]

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