Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
- Episode aired Oct 14, 1960
- TV-PG
- 25m
Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.Small time criminal Jackie Rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLong before Taxi Driver (1976) or even Dirty Harry (1971), the Jackie Rhoades character - as he looks a mirror - is the first to deliver the famous lines "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?".
- GoofsThe main character's reflection in a mirror has come to life and much of the episode is a confrontation between the character and his reflection - although they made an effort to reverse the image (the reflection wears his watch on the opposite hand and he bites his fingernails with the opposite hand) they forgot to reverse the buttons on his shirt.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Opening Narration] This is Mr. Jackie Rhoades, age thirty-four, and where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their fragmentary existence on Earth, this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discolored blemish to document a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his betters. What you're about to watch in this room is a strange and mortal combat between a man and himself, for in just a moment, Mr. Jackie Rhoades, whose life has been given over to fighting adversaries, will find his most formidable opponent in a cheap hotel room that is in reality the outskirts of The Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room (2021)
He complains about being dormant for so long. Now, this side doesn't tell him to kill anyone. It actually tells him to stand up to the gang members and leave them. I admit the plot isn't all that great, but it's still well acted. There's not really a big twist or anything. It's still serviceable. ***
- ericstevenson
- Jul 18, 2018
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1