Selected Customer Reviews
I saw it in English
I liked the monsters are due on maple street... It made the 50's seem so abnormal because how things are today... If you haven't seen the origanal you must see it...!!!
Two Classics
This video contains what are perhaps the two best-known and loved TWILIGHT ZONE titles, "Time Enough at Last" and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." The former episode stars Burgess Meredith as a bookish bank teller named Henry Bemis. Scolded by his boss and his wife for being "a reader," Bemis retires to the bank's vault each day during his lunch hour to indulge his passion. One day while he is reading in the vault, a nuclear explosion happens and the earth is turned into a wasteland. Stumbling upon the remains of a public library, Bemis declares that now he has all the time in the world to read - but does he really? Serling's script for "Time Enough at Last" is whimsical though ultimately tragic, with similarities to both "The Obsolete Man" (also with Meredith) and "The Lonely."
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" reflects Serling's concern with the dangers of conformity and prejudice, seen also in another classic episode, "The Eye of the Beholder." An apparent power failure causes mass hysteria on Maple Street; the suburban citizens believe that "monsters" from outer space have landed - and Serling proves them right, in more ways than one. The "Monsters" script is powerful, with subtle references to the Holocaust and a chilling end-narration from Serling. The cast, however, is generally undistinguished, and the acting from everyone except for Claude Akins as semi-hero Steve Brand and Jack Weston as antagonist Charlie is rather wooden. But while in any other episode this would be a fatal flaw, in "Monsters" it hardly matters, since the real "star" of the episode is the mob - that is, everyone AS A GROUP.
2 Fine Episodes Exactly As Pictured
Time Enough At Last - A sole survivor of a nuclear war is all alone in its aftermath. First, he finds solace in books. However, after he breaks his reading glasses, he is lost.
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street - After the lights go out on Maple Street and the phones go dead, the neighbors become afraid and accuse each other of somehow causing the problem after seeing a meteorite or possibly a UFO pass through the neighborhood.