Actually, the reporter gave the dying man an inestimable gift, a validation, a bearing true witness to one's deepest and most meaningful experiences. One of the best things one person can do for another.
Ben Cooper who was on thousands of radio episodes and multiple movies. Walter Burke great as always, he was in so many TV shows from this era. Great episode and acting.
Dramatic license one would suppose. But they could've had him speak with less energy and/or with some raspiness....or simply not had him gasping to much at the beginning and meet halfway. Also I think the scene where the projectionist tells the jockey that Sam was somewhere else in the world at the time---which is the show's "spooky moment"---could've been handled a little differently, like him just handing the jockey a newspaper story about Sam's race, and letting him read it himself rather than being told. Meaning, turning into a quieter moment where the viewer could really see him slowly digesting what he is reading, with that haunting music coming in. But, that's the Monday-morning director in me. (I knew that actor who tells this to the jockey. Very nice fellow.)
I'm glad he ruined Sam's life. Sam deserved it. There was no reason for Sam to come back from the grave for 'revenge'. Cool that we get to see these stories, Thanks PizzaFlix!
I know! It's wierd to do someone wrong in life and comeback in death to do it also. Especially when to tell a young man in love and a horse jockey before a race I'm leaving and taking your girl with me, we're getting married, is pretty hardcore unprofessional and offstride making for the youngman riding the horse. So pretty underhanded thing to do by an experienced professional horse jockey to another horse jockey you mentor, but with intensity of loss someone telling you "It's going to happen to you that none believe you!" is prophecy. They didn't share if Sam still married the GF or got the bar restauarant or how it hurt the younger rider to lose that 4 to 1 shot. It isn't good to cheat though so better helped by a mentor like Sam probably to live out life's lessons on Earth and not lose out on that shot at heaven just for money on Earth. Cheating to hurt someone else was the GFs action to the youngman and they say two wrongs never make a right, so doing unto others...right? Horrible choices come sometimes in life and a dirty dusty wind was temptation I think, knowing how to delay gratification and avoid temptation in oneself is a gift of wisdom. The youngman using temptation in a profession he was going to reach high pinnacles in can be very foretelling of a price to pay for fame. Doing everything right to achieve fame is real fame and a price paid, doing anything wrong purposefully to achieve fame I believe is a debt you owe either before you leave this life, at the time you leave this life, or maybe get a chance after you leave this life depending how severe the wrong(s). Sam maybe still a mentor had the youngman pay the price in this life where it will hurt you least is the truth of faith wisdom. Not being with a woman who doesn't care enough about you isn't actually a bad thing either as success afterwards of her/him leaving you often proves clearly.
Why did Ronny end up being the bad guy in this episode when the bad guy should have been his friend Sam he's the one who started all the trouble between them by marrying Rita the women who Ronny was in love with. 😐 Just saying...
Where is the universe does it say that if one man loves a woman, that is the end of the story? Sam didn't force Rita to marry him....guys need to stop being guys.
The filmed sequences at the track were exceptional. Were the sequences taken from a different movie or made especially for this ep do we know? I'm not the biggest fan of One Step Beyond but I do like that it's got the big MGM sets so it looks expensive.
That is cowboy regular Ben Cooper. When he was 12 on the ranch, he would teach himself to do all the tricks his favorite stars did on horseback in the movies - not knowing it was stuntman doing it for them.
Not really relevant to the plot. He's just a guy dying who is trying to get his story out before he goes. (The host indicates at the end that his illness is still lacking diagnosis.)
YES, ITS AMAZING AND SO STUPID ALL THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES THAT SMOKED IN THE OLD MOVIES. MY PARENTS KNEW SMOKING WAS VERY BAD AND DANGEROUS TO THE HEALTH BUT IT SEEMS WHEN THOSE MOVIES WERE MADE PPL ACTED LIKE SMOKING WAS GREAT AND THE INN THING TO DO.
@@zennabella1676smoking cigarettes was encouraged by md's, especially mentholated. The menthol was believed to enhance lung function. The armed services also encouraged cigarette use. Official government policy. BTW, get your clot shot... covid is coming back around .
It's like that with boxing too. It's supposed to stop the participants from fixing races/games. I'm not sure about other sports, but I'm assuming it's pretty much across the board with all sports. Basically it boils down to the ethics of the games.
This guy plans to leave his friend to go retire and live nice AND steal his girlfriend and even announce them getting married, expects his friend to be fine with it and let him do his thing so he can go live happy and wealthy and even expected his friend to back down and let him get the winnings from his bet to go do all this. He had NO grounds for revenge. He was a big bad jerk. A terrible friend. That was no revenge that was A-Holery from beyond the grave.
Sam wanted everything, his friends girlfriend and enough money to secure his easy life from then Onwards so he did deserve what he got, he also deserved it for being so stupid as telling his "Friend" all his plans while admitting that he'd stolen his girlfriend, the ultimate betrayal ! it was obvious you can't betray your so called friend and not expect them to react by betraying you in return. So Sam's misfortune was his own fault, he was wrong to try to seek vengeance for something he'd caused in the first place, shows he was selfish in life AND death.
He won that race by cheating and destroyed Sam’s life . Dirty player . No matter what .And what kind of. Oxygen tent is that ? They must have ran out and thought shower curtain might work just the same.
Two morals of story- sometimes just keep your plans to yourself. Also what you do have a way of coming back to you. -Jesus loves all and wants to save all! Romans 10:9-10✌️
As much as comment section says they love this series some of the acting is so bad, as in this episode, the “dying” guy in the what looks like a duvet cover plastic covering in the hospital
Wow...nearly 50 years later, this story still has eerie impact
Thanks for sharing
how many years
64 years now.
Love the music they play at the moment of "realization".
Great story, even had horses in it, always a favorite of mine! 😄🏇🏇 Thanks and blessings for posting. 🙏
May we do our best always
Another thumbs-up and thanks, PizzaFlix.
Actually, the reporter gave the dying man an inestimable gift, a validation, a bearing true witness to one's deepest and most meaningful experiences. One of the best things one person can do for another.
Oxygen delivery systems have certainly improved. And Walter Burke (Sam) and Sandy Kenyon (reporter) were in a couple of great Outer Limits episodes.
And on "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" {Kenyon appeared twice}.
Ben Cooper who was on thousands of radio episodes and multiple movies. Walter Burke great as always, he was in so many TV shows from this era. Great episode and acting.
This was an interesting one. It kinda reminded of a Tales From the Crypt episode.
His breathing improved as he's telling the story...Should've left in the wheezing and gasping!🙃
Dramatic license one would suppose. But they could've had him speak with less energy and/or with some raspiness....or simply not had him gasping to much at the beginning and meet halfway. Also I think the scene where the projectionist tells the jockey that Sam was somewhere else in the world at the time---which is the show's "spooky moment"---could've been handled a little differently, like him just handing the jockey a newspaper story about Sam's race, and letting him read it himself rather than being told. Meaning, turning into a quieter moment where the viewer could really see him slowly digesting what he is reading, with that haunting music coming in. But, that's the Monday-morning director in me. (I knew that actor who tells this to the jockey. Very nice fellow.)
That would have been painful to have to listen to.
Thank you for posting these.
Great series.
Thank you for these pizzaflix
That jockey, the dead one that came back to take revenge might've been pretty terrible a spirit to make him ill like that!
I like the oxygen tent, with its wide open top.
julie jagger You couldn’t see the top, how very strange!!
Kinda like the conman virus does not infect you while eating
Actor Walter Burke who played Sam owned a horse ranch in Pennsylvania. So he knew how to ride a horse. But then he also starred in Westerns too. LOL
Real true story. Fact.
What's it based on?
I'm glad he ruined Sam's life. Sam deserved it. There was no reason for Sam to come back from the grave for 'revenge'. Cool that we get to see these stories, Thanks PizzaFlix!
I know! It's wierd to do someone wrong in life and comeback in death to do it also. Especially when to tell a young man in love and a horse jockey before a race I'm leaving and taking your girl with me, we're getting married, is pretty hardcore unprofessional and offstride making for the youngman riding the horse. So pretty underhanded thing to do by an experienced professional horse jockey to another horse jockey you mentor, but with intensity of loss someone telling you "It's going to happen to you that none believe you!" is prophecy. They didn't share if Sam still married the GF or got the bar restauarant or how it hurt the younger rider to lose that 4 to 1 shot. It isn't good to cheat though so better helped by a mentor like Sam probably to live out life's lessons on Earth and not lose out on that shot at heaven just for money on Earth. Cheating to hurt someone else was the GFs action to the youngman and they say two wrongs never make a right, so doing unto others...right? Horrible choices come sometimes in life and a dirty dusty wind was temptation I think, knowing how to delay gratification and avoid temptation in oneself is a gift of wisdom. The youngman using temptation in a profession he was going to reach high pinnacles in can be very foretelling of a price to pay for fame. Doing everything right to achieve fame is real fame and a price paid, doing anything wrong purposefully to achieve fame I believe is a debt you owe either before you leave this life, at the time you leave this life, or maybe get a chance after you leave this life depending how severe the wrong(s). Sam maybe still a mentor had the youngman pay the price in this life where it will hurt you least is the truth of faith wisdom. Not being with a woman who doesn't care enough about you isn't actually a bad thing either as success afterwards of her/him leaving you often proves clearly.
Be Careful.
Vengeance is Mine, saith the LORD. I shall repay.
He totally effed Sam over.
@@RebeccaLee-d4g😏
Does anyone think that was Wilem Defoes grandfather?
I see the resemblance yes
Shouldn't it be called: "Expensive Care Unit" 🤔
000pp
Truly
Forever the best
Thou shall not lie.
Pretty tall jockey!
So I'm not the only one who saw that
@@upthedownescalator630 People's lack of how the world works always leaves me astounded. In those days they raced giraffs.
What happened to rita?
The guy playing the young jockey's agent (Jerry Hausner) also played Ricky Ricardo's (Desi Arnaz) agent on “I Love Lucy.”
Why did Ronny end up being the bad guy in this episode when the bad guy should have been his friend Sam he's the one who started all the trouble between them by marrying Rita the women who Ronny was in love with. 😐 Just saying...
Sam was a heel, alright
Where is the universe does it say that if one man loves a woman, that is the end of the story? Sam didn't force Rita to marry him....guys need to stop being guys.
Evi_DA_nce. >
@@echopeakbicycling85 true that~
They were both dipshits.
Nitpickers I suppose the TV shows and movies they produce are perfect
The filmed sequences at the track were exceptional. Were the sequences taken from a different movie or made especially for this ep do we know? I'm not the biggest fan of One Step Beyond but I do like that it's got the big MGM sets so it looks expensive.
He is telling the story with a clear, young voice, but, lying in the hospital bed he is too weak to talk.
I think that it was just artistic license.
Thank-you*
Liked it
That's why I quit playing the ponies. All my winners turned out to be all in my head. Thanks, I'm off to online "FreeSlots". [sigh]
That is cowboy regular Ben Cooper. When he was 12 on the ranch, he would teach himself to do all the tricks his favorite stars did on horseback in the movies - not knowing it was stuntman doing it
for them.
Cool story i always like stories about horse mounting Junkies.
how did he end up in the hospital?
Trish Glenn no it’s not
He worked for the Clintons
The host indicates at the end that they are still trying to diagnose his illness.
Smoking crack
Marlboros
Where does the breathing crisis fit in? Too many cigarettes? Sheesh!
Not really relevant to the plot. He's just a guy dying who is trying to get his story out before he goes. (The host indicates at the end that his illness is still lacking diagnosis.)
@@RSEFX I was being facetious. Sheesh!
Blastomycosis in his lungs from horse manure dust borne on the breeze.
YES, ITS AMAZING AND SO STUPID ALL THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES THAT SMOKED IN THE OLD MOVIES. MY PARENTS KNEW SMOKING WAS VERY BAD AND DANGEROUS TO THE HEALTH BUT IT SEEMS WHEN THOSE MOVIES WERE MADE PPL ACTED LIKE SMOKING WAS GREAT AND THE INN THING TO DO.
@@zennabella1676smoking cigarettes was encouraged by md's, especially mentholated. The menthol was believed to enhance lung function. The armed services also encouraged cigarette use. Official government policy. BTW, get your clot shot... covid is coming back around .
I never get nurses like that
Like what?
@@daddygirlchanelhines4600 Hotties!
Originally telecast on June 9, 1959.
that was a long five minutes nurse. lol
Walter Burke played someone really creepy in a show, but I can't remember the name. Wikipedia is no help on this one.
Willem Dafoe was awesome in this episode!
Willem Dafoe? Who did he portray in this episode? He was born in 1955, so he would have been 4 years old at the time.
😂😂 I know, I was joking, but I always felt that this guy 8:18 looks a lot like him. I think I am not the only one.
A great friendship ruined because of the fight for a woman's" love".No woman is worthy or reason enough for it.
There are many women around.
Vengeance ought to be taken by quirk of god
13:50 you're not allowed to bet on a race if you're in it?
It's like that with boxing too. It's supposed to stop the participants from fixing races/games. I'm not sure about other sports, but I'm assuming it's pretty much across the board with all sports. Basically it boils down to the ethics of the games.
How funny! For an oxygen tent theyhave a clear material hanging off a shower ring.
She was forgettable, anyway...
These old shows had a lot of over acting. Too much.
This guy plans to leave his friend to go retire and live nice AND steal his girlfriend and even announce them getting married, expects his friend to be fine with it and let him do his thing so he can go live happy and wealthy and even expected his friend to back down and let him get the winnings from his bet to go do all this. He had NO grounds for revenge. He was a big bad jerk. A terrible friend. That was no revenge that was A-Holery from beyond the grave.
This episode made no sense,what revenge Sam wanted?he cut that boy deep stealing his cheap girl!
Sam wanted everything, his friends girlfriend and enough money to secure his easy life from then Onwards so he did deserve what he got, he also deserved it for being so stupid as telling his "Friend" all his plans while admitting that he'd stolen his girlfriend, the ultimate betrayal ! it was obvious you can't betray your so called friend and not expect them to react by betraying you in return. So Sam's misfortune was his own fault, he was wrong to try to seek vengeance for something he'd caused in the first place, shows he was selfish in life AND death.
Did him a favor scooping ther girl.
Intensive care unit = Euthanasia unit
He won that race by cheating and destroyed Sam’s life . Dirty player . No matter what .And what kind of. Oxygen tent is that ? They must have ran out and thought shower curtain might work just the same.
I think a top jockey would have more than 1
O thousand
Ah, India, the mysterious land of customer service.
Let's go Brandon F Joe Biden
And he's going strong, doing a great job. God bless America!
@@miapdx503another blithering idiot. Phentanyl to you and yours. You get what you vote for.
What does this have to do with an old t.v. show, really!
@@sharon-b7k6zask miapdx503. She put in the communist plug.
1yr later, and Dementia Joe Bribem is now down 10 percentage points to TRUMP! in the polls.
Two morals of story- sometimes just keep your plans to yourself.
Also what you do have a way of coming back to you.
-Jesus loves all and wants to save all! Romans 10:9-10✌️
The stories are BS but good fiction!
As much as comment section says they love this series some of the acting is so bad, as in this episode, the “dying” guy in the what looks like a duvet cover plastic covering in the hospital
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