The Twilight Zone: Nervous Man in a $4 Room
12:35 am - 01:05 am, Tuesday, December 30 on WZME MeTV (43.3)
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Nervous Man in a $4 Room
Season 2, Episode 3
A thief (Joe Mantell) is unnerved after his contact gives him his latest assignment. George: William D. Gordon.
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1960
English
HD Level Unknown
Stereo
Drama
Anthology
Suspense/thriller
Cult Classic
Fantasy
Horror
Mystery & Suspense
Cast & Crew
William D. Gordon
(Actor)
.. George
Joe Mantell
(Actor)
.. Jackie Rhodes
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Did You Know..
William D. Gordon
(Actor)
.. George
Trivia:
William D. Gordon got his start writing for radio programs like "The Cisco Kid," "The Tommy Dorsey Show" and "Count of Monte Cristo" during the mid-1930s. In 1939, Gordon began directing early, early television shows for the Mutual Don Lee Network, California and continued working in television and radio in various capacities, including director, producer, announcer, and actor through the early 1950s. He began writing teleplays for the series Maverick and Riverboat in 1959. He continued writing for television nighttime dramas and daytime series through the early 1980s. Gordon also directed Queen for a Day and helped produce, write and edit the television series CHiPs with James Doherty from 1977 to 1982. Upon retirement, Gordon began writing novels about the Civil War.
Joe Mantell
(Actor)
.. Jackie Rhodes
Born:
December 21, 1920
Died: September 29, 2010
Died: September 29, 2010
Trivia:
New York-based stage actor Joe Mantell made his 1949 film debut as a newsboy in Undercover Man. Four years later, Mantell rose to prominence by way of a catchphrase: as Angie in the original 1953 TV production of Paddy Chayefsky's Marty, the actor immortalized the Bronx-bachelor mantra "So waddya wanna do tonight, Marty?" That question was still on his lips when he repeated the role in the 1955 film version of Marty, earning an Academy Award nomination in the process. He went on to more conventional film and TV assignments, playing a surrogate Dean Martin to Jerry Lewis in The Sad Sack (1957) and a traditional next door neighbor on the weekly sitcom Pete and Gladys (1961). He showed up in several filmed TV anthologies of the 1950s and 1960s, most memorably as the literally two-faced protagonist in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room. Hitchcock addicts will remember Mantell as the Travelling Salesman in the 1963 feature film The Birds. The best of Joe Mantell's latter-day film roles was Lawrence Walsh, partner and confidante to private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) in Chinatown; it was Walsh who uttered the film's cryptic closing line "C'mon, Jake. It's....Chinatown." Joe Mantell repeated his Lawrence Walsh characterization in the 1990 Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes.
