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The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (Season 1, Episode 4)
April 09, 2025 · 67 min

Patrick Perot and Matt Stokes go through the fourth episode of The Twilight Zone: "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine."

Ida Lupino plays Barbara Jean, a former movie star whose early-1930s heyday has long since passed. She spends her days sequestered in a screening room of her house, re-watching her own movies... and maybe doing more than that. 

Patrick calls this the first "real" episode of The Twilight Zone. And he's right. It's great from beginning to end and has the first legitimately inspired Twilight Zone-esque ending of the series.

"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" originally aired October 23, 1959; directed by Mitchell leisen; written by Rod Serling; starring Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Jerome Cowan, Alice Frost, and Ted de Corsia as Marty.

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