The Ninth Floor Twilight Zone

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The ninth floor twilight zone.

The way she scurries about the floor so ominous and dark no escape it reminded me of how well the twilight zone could grip and compel me. The twilight zone often stumbled when it tackled history some of those episodes have not aged well but this journey into the closing days of world war ii still has power. A short clip from the twilight zone season one classic episode the after hours 1959. She s taken by the elevator man to the ninth floor although the elevator s floor indicator only shows eight floors.

Stream it here. When marsha white gets off the express elevator on the ninth floor of the department store she finds it a desolate place where the lone piece of merchandise is a gold thimble. As marsha returns to the first. With rod serling anne francis elizabeth allen james millhollin.

Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store carrying miss marsha white on a most prosaic ordinary run of the mill errand. She buys it although the saleslady who appears familiar is extremely rude. No not that one the old twilight zone one is probably somewhere close. From the cbs video library cover.

She walks out onto the ninth floor and turns to complain to the. I felt genuinely eerie and didn t envy francis all alone on that floor trapped with those lifeless painted wooden bodies the eyes of mannequins alone cause the hairs on my arms to stand up. This happens to be the twilight zone. A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.

Marsha white anne francis browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store decides on a gold thimble. The twilight zone has a reputation for being this heady serious show but a penny for your thoughts is proof that the show could have a little fun once in a while. Miss marsha white on the ninth floor specialties department looking for a gold thimble the odds are that she ll find it but there are even better odds that she ll find something else because this isn t just a department store.