{"id":1786,"date":"2010-03-23T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T05:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2010-03-23T00:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T05:01:03","slug":"twilight-zone-the-shelter-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Zone: The Shelter (1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Reviewed by Geno McGahee
\n<\/strong>\u00a0
\nDr. Stockton (Larry Gates) has built a bomb shelter and his wealthy friends all seem to believe that he was crazy for building it.\u00a0 They poke fun at him at a dinner party over it, but when a bulletin over the radio declares that there may be enemy nuclear missiles headed toward the U.S., everyone wants in his bomb shelter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jerry Harlowe (Jack Albertson) of Willy Wonka fame.\u00a0 He was Grampa Joe.\u00a0 Unfortunately for him, not even a golden ticket would get him into Stockton\u2019s shelter.\u00a0 Not even a musical number would sway Stockton.\u00a0 I don’t even think that an Oompa Loompa\u00a0could talk\u00a0some sense into\u00a0the doctor.\u00a0He and his family locked themselves in and away from their friends, who soon begin to congregate outside of the shelter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The more that time goes by, the more that tempers flare and real feelings come out.\u00a0 What makes this show so great is that it never pulled any punches and it was real.\u00a0 The good friends at the party begin to unravel and insult each other, all fighting for the right to live and to find their way into the bomb shelter.<\/p>\n

With the danger apparently more eminent, the mob takes a battering ram and knocks down the shelter door.\u00a0 They are ready to kill and the Doctor and his family probably would have been had the radio broadcast not announced that it was a false alarm.\u00a0 Suddenly reality hits them and they all realize that they were ready to kill their best of friends and that they had said the worst things to and about each other.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stockton is most affected by the situation that had just transpired.\u00a0 Everyone, including himself, were exposed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

RSR Rating: 8\/10.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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