Solid entry that raises a couple of interesting philosophical questions. First, can there be too much of a good thing. And second (and more problematically), how would you feel if you knew the outcome of your actions was determined by an unnatural force outside yourself. Your choices would remain free choices, but the outcomes themselves would result from programming outside yourself. So whether you choose to roll the dice or not, for example, remains a matter of free choice. However, if you do roll them, the outcome is determined not by force of gravity or by a law of averages, but by an outside programmer who has already decided whether you will win or lose. Could you still take pleasure in your choices knowing that the results were out of your hands, so to speak.
Blyden's small-time thief has just such an experience after being shot in a robbery. Sets are imaginative and well-mounted. Much of the polish is no doubt do to director John Brahm, who was for many years a stylish filmmaker with 20th Century/Fox. Larry Blyden is appropriately obnoxious as a bottom-feeder who suddenly can do no wrong, while portly Sebastian Cabot projects the unusual quality of sinister geniality. And who wouldn't want to be in Blyden's shoes? An episode to think about.
Blyden's small-time thief has just such an experience after being shot in a robbery. Sets are imaginative and well-mounted. Much of the polish is no doubt do to director John Brahm, who was for many years a stylish filmmaker with 20th Century/Fox. Larry Blyden is appropriately obnoxious as a bottom-feeder who suddenly can do no wrong, while portly Sebastian Cabot projects the unusual quality of sinister geniality. And who wouldn't want to be in Blyden's shoes? An episode to think about.