Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room Script

It originally aired on october 14 1960 on cbs.

Nervous man in a four dollar room script.

Nervous man in a four dollar room. Nervous man in a four dollar room is an episode of the the twilight zone. Directed by douglas heyes. Small time criminal jackie rhoades must face both his past and his conscience while waiting for his next assignment.

Jackie rhoades age thirty four and where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their fragmentary existence on earth this man leaves a blot a dirty discolored blemish to document a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his betters. Nervous man in a four dollar room. Though clumsy at times nervous man in a four dollar room is an archetypal rod serling story full of the compassion that runs throughout much of his work. What you re about to watch in this room is a strange.

Be careful what you wish for. In the beginning george ridicules that jackie s going to get guts tonight if he s going to kill the bartender by 2 am at the end of the episode jackie or rather john has guts just enough to stand up to george and send him running bottle episode. Nervous man in a four dollar room is episode 39 of the american television anthology series the twilight zone. According to the book the twilight zone.

The entire episode takes place in jackie s hotel room and the hallway. Unlocking the door to a television classic by martin grams serling wrote the teleplay in response to a request from cbs to write scripts using as few actors as possible for budgetary purposes. Jackie rhodes is a loser with a capital l a character that would hang himself with every piece of rope given to him.