Review of Elegy

The Twilight Zone: Elegy (1960)
Season 1, Episode 20
7/10
Well, if I were about to be murdered, I choose someone like Cecil Kellaway to do it!
3 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
It all begins with three astronauts crashing on an asteroid. Oddly, the place looks like Earth and seems really nice. Here's the odd part, though, they do see plenty of people but they all are frozen in place--almost like exhibits in a natural history museum. They are all in the process of doing interesting things, but they are frozen solid. It turns out that the caretaker, Cecil Kellaway knows why--and the astronauts are NOT going to like it!

Cecil Kellaway was a wonderful character actor. He had a certain glow about him--a sparkle in his eyes that made this old man absolutely adorable. So, when it turns out he's a ghoulish guy in charge of a bizarre cemetery, I thought to myself that IF I had to be murdered, it would be nice to be done in by someone as homey and sweet as Kellaway!

Decent acting and an interesting script. The only problem is that this plot, like a few others in the series, didn't merit a 30 minute time slot. It could have been done in 10 and the pace wouldn't have dragged like this one did at times.
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