The Fourth Dimension (film)

the Fourth Dimension ( Twilight Zone, the movie ) is an American collective film carried out by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller, under the direction of John Landis, in 1983. The film is composed of four episodes, carried out by the four realizers previously quoted, and of a prolog, is carried out by John Landis. It was carried out in homage to the American series of the same name the Fourth Dimension . It is Robert Bloch which ensured the novellisation (ED. I have Lu n° 1530) according to the scenarios of film.

Synopsis

Between brackets, the name of the scenario writer having carried out the prolog or the episode in question.

The prolog (John Landis)

A deserted road, with the right in the middle of the night. In a car, two men play to have fear.

First episode (John Landis)

While leaving a bar where it emitted and strong its racist opinions high, Bill is found in the skin of a Jew in occupied France, in that of a black pursued by the Ku Klux Klan and in that of Asian into full Guerre with Vietnam. Its nightmare finishes in a train on the way for a concentration camp…

Second episode (Steven Spielberg)

In an old people's home, a certain Mr Bloom relearns childhood with the boarders, who miraculeusement find the appearance of their childhood.

Third episode (Joe Dante)

A young boy uses strange capacities to retain captive in a universe of cartoon a group of people whom it forces to play his family.

Fourth episode (George Miller)

(Remake of the episode of the series the Fourth Dimension, Nightmare with 20,000 feet ) A man panicked to take the plane, sees a strange creature perched on the wing, cutting up the engine. By drawing a shot through the port-hole, it puts in escape the monster. With the landing, one notes that Valentine is not as insane as it of with the air…

Data sheet

Prolog

Actors

First episode

Actors

Second episode

Actors

  • Scatman Crothers : Mr Bloom
  • Bill Quinn: Mr Conroy

Third episode

Actors

  • Kathleen Quinlan : Helen Foley
  • Jeremy Litch : Anthony
  • Kevin McCarthy: The uncle Walt

Fourth episode

Actors

Comment

The actor Vic Vietnamese Morrow and two children died accidentally during turning, which was worth with John Landis to be accused of manslaughter, before being discharged.

The accident of helicopter

The July 23rd 1982, the actor Vic Morrow and two children committed in an illegal way, My-Ca Ding It and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, respectively 7 and 6 years, died at the time of an accident implying a helicopter. The helicopter, which flew at most at an altitude of 25 feet (8 meters), could not avoid the explosions caused by the pyrotechnical effects used for the scene; whereas it flew over the stretch of water where the actor advanced, holding the two children in its arms. The explosions having damaged the rotor and having made difficult the control of the apparatus, this one came to be crushed on Renee Chen, that Morrow had released under the effect of the breath, then the blades decapitated the actor and the second child. The team embarked in the helicopter will leave unscathed the accident.

The lawsuit

Following the accident, the parents of both vicimes as well as the two girls of Vic Morrow, Carrey Morrow and Jennifer Jason Leigh, attacked in justice the various actors of the drama, of which the realizer John Landis, his producer, the person in charge of the special effects or Warner Bros, for manslaughter. Following a legal imbroglio, all the defendants were discharged, but the responsibilities weigh in particular on John Landis, to have consciously employed illegally two children in middle of the night, against the Californian legislation, to have multiplied the takings risk (he in particular asked the helicopter to fly still and always low). A complete account of the business can be found with the address given at the foot of the page.

See too

External bonds

  • All Butt the Twilight Zone tragedy by Denise Noah, Crime Library.
  • Analysis of the film
  • Card of film on imdb

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