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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | James Goldstone, Felix E. Feist, Byron Haskin, Leonard Horn, László Benedek, Abner Biberman, John Brahm, Paul Stanley, Gerd Oswald, Charles F. Haas |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 16 September, 1963 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mgm/Ua Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616148032 |
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Customer Reviews of The Outer Limits: Fun & Games
Intriguing plot and entertaining This episode was entertaining in part because the games master of Andarra is quite a character. He actually engages in a little psycho-analysis of the humans which is rather amusing.
A certain mystery surrounds the games master as we never really get to see his face clearly. He is always sitting back in the shadows just far enough to prevent a clear view of himself.
When the Earth man is first teleported from Earth to Andarra, his first reaction is to ask if he is dead. The games master asks in return "Why is it your species that is always so concerned with death?" This implies that other races of beings are not so preoccupied with their own mortality. An interesting assumption or speculation.
A final speculation: Could the tableau of the games master behind his control console be what will confront us at our own respective judgements?!
His Fun and Games
In this episode, a man and woman are transported to another planet to fight a couple of aliens (male and female). If they win the earth is saved otherwise the earth will be destroyed. The alien that is host of "Fun and Games" has a good sense of humor and must find interesting ways to keep the inhabits of his world entertained. The makeup of the aliens is good but it is interesting to see the earth woman doing battle in a dress and high heels.
Alien Aboriginal Apes In An Interplanetary Arena
Generally overrated but memorable OL entry.
A sneeringly superior decadent Senator of the planet Andera abducts small-time hood/prizefighter Nick Adams and true-blue do-gooder Nancy Malone, to solicit them for gladiatorial games to entertain his jaded populace. If they decline, the Earth is destroyed in a grand display lasting about five years - "like a firecracker in a black summer sky," as the blase Senator shruggingly puts it. If they accept, they are pitted in a duel to the death against two primitive but resourceful wolf-like apish aborigines from "an unnamed planet in the Calco galaxy," on a prehistorically-climated planet designated the "Arena."
Given the nature of the script, this episode should be action-packed, but in fact is rather static (and talky) throughout. It's memorable for Robert Johnson's gleefully sadistic Senator, who remains tauntingly in the shadows with his long, Mandarin nails and scepter of power, and for the smoulderingly suffocating atmospheric Arena. The Calco primitives are primitive indeed, OL being pretty short on budget when this one was filmed, essentially nothing more than fixed-expression masks and clawed gloves (except for one or two close-ups, where the mask's eyes roll) - but no one ever forgets their weapon, which was probably the most famous prop of the entire series: saw-toothed razor boomerangs.
Great beginning, with an imaginatively filmed gangster's poker game, long, rather muddled middle, and a decent last half, but the fairly dramatic finale is too abrupt. The performances are good, especially Johnson's hammy melodrama villain of a Senator.