"What You Need" was a first season "Twilight Zone" episode where a fancy pair of shoes was a major prop for leading man Steve Cochran, the type of prop that ties into the happenstance of one man's destiny. Now it's Warren Stevens in those shoes, stolen from a corpse dumped mysteriously in an alley. With the shoes come the dead man's memory, and along with that, all of his troubles. It's obvious that the dead man was dumped for a reason, and for Stevens, that may mean finding his own zone on more than one occasion.
Stevens, initially seen as a homeless man, dresses up really nice, and soon, his character has gone down Steve Cochran/Richard Conte/Dane Clark/Ray Danton territory as the dead character's persona is revealed through "reunions" with old colleagues. Joan Marshall is the old girlfriend, with Richard Devon and Ben Wright as the "colleagues". It's an entrance to a zone that appears to have no exit.....as long as there are homeless men around who can fit into a pair of size 9 shoes.
Stevens, initially seen as a homeless man, dresses up really nice, and soon, his character has gone down Steve Cochran/Richard Conte/Dane Clark/Ray Danton territory as the dead character's persona is revealed through "reunions" with old colleagues. Joan Marshall is the old girlfriend, with Richard Devon and Ben Wright as the "colleagues". It's an entrance to a zone that appears to have no exit.....as long as there are homeless men around who can fit into a pair of size 9 shoes.