The Twilight Zone: Dead Man's Shoes (1962)
Season 3, Episode 18
10/10
Walk a mile in my shoes, and if the shoe fits take on new identity!
23 June 2020
This "TZ" episode from 1962 season 3 called "Dead Man's Shoes" is an excellent tale one of an identity theme that changes. The story is simple a dead body is dumped in a city alley by some mob gangsters and found and discovered by a bum and homeless man named Nate Bledsoe(Warren Stevens). The greatest gift found and taken is a pair of fancy shoes. Slowly bit by bit Nate takes over the body and identity role of the dead guy who he later learns to be Dagget from the dead's girlfriend. So now it's a life of whiskey, guns, and mob meetings only as one knows good things don't last forever as you will see with this episode. The shoes might be stylish with identity power, yet they have a downside of risk and danger as each new individual will find out when coming in possession of the pair. Overall great excellent episode that was clever as it was compelling and interesting the way it showed death and identity transformation.
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