Dead Man's Shoes
- Episode aired Jan 19, 1962
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
A homeless man takes the shoes off a dead gangster and steps into his life.A homeless man takes the shoes off a dead gangster and steps into his life.A homeless man takes the shoes off a dead gangster and steps into his life.
Florence Marly
- Dagget's Girlfriend
- (as Florence Marley)
Joseph Mell
- Jimmy
- (as Joe Mell)
Eugene Borden
- Maitre d'
- (uncredited)
Marilyn Malloy
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Robert McCord
- Car Passenger
- (uncredited)
Murray Pollack
- Pedestrian
- (uncredited)
Frieda Rentie
- Pianist
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
- Director
- Writers
- Charles Beaumont
- Rod Serling
- Oceo Ritch(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe episode was remade as Dead Woman's Shoes/Wong's Lost and Found Emporium (1985) and Dead Man's Eyes (2002). This makes it the only episode to have appeared in all three series.
- GoofsWhen Nate first encounters the body in the alley and takes the corpse's pulse, the dead man's fingers twitch.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror IX (1998)
Featured review
Are all bums a size 9?
Dead Man's Shoes lacks that magical je ne sais quoi of a classic The Twilight Zone episode, but it is still a reasonably entertaining tale, helped by a solid turn from Warren Stevens, who is transformed from wretched hobo to cool-as-a-cucumber tough man after he half-inches a pair of shoes from a stiff in an alleyway.
Possessing Bowery bum Nathan Bledsoe, the shoes' original owner, gangster Dane, sets about trying to get even with the man who killed him: his greedy business partner Bernie Dagget (Richard Devon). Unfortunately for Dane, Dagget isn't easily fooled, his men killing the gangster for a second time. But when Bledsoe's body is dumped in an alleyway, another tramp takes a shine to those fancy shoes...
One imagines that Dane's next attempt to take revenge will be successful (how many times can he be caught out by a hidden gunman?), but if it isn't, will Dagget eventually cotton on and destroy those loafers? These questions and more await the curious in The Twilight Zone.
Possessing Bowery bum Nathan Bledsoe, the shoes' original owner, gangster Dane, sets about trying to get even with the man who killed him: his greedy business partner Bernie Dagget (Richard Devon). Unfortunately for Dane, Dagget isn't easily fooled, his men killing the gangster for a second time. But when Bledsoe's body is dumped in an alleyway, another tramp takes a shine to those fancy shoes...
One imagines that Dane's next attempt to take revenge will be successful (how many times can he be caught out by a hidden gunman?), but if it isn't, will Dagget eventually cotton on and destroy those loafers? These questions and more await the curious in The Twilight Zone.
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- BA_Harrison
- Apr 2, 2022
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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