Question about tonight's Twilight Zone

“The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine,” with Ida Lupino and Martin Balsam. When the episode opens, Lupino (like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard) is watching an old movie in which she’s kissing a soldier goodbye. Judging from the uniform, I’d say he’s Austrian or Italian, late 19th–early 20th century. Looks very Hemingway-esque.

I’ve looked for this movie at IMDb, but I can’t find it. The episode implies it was from the late '30s, but I see nothing in Lupino’s filmography that matches.

Any ideas what it could be? Or did the TZ crew succeed in making her look much younger and film the scene themselves?

That’s it. It isn’t a real movie. Notice that the IMDB credits list John Clarke, who was 28 at the time, playing the “Young Jerry Hearndon” in the film. Hearndon in the present was played by Jerome Cowan, who was 62.

Aha! Mystery solved. Thank you! :cool:

Question about tonight’s Twilight Zone

Picture, if you will, an internet message board connecting past and future. A television viewer from 1959 inadvertently discovers their favorite show is a cult classic over five decades later.

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