The Four of Us Are Dying

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season one
(1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1959 – Summer 1960
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. Where Is Everybody?
  2. One for the Angels
  3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday
  4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
  5. Walking Distance
  6. Escape Clause
  7. The Lonely
  8. Time Enough at Last
  9. Perchance to Dream
  10. Judgment Night
  11. And When the Sky Was Opened
  12. What You Need
  13. The Four of Us Are Dying
  14. Third from the Sun
  15. I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
  16. The Hitch-Hiker
  17. The Fever
  18. The Last Flight
  19. The Purple Testament
  20. Elegy
  21. Mirror Image
  22. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
  23. A World of Difference
  24. Long Live Walter Jameson
  25. People Are Alike All Over
  26. Execution
  27. The Big Tall Wish
  28. A Nice Place to Visit
  29. Nightmare as a Child
  30. A Stop at Willoughby
  31. The Chaser
  32. A Passage for Trumpet
  33. Mr. Bevis
  34. The After Hours
  35. The Mighty Casey
  36. A World of His Own

“The Four of Us Are Dying” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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Arch Hammer is a man who can change his face to make it look like anyone he chooses. He first impersonates trumpeter Johnny Foster in order to steal Foster's girlfriend, a sultry singer. Hammer then impersonates murdered gangster Sterig in order to extort money out of Penell, the man who killed Sterig. But Penell figures out the deception and sends his men to go after him. Trying to escape, Hammer changes his face to that of boxer Marshak. But he then runs into Marshak's father, who mistakes him for the son who broke his mother's heart. Hammer pushes the old man out of the way and returns to his hotel room. Later, when Hammer tries to escape from the police, he assumes Marshak's appearance again. But he bumps into Marshak's father again, who shoots him. As Hammer lies dying, his face shifts from one person to another until he dies wearing his own face.

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  • “After the first half-dozen stories had been written, part of the hustle was getting an agent. Through those years I found several who would let me use their names, though few cared to sign a contract with me. One of these men, Jay Richards - at the time head of the television department of the Famous Artists Agency, long since absorbed by I.F.A. (International Famous Agency), and since embedded in I.C.M. (International Creative Management), which represents me now in television and movies - agreed to read something. I showed Jay ‘All of Us Are Dying.’ After reading it, he crossed out the title with a ballpoint pen and wrote in ‘Rubberface!’ Then he sent it to Rod Serling, who had a new series that season called the Twilight Zone." —George Clayton Johnson writing in the August 1981 issue of The Twilight Zone Magazine.

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[edit] References

  • Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)