A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies.A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies.A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies.
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- TriviaIn one scene, you can see a pinball game called "Thing," manufactured by Chicago Coin in 1951.
- ConnectionsRemade as Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Road Hog (1986)
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
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Road to Hell
This is my second favorite episode in the series, this story plays out like a E.C. Comics suspense story.
Like in any of those tales we get the bad guy whom is a salesman that is unfeeling and greedy, this scum sucker thinks and acts like he owns everything and everyone as if the world revolves around him. From the beginning he squashes a harmless beautiful butterfly with his dirty shoe, ruining a nice girls day whom was admiring it and he just laughs about it, you just feel instant disgust but that little detail not just shows his social regard for other people but also on the lives of others, destruction of life on both counts means nothing to him.
We even see him at that bar how he is trying to sell mainly erotic items (if anyone is into that), but even when he makes a sale or two, he is completely impolite to customers, as he expected customers to buy more. I guess the old saying, the customer is always right meaning nothing to him.
I really like the protagonists the Pine family, on a side note Richard Chamberlain plays one of the sons this was his debut so good start for him. Another side note the other son looks like actor James Brolin when he was that age, I honestly thought that was him, but it isn't. This family of farmers are sympatric characters that were hard working people that maintain a good business and don't look for trouble. We see the youngest son had an accident with a bull and like any good family they are just driving him to a hospital.
It then comes down to the drive where we see the Pine family is racing to save the youngest son's life. It's suspenseful cause your hoping the family will be able to pass the guy and save their son on time, but the damn salesman once again acts like he owns everything and everyone. He knows what is happening is an emergency, but he doesn't give a toss, as he just deliberately just blocks them and drives below the speed limit, even though he knows it's a road that can be for two cars and you can go faster, so it shows the law is meaningless to him. I remember thinking, "c'mon just give them some damn space" and then of course we see the salesman just crosses the line and it just made my guts boil to magma hot.
It's then a revenge story from here on out, I really like how it's handled just seeing the change in mannerism the son's and the farmer you know it's no more mister nice guy. I really love how crafty they are it their revenge scheme it shows that they're not stereotypical country folk but are people that are smart and should not be underestimated.
This is suspenseful because as we see this revenge scheme conducted, we already know the result, but we don't know how. But I'll just say the salesman is about to be lead on the road to hell.
Rating: 4 stars
Like in any of those tales we get the bad guy whom is a salesman that is unfeeling and greedy, this scum sucker thinks and acts like he owns everything and everyone as if the world revolves around him. From the beginning he squashes a harmless beautiful butterfly with his dirty shoe, ruining a nice girls day whom was admiring it and he just laughs about it, you just feel instant disgust but that little detail not just shows his social regard for other people but also on the lives of others, destruction of life on both counts means nothing to him.
We even see him at that bar how he is trying to sell mainly erotic items (if anyone is into that), but even when he makes a sale or two, he is completely impolite to customers, as he expected customers to buy more. I guess the old saying, the customer is always right meaning nothing to him.
I really like the protagonists the Pine family, on a side note Richard Chamberlain plays one of the sons this was his debut so good start for him. Another side note the other son looks like actor James Brolin when he was that age, I honestly thought that was him, but it isn't. This family of farmers are sympatric characters that were hard working people that maintain a good business and don't look for trouble. We see the youngest son had an accident with a bull and like any good family they are just driving him to a hospital.
It then comes down to the drive where we see the Pine family is racing to save the youngest son's life. It's suspenseful cause your hoping the family will be able to pass the guy and save their son on time, but the damn salesman once again acts like he owns everything and everyone. He knows what is happening is an emergency, but he doesn't give a toss, as he just deliberately just blocks them and drives below the speed limit, even though he knows it's a road that can be for two cars and you can go faster, so it shows the law is meaningless to him. I remember thinking, "c'mon just give them some damn space" and then of course we see the salesman just crosses the line and it just made my guts boil to magma hot.
It's then a revenge story from here on out, I really like how it's handled just seeing the change in mannerism the son's and the farmer you know it's no more mister nice guy. I really love how crafty they are it their revenge scheme it shows that they're not stereotypical country folk but are people that are smart and should not be underestimated.
This is suspenseful because as we see this revenge scheme conducted, we already know the result, but we don't know how. But I'll just say the salesman is about to be lead on the road to hell.
Rating: 4 stars
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- Jan 18, 2019
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