Failed writer and his wife in a cheap motel... husband wakes up and finds he's written a short story in his sleep... Wife submits the story to a magazine... Oh yes, we remember 'Dead Man's Tales' from the old black-&-white 'One Step Beyond' series. And this remake leaves us wondering why they bothered reviving the series at all, with so little to show for it. (It folded within months).
As before, the short-story mysteriously turns out to be an accurate account of two brothers venturing into the goldfields, where they quarrel and shoot each other. One of the widows reads the story and demands to know how they learned the details. Using the money he earned for the story, the husband finds his way to the remote location... and there we must leave it, partly because I don't do spoilers, and partly because I didn't quite grasp the scrambled ending!
Our host John Newland, looking only a little older and greyer, ends on a mini-sermon about greed of gold. Virginia Leith, as the widow, carries a bit more conviction than the unknown used on the earlier version. Apart from that, I don't see any virtue in the new full-colour production.
As before, the short-story mysteriously turns out to be an accurate account of two brothers venturing into the goldfields, where they quarrel and shoot each other. One of the widows reads the story and demands to know how they learned the details. Using the money he earned for the story, the husband finds his way to the remote location... and there we must leave it, partly because I don't do spoilers, and partly because I didn't quite grasp the scrambled ending!
Our host John Newland, looking only a little older and greyer, ends on a mini-sermon about greed of gold. Virginia Leith, as the widow, carries a bit more conviction than the unknown used on the earlier version. Apart from that, I don't see any virtue in the new full-colour production.