The Rip Van Winkle Caper - Rod Serling (Audio CD) Reviews

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Newest Review: ... real problems are in fact only just beginning... I absolutely love the central premise of The Rip Van Winkle Caper - group ... more

 ... of criminals do a big heist and go into suspended animation for a hundred years to escape detection! - and the television episode is one of my favourites. This adaption is pretty good too although it's hard to beat Oscar Beregi and Simon Oakland as Farwell and Decruz respectively in the television original. The two central characters are played instead here by Tim Kazurinsky and Stacey Keach and although I have no idea who Kazurinsky is he's generally fine and throws himself into the spirit of things. The general pre...more

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The Rip Van Winkle Caper - Rod Serling (Audio CD): One Hundred Years Young (973 words)
by - written on 03/05/11, updated on  03/05/11 (Very useful, 81 readings)
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The Rip Van Winkle Caper is a 2009 radio adaption of a fondly remembered sixties black and white Twilight Zone episode written by Rod Serling. A small group of thieves have stolen $1 million worth of gold bullion from a train heading from Fort Knox to Los Angeles. Their leader, chemist/physicist and criminal mastermind professor Farwell, has devised what he believes to be a brilliant plan for them to remain free and enjoy the money. In an old cave deep in the desert he reveals suspended animation pods he has invented and tells his fellow bullion nabbers they are going to climb into the pods and sleep for a hundred years. 'The piece de resistance now. The real ...  Read the complete review

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