Tales of the Unexpected
Tales of the Unexpected ★★½ 1991
Four tales designed to startle the senses and provoke the imagination. Episodes include “People Don't Do Such Things,” about a marriage gone awry, “Youth from Vienna,” about a weird fountain of youth, “Skeleton in the Cupboard,” which tells of a man desperately trying to hide some strange secret and finally, “Bird of Prey,” in which a pet parrot leaves its owners an enormous egg before dying. 101m/C VHS . Arthur Hill, Samantha Eggar, Don Johnson, Dick Smothers, Sharon Gless, James Carroll Jordan, Charles Dance, Zoe Wanamaker, Sondra Locke, Frank Converse; D: Gordon Hessler, Norman Lloyd, Paul Annett, Ray Danton.
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