With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with us? The Twilight Zone (Episode #76): “Still Valley” (airdate 11/24/61) The Plot:  Confederate soldiers in the final days of the Civil War find a warlock whose magic may be strong enough to help the South rise again. The Goods: Sgt. Joseph Paradine (Gary Merrill) is fed up with the Civil War. It’s bad enough he picked the losing side, but now as the Confederacy moves quickly and inexorably towards defeat Paradine finds himself stuck with a weak-willed and whiny fellow soldier at his side. The duo are out on scout duty when they hear the tell tale sounds of Union soldiers rabble rousing through a town at the base of the hill. Paradine heads down to scope out the enemy and finds something surprising. The soldiers are frozen where they stand… almost as if the film has been paused!

We’re spending all week celebrating war movies. Today we learn what happens when a group of men who have been marginalized by their country fight for it.

A while ago I wrote about Robert Redford’s upcoming film about Mary Surratt, one of the more controversial players in the Lincoln assassination. After which I was contacted by Chris King, who made a short film on the same subject…

You can all calm down. They finally figured out who shot President Lincoln. Now to get to work on who shot J.R.