"Queen of the Nile"

"Queen of the Nile"

An actress's (Ann Blyth) ageless beauty puzzles a writer.

Stars Ann Blyth, Lee Philips.
Original air date: March 6, 1964.

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now THIS...is a TZ episode. great into of the characters. great storyline. and a really incredible surprise ending to find out who the old woman really is.

only a little over average for me. Bobby's right, nice twist w/ the old lady there...

I HATE it, it is awful! Bottom of the barrel, and on my 'absolutely-do-not-watch' list.

I, on the other hand, thought it was pretty decent, especially for a Season 5 episode.

Officer Corey, Certified Psycho was the unofficial president of the "Queen Of The Nile"-Haters Club in days of yore. I wonder if he knows where we are?

"5" I find her annoying and the men stupid.

Leen

Good question, Matt.

I was a member of the club, can you tell?

yeah.. not liking this one..

-ag

7
I like this one.
Herrick's death sequence isn't quite what Walter Jameson's was, but it's still pretty convincing.

Thin on story, but great music and good special effects with the decaying.

im give this episode a 10 oh its comeing on today at 5:00am on scifi

Ann Blythe gives a little account on TCM of her time with Joan Crawford while filming Mildred Pierce together. This is an excellent film for those of you who like film noir. It is showing tomorrow, Thurs. Nov 3 03:45P Eastern on Turner Classic Movies. Look for our favorite used car salesman Jack Carson as well.

Thanks for the reminder, Leen. I saw the clip for this a couple of times in between Hitchcocks.

Thanks for the reminder, Leen. I saw the clip for this a couple of times in between Hitchcocks.

Does anyone have a clip of Ann from that thing? It would be great to see what she looks like! How did she look for 77?

I really like this one! That scenario always fascinates me, and I know I'm going to hame Tomatoes thrown at me, but I like this more than Walter Jameson (ducks and runs away). I find her to be much more frightening and mysterious than Walter, even though I really like LLWJ

I wonder if Walter and Pamela ever met up during those years?

This post has been edited by TZFAN on November 03, 2005 07:28 pm

Oddly enough, she looks exactly the same...

No seriously, Dale, she doesn't appear there as a 77-year-old, sorry. We only hear her voice narrating. They do include clips of her from Mildred Pierce. (Doggone, forgot to watch it today. )

You crack me up Beev. Yes she looks the same as she did in QOTN!!!

No, we don't see her, but she still has that velvety voice. She was a little buttmunch in "Mildred Pierce.' Joan Crawford won an academy award for her role.

http://web.wireimage.com/images/thumbnail/4105582.jpg

I don't have any clue what year this was taken, perhaps yesterday. Perhaps 50 years ago,

I've wondered the same thing, and also whether they could have met with another Walter: Mr. Bedeker, had he not screwed up that immortality contract. Mabye 500 years from now, we see them walking amongst the "Time Enough at Last" ruins, fighting off the cockroaches for food, and not particularly pleasant with each other.

I was watching this this week, and I thought it would be impossible for her to get away with it now because of the visibility of the stars today! Same for Walter Jameson....

Walter could still get away with it. He's not in the lime light - just my opinion.
Ah, the good old days of Hollywood contract players when the studios had control of the paparazzi. Yep, no way she could get away with it today. She'd have to grab the homeless and street people. Hey wait ... don't 20,000 people a year disappear without a trace
I was always attracted to this episode. Keep having flashbacks of Liz Taylor's Cleopatra whenever I watch this.

7!

Yeah paparazzi city!

Caught this today while a little hungover........

Although I had seen people trash this ep somewhere else on the net a good while back, I kinda liked it.
Sure, it had a rip-off from LLWJ but still a good little haunting episode if you ask me.
I also liked the Egyptian type artifacts sprinkled all over the set on this one. Helps to set the mood/stage alot and I thought it was a neat touch.
The spooky black "statue" in the garden or whatever in the beginning was the coolest.
Even though the ending was relatively predictable, I liked it.
Blyth plays the hollywood "starlet/actress" well IMO.

P.S. I think the "mother/daughter" was just jealous because Pamela was going out with all the young guys.
Above average 6 from me and I tend to think its a fair bit underrated.

Thank you and good night.
TZ DZ Fan

More seriously, we learn something happened between Pamela and Viola's husband, but Viola stops short of giving details. We suspect Mr. Draper suffered the same fate as Jordan, but there might instead -- or more likely in addition -- have been a torrid affair.

http://leapinbass.com/zone/picture_pages/t...05/tz143-01.jpg

The statue is the Goddess: Bast. Represented by a Cats head and cat statues in general. Daughter of Ra and best know goddess besides Isis. Originally started out as a sun goddess - then the greeks came and she became a moon goddess.
She watched over women, family, and if offended, was closely associated with an avenging wrath.
Seems really appropriate for this episode.

DrM

This episode I have always liked, although I have never been a fan of actor Lee Phillips.

I gave this episode an 8. One of the simple, fun, creepy stories of the Zone. No platitudes, no messages, just a nice little story. The decomposing scene at the end is how the Long Live Walter Jameson scene SHOULD have been done. It blows that scene out of the water.

I've always seen it vice versa.

I always thought I was being cheated with the Walter Jameson scene. It seemed very silly and fake to me.

reasonably decent ep, sorta anti climatic once you know the truth mid way. You have to wonder why no one guessed what she was up to by now, no investigations, etc, anyway I can't rewrite history but can give it a 6 for acting.

Yeah wasn't there any missing persons reports filed?

Yeah, not one of the most plausible episodes of the series, is it? Can anyone think of ways to make it seem more plausible? I'm not sure it's worth the time, but it might be.

This is the first episode of Season Five that I've rated as "Poor". It's just boring and it's a shallow remake of "Long Live Walter Jameson", right down to the man who turns to dust. There's not much to like here.

I gave it a "2".

I liked this episode, but a few things bothered me: Why hadn't more people noticed she's been around a while? And what about all the people she killed off--weren't they ever linked to her?

There's something about this episode--I think it's the feel of the episode combined with good acting--that made me like it, though.

You're generous old sport you're really quite generous.

gotta go with a 4

What happened to Herrick explains what happened to those who suspected before that probably

That seems like way too many people to be plausible to me. What about those who saw her in an old movie and followed her career?

Doesn't half of Season Five score a "1" with you?

Whatever gave you that idea?