…I did view this film and understand perfectly what it is dramatizing as I have experienced it myself. Therefore one can conclude some films do intend educating the public. The subjects of the film lose sight of their reality hunt, with a surprise ending inserted into their reality, that would shock most viewers unfamiliar with sci-fi crime films. Because of the shock effect, viewers would hardly entertain any other reality about this film, thus their truth is lost.
Taylor and Rorke, who I am familiar with from I dream of Jeanie, are very good in this film but Stanwyck makes several obvious flub ups I attribute to misdirection. One case in which it is obvious the director tells her to look up at the camera at the wrong time and she seems to have jumped the gun when responding to Hudson’s character in the film. It also appeared there was intent on selling the public on electric percolators, so the sleeper might have been viewing an ad for an electric percolator which may have attributed to Stanwyck’s error. These ads were popular in the 60’s with a woman dressed in a full skirt, tight fitting blouse and glaring look and wide smile. If I had not experienced this for myself in my sleep and during my waking hours, I would never have deduced this information from this film.
A man walking in the area I frequent who looks like my father but walks like a zombie, must have cued me up to find this film.
This films leads into another film and it is clear the Night Walker/Night Caller, Twilight Zone, is a writer and he uses caffeine or drinks coffee to stay awake and it is keeping the sleeper awake also. It is implied the sleeper may be drinking the coffee. Tea is likely an issue as well.
I have had issues with my family about this. We were heavy tea drinkers and both my parents consumed coffee and I did occasionally in my childhood but did not drink it during my young adult life very much. I was prone to drinking the beer. I think this coupled with the films they were viewing and enmeshments, is the reason I hardly ever slept.
