Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) The Shattered Glass (1964) User Reviews

Talk, talk, talk, talk...nothing but talk from three very screwed up people.

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 30 April 2021]

"The Shattered Glass" is an installment of one the longest titled shows I've seen, "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre". It was an anthology series of the mid-1960s....a genre that was very popular in the 1950s and early 60s...and it was one of the last of its kind.

The episode feels like you took a script and randomly excised portions of it. In other words, pieces seem missing and the context often seems missing. I had trouble keeping up with what was happening for this reason AND because the show was incredibly talky. In fact, for it's hour run time, very little happened outside of the opening scene where Helen (Shirley Jones) tried to drown herself and David (William Shatner) swims out to save her. Aside from this, it's just talk and you eventually see that Helen is suicidal, co-dependent AND possibly in love with her father and David is an alcoholic. But it was really tough caring about these people and their problems...as they seemed less like real people and more like characters in a hastily written anthology program....with some occasional overacting.

This is on YouTube, though there simply are better things out there waiting to be seen instead.

You can live without it.

[searchanddestroy-1 · 4/10 · 22 February 2020]

It's no more than a talkative and intellectual tale about a husband whose issues with his wife and father in law will nearly destroy him. Ok performance though from Bill Shatner in this tortured man lost in his soul of misery. Yes, only Shatner is worth here. This could have been a perfect long length feature. But after all, this show is nothing else than a TV and sixty minutes episodes version of long movies. Nothing to do with AH presents or TWILIGHT ZONE series.