Twlight Zone Accident | The Final Cut
3/10/202639 min
After the fatal accident on the set at Indian Dunes, John Landis, George Folsey Jr. and others from the production team face a reckoning in court.
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First 90 secondsLindsey Graham· Host0:00
American Scandal uses dramatizations that are based on true events. Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, but everything is based on historical research. [suspenseful music] It's early August nineteen eighty-two at a restaurant in Toluca Lake, California, a wealthy neighborhood just north of Hollywood. Hampton's is a popular lunch spot for many of the actors and celebrities in the area, and it's an obvious place for producer George Folsey Jr. to catch up with an old friend. Donna Schuman has known Folsey for over a decade, but they've never met in circumstances like this. It's been just over ten days since the accident on set of Twilight Zone The Movie. Fifty-two-year-old Vic Morrow and child actors Renee Chen and Myca Dinh Le were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during the filming of a scene at night. The two children were working illegally on the movie, and now there are several investigations underway by the police and safety regulators. But Donna Schuman doesn't want to wait for the official reports to find out what happened. She worked on the John Landis segment of the movie as a production secretary, and it was her husband, the psychiatrist Dr. Harold Schuman, who helped Folsey recruit Renee and Myca. So now the couple want some answers. After the waitress