(Some Spoilers) The biggest fault of the "Twilight Zone" episode "He's Alive" is just how obvious who the big mystery man in it is. You can see and hear right away that the guy in the shadows talking with a German accent is non other then the late notorious and possibly, in rumor's that followed his disappearance at the end of WWII, at large Adolph Hitler himself! Yet Neo-Nazi bigwig and Hitler lover Peter Vollmer, Dennis Hooper, had no cue to who he was! Even with him having a bigger then life size Hitler poster displayed in all the rallies he held in trying to convince the people in attendance just what a great guy Hitler was and that we, the American people, should fellow in his footsteps!
Hitler played by Curt Conway made his grand appearance, in the shadows and behind the scenes, when Vollmer's campaign to convert his mostly minority neighborhood to Nazism went bust. That's when Vollmer and his fellow Neo-Nazis got pelted with rotten tomatoes and beaten up by a bunch of outraged citizens who just had enough of his pro-Nazi BS. With his Nazi movement, that amount to less then a dozen misfits and wackos, now in shambles Hitler showed up to give Vollmer tips on how the sway the public to his side and agree to his way of thinking.
Of course Vollmer had no idea who this stranger was even though if he had read anything about him or seen him on TV newsreels and documentaries, not counting the dozens of movies about him, it would have been as obvious to him as the nose, that was earlier broken in a fist fight, on his face that he was Adolph Hitler. Following Hitler's advice Vallmer does in fact start to make progress in convincing the people that he, and his pro-Nazi ideas, is what America needs to get out of the mess that those, which is about 80% of its population, who are out to destroy it got it into.
It's later when Vollmer's surrogate father who raised him since he was a little boy, after his real father kicked him out of the house, the kind and elderly Jewish holocaust survivor Ernst Ganz, Ludwig Donath, decided to put a stop to his insanity that things started to really turn against him.
Given orders by his Fuhrer Adolph Hitler, who by now had reviled himself to a shocked and startled Vollmer, to do the old guy in before he, by talking too much, wrecks his master plan to take over America and later the world! Vollmer, showing at last a sign of sanity, hedges for a moment in him rethinking just what this, in going through with Hitler's wishes, would mean to him. How can he murder a man who was the only person in the world who ever treated him with love and kindness in-spite in how utterly rotten he was!
**SPOILERS*** It's in following Hitler's orders that lead to Vollmer and his ragtag Neo-Nazi Party's complete and utter destruction; Like the German nation who follow Vollmer's hero Adolph Hitler in the mid 1930's and early 1940's. The ironic thing about Vollmer's demise was not his murder of old man Ganz that had the police hot on his tail! But in his ordering the murder of his best friend and Neo-Nazi party member Nick, Howard Caine! It was at Hitler's insistence that Nick be killed and his murder made to look like the work of one the of the many, numbering in the tens of million, anti-Nazi vigilantes in the country. This murderous act in fact, according to Hitler, was to gain sympathy for Vollmer's movement and gain it new members. What it actually did was end up destroying Vollmer's Neo-Nazi movement together with Vollmer himself!
Hitler played by Curt Conway made his grand appearance, in the shadows and behind the scenes, when Vollmer's campaign to convert his mostly minority neighborhood to Nazism went bust. That's when Vollmer and his fellow Neo-Nazis got pelted with rotten tomatoes and beaten up by a bunch of outraged citizens who just had enough of his pro-Nazi BS. With his Nazi movement, that amount to less then a dozen misfits and wackos, now in shambles Hitler showed up to give Vollmer tips on how the sway the public to his side and agree to his way of thinking.
Of course Vollmer had no idea who this stranger was even though if he had read anything about him or seen him on TV newsreels and documentaries, not counting the dozens of movies about him, it would have been as obvious to him as the nose, that was earlier broken in a fist fight, on his face that he was Adolph Hitler. Following Hitler's advice Vallmer does in fact start to make progress in convincing the people that he, and his pro-Nazi ideas, is what America needs to get out of the mess that those, which is about 80% of its population, who are out to destroy it got it into.
It's later when Vollmer's surrogate father who raised him since he was a little boy, after his real father kicked him out of the house, the kind and elderly Jewish holocaust survivor Ernst Ganz, Ludwig Donath, decided to put a stop to his insanity that things started to really turn against him.
Given orders by his Fuhrer Adolph Hitler, who by now had reviled himself to a shocked and startled Vollmer, to do the old guy in before he, by talking too much, wrecks his master plan to take over America and later the world! Vollmer, showing at last a sign of sanity, hedges for a moment in him rethinking just what this, in going through with Hitler's wishes, would mean to him. How can he murder a man who was the only person in the world who ever treated him with love and kindness in-spite in how utterly rotten he was!
**SPOILERS*** It's in following Hitler's orders that lead to Vollmer and his ragtag Neo-Nazi Party's complete and utter destruction; Like the German nation who follow Vollmer's hero Adolph Hitler in the mid 1930's and early 1940's. The ironic thing about Vollmer's demise was not his murder of old man Ganz that had the police hot on his tail! But in his ordering the murder of his best friend and Neo-Nazi party member Nick, Howard Caine! It was at Hitler's insistence that Nick be killed and his murder made to look like the work of one the of the many, numbering in the tens of million, anti-Nazi vigilantes in the country. This murderous act in fact, according to Hitler, was to gain sympathy for Vollmer's movement and gain it new members. What it actually did was end up destroying Vollmer's Neo-Nazi movement together with Vollmer himself!