(Spoilers) Mickey Rooney in a tour de fore one man performance as corrupt and unscrupulous thoroughbred racehorse jockey Grady who's now facing a lifetime suspension for both pulling and doping horses by the racing commission.
Small in both stature, barley five feet tall, as well as in honesty, in him being suspended dozens of times by the racing commission, Grady crying in his beer in his cheap hotel room gets an unexpected visit from his alter ego or conscience also played by Mickey Rooney. Grady at first thinking that he's hallucinating soon realizes that his alter ego knows as much if not more about him then even he does. Always feeling inferior because of his size which in fact made Grady at one time a top jockey all he want's to be is a real big man. A man so big not only in size but in everything that he does were the girls, who want nothing at all to do with him, would not treat him like the great lover that he feels that he is.
We as well as Grady's alter ego see where he's going which is straight down the rat hole in that he's so screwed up in the head that the very thing that made him rich & famous as well as attractive to the opposite sex on and off the racetrack-his cuddliness and small size-is the one thing that he's so ashamed of and wants to get rid of!
****SPOILERS*** In the end as Grady's suspension from racing is unexpectedly lifted he does get his wish in being not only a big man the the biggest man on record, over 10 feet tall, in all human history! Far too big in that he'll crush any horse he's to ride on. Now just when things were about to break his way Grady has screwed it all up again by not using his head when he was given, by his alter ego, a chance to use it to get himself out of the sorry mess that he now finds himself in.
P.S Even after the Twilight Zone episode is over you soon begin to realize what a first class jerk Grady really is. Now being the tallest man in the world he could have used that, like becoming a multi-million dollar super star basketball player, to become far more rich and famous then he ever was as a jockey. Not to mention all the classy and gorgeous girls who would flock to him like they did, by the hundreds if not thousands, to the late seven foot two inches tall Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain. But in being not too bright and always feeling sorry for himself even when,like in this case, he doesn't have to Brady blew that golden opportunity as well!
Small in both stature, barley five feet tall, as well as in honesty, in him being suspended dozens of times by the racing commission, Grady crying in his beer in his cheap hotel room gets an unexpected visit from his alter ego or conscience also played by Mickey Rooney. Grady at first thinking that he's hallucinating soon realizes that his alter ego knows as much if not more about him then even he does. Always feeling inferior because of his size which in fact made Grady at one time a top jockey all he want's to be is a real big man. A man so big not only in size but in everything that he does were the girls, who want nothing at all to do with him, would not treat him like the great lover that he feels that he is.
We as well as Grady's alter ego see where he's going which is straight down the rat hole in that he's so screwed up in the head that the very thing that made him rich & famous as well as attractive to the opposite sex on and off the racetrack-his cuddliness and small size-is the one thing that he's so ashamed of and wants to get rid of!
****SPOILERS*** In the end as Grady's suspension from racing is unexpectedly lifted he does get his wish in being not only a big man the the biggest man on record, over 10 feet tall, in all human history! Far too big in that he'll crush any horse he's to ride on. Now just when things were about to break his way Grady has screwed it all up again by not using his head when he was given, by his alter ego, a chance to use it to get himself out of the sorry mess that he now finds himself in.
P.S Even after the Twilight Zone episode is over you soon begin to realize what a first class jerk Grady really is. Now being the tallest man in the world he could have used that, like becoming a multi-million dollar super star basketball player, to become far more rich and famous then he ever was as a jockey. Not to mention all the classy and gorgeous girls who would flock to him like they did, by the hundreds if not thousands, to the late seven foot two inches tall Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain. But in being not too bright and always feeling sorry for himself even when,like in this case, he doesn't have to Brady blew that golden opportunity as well!
