this film have a lot of good thing go for it . base on ray bradbury novel and with the equally talented richard matheson do the screenplay . a top notch cast include rock hudson and roddy mcdowell and darren mcgavin . so where do it go wrong . well and first and the cheap special effect . i think they go with this because this be the post star war science fiction craze and but star war have so raise the bar on special effect and that the tired model on wire method just wasn not go to satisfy anymore . second and bradbury novel be a collection of short story string together with a common thread . some of the story be publish previously and and bradbury include them in an overall book . matheson decide to play up recur character in order to give the story more of a narrative and include hudson character . overall and it doesn not work . bradbury ornate write doesn not translate well to the screen despite the best effort of matheson and the actor .