By William Bibbiani

The year was 1961, and “The Twilight Zone” had just cast a young Robert Redford for his looks.

Robert Redford, then just 25 years old, was already a professional actor. He’d been in small roles on hit TV shows like “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Perry Mason,” and on Broadway. His feature film debut had been just one year earlier, in Joshua Logan’s adaptation of “Tall Story” (which also, by sheer coincidence, was the film debut of Jane Fonda).