WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:12.199 Astounding Tales of the Public Domain with Father Malone. Enhanced audio performances from the 2 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:19.399 Golden Age of science fiction, featuring tales by Brave Radberry, Miriam Alan d 3 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:24.960 Ford, Robert E. Howard, Paul Anderson, H. P. Lovecraft, 4 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:32.000 and Moore. Hear it twice monthly at weirding Way Media. Astounding Tales 5 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:54.159 of the Public Domain with Father Malone, weirding Way Media, Redially Pat Pignic, 6 00:00:54.920 --> 00:01:00.759 light and shad, Realism, Surrealism, impressionism, end of a story 7 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:06.640 and interest in the dblall a god of lightship towards the desire. And this 8 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:11.760 place is nothing if it isn't desire. There's no admission, no requirement of 9 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.159 membership, only a strong and a pighting belief. And the part at the 10 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.719 top of the stairs or the things that go bump in the night. The 11 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:23.920 name of this place that you would come in your actually bentially out of the 12 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:32.640 range is the night Got Welcome back art lovers to Midnight Viewing The Night Gallery 13 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:37.439 podcast, where we discuss Night Gallery Rod Serlings follow up to The Twilight Zone. 14 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:41.400 I'm Father alone and with me here in the gallery are the projection booths. 15 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:46.640 Mike White, Wow, have you seen my Jesus Christ, I blew 16 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:56.640 that line completely. Have you seen my tambourine and the culture cast Chris Stash? 17 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:59.840 You don't you know you're supposed to remove your hat around a lady? 18 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:05.760 And we are discussing Season two, episode eleven, which aired on December the 19 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.400 first, nineteen seventy one. This episode is split into three segments. Those 20 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:15.879 are Pickman's Model, The Deer Departed, and an Act of Chivalry. HP 21 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:21.319 Lovecraft, known to the a sacinados of the occult demonology. Witchcraft as a 22 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:27.639 master's storyteller is responsible for our first selection in this museum of the frequently morbid. 23 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.719 Two connoisseurs of the Black Arts, you will probably recognize it. It's 24 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:38.280 a painting that tells the story of a young artist who recruits his models from 25 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:42.919 odd places, and the models are very odd. Indeed, the painter's name 26 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.960 accidentally is Pickman. The title is Pickman's Model. And where else would you 27 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:54.080 see a story like this except in the night Gallery, all right. Pickman's 28 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:00.719 Model was written by Alvin Sappinslee from a short story by HP Lovecraft and directed 29 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.840 by Jack Laird, starring Bradford Dillman, who I only know from Piranha, 30 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:10.240 Louise Cerell, who is in one thousand episodes literally no joke, one thousand 31 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:15.240 episodes of Days of Our Lives, and one episode of Bannit Check, and 32 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:23.599 Donald Moffatt, Oh my, oh done, yeah, unbelievably young Donald Moffatt. 33 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:29.599 This is the story of a young painter and his student and the horrible 34 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:32.599 thing he's painting that might just be real. What do you think of this 35 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:40.000 one, Mike? I found this interesting. It reminded me at times of 36 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:45.240 a Cold Check episode. I don't know why. I guess it was just 37 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:49.560 because of the weird creatures and kind of I guess maybe christ And reminded me 38 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.879 a little bit of the night Strangler with this like old Seattle, but this 39 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.360 time it's what old Boston type of thing. That's right, kid, and 40 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:00.800 this whole like mystery that's set up because there's a around this one. And 41 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:04.960 then it reminded me a creep show at the very end. You know which 42 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:10.439 segment I'm talking about, the one with Hal Holbrook. But it takes a 43 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:14.879 long time to get there, Like I wish it this one and I sounded 44 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.680 like a broken record because I said this in the last episode. I wanted 45 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.240 this to get to where it was going so much quicker, and they give 46 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:28.800 all these explanations for why this artist quit quit painting. He disappeared. Oh 47 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.480 there was something wrong with his hand, da And I don't know when they 48 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.199 introduced the hand thing, but it took a long time for me to realize 49 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:42.560 that he's got an ft up hand from his poppy. But overall, I 50 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:45.360 thought it was pretty good, better than I thought it was going to be. 51 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:48.839 How about you, Chris? Is it weird that within the last six 52 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:54.240 months this was adapted again? Was it really? Yeah? It was in 53 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:59.079 Garabel del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosity. My friends. Oh wow, how how 54 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:02.720 does it compare? This is way better? Okay? I mean what's funny 55 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.480 is, obviously, when you have the source material of HB. Lovecraft, 56 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:10.560 you're you're setting yourself up, I think, for success because HB. Lovecraft 57 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:15.879 is a fantastic author. So the source material is good, as they would 58 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:18.800 say, the body is willing, So the source material is really good. 59 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:23.639 So they have to do a lot to really fuck it up. And I 60 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.839 don't think that they do. I think they tell an interesting story here and 61 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.839 use the source material in an interesting way and I've never seen Bradford Dilman and 62 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.680 anything else. And he's fine. Oh oh oh, I'm sorry to call 63 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:39.000 you a liar, but I'm gonna call you a liar right now, sir. 64 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:46.639 He just got murdered on the Greenhouse Jungle episode of Colombo. But he 65 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:51.839 is such a weird milktoast factor that he could be anybody, like, oh 66 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:58.800 my god, you're right. Yeah, he has like he's he's nothing. 67 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.279 He's just this weird heard cipher because I've seen him in a thousand things like 68 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:08.160 the Mephisto Waltz or Escape from the Plane of the He's the guy think gets 69 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.519 murdered then, yeah, yeah, he was the guy that that. Yeah, 70 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:15.879 spoilers for the Jungle, but yeah, he has nothing to do. 71 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:23.360 I think he had spoil episode fifty plus years old. Yeah, it's Rimlan 72 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:29.639 knocks him off, but yeah, you're right. Well, I mean he's 73 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:31.800 given a lot to do here, thankfully. Again, I don't think it 74 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:39.199 matters rising to the occasion or not. He's fine. But we follow the 75 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:43.120 female character a lot more than we follow him, so she's definitely the protagonist. 76 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.240 Yeah yeah, yeah, what about you, Foughtlan? What do you 77 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:49.040 think I liked it overall. I thought it was sufficiently creepy. I love 78 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:55.600 seeing Donald Moffitt so young, and just the ability he has the ability to 79 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:02.079 just spill out exposition like it's actual dialogue. Like, yeah, it's really 80 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.240 impressive. Like I had to rewind it and watch it again, just just 81 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:11.720 because nothing he's saying is essential as a character in the real world talking as 82 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.560 a human being. It's it's all basically narration, and he makes it seem 83 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:21.040 like it's just effortless. This episode takes and I'm from Boston and this episode 84 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.040 takes place in Boston. It's weird. It doesn't take place in Arkham. 85 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:27.759 It shows to set it in the North end of Boston, which is the 86 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:30.480 at least when I was growing up, that's the Italian section of Boston. 87 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.199 It certainly wasn't some sort of bohemian paradise on the on the shore or anything. 88 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:39.639 So that was a little weird. And then when they go to show 89 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:43.279 us what that part of the city actually looks like, it's the European portion 90 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:47.160 of the Universal back Law. So that just really tickled me that, like 91 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.600 that's what that can pass, and apparently it did. I also really liked 92 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:57.800 Bradford Dillman's Tope leather gloves. I'm talking a lot about costumes lately. I 93 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.560 don't know why, but like they're coming more and more apparent, like how 94 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.879 good the work is in the costumes in this so I like those a lot. 95 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:09.000 You know, we end up getting a ghoul, which I was so 96 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.839 excited for. Chris, you and I have tangled with ghouls in the past 97 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.000 over on chronicles from the Crypt their versions of ghouls, and we dealt with 98 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:22.079 the Monster Club and their versions of ghouls, and they gave us a pretty 99 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.199 good one here. I think the goal when it finally shows up facially, 100 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.560 it lives up to those paintings, and I think it's really terrifying. I 101 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:35.519 was so pleasantly surprised because we've talked very recently about you know, oh yeah, 102 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.480 this thing turns into a worm and you can, you know, jump 103 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:43.120 in this other room and see it, or that big spider that we saw 104 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.240 a couple of episodes ago, and it's just like, these are laughable effects. 105 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.519 So I was just going, please don't show the creature, Please don't 106 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:52.600 show the creature. And then when they showed him, I was like, 107 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.200 oh, wow, he actually looks really good. This is a great costume, 108 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:00.159 the face worked, the little rat tail that he had worked, that 109 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.480 kind of big, weird like possum body that he had. I was like, 110 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:07.519 this, actually they're pulling it off here, folks. They could have 111 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.919 shown him a little less. The skinny leg sticking out of what is like 112 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.399 a muppet body that he's wearing. That it kind of turns it into a 113 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:24.320 luchador flick for me for a second when opened in their break Yeah, exactly, 114 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:31.039 Like that was really scary, and you're what you were talking about earlier. 115 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.120 The sort of the sequence that reminds you and I of the Crate from 116 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.120 Creep Show, which is the last shot of the crate is the last shot 117 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.120 basically of this where we get the thing's eyes like it's still there waiting. 118 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:46.799 I don't know why we needed a wraparound segment in this very short episode with 119 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:52.480 the bargain basement Victor Buono. That was that was weird. Also in this 120 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.080 thank You, he's so reminding me at Bueno thank You is this guy renting 121 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.600 in the wrap around segment because he's just claimed everything he sees. He's like, 122 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.039 I found this painting, it's mine. And then they go into the 123 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.080 basement and they're like, what's in there. He's like, I don't know, 124 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:11.320 maybe paintings. Give me that pickaxe, and he just starts like this 125 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.799 isn't your house man, You're just moved in what I actually, I actually 126 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.840 find it interesting that this episode was an episode within an episode within an episode. 127 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:22.799 I guess an episode with yeah, right, because yeah, it's a 128 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.480 segment within a segment within a second. Because it's a segment of this show 129 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:30.000 and then there's like two segments inside of it. It's very strange. I 130 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:33.039 don't know if it works, because I don't know if I needed the stakes 131 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:37.159 of the monster gets out again at the end, like I just assumed that's 132 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.480 what was going to happen. I don't think I needed to have it explicitly 133 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:45.600 shown, because it's not that it doesn't add anything or that it somehow detracts. 134 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:50.759 It's just I don't know, like it's kind of unnecessary. It's like 135 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.000 it it's like they sacrificie telling parts of the actual story to have these dopey 136 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.639 wraparounds with two guys who we know nothing about other than yeah, one of 137 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:03.039 them's like, this is just it's just mine now, Like yeah, no, 138 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.759 dude, No, that's not how this works. That's not how renting 139 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.080 works. Just for the house and look for these paintings. Okay, Yeah. 140 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.919 It feels to me like Sappensley wanted to, you know, get not 141 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.320 distance from Lovecraft, but like, you know, to update it in a 142 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.600 way to make it for people at the time, with that wraparound. But 143 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.879 if you're going to do that, then just do it in nineteen seventy one. 144 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:30.799 Like, we don't need all the Victorian trappings to enjoy HP Lovecraft. 145 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.039 It's the ideas behind it, not not the time period which it was set. 146 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.679 That's actually a stumbling block in a lot of in a lot of ways. 147 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.120 The scene where she's exploring his studio, I thought that was really good 148 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:46.399 and really tense, you know, the shining where she's looking through the I 149 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:48.000 don't know had I had the same feelings. I thought that was really good. 150 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.879 Overall. I'd liked this episode a whole lot. Also early on jack 151 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.960 Lard like Iris is in on Louise Sorel to like get us to another scene, 152 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.200 and I loved that it was great. Also, she's really bad at 153 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.600 fake laughing. Got a lot in the episode like to try and like suck 154 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:11.000 up to her favorite artists. Also, there was one line of dialogue he 155 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.799 says to her, which is, did you not hear me when I said 156 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.879 I I had no need of human company? And could you not understand why? 157 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:28.320 I imagine HP Lovecraft said that a lot to anyone in circle. They 158 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.759 probably heard that a few times. I like this more than the I guess 159 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:35.279 my question to you guys, do you guys like this more than the other 160 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:41.159 HP Lovecraft story that they've done, And they're going to do another one, 161 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:46.360 the last Rites of Doctor or whatever, just talking about all the old Yeah, 162 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:50.200 it's a lovecrafty in story, right, I mean it's it's not a 163 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.720 Lovecraft written story, but it's the closest this show's scotten so far to Lovecraft. 164 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.679 Yeah. I like this one better, I think because it's the other 165 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.240 one. That one felt like a blackbout skit that went on for way too 166 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.600 long. Yeah, that other way half the length of this one, and 167 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:11.360 ed was boring. This one moved right along. It was really good. 168 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:13.240 I dug it. Yeah, I'm with you, guys, I agree that 169 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:16.639 this was This episode was This episode tegment was a lot of fun, and 170 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:22.039 once again Donald Moffatt hotly lard. Oh boy, yeah, and he was 171 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.039 almost unrecognizable with those big old mutton shops that he had going on. But 172 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:28.519 as soon as that voice started, I was just like, Oh, he's 173 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:33.639 going to tell her to let him all familiarize suppose with media and seances, 174 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:39.679 a slightly curdling nocturnal event in which the dead come back to visit through the 175 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:45.200 good offices of a middleman or a woman. It's a sport that lends itself 176 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:50.879 to table tappings, some ghostly manifestations that float transparently across the room, and 177 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.639 a few distant supplical voices. This painting offers a new side of the familiar 178 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:01.879 seance because it tells what happened when the seance is successful. But the appearing 179 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.399 dead isn't the one expected offer. Do you now on the night Gallery The 180 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:13.480 Dear Departed? Oh, it feels like forever since we since we had our 181 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.159 last segment. This next segment is called The Deer Departed. This one was 182 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.519 written by Rod Serling, based on a short story by Alice Mary Schneering, 183 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:26.799 and directed by Jeff Corey. Back again. This one stars Steve Lawrence Maureen 184 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:31.960 Arthur, who was in one of my favorite episodes of the Monkeys called the 185 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.159 Aliens Mickey Dolans. It also stars Harvey Lembeck, who was Eric von Zipper 186 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:39.399 and all those Funicello Beach movies, and he was also in one of my 187 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.279 favorite Monkeys episode that was Monkey's Alacar. This one is a tale of a 188 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.600 tree of supernatural hucksters and the proper way to hold a seance? Mike, 189 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.440 what did you think of this one? I was frustrated by this one. 190 00:14:54.559 --> 00:15:01.120 I I'm so. I watched Nightmare Alli, both the Del Toro and the 191 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.639 original, quite a few times over the fall when I was doing an episode 192 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.799 on for the Projection Booth, and I kept being reminded of that movie while 193 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.679 I was watching this segment, and I have to say, there's no comparison, 194 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:18.840 and just again, I feel like a broken record. But I could 195 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.960 really see the end coming. I just knew as soon as I figured out 196 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.919 that Harvey Lembeck was being cuckolded by Steve. Steve Lawrence almost said Steve Harvey, 197 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:33.080 which would be a whole different thing. Once I found that out, 198 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:35.919 I was just like, oh, Okay, well he's going to come back. 199 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.440 But I thought that I mean this, it's there's a punchline, and 200 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.799 it's like the punchline. Once that happens, then the thing is over. 201 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:46.960 Oh hey, he's back. But I'm like, no, no, he 202 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:52.960 needs to be there and make their lives miserable, and like it felt like 203 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:56.559 it was eighty percent of the setup and twenty percent of the payoff or maybe 204 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.720 even ninety ten, and it should have been much more, or like fifty 205 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:04.120 fifty, like get to him dying a lot faster. We don't need to 206 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:08.480 have all this stuff. And yeah, I don't know who would be fooled 207 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.720 by these seances either, um so, and I was just like, oh 208 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.080 cool, he's actually back as a ghost, the ghost of Eric von Zipper. 209 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:21.120 And man, oh man, did Harvey Lembeck start to look real old, 210 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:25.279 real quick now that he was a spring chicken and real quick? Oh 211 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:30.840 my god? Unrecognizable almost you know, the voice like you know, obviously 212 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.039 snaps us back to who exactly this guy is. But at the same time, 213 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:37.000 wouldn't have picked him out of a lineup. No, he used to 214 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.159 look like a young Buddy Hackett and then he just he got real No. 215 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:45.919 I completely agree with Mike. It's it's strange because you would think more of 216 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:51.480 the payoff would be the focus of the episode, and the payoff is like 217 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:57.840 two seconds, not even exaggerating, like less than two seconds. I don't 218 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:04.640 it's I I don't understand the setup being ninety nine percent of the episode because 219 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:11.279 the payoff is nothing. There is no payoff at all. Everyone is doing 220 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.960 fine. I mean, I don't know. It's We've we've seen this before, 221 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:21.640 entails from the crypt. We saw this with the what's the actor from 222 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:27.240 Animal House and I think it's Catherine Moriarty, even Peter Riegert, No, 223 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:33.000 the one who plays the d n oh John Vernon, and it's it's I 224 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:38.559 think it's called I think that episode is aptly titled seance even if memory serves 225 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:45.160 so, I've we've seen this before and this isn't very good, but it 226 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:51.279 is in the same ballpark of all of these other kinds of seance. Con 227 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.640 Men sayance things because apparently there's no such thing as a real seance in in 228 00:17:55.960 --> 00:17:57.960 entertainment. They're all con men all the time. Yeah, you know, 229 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:03.480 and I love as saying on scam those those are great, you know, 230 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:07.839 like family plot or seance on a wet afternoon, even that the Wegim movie, 231 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.920 that prequel where they like they said it in the seventies, like and 232 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.240 that was all about like a psychic scam artist. I love all of that, 233 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:21.599 And this one started out promising, even though it was some haunted mansion 234 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:25.319 ship. They were trying to pedal on these on these rubes, like the 235 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:30.960 floating tambourine. That is exactly what I thought of. Thank you so much. 236 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:38.519 Let us know you're here by ringing a bell. I did write this 237 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:45.559 note they're falling for a mannequin head with crape tendrils. Wow. Um, 238 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:52.799 but these people are you know, desperate and grief stricken that we'll give it 239 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.039 a pass there. But ultimately what ends up happening is what you guys have 240 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:02.480 already described, which is this feels like the first act of an episode of 241 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:10.039 Night of Night Gallery and instead it just ends, and there's we don't is 242 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:14.079 there is it an implied threat that he's now going to kill them, because 243 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:18.079 otherwise I don't see how this is a detriment. They have a genuine ghost 244 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:23.480 now in their little medium act. They can make a fortune, right right, 245 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:27.119 I mean yeah, because he doesn't come back and it's just like, 246 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:32.200 hey, you've been cheating on me with my wife or like that would be 247 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:34.680 great. It comes back and haunts him and just like you know, becomes 248 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:40.559 like the when Patrick Swayze's trying to get Whoopie Goldberg to you know, go 249 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:44.119 talk to Demi Moore, that whole like where he's singing Henry the Eighth over 250 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:48.240 and over again. That would be great if he's just there torturing these people 251 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.319 for having screwed him over in real life. But we don't get anything like 252 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.000 that. We don't get any payoff at all. He just sort of appears 253 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.720 and we're like, Okay, well we knew that was going to happen. 254 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:03.880 What what else? Yeah? Got here? And I enjoyed this episode exactly 255 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:08.359 till the moment where Harvey Lembeck spills out this thing like I'm not good enough 256 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.240 for you guys, like you should go on without me, you don't need 257 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:17.720 me. Then it became obvious we were watching another Rod Sterling episode that just 258 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:22.599 sort of overly dramatic, like basically like a retirement speech. Also Rod wants 259 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:26.400 across and he loves to nail himself to it all the time. Whoe is 260 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:32.880 me? Whoa is me? Like, shut the fuck up? It's but 261 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:37.119 it's it's it returns all the time. It's like ever President Sterlings. Sterlings. 262 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:41.039 Episodes of this show always feel very tongue clucking. He's got to have 263 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.720 the downtrod in every man, but this particular every man. Is he just 264 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.440 like incredibly needy that he's acting out this way or does he feel out of 265 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:55.319 class? Like it's not like Steve Lawrens doesn't actually need him, you know, 266 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.240 and speaking of which, like they're having an affair behind his back, 267 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.799 but like he's in the in the scene we're introduced to him, he's like, 268 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.559 I'm gonna quit. I'm not good enough for this bye, And Steve 269 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.079 Lawrence says, yeah, like what about your wife? And he's like and 270 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.279 he literally says, oh, yeah, Angie, I didn't even consider her 271 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:21.680 like you all have exactly yeah. I mean, look, he came back 272 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:25.920 for her and couldn't even use his powers of deduction to realize that she was 273 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.960 banging Steve Lawrence the entire time because I don't understand, like what I just 274 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:36.680 don't understand, Like I don't understand the ending at all. Like he's like, 275 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:41.640 oh yeah, like okay, question Mark. He's like, now I'm 276 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:45.680 dead. I know the whole story, Like you know I didn't take it 277 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:51.319 that way. No, I mean it wasn't as overt as it let me. 278 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:53.839 It wasn't as overt as it normally is with the show like this one, 279 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:57.960 especially when it's written by Rod Good old Rod, you know what I 280 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:02.720 mean. That's more what I'm getting at. It's normally more over. This 281 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:07.359 was just like it needed ten more seconds, fifteen more second, one more 282 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.240 line of dialogue, me like, really like one more line of just like 283 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.519 give us the intent behind Harvey Lembeck's character. That's all I'm saying, right, 284 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:23.119 And it's like Steve Lawrence, God bless him, but he plays smermy 285 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.599 really well. I don't like him as a nice guy because I just don't 286 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:32.519 think he's a nice guy. So if he was more smarmy and more like 287 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:36.920 Noah, I mean, he's super sincere when he's talking with Harvey Lembek in 288 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.720 this episode, and then he's being just kind of like a normal dude when 289 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.759 he's scamming these rubes. I really wish he had laid it on way thicker, 290 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.680 Like this is one occasion where I'm just like, overact, please overact, 291 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:55.240 yeah, for the at least in the big fantastic ending by the way, 292 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:59.319 a fishing line strung to a wooden pedal. It's clumsily shoved under a 293 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:02.400 rug. Oh that's fool proof. Good work, guys, Yeah, I 294 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:07.319 like it's Yeah, that's where you're so hung up on Father Malone. You 295 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.119 can barely see the strings. Okay, barely see the strings. Yeah, 296 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.880 look at this card I'm levitating here. You don't see the fishing wire at 297 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:19.759 all. Where's the piece of wax on my phone? If they're gonna give 298 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.400 us the abrupt ending where it's like I'm back and I know the truth and 299 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:29.279 that's our payoff, then at least they can't They shouldn't be lame brained right 300 00:23:29.319 --> 00:23:33.720 before it happens, like they didn't need any of those effects. They needed 301 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.319 her to go behind the door and do voices and that was it. These 302 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.400 people were already on the line. So I don't know, like, what 303 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:42.599 are we supposed to take away from this and that, you know what, 304 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:48.000 Ultimately they're they're being punished, if they're being punished at all, because it's 305 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:53.000 very vague, but they're not being punished for fleecing grief stricken people looking for 306 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.799 any solace that they can grab up and deserve. It, man, Come 307 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.039 on, yea, that's the that's the that's the tact, that's the angle. 308 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:06.039 Our friend Rod is taking those poor bastards with a dead child. Fuck 309 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:11.400 them, Fuck them. It's not their story. Ultimately, it's the grifters 310 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.599 story. The ghost could have at least painted an a on their costumes, 311 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:22.400 the on their wardrobe. Steve and Laureen, why would you're You're giving Rod 312 00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:26.759 Serling much too much, too much credit, sir, literary devices. How 313 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.920 dare you he knew a few, you know, he knew his stuff. 314 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:33.599 But god man, he's faltering. Yeah, faltering, And but jame on, 315 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:37.559 Jeff Corey, by the way, for letting those accents go through those 316 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:42.799 I'm just a dizzy Gary Ol kind of thing. Oh yeah, I was 317 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:48.279 really really curious as to what accent Steve Lawrence was doing. I Steve Lawrence, 318 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:51.880 which is all he needed to do, And all I wanted from him, 319 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.519 And all I wanted from Harvey was just Harvey Limbeck and that woman just 320 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:59.160 that from her. That's it. We don't have to pretend we're in fucking 321 00:24:59.400 --> 00:25:04.400 Playhouse twenty or whatever. The fact that's fair. No Night Gallery is slightly 322 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:11.160 distorted version of history. An act of Chivalry. An Act of Chivalry written 323 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.359 and directed by Jack Laird. He's now an autour. This one starts at 324 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:23.960 Dedre Hall. Here's my description that I wrote down. Ugh, oh boy, 325 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.720 might have finally reached the moment of Okay, I can see why everyone 326 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:33.359 was bagging on the blackouts for as long as they were. It's it's now 327 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:40.960 piling up. Come on, you're telling me that it is. The episode 328 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:48.079 is worse for it not just ending with the deer departed. Okay, okay, 329 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:52.920 Oh that's all I'm saying. It's a moment of levity in an otherwise 330 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:57.880 kind of you know, first part, this episode's fine. Second part is 331 00:25:59.359 --> 00:26:03.119 middle of the This is a nice little note to go out on. At 332 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:06.960 least it's not another universal monster. Yeah, I was really surprised by that. 333 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:12.119 Instead, it's just a skeleton. I mean cheap. It's cheap. 334 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:18.799 Everybody where people still Fedora that that heavily would it still look like madmen everywhere? 335 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.359 Like, well, that's the thing. I just like that. It's 336 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.240 it's just this is a period piece, Okay. I like how the My 337 00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.839 favorite thing is that the Fedora just has the wig essentially glued and it and 338 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.359 they just put it on top of the skeleton. They're not even trying. 339 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:37.000 I mean, hey, when they're being lazy, they're being lazy and lazy 340 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:42.799 and gentlemen. Rod Serling, Oh, this is all Jack. His name 341 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:45.279 is on every single one of these blackouts, more or less, right, 342 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:49.119 pretty much, him and jam gene Kearney seemed to be the main offenders. 343 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:52.160 Alvin Sappens League jumps in every once in a while. Right, Yeah, 344 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:56.880 And that's pretty much all I got to say about this one. I'm not 345 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.680 even we talked longer about it than we did to the leg I think your 346 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:04.359 review is correct. All right, We're going to play a preview of our 347 00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:08.039 next episode and we'll be right back to wrap up. To the shoppers, 348 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:14.000 the hunters, the sifters, and the winnowers. To those of you who 349 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:18.319 comprise that vast fraternity of picture watchers, we offer you this salon of the 350 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:23.240 special and the supernatural. Painting Number one. It has to do with death, 351 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:29.519 usually the last chapter in every man's book of life, the ashes and 352 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:33.279 the dust, the tomb and the engraving on a stone death the finale. 353 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:38.920 But our first painting offers up a tail with the final curtain not quite the 354 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:44.799 final curtain. There's an epilogue. We offer you now a little item called 355 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:55.559 cool Air. Tonight's first painting in the night Gallery. We branch out a 356 00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:59.480 bit this evening and move a few feet away from the usual and get into 357 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:03.559 the area of photography. Now, this painting is here at best be viewed 358 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:10.119 in a dark room because it conjures up the ghostly, the ghastly, and 359 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:15.599 the ghoulish. It tells the story about a very remarkable device that offers up 360 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:19.720 a vision as things are and a hellish vision of what they were and shall 361 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:30.279 be. Our painting is called Camera Obscura from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe 362 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:36.319 of More or Less Quoth the Raven. That's right on the next midnight viewing, 363 00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:38.680 we'll be taking a look at season two, episode twelve. That's broken 364 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:44.240 into three segments, cool Air, Camera Obscura, and Quothe the Raven. 365 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:47.559 Until next time. What are you working on and where can people find it? 366 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.559 Chris Stashu. They can find it over at weirdingwaymedia dot com. That's 367 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.319 that's where you can hear me and so many other people, including our good 368 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.519 friend father Malone, who does he does, he does the audio bumpers for 369 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:06.160 this great podcast network of ours, isn't it. I mean, the dulcet 370 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:08.880 tones of Father Malone are heard at the beginning of every single show, and 371 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:14.880 you can find all those shows over at Weirdingwaymedia dot com. How about you, 372 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:18.599 Mike. You know, I keep hearing you guys doing this whole podcasting. 373 00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:21.319 I think I should probably get into it one of these days. So 374 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:25.240 maybe if I got a great voice for it. Oh wow, thanks. 375 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:29.880 Maybe, you know, if you guys have room on this weirding Way Media 376 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:32.519 thing, I'll, you know, kind of join you with that, if 377 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:36.440 that's all right. I heard the Projection booth needs a new host. You 378 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:40.559 want to you starring? Well, this is Stepan. Sure sounds good. 379 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:47.519 I'll take it. Sold. As for me what they said, It's all 380 00:29:47.559 --> 00:29:52.000 at Weirdingwaymedia dot com. Everybody, Thank you all for joining us here at 381 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:56.000 midnight viewing. The gallery is now closed.