Review of Night Gallery (1969) by Adrian Z — 25 May 2014

This feature length pilot to another Twilight Zone type TV series, also produced and hosted by Rod Serling, features three short stories with supernatural overtones which in some way or another involve paintings where some very immoral people get their due.

The best segment happens to be Steven Spielberg's, who in his early twenties was already showing a mastery of the cinematic form - his story of a filthy rich blind woman who arranges for a corneal transplant from a needy live donor is a visual tour de force, and a deeply ironic story to boot.

The opening segment is typical, if not predictable Serling fare, with a rich man killed by his greedy nephew seems to be coming back from the dead through a painting; but the final segment is comparatively speaking, a letdown, as the story of a Nazi war criminal hiding in South America is told rather incoherently and ends, well, as one would expect after seeing the other two stories.

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