Mistero in galleria: The Devil is Not Mocked

(The Night Gallery: The Devil is Not Mocked)

1971, regia di Gene R. Kearney

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Universal TV - Distribuzione: NBC (National Broadcasting Company) - Soggetto: Manly Wade Wellman - Sceneggiatura: Gene R. Kearney - Fotografia: Lionel Lindon, Leonard J. South - Montaggio: David Rawlins, Sam Vitale - Art Director: Joseph Alves jr. - Set Decoration: John M. Dwyer - Musiche: Paul Glass - Formato: Technicolor - Durata: 25'.

Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Helmut Dantine, Francis Lederer, Fritz Weaver, Jack Bannon, Hank Brandt, Ivan Bonar, Martin Kosleck, Owen Cunningham, Gino Gottarelli, Mark de Vries, Rod Serling.

Trama e commenti: it.wikipedia.org: «Mistero in galleria (Night Gallery) è una serie televisiva statunitense di genere fantastico e horror, trasmessa per 3 stagioni dalla NBC, dal 1970 al 1973 e ideata da Rod Serling. La serie ha avuto una serie di vicissitudini fin dai suoi inizi, quando venne proposta all'interno del programma contenitore Four-in-One, e introdotta dall'omonimo pilot l'8 dicembre 1969 in formato film Tv (importante perché segna l'esordio, nella regia del secondo episodio, di Steven Spielberg, allora ventunenne: il regista firmerà anche un altro episodio della serie, nel 1971). Ma fu soprattutto dopo la chiusura (1973), che la serie (originariamente composta da 28 episodi di un'ora e 15 da mezzora) venne smantellata e resa irriconoscibile: tra le varie modifiche, tagli e aggiunte, venne unita a un'altra serie, Sesto senso (1972), a sua volta modificata per esigenze di produzione. In Italia la RAI trasmise la serie nel febbraio del 1988, limitandosi ai 15 episodi della stagione 3, ossia quelli che erano rimasti invariati rispetto ai tagli successivi alla chiusura».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - nightgallery.net - vampyres.com - video.tvguide.com - tv.com - en.wikipedia.org - crazyabouttv.com - taliesinttlg.blogspot.com: «The Night Gallery was Rod Serling’s follow up to the Twilight Zone and was composed of short visual stories, as it were. This was a shorter segment that featured Count Dracula. Now, it was interesting that Dracula was played by Francis Lederer, who had played the Count before in the 1958 flick the Return of Dracula. Lederer believed the earlier film was the worst in his career and it is interesting to note that he actually lived through three centuries, being born in 1899 and dying in 2000. The episode is bookended by Dracula telling his grandson what he got up to in the Great War – why Dracula suddenly had a grandson is not explained. However during the war a group of SS soldiers, led by General Von Grunn (Helmut Dantine), went to a castle looking for partisans. Rather than the freedom fighters they expected they were met by a rather dapper looking man who welcomed them into his home. The castle was searched and nothing found, though the General believed the partisans were probably in hidden tunnels below the castle. There was a dinner laid out, which the Count insisted was for the General's repast, whilst the servants entertained his men. The Count did not partake – he would not sup until midnight. Of course, at midnight he vamps out whilst his servants destroy (unseen) the troops. This was billed by Serling as evil meeting evil and, though it was very short, the joy of it was the interaction between the quietly superior Count and the arrogant SS General. Of course any film showing Nazis being killed has merits and the General discovers he was right, that the Count was leading the partisans, just as he dies».

Approfondimenti: Movie Review

Episodio 6 della stagione 2, insieme a A Question of Fear, della serie tv The Night Gallery (in Italia: Mistero in galleria), conosciuta anche con i titoli: Galería nocturna; Rod Serling's Night Gallery; Rod Serling's Wax Museum; Yöjuttu.

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