Friday, August 25, 2017

Thursday, August 24 - Thriller: Portrait Without a Face

Thriller (1960–1962): Portrait Without a Face (Season 2 | Episode 14 - aired 25 December 1961)

This is about an arrogant, egocentric artist who has great talent but no compassion. He is hateful to everyone. One night, someone stands above the skylight and fires an arrow from a crossbow into his head, killing him instantly. Because he has a huge backlog of paintings, a curator is brought in to catalogue them. His wife is in possession of the paintings, but they ultimately belong to a big gallery. Soon a painting starts to form on a blank canvas, leading to the thought that the artist was returning from the grave to give up his murderer.

Narcissistic artist, Robertson Moffat, gets an arrow to the head by a hooded shooter with a bow and arrow who stood on a balcony and shot through an open skylight. Several months after his death, a gallery representative, Arthur Henshaw, comes to take some of the paintings back, presumably to sale. The wife unlocks and opens the studio door and tells him he can take any and all that he wants, even the blank canvas. Of course when Arthur looks at that canvas there's a partially finished painting showing the upper torso painted of the dead artist in the crime scene. As the story goes on more of the painting gets filled in and the killer will soon be revealed. Furthermore an expert in Moffat's art (Banner) incredibly concludes that it must be the artist although he can't believe that's possible.

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