![]() And he does it all without moving a muscle. Brian Keith, as always, does a fine job as the infirm husband with the scheming plans. Moore was a fine actress in her day and could play the sweet nurturing wife or a conniving woman with equal skill. As for the cast, it's interesting to see now how much Tatum O'Neal looks like her late mother, Joanna Moore. Directed by veteran and Hitchcock stalwart Norman Lloyd, "No Pain" is a standard entry for the series until the sudden and unexpected ending. ![]() What naive Joanna doesn't know is that her husband has suspected her all along of eventually killing him, and he has made some arrangements to keep that from happening. With a little coaxing and some earnest begging, Keith convinces her to plug his iron lung back into the wall socket to keep him from dying. After her nice time out in the ocean, she's in too good of a mood to commit murder. ![]() She also tells him that she's going to end his misery later, but not on this day. Moore literally "pulls the plug" on her husband and tells him that she's more than infatuated with her sailor/boyfriend. With the nurse conveniently given the night off, the frustrated Ms. When she returns, the two have it out once and for all. Our story begins with Keith being attended to by his live-in nurse and watching wife Joanna take off sailing with her new "companion" (Yale Wexler). The "healthy" part of his life is shown in flashback as Keith is now suffering a debilitating illness and confined to a portable and electrically powered iron lung. Brian Keith plays a wealthy and healthy fellow who is married to beautiful Joanna Moore. "No Pain" is textbook Hitchcock and with the requisite surprise ending. I am sure he was doing this to appease nervous sponsors, but it IS a show often devoted to murder after all!! HOWEVER, as often is the case, following the 'perfect crime' in the episode, in the Epilogue, Hitchcock explains that the folks who committed the murder were caught and punished.which completely negates so much of the good in the show. Now this doesn't mean it's bad.it's actually very good. This is one of the darker episodes I can recall. Rainey are all alone and will be for sometime. Later, after she returns, the missus contemplates turning off the machine, as Mr. Rainey saying goodbye to her husband, as she's going out sailing with some young man. In addition to Keith, the episode also stars Joanna Moore.both of which had appeared in earlier episodes of the series. Thank God for the vaccines that mean we don't have to use the devices any more. But in many cases, they would end up confined this these contraptions for years.or the rest of their lives. The Iron Lung used air pressure to help these afflicted people to breath, as otherwise they would have died. What is this and why is he there? Well, until the developed the Polio vaccine, countless thousands of people were nfined in these devices in order to survive following the paralysis caused by the disease. Rainey (Brian Keith) stuck in an Iron Lung machine. When most people see it today, they might be confused to see the star of the episode, Mr. "No Pain" is a real product of its times.
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