Deliveries in the Rear/Stop Killing Me/Dead Weight

I'm rating this highly because of the first episode, "Deliveries in the Rear." A doctor, who teaches at a clinic in what seems to be the 1800's, expects his students to use dissection of cadavers to learn the medical profession. The young men who make up his classroom have varying responses. One day one of them comments on the fact that this was a man. The doctor says that the dead are of no importance, only the knowledge we gain from exploring them. There is a kicker. Where are these people coming from? We know but the public does not. They are provided by a couple of ghoulish men who show up at the back door. One day they are severely criticized for bringing in a corpse that has been around for a couple days, hence, not usable. They promise him that he can count on him and the next day a person is brought in that has not even experience rigor mortis. The doctor's obsession will bring about one of the most startling of conclusions that any of these stories has.

The second, "Stop Killing Me," wouldn't be worth a thing if it were not for the paranoid ramblings of Geraldine Page, a great character actress. The story, however, about a woman who insists that her husband is killing her bit by bit doesn't hold much water.

The third, "Dead Weight," has Jack Albertson providing a service for Bobby Darin (yes, the Mack the Knife Bobby Darin). Albertson advertises that he is one hundred percent reliable in getting people and things to their destination. And he is. The story is full of holes and quite unsatisfying. One question. Is there any mention of a canning factory?

Especially the first segment, using the very same tooic as FLESH AND THE FIENDS, THE BODYSNATCHER, or Freddie Francis's THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS, itself inspired by the true story, actual case of Burke and Hare, two men ready at anything to get money. I won't tell more about this topic, just enjoy.

'Deliveries In The Rear' - A callous anatomy teacher(played by Cornel Wilde) who pays an unscrupulous man to provide him with bodies for class dissection will come to rue his indifference to how they are acquired when one of them hits too close to home. Chilling tale with a knockout ending.

'Stop Killing Me' - A wife(played by Geraldine Page) tries to convince a policeman(played by James Gregory) that her husband wants to kill her. Two fine actors do their best with thin material.

'Dead Weight' - A fleeing bank robber tries to smuggle himself out of the country but picks the wrong businessman to deal with... Darkly amusing tale with a visual punch line.