The Merciful story
A woman's (Imogene Coca) effort to end her husband's (King Donovan) misery is not what it seems at first. Note: Based on a short story of the same name by Charles L. Sweeney, Jr.; twist on "The Cask of Amontillado" Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc. Story by: Jack Laird.
4 total · 4 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a terminal illness | major | The husband apparently had some troublesome untreatable condition. |
| euthanasia | major | We are perhaps led to think that the wife was mercy killing her husband. |
| husband and wife | major | A wife bricked herself up in basement a alcove, with the implication that she would died in there, to put her husband out of his misery. |
| suicide | major | Husband seemed to consent so it was akin to suicide, and at the end it appears woman had killed herself although possibly it was just a mistake because they were old and distracted. |