Play for Today: A Photograph (1977) 7 of 10 stars ⭐ A take on the Morlocks & Elois in 1970's England

A take on the Morlocks & Elois in 1970's England

Play for Today: A Photograph (1977)

7 of 10 stars ⭐

Season 7, Episode 13

BASIC PLOT:

This was a real gem of a find! This was my second 'Play For Today' (the first being "A Cotswold Death"), and both were very entertaining, albeit in very different ways.

"A Photograph," has a real Hitchcockian feel to it. It starts out with an unhappily married couple, opening their mail on a lazy weekend morning. What these two receive in the post will ultimately change their lives, and for one of them, not for the better.

When they open the envelope, they find a picture of two (or maybe just one) girls in front of a caravan. The husband swears he's never seen the girls before, or knows where the caravan is, but his neurotic wife does not believe him. She becomes obsessed with the snapshot, even having it blown up to poster size. She swears, it's a doctored photo of just one girl, added twice. She's not even sure it is a girl, maybe a boy in drag, the person in the photo does have a tattoo after all. The husband, irritated by his wife's obsession, decides to locate the caravan, and the "girls" in the photo.

Saying much more would ruin the ending, and the many clues left within the story. To paraphrase another movie, sometimes the Morlocks come up and snatch an Elois, because they are cannibals after all.

Definitely worth a watch!

(Shame on the BBC for destroying so much of this series, from what I've seen so far, they should hang their heads in shame for what they've done.)