Plot

Play for Today, from season 2, adapted from a short story by the wonderful Irish writer William Trevor.
Mrs. Digby-Hunter (Maureen Pryor) has put up with a loveless, sexless marriage to her husband Major Digby-Hunter (Peter Jeffrey) for many years because she feels that is what she should do as a loving wife. The Major is headmaster at an expensive remedial preparatory school that specialises in getting under-achieving pupils of rich parents into the best public schools (using some very odd methods).
We're never quite sure why the Major can't make love to his wife. Is it because she's not attractive enough or is it because he gets his excitement from beating the boys in his charge.
Things come to a head when he hits one boy a little too hard in the back of the head, causing neurotrauma and leading to the boy's death. Mrs. Digby-Hunter suffers a breakdown, blaming herself for looking the other way for all these years when she knew he got pleasure from inflicting pain on others. In the process the truth about the Major is revealed.
Well written drama with weird music provided by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
As with many of these old PfTs, would love to see a restored version.

   От себя

Фильм из телеантологии Би-би-си, премьерный эфир 4 ноября 1971.

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