The Elephants' Graveyard (1976)

Highly Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Play for Today (1970-1984)

Director: John Mackenzie

Writer: Peter McDougall

Cinematographer: Phil Meheux

Composer: Carl Davis

Cast: Jon Morrison, Billy Connolly

Distinctive, funny, and moving, this brief entry in the BBC’s Play for Today series sees a young man, fresh from a shotgun wedding, spending his days wandering the hills above Greenock (whilst his wife thinks that he is working as a postman), unable or unwilling to become a part of the system that will see his life follow a painfully predictable path; although he doesn’t really comprehend this, at least, not until a mysterious older man with a similar problem helps him to realise it. Iain.Stott