A stalker, his target, and a stranger walk into a bar—nobody leaves the same.
A man confronts his stalker. An unusual relationship then develops between the two, involving a mysterious third person
Acting
Daker's predator-coward energy is genuinely unsettling
Direction
Ridge stretches 32 minutes into eternal unease
Director
Mary Ridge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for BBC2's 'Second City Firsts' anthology, this was radical 1970s television—gay-coded tension presented without moral panic, just moral discomfort.
The single-location bottle episode structure predates 'Reservoir Dogs' by 16 years, yet Mary Ridge gets more psychological mileage from a cramped flat than Tarantino gets from a warehouse.
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