Ahh yes! The con man gets conned. That alone makes this a worthwhile episode for 'Tales of the Unexpected'. Although it wasn't all that unexpected for this viewer, as there was nowhere else for this story to go. The version I watched seemed to be either chopped up or badly edited. For example, when son Andrew (Michael Troughton) returns home, there was no indication he discovered the painting missing, he just burst out of the house in search of the swindler junk man. Roald Dahl's introduction stated that the paintings of John Constable fetch an extraordinary price, which I have no idea since I never heard of the artist. Seems to me Andrew's mother (Jessie Matthews) could have saved herself some time and effort; instead of producing her own Constable paintings, she could have simply gone the junk man route herself, and apply those slips of paper identifying Constable's work.
Review of A Picture of a Place
