The story, in flashback, of the death of a British Telegraph engineer in Georgia, USSR in 1920. Caught up in a civil war, and a war between his girlfriend and the women the Company send as "Christmas presents", he seeks asylum in a small patch of British territory (round one of his telegraph poles.)
Written by Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
The title character speaks with a Texas accent because the only English speaker in the area when the movie was dubbed for release in England was an American, a Texan who swore to Nana Dzhordzhadze that his accent was pukka British.
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