This is a curious mood piece, its drama, an East End update of Othello, broken by cool jazz interludes featuring Dave Brubeck, Charlie Mingus, Tubby Hayes, Johnny Dankforth, and others. Patrick McGoohan, as the drummer Johnny Cousin, plays Iago to Paul Harris' Othello, a maestro by the name of Aurelius Rex, during an all-night jazz party at the luxurious converted East End warehouse of Richard Attenborough. The drummer plants the seeds of jealousy in the black musician's mind, persuading him that his wife Delia is having an affair with sax player Cass... Anyway, the music's the thing-remarkable in "live" performances of tunes by, among others, Mingus, Hayes, Ellington, and music director Philip Green; and notable also for its absence as background to the drama, in which silences build effectively.