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Dangerous Corner (1965 Film)
"Dangerous Corner" is a 1965 Australian television play based on the play '' Dangerous Corner'' by J.B. Priestley. It was filmed in Melbourne. Premise A suicide and an empty cigarette case spark an emotional powder keg in a family. Cast *Dorothy Bradley as Olwen *Maxwell Jackson as Robert *Amanda Fox as Freda *Judith Arthy as Betty *David Mitchell as Gordon *Charles Stanton as Keith *Sheila Florance as Miss Mockridge *Keith Lee Production Amanda Fox was an English actress who was born when her father was appearing in the original stage production of ''Dangerous Corner''. Reception The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that "After 30 years or so the play still has its internal fascination as an ingenious piece of stagecraft, but the present cast was totally unable to recapture the quietly sinister implications of the original production and substituted shouting and overacting." References External links * ''Dangerous Corner''at National Film and Sound Archive The National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wednesday Theatre
''Wednesday Theatre'' is a 1960s Australian anthology show which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC. Many of the episodes were imported from the BBC. However a number of episodes were made locally. Episodes 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Wednesday Theatre in 1969 was a short run, and consisted almost exclusively of repeats. References External links''Wednesday Theatre'' at AustLit {{Christopher Muir Australian anthology television series Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming 1960s Australian television series Wednesday Theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Barton
Patrick Barton is an Australian TV director best known for his productions in the 1960s. Select Credits *''You Can't Win 'Em All'' (1962) *''The Gioconda Smile'' (1963) *''Night Stop'' (1963) *''Double Yolk'' (1963) *''The Angry General'' (1964) *''The Sponge Room'' (1964) *''The Road'' (1964) *''Wind from the Icy Country'' (1964) *''A Provincial Lady'' (1964) *''Dangerous Corner'' (1965) *'' A Time to Speak'' (1965) *''Cross of Gold'' (1965) *'' Othello'' (1964) *''Daphne Laureola ''Daphne laureola'', commonly called spurge-laurel, is a shrub in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae. Despite the name, this woodland plant is neither a spurge nor a laurel. Its native range covers much of Europe and extends to Algeria, M ...'' (1965) *''Romanoff and Juliet'' (1965) *''Ashes to Ashes'' (1966) *''Waiting in the Wings'' (1965) *''Should the Woman Pay?'' (1966) *''Love and War'' (1967) *''Quality of Mercy'' (1975) *''Bellbird'' (TV series) References External links *Patrick Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Warwick
John McIntosh Beattie (4 January 1905 – 10 January 1972), known professionally as John Warwick, was an Australian actor, and television dramatist. Early life He was born John McIntosh Beattie (many sources give "Beattle") at Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia. He took the name Warwick from his secondary school. Acting career Warwick had an extensive career over 40 years, beginning in Australian cinema in the early 1930s (he is attributed with introducing Errol Flynn, a personal acquaintance in Sydney, to acting by bringing him along to a casting session when ''In the Wake of the Bounty'' was being filmed). After relocating to England he was trained as an actor at Harrogate theatre with the repertory company "The White Rose Players", afterwards moving into British cinema in the late 1930s–1940s, and television from the 1950s. In the 1960s he returned to Australia and ended his career in television drama and cinema there. Death He died on 10 January 1972 at the age of 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |