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Turning Point (TV Play)
''Turning Point'' is a 1960 Australian television play. It was broadcast live on the ABC from Sydney on the night of 24 February. In Melbourne the ABC were doing a live broadcast of the play ''Eye of the Night''. These two were the first in a series of ten plays made by the ABC in 1960 using local writers, others including ''The Astronauts'' and ''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day''. (Other plays possibly included ''Close to the Roof'', ''Dark Under the Sun'', ''The Square Ring'', ''Who Killed Kovali?'', and ''Swamp Creatures''.) Plot A murderer on the run, Chicka, stops in a remote South Australian town of Edenberrry. He kidnaps one of its women, Joan, when he thinks the town's policeman is going to arrest him. He runs off with her, punctures his petrol tank, but returns to kill her children after she runs away while he sleeps. The policeman arrives just in time to save the situation. Cast *Rod Milgate as Chicka *Benita Harvey as Joan *Deryck Barnes as policeman *Jane Coghlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denys Burrows
Denys Burrows (d 1975) was an Australian actor and writer of books, radio and television. He is best known for his work in children's writing. Burrows created the series ''Catch Kandy'' with his wife Romie Hill. He died in 1975. Writing credits Screenwriting *'' Turning Point'' (1960) *'' Wambidgee'' (1962) (also voices) *'' Skippy'' (1968) *''Lucullus'' (1969) *''Catch Kandy'' (1973) Books *''Point Forlorn'' (1963) *''The Clipper Ship'' (1965) *''Stagecoach West'' (1965) *''Living in Australia'' (1967) Acting Television *'' Consider Your Verdict'' (1962) *'' Wambidgee'' (1962) as Voice actor * '' Tribunal'' (1963–64) * '' The Stranger'' 1964-65) as Chief Police Inspector *''Homicide'' (1973) - "Seven Winds" Radio *''The Wideaway Bunyip'' (1947) * ''The Ridge and the River'' (1953) as Mammawa * '' The Shark Fishers'' (1955) References External linksDenys Burrowsat IMDB IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Menmuir
Raymond Edward Menmuir (10 September 1930 – 26 March 2016) was a British-Australian director and producer. His career included producing 44 episodes of ''The Professionals (TV series), The Professionals'' and directing 12 episodes of ''Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series), Upstairs, Downstairs''. He also produced an Australian version of ''The Professionals'' called ''Special Squad (1984), Special Squad'' for the Ten Network in 1984. Early life Menmuir was born in Perth, Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, as the eldest of four children to Edward Menmuir and his wife Dorothy (née Williams). His father ensured Menmuir had a good education, at Wesley College (Western Australia), Wesley College. Work His first employment was as a reporter at the Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), Perth Daily News, but he then transferred to the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a radio producer. He was deeply impressed by European culture, by seeing various films at the 1953 Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eye Of The Night
''Eye of the Night'' is a 1960 Australian television play. It was written by Kay Keavney and directed by Christopher Muir. It was broadcast live on the ABC from Melbourne on the night of Wednesday 24 February. In Sydney on the same night the ABC were doing a live broadcast of the play '' The Turning Point''. These two were the first in a series of ten plays made by the ABC in 1960 using local writers, others including ''The Astronauts'' and ''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day''. (Other plays possibly included '' Close to the Roof'', ''Dark Under the Sun'', ''The Square Ring'', ''Who Killed Kovali?'', and ''Swamp Creatures''.) Plot A man breaks into homes at night and terrorises women. He eludes police for two years. In the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, a woman, Ruth Arnott, fears that a man in her own house, a man oppressed by his mother, may be the attacker. The opening scenes take place at Victorian Police Headquarters with the rest at a house in Sunshine. Cast *Beverley Dunn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Astronauts (film)
''The Astronauts'' is a television film, or rather a live television play, which aired in Australia during 1960 on ABC. Broadcast originally in Melbourne on 18 May 1960, a kinescope recording was made of the broadcast and shown in Sydney on 27 July 1960 (it is not known if it was also shown on ABC's stations in Brisbane, Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ... and Perth). ''FilmInk'' magazine said it may be the only Australian drama about the space race. Plot Four men (two Americans, an Englishman and an Australian) are training in Australia to become astronauts, and are preparing for the first manned space launch, for which only one of the men will be selected. Medical officers think the men are mentally and physically perfect. However, one of them has a physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slaughter Of St Teresa's Day
''The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day'' is a play by Australian author Peter Kenna. Plot Oola Maguire, a bookie, holds a party every St. Teresa's Day. The guests are the people she has quarreled with in the past year, and there is only one rule: Firearms must be parked in the hall. Her daughter Thelma is brought home from the convent she attends with two nuns. Background It won a National Playwrights Competition in 1958 and was produced in Sydney the following year by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. The judges of the competition ere Hugh Hunt and Kylie Tennant. Judge Kylie Tennant called it "a witty commentary on human behaviour, passion, pride and vanity and the curious innocence which keeps people lovable for all their cunning and downright wickedness. It has humour, tolerance and the ability to bring people on the stage alive." Kenna wrote the play while rehearsing in ''The Bells Are Ringing'' at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. "Sometimes its easier to write when y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Close To The Roof
''Close to the Roof'' is a 1960 Australian live television play which aired on ABC. Broadcast 14 December 1960 in Sydney, it was kinescoped ("telerecorded") and shown in Melbourne on 25 January 1961 (it is not known it was also shown on ABC's stations in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth). Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. It was also adapted for radio by the ABC in 1960. Plot In a house in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, two siblings, Lucy and Charlie, prepare the beds in their attic for guests. The siblings are the children of Tony Perelli, a widowed Italian migrant who is bitter about his lack of success in Australia, and who is determined to return home from whose children come home. Tony refuses to let Lucy work and does not know the Charlie has been boxing, thinking that he is going to be a musician. Two men, Wally and Joe, arrive to stay in the attic. They were part of a trio who robbed a band at Newtown, which resulted in people being injured; the third m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Under The Sun
''Dark Under the Sun'' is a 1960 Australian TV play. It was written by Brisbane author, Chris Gardner, who also wrote ''The House of Mancello'' (1962) and ''A Private Island'' (1964). Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time. The play concerned an interracial romance which led ''Filmink'' magazine to think it was "an indication that Australian television was willing to confront some of the nation’s trickier social issues head on." Other Australian TV plays to deal with racial issues included ''Burst of Summer''. However the Aboriginal character is played by a white actor in blackface. It was aired on ABC and ran for an hour on Wednesday 27 April 1960 at 8.30pm. It was produced in Melbourne. Plot In the town of Nombora, a university-educated half-aboriginal man, Jim Robertson, falls for a white woman, his childhood playmate, Julie Handford. Social and family problems begin when they decide to get married. The play is set at a homestead near a Queensland banana plantati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Square Ring (play)
''The Square Ring'' is a 1952 play by Ralph Peterson. Premise The story of several boxers who are fighting on the one night. They include Docker Starkie, a boxer making a comeback. Background Peterson wrote an Australian radio play about boxing, '' Come Out Fighting'' which aired in 1950. Peterson moved to London in 1951 and wrote a stage version, ''The Square Ring'', over a three-month period. He sent the play to Anthony Quayle, whom he had met in Sydney when Quayle was touring with the Stratford Players (Quayle had appeared in a radio play written by Peterson about Aboriginal issues, "The Problem of Johnny Flourcake"). Quayle was going to put it on himself but then accepted another theatrical tour of Australia so he passed it to H. M. Tennents, the London theatre agency, who agreed to produce it. After several weeks of rehearsal, the play premiered in Brighton in September 1952 with a mostly male cast but one female, the wife of the central character. Peterson said "the play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Who Killed Kovali?
''Who Killed Kovali?'' is a 1960 Australian television play. It had previously been filmed for British TV in 1957. It was made at a time Australian TV drama was rare. Plot Hungarian tennis player Ivor Kovali is playing in a semi-final at Wimbledon against Australian player Tony Hargreaves. Kovali, who is winning the game, is chewing sweets then dies suddenly of arsenic poisoning. A Scotland Yard inspector, Carson, looks into the murder with the help of his assistant, Sgt Scott. Suspects include his widow Maria, who hated Kovali's cruelty; Maria's lover Dimitri; Tony Hargreaves, who stood to win a thousand pounds if he won the game; Australian player Jeff Willis who Kovali accused of cheating; American played Pedro Moreno who was going to face Kovali in the final. When Carson views footage of the game he figures out whodunnit. Cast *Keith Eden as Inspector Carson *Charles Sinclair as Sgt Scott *Mark Kelly as Tony Hargreaves *Alan Hopgood as Jeff Willis *Fay Kelton as Jill M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swamp Creatures
''Swamp Creatures'' is a play by the Australian author Alan Seymour. He wrote it for radio, stage and TV. It was Seymour's first produced play. Plot Two sisters live together in the Australian bush, the dominant Constance and the frail Amy. Amy's son Christian returns after having disappeared when he was in his teens. For Constance, the swamp is a symbol of life. For Amy it is a nightmare. It turns out genetic experiments were made by a driven woman and her handyman, Charlie Fall. Background The play was written in 1955–56. In 1956 it was the runner-up in a play competition held by the Journalists' Club and judged by the Playwrights' Advisory Board. In 1957 it was one of the twenty-five finalists in the play competition held by the London Observer. It was first performed by the Canberra Repertory Society in 1957. Cast of original production *Joyce Goodes as Constance *Barbara Shanahan as Amy *Michael Dennis as Christian *Harry Schmidt as Mr Fall *Daphne Curtis as Mrs Fall Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Lye
Reginald Thomas Lye (14 October 1912 – 23 March 1988), was an Australian actor who worked extensively in Australia and England. He was one of the busiest Australian actors of the 1950s, appearing in the majority of locally shot features at the time, as well as on stage and radio. Lee Robinson called him "one of the best character actors in Australia." He moved to England in the early 1960s, (also starring in television, such as ''Mrs Thursday'' and ''The Wednesday Play''), but returned to Australia when the film industry revived in the 1970s. He won the Australian Film Institute award for the his role in the 1975 film, '' Sunday Too Far Away'', opposite Jack Thompson. Selected filmography *''King of the Coral Sea'' (1954) - Grundy *''Smiley'' (1956) - Pa Bill Greevins *''Walk Into Paradise'' (1956) - Ned 'Shark-eye' Kelley *'' Three in One'' (1957) - The Swaggie (segment "Joe Wilson's Mates") *'' The Shiralee'' (1957) - Desmond *'' The Stowaway'' (1958) - Buddington *''Smi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film And Sound Archive
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts. The collection ranges from works created in the late nineteenth century when the recorded sound and film industries were in their infancy, to those made in the present day. The NFSA collection first started as the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (within the then Commonwealth National Library) in 1935, becoming an independent cultural organisation in 1984. On 3 October, Prime Minister Bob Hawke officially opened the NFSA's headquarters in Canberra. History of the organisation The work of the Archive can be officially dated to the establishment of the National Historical Film and Speaking Record Library (part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
