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''Corinth House'' is a 1961 Australian TV movie based on the play by Pamela Hansford Johnson and directed by Bill Bain. It was sold overseas. It was the ABC's first live drama of 1961.


Plot

Set in a private hotel in London. One of its residents is Miss Malleson, a retired headmistress living out the rest of her days. She is visited by an ex pupil, Madge Donnythrope, who sixteen years earlier Miss Malleson disciplined publicly. Madge is determined to get revenge on the headmistress by convincing others she is insane.


Cast

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Enid Lorimer May Enid Bosworth Nunn OAM (27 November 188715 July 1982), known professionally as Enid Lorimer and also as a publisher of children's literature under the pen name Ellen Bosworth, was a British-born Australian film, stage, television and radio ...
as Miss Malleson * Diana Perryman as Madge Donnythorpe * Gwen Bevan as Mrs. Beauclerc, the manageress * Ida Newton as Miss Figgis * Gwen Plumb as Mrs. Heysham * Hugh Stewart as Major Shales * Audrey Teesdale as Nora, the maid


Reception

The ''Australian Woman's Weekly'' called it "excellent". The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' said "The outstanding and positive thing about this play is its utter suitability to the medium of television" starring "two actresses of exceptional power."


See also

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List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s) A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...


References


External links

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1956 British TV version
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