''One Bright Day'' is a 1958 Australian television play. It aired on the ABC and was directed by

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. It aired as part of ''

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''. It was based on a US TV play by American Sidmund Miller.

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adapted it.

Plot

Julian Prescott is the president of a large chemical company. His business is almost ruined by his ambitious general manager, George Lawrence, who in the president's absence has changed the formula of a popular patent medicine produced by the company. The president is faced with a lawsuit by a man who claims the new formula drug caused the death of his son. The president's daughter Margot becomes involved.

Cast

*Patricia Kerr as Margot Prescott * Joe McCormick as Julian Prescott *Kevin Sanders as George Lawrence, general manager *Eric Gormley as Fred Newberry, an executive *Julian Flett as a lawyer *

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* Nigel Lovell *Eve Hardwick *Carlotta Kalmar *Laurier Lange *John Llewellyn *Al Thomas

Production

The original play had been performed on stage in Melbourne in 1957. It was the first TV play for many of the cast.

Reception

The TV critic for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' thought that "neither the writing nor the acting... allowed deep or gripping investigation of the play ' s essential issue whether it is better to be callous and stay rich, or to be decent and plunge down to poverty.... For the most part, the characters were being run by the plot, instead of themselves begetting the plot—which is mere yarn-spinning, and not drama."

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