A Night Out (1961 film)

A Night Out is a 1961 Australian television play. It was based on A Night Out by Harold Pinter. It starred John Ewart and Richard Meikle.[3] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[4]

A Night Out
Directed byAlan Burke
Written byHarold Pinter
StarringNeva Carr Glynn
Distributed byABC
Release date
7 November 1961 (Sydney, live)
20 December 1961 (Melbourne, taped)[1][2]
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

The play had previously been filmed in England in 1960 for Armchair Theater. It was one of three plays the BBC commissioned from Pinter. The BBC also did the play for radio a version which had been broadcast in Australia by the ABC. The TV production was shot in Sydney.[1]

Plot

Albert is dominated by his mother. He is goaded at work by the accountant Gidney. He is driven to an act of violence and attempts to assert his individuality.[5]

Cast

Release

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "a brilliant bit of production, and one of the best contemporary dramas the Sydney studios of the A.B.C. has done yet. "[6]

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See also
  • List of television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1960s)

References
  1. "Untitled". The Age. 14 December 1961. p. 14.
  2. "Advertisement". The Age. 20 December 1961. p. 6.
  3. "Phone Call is Key to Drama", The Age;; December 14, 1961 p 27
  4. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  5. "TV Guide". The Age. 14 December 1961. p. 33.
  6. "TV Merry Go Round". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 November 1961. p. 90.


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