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.[4][5]

"Dangerous Corner"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 21
Directed byPatrick Barton
Teleplay byJohn Warwick
Based onplay by J.B. Priestley
Original air date9 June 1965 (Melbourne)[1][2]
Running time75 mins[3]

Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[6]

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 whose father appeared in the original stage production of Dangerous Corner.[7]

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."[8]

gollark: > A core proposition in economics is that voluntary exchanges benefit both parties. We show that people often deny the mutually beneficial nature of exchange, instead espousing the belief that one or both parties fail to benefit from the exchange. Across 4 studies (and 7 further studies in the Supplementary Materials), participants read about simple exchanges of goods and services, judging whether each party to the transaction was better off or worse off afterwards. These studies revealed that win–win denial is pervasive, with buyers consistently seen as less likely to benefit from transactions than sellers. Several potential psychological mechanisms underlying win–win denial are considered, with the most important influences being mercantilist theories of value (confusing wealth for money) and naïve realism (failing to observe that people do not arbitrarily enter exchanges). We argue that these results have widespread implications for politics and society.
gollark: (linking because I happened to read it recently)
gollark: But look at this: https://psyarxiv.com/efs5y/
gollark: I mean, *maybe* some behaviors make sense at population scale or in some bizarre game-theoretic way?
gollark: No, humans just act irrationally all the time for no good reason.

References
  1. "TV Guide". The age. 3 June 1965. p. 24.
  2. "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 7 June 1965. p. 19.
  3. "TODAY'S TV". The Canberra Times. 39 (11, 177). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 9 June 1965. p. 19. Retrieved 20 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "What to stay home for..." The Canberra Times. 39 (11, 175). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 June 1965. p. 11. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "All quiet on the waterfront". The Canberra Times. 39 (11, 179). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 11 June 1965. p. 21. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  7. "Priestley play in common". The Age. 3 June 1965. p. 21.
  8. "Bizarre Study from Japanese Director". Sydney Morning Herald. 11 June 1965. p. 9.


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