Marriage Lines (film)
Marriage Lines is a 1962 Australian television play which was directed by Christopher Muir. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3]
| Marriage Lines | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Christopher Muir |
| Based on | play by Clemence Dane |
Production company | Australian Broadcasting Commission |
| Distributed by | ABC |
Release date | 31 October 1962 (Melbourne)[1]26 November 1962 (Sydney)[2] |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Plot
Lysette returns to London after three unsuccessful marriages to look up her cousin's husband, publisher Felix Pilgrim. He is married to Virgilia, but has an affair with Lysette.
Cast
- Walter Sullivan as Felix Pilgrim
- Patricia Kennedy as Virgilia Pilgrim
- Mary Ward as Lysette Eggerton
- Moira Carleton as Chrissie, the Piglrims' retained
- Beverley Dunn as Peggy, Felix's secretary
- Joy Mitchell
- Campbell Copelin
Production
Walter Sullivan travelled to Melbourne to shoot the production.[2]
Reception
The Australian Woman's Weekly TV critic called the production "a half-and-half job. Christopher Muir's production was satisfyingly polished; the play itself was woeful. The ABC decided to advertise this offering as a "sophisticated comedy." The theme—one woman trying to snaffle another's husband— can be funny, I suppose. But "Marriage Lines" was a melodrama of mothball manners... the cast had to battle with curiously dated dialogue... [a] sheer waste of good production and a goodish cast. "Marriage Lines" should have been murdered. Preferably at the dress rehearsal, if not before."[4]
References
- "Happy People Supply Conflict in 2 Plays". The Age. 25 October 1962. p. 14.
- "Sophisticated Drama". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 November 1962. p. 15.
- Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- "GOOD PRODUCTION, GOOD CAST, BAD PLAY". The Australian Women's Weekly. 30 (28). 12 December 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 8 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.