Photo Finish (film)
Photo Finish is a 1965 Australian TV movie based on a play by Peter Ustinov. It screened on ABC and was produced by Oscar Whitbread and starred Frank Thring.[5][6]
"Photo Finish" | |
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Wednesday Theatre episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 43 |
Directed by | Oscar Whitbread |
Teleplay by | John Warwick based on play by Peter Ustinov |
Original air date | 10 November 1965 (Melbourne, Sydney)[1][2] |
Running time | 60 mins[3][4] |
Thring played the role on stage the year before.[7]
It was part of Wednesday Theatre.[8] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[9]
Plot
A writer is visited by ghosts from his past - himself at the ages of twenty, forty, and sixty.
Cast
- Frank Thring as Sam Kinsale, aged 80
- Elspeth Ballantyne
- Michael Duffield as the father
- Beverley Dunn as the mother
- Norman Ettling as the 40 year old
- Patricia Kennedy as Stella, the wife
- Patsy King
- Stanley Walsh as the 20 year old
- Raymond Westwell as the 60 year old
Production
A version of the play had been performed on ABC the previous year.[1]
Reception
The Age said Thring "gave a striking performance" and praised the "sparkling dialogue".[10]
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References
- "Photo Finish with Frank Thring". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 14.
- "TV Guide". Sydney MOrning Herald. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
- "TV Guide". The Age. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
- "TV Guide". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 34.
- "Photo finish of an 80-year-old". The Canberra Times. 40 (11, 307). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 17. Retrieved 27 February 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25053
- "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. 40 (11, 307). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 November 1965. p. 18. Retrieved 20 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- "What answers would you give?". The Age. 13 November 1965. p. 23.
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