The Big Client

The Big Client is a 1961 Australian television play. It was directed by James Upshaw. It screened "live" on the ABC on 19 July 1961 and was recorded in Sydney[2] Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[3]

The Big Client
Written byMalcolm Hulke
Eric Paice
Directed byJames Upshaw
Country of originAustralia
Original language(s)English
Production
Running time75 mins
Production company(s)ABC
DistributorABN-2
Release
Original networkABC
Original release19 July 1961 (Sydney)
30 August 1961 (Melbourne)[1]

Plot

In London, Henderson is an American millionaire launching a brand of tranquillisers. Fred Cooper, head of a London advertising firm, tries to get Henderson to sign with them.

Cast
  • James Condon as Henderson
  • Barry Linehan as Fred Cooper
  • Alistair Duncan as a copywriter Dave Mason
  • Ric Hutton as Peter Jones
  • Noel Brophy as Sam Bloomberg
  • Deryck Barnes as Philip Comely
  • Keith Buckley as Geoff Manning
  • Coralie Neville as Greta Heffner
  • Pamela Page as girl from rival firm, Jennifer King
  • Diana Perryman as Eleanor Comely

Production

The play by British writers Eric Paice and Michael Hulke had been filmed on British TV in 1959 directed by [[Ted Kotcheff].[4]

Reception

The TV critic from the Sydney Morning Herald thought an advertising executive would have.been hard put to clarify the curious dramatic direction—embracing shifts of meaning and emphasis" in the play, adding "it was a fault of the play_, not, generally speaking, of the actors or of James Upshaw's compact though not very imaginative production."[5]

gollark: Yes.
gollark: Alternatively, cognitive dissonance; everyone around you seems to like it, so you unconsciously update your preferences to match.
gollark: Meh. I don't care very much about your arbitrary social standards.
gollark: Earth is very big and hard to destroy. Human civilisation probably less so, but the best estimate I'm aware of is that there's a 1/6 chance of extinction in the next century.
gollark: No.

References
  1. "TV Guide". The Age. 30 August 1961. p. 20.
  2. "Advertising Intrigue". Sydney Morning Herald. 17 July 1961. p. 11.
  3. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  4. 1959 British TV drama at BFI
  5. ""The Big Client" On TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 July 1961. p. 11.


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