Queen Versus Bent

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"Queen Versus Bent"
Consider Your Verdict episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 81
Original air date9 September 1962 (1962-09-09)
Running time60 mins

"Queen Versus Bent" is an episode of the Australian television series Consider Your Verdict. It is notable for featuring Aboriginal actor Harold Blair.[1] "Queen Versus Bent" aired on 9 September 1962 in Sydney,[2] and on 16 September 1962 in Melbourne.[3]

Plot[edit]

Tommy Bent, an Aboriginal stockman, is charged with shooting the boss's nephew Graham.

Cast[edit]

  • Juliana Allen as Lynne Driscoll
  • Harold Blair as Tommy Bent
  • David Watt as Leslie Butler
  • Vernon Spencer as Graham Butler
  • James Scullin as Rocky Hawkins
  • Raymond Fedden as Ed Rowe
  • Isobel Kuhl as Gladys Willetts
  • George Fairfax as Crown prosecutor John Taylor
  • Wynn Roberts as Defence counsel Robert Winter

References[edit]

  1. ^ Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian television
  2. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 September 1962. p. 99.
  3. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 13 September 1962. p. 31.

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