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'''''Turning Point''''' is a 1960 Australian TV play. |
'''''Turning Point''''' is a 1960 Australian TV play. |
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It was broadcast live on the ABC from Sydney on the night of 24 February. In Melbourne the ABC were doing a live broadcast of the play ''[[Eye of the Night]]''.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=January 31, 1960|page=80|title=TV Merry Go Round}}</ref> |
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It was directed by [[Ray Menmuir]]. |
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==Plot== |
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A murderer (Rod Milgate) stops in a remote South Australian town, kidnaps one of its women (Benita Harvey) when he thinks the town's policeman (Deryck Barnes) is going to arrest him. He runs off with her, punctures his petrol tank, but returns to kill her children after she runs away while he sleeps. The policeman arrives just in time to save the situation. |
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==Cast== |
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*Deryck Barnes |
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*[[Reg Lye]] |
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*Rod Milgate |
*Rod Milgate |
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==Production== |
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It was the first of ten television plays to be produced by the ABC in Sydney and Melbourne in 1960. The writer Denys Burrows was also an actor. He based the settings and the character on a trip he made through central Australia.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Hunt for Kidnapper|date=22 February 1960|page=21}}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it "an unsuccessful attempt to graft an unconvincing crime melodrama on to a documentary treatment of outback life... The author's observation is better than his plot-planning and when the life of the remote, heat-hammered cluster of shacks was allowed to move along its normal lines and at its own pace, there were moments of genuine interest and accomplishment—except that the pace of Raymond Menmuir's production... tended to be a bit slow. A competent cast... worked very effectively when they were allowed by the script to be real characters."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|page=6|date=February 25, 1960|title=Crime Story As Life Play On TV}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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Revision as of 08:43, 18 February 2019
| Turning Point | |
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| Directed by | Raymond Menmuir |
| Written by | Denys Burrows |
| Produced by | Raymond Menmuir |
Production company | ABC |
| Distributed by | ABC |
Release dates | 24 February 1960 (live, Sydney) |
Running time | 75 mins |
| Country | Australia |
Turning Point is a 1960 Australian TV play.
It was broadcast live on the ABC from Sydney on the night of 24 February. In Melbourne the ABC were doing a live broadcast of the play Eye of the Night.[1]
Plot
A murderer (Rod Milgate) stops in a remote South Australian town, kidnaps one of its women (Benita Harvey) when he thinks the town's policeman (Deryck Barnes) is going to arrest him. He runs off with her, punctures his petrol tank, but returns to kill her children after she runs away while he sleeps. The policeman arrives just in time to save the situation.
Cast
- Deryck Barnes
- Jane Coghlan
- Tom Farley
- Ben Gabriel
- Benita Harvey
- Reg Lye
- Rod Milgate
Production
It was the first of ten television plays to be produced by the ABC in Sydney and Melbourne in 1960. The writer Denys Burrows was also an actor. He based the settings and the character on a trip he made through central Australia.[2]
Reception
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "an unsuccessful attempt to graft an unconvincing crime melodrama on to a documentary treatment of outback life... The author's observation is better than his plot-planning and when the life of the remote, heat-hammered cluster of shacks was allowed to move along its normal lines and at its own pace, there were moments of genuine interest and accomplishment—except that the pace of Raymond Menmuir's production... tended to be a bit slow. A competent cast... worked very effectively when they were allowed by the script to be real characters."[3]
References
External links
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