Point of Departure (film)

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"Point of Departure"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 25
Directed byHenri Safran
Teleplay byplay by Jean Anouilh
Original air dates22 June 1966 (Sydney)[1]
29 June 1966 (Melbourne)[2][3]
27 July 1966 (Brisbane)[4]
Running time75 mins[5]
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Point of Departure is a 1966 Australian television film.[6] It screened as part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[7]

Plot[]

A boy and a girl meet in a small provincial town at the beginning of German occupation in World War II.

Cast[]

Production[]

Ross Thompson had previously been in The Pigeon for Australian Playhouse. He had Goddard had acted in a scene together in They're a Weird Mob. Point of Departure had a cast of fifteen.[4]

Reception[]

The Sydney Morning Herald write that Ross Thompson's "sensitive and convincing acting made the best of the obvious weaknesses in the plot itself."[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "TV Guide". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 June 1966. p. 23.
  2. ^ "Untitled". The Age. 23 June 1966. p. 15.
  3. ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 23 June 1966. p. 29.
  4. ^ a b "Teenagers star in French love story". TV Times. 20 July 1966. p. 10.
  5. ^ "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. 40 (11, 499). 20 June 1966. p. 23. Retrieved 22 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "leisure – the arts MUSIC A satisfying experience". The Canberra Times. 17 June 1966. p. 13. Retrieved 23 June 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  8. ^ JP (20 June 1966). "Wartime romance". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 16.

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