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"
Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 43
Directed byOscar Whitbread
Teleplay byJohn Warwick
based on play by Peter Ustinov
Original air date10 November 1965 (Melbourne, Sydney)[1][2]
Running time60 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]

The Sydney Morning Herald called it "excellent".[11]

References
  1. "Photo Finish with Frank Thring". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 14.
  2. "TV Guide". Sydney MOrning Herald. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
  3. "TV Guide". The Age. 8 November 1965. p. 13.
  4. "TV Guide". The Age. 4 November 1965. p. 34.
  5. "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.
  7. https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/25053
  8. "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.
  9. Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
  10. Monitor (13 November 1965). "What answers would you give?". The Age. p. 23.
  11. Cotton, Leicester (12 November 1965). "Resemblances in photo finish". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 11.


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