Produced by Christopher Muir Release date 1962 Language English | Written by Greg Bunbury Country Australia Running time 1 hour | |
Production company Australian Broadcasting Corporation | ||
Boy Round the Corner is an Australian film which aired in 1962. Broadcast live on ABC, it was set in Sydney but produced in Melbourne.
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It was one of a series of six Australian plays produced by the ABC in 1962. The others were:
The archival status of the film is not known, given the wiping of the era.
Plot
it was a drama about a young man who attempts to rob a taxi. The taxi crashes, killing the driver and injuring the man. The man then appears in a Café owners living room....
Cast
Reception
Sydney Morning Herald gave it a mixed review, saying:
If it did little else...[theplay] showed that some, extraordinarily strong things can happen, in an Erskineville cafe. To; Mr Bunbury's credit, Erskineville and its inhabitants are not distorted; but the play is so freebly balanced and fo afflicted by dramatic inertia that it often seemed the locality was a prime reason ' for the writing of the play. Stock characters include the proprietor, a kind of fatherly confessor; a sweet and trusting 16-year-old girl; a society girl with alt attitude; her rather vacuous boy friend; 3 reminiscing middle-aged man —they are all there. The drama in the story hinges on the 16-year-old girl's brother who appears in the cafe owner's living-room badly hurt after being in a taxi which has crashed, killing tin driver. The outstanding value of the play lies in its close and warm observation of brother-sister dependance; and fortunately the actors concerned were well able to suggest the beautiful locking of affection between the two. Fay Kelton was an amiable natural girl; Paul Karo an extremely worried young man, wincing with pain from a shattered shoulder and communicating some of 'that pain to the viewer. Christopher Muir's production was careful, and Cass van Puffelen's sets could hardly have been bettered—although the deliberate tilting of three wall objects in the proprietor's living-room was a fastidious and unwelcome touch.