Directed by Raymond Menmuir Based on play by Sigmund Miller Release date 7 October 1959 Initial release 7 October 1959 (Sydney) Story by Sigmund Stephen Miller | Written by Alan Seymour Starring Nigel Lovell Running time 75 mins Director Raymond Menmuir | |
Cast Nigel Lovell, Lou Vernon, Georgie Sterling, Laurie Lange People also search for Turning Point, Citizen of Westminster | ||
One Bright Day is a 1958 Australian TV play. It aired on the ABC and was directed by Ray Menmuir. It aired as part of Monday Night Theatre.
Contents
It was based on a US TV play by American Sidmund Miller. Alan Seymour adapted it.
Plot
Julian Prescott is the president of a large chemical company. His business is almost ruined by his ambitious general manager, George Lawrence, who in the president's absence has changed the formula of a popular patent medicine produced by the company. The president is faced with a lawsuit by a man who claims the new formula drug caused the death of his son. The president's daughter Margot becomes involved.
Cast
Reception
The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald thought that "neither the writing nor the acting... allowed deep or gripping investigation of the play ' s essential issue whether it is better to be callous and stay rich, or to be decent and plunge down to poverty.... For the most part, the characters were being run by the plot, instead of themselves begetting the plot—which is mere yarn-spinning, and not drama."