Marriage Lines (film)

Marriage Lines
Produced by Christopher Muir
Based on play by Clemence Dane
Production
company
Distributed by ABC
Release date
 1962
Country Australia
Language English

Marriage Lines is a 1962 Australian TV play which was directed by Christopher Muir.

Plot

Publisher Felix Pilgram, married to Virgilia, has an affair with Lysette.

Cast

  • Walter Sullivan as Felix Pilgram
  • Patricia Kennedy as Virgilia Pilgrim
  • Mary Ward as Lysette
  • Moira Carleton as Chrissie, the Piglrims' retained

Reception

The Australian Woman's Weekly TV critic called the production "a half-and-half job. Christopher Muir's production was satisfyingly polished; the play itself was woeful. The A.B.C. decided to advertise this offering as a "sophisticated comedy." The theme—one woman trying to snaffle another's husband— can be funny, I suppose. But "Marriage Lines" was a melodrama of mothball manners... the cast had to battle with curiously dated dialogue... [a] sheer waste of good production and a goodish cast. "Marriage Lines" should have been murdered. Preferably at the dress rehearsal, if not before."[1]

References

  1. ↑ "GOOD PRODUCTION, GOOD CAST, BAD PLAY". The Australian Women's Weekly. 30 (28). 12 December 1962. p. 19. Retrieved 8 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.


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