She'll Be Right

She'll Be Right
Produced by Christopher Muir
Written by George F. Kerr
Production
company
ABC
Distributed by ABC
Release date
 25 July 1962 (Melbourne)
8 August 1962 (Sydney)
Running time
 60 mins
Country Australia
Language English

She'll Be Right is a 1962 Australian TV play.

Plot

In 1962, a group of tourists meet and Englishman, Gutherie, at a French mountain inn. Gutherie tells them of Australian soldier, Nugget Wilson, a prisoner of war in Germany during World War Two. Wilson escapes and joins the French Resistance movement along with Gutherie. Wilson is captured and executed by a German firing squad. His last words are "she'll be right".

Cast

  • Fred Parslow as Gutherie
  • Kevin Hanily as Nugget Wilson
  • Alan Hopgood as Hank
  • Julie Allen
  • Horst Bergfried
  • Syd Conabere as Bluey
  • Agnes Dobson as Mrs. Wilson
  • Mary Duchesne as French resistance member
  • Stuart Finch
  • Andrew Lodge
  • Mary Reynolds as Lisbeth
  • John Royle as German civilian
  • Donald Sey

Production

The drama was shot in Melbourne.[1]

It was also a radio play which was selected as the A.B.C.'s radio play for the 1961 Italia Prize.[2]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald felt producer Chris Muir "adopting the immensely impressive pace of a professional, raised a living and passionate memorial to the memory of Australian soldiers" and felt the performance of Kevin Hanily ("completely credible and sympathetic") and the supporting cast "and the mode of presentation generally, bore the austere stark simplicity of a medieval passion play, and with much the same hushed effect."[3]

Valda Marshall from the same paper called it "a first rate drama... a beautiful piece of craftmanship, with a casting that was almost faultless...Kerr's theme, that war and heroes are made up in the main from ordinary nondescript people, was one that could easily have become just that . . . ordinary and nondescript. But instead he produced a quiet, tight little drama that ranks as one of the best Australian plays the A.B.C. has given us."[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Melbourne-made war drama". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 1962. p. 12.
  2. ↑ "Young Star's Work". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 March 1962. p. 13.
  3. ↑ "Australian play on television". Sydney Morning Herald'. 9 August 1962. p. 9.
  4. ↑ Marshall, Valda (12 August 1962). "TV Merry Go Round". Sydney Morning Herald. p. 88.


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