The Gioconda Smile (film)

Directed by Patrick Barton
Written by Norman Gear
Based on short story by Aldous Huxley
Production
company
ABC
Release date
 1 January 1964
Running time
 75 mins[1]
Country Australia
Language English

The Gioconda Smile is a 1964 Australian TV play based on a play by Huxley (which had originally been written as a short story). It was filmed in Melbourne.[2]

Plot

Henry Hutton is a wealthy man who lives in an English country house with his crippled wife, Emily, who is looked after by Nurse Braddock. Their neighbour is Janet Spence, an unmarried woman who looks after her cropped father and is in love with Henry. When Emily dies, Janet declares her love... but then Nurse Braddock thinks the death might not be natural and demands an autopsy.

Cast

  • Alexander Hay as Henry Hutton[3]
  • Elizabeth Wing as Janet Spence
  • Fay Kelton
  • Williams Lloyd
  • Roma Johnston as Nurse Braddock

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald TV critic thought that the adaptation had "little left of this story' s original quality... the action and sets were curiously stiff and limited by TV standards, although some Hitchcock horror close-ups and the background music of a hysterical harpsichord added to its pretensions as a "whodunnit.""[4]

References

  1. ↑ "THIS WEEK ON ABC-3". The Canberra Times. 38, (10, 684). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 4 November 1963. p. 12. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Psychological Drama By Huxley". The Canberra Times. 38, (10, 733). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 1 January 1964. p. 11. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "'Woolf' tears them up". The Canberra Times. 40, (11, 303). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 3 November 1965. p. 25. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Giaconda Smile on ABN 2". Sydney Morning Herald. 2 January 1964. p. 5.
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